Cummins.

[MrBeast]

Well, the last few weeks have been pretty trying, I got laid off, Had a fire out at my place, haven't been able to find any steady work, and haven't even had a running vehicle. The frame on my 72 Dually got tweaked, and I was going to fix it, got all the material for a new frame, and wound up deciding to throw a motor in my 89 blazer, but wound up way deeper in it than I wanted to be and was still a long ways from having it running, which is a bad place to be when you aren't working.

I have been doing random welding jobs for people to bring in some money, and I have been borrowing a friends truck to get around. Well last night the other shoe dropped and my band saw gave up the ghost effectively putting me out of the welding business.

As many of you know I have been trying to sell my blazer so I can get my dually back on the road, and at the same time I had been trying to get enough cash together for a Dodge that I had been eyeballing. I am not a dodge guy, but I love the Cummins Engine, And this truck has one.

Well as it worked out this morning I sold the blazer, and was pondering what to do, when my friend Kirk had his wife drop off the money required to get the dodge. I was totally floored, and it was totally unexpected. He had already helped me out by huge leaps and bounds letting me borrow his truck, but this was above and beyond.

Not only has it helped me get out of a huge bind that I was in for a vehicle, but it has taken me one giant leap towards a big dream of mine, that dream is putting a Cummins 12 valve in my 72 Dually.

So this afternoon I went and got the truck...



And it has a Cummins!



And it runs like a Sewing machine, Well that is if Sewing machines could lay out big beautiful clouds of black smoke...

So the plan is,

1. Take the old welding body and install it on the Dodge, and get back to work ASAP



2. Obviously pay Kirk back, Cause he is a hell of a guy.

3. Build the frame for the 72 C/30 out of 3x6x.25" box tube that will actually turn it into a K30 with a Dana 60 DRW front, and Air Ride!



4. Install the Cummins in the 72 in front of the NV4500, and the NP203/205 Doubler I have.

5. Add a home grown flat bed with a Hydraulic pump driven off of the PTO

6. Go trucki'n and be happy! Maybe even get the girl...