87 Chevy Crew Cab 4x4 Converion/Cummins swap

[DieselRat]

Starting a new project, 2nd one I will have on this forum and since the general crowd here is supportive and helpful I figured I would share again!

My first project on here was this 54 GMC diesel
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=588827

A little story and reasoning behind this current build.
My daily driver/truck is an 00 dodge diesel. While I love it, my family is out growing it, kids are getting bigger and the suicide doors and small backseat leaves a lot to be desired. I can't afford/don't want the payments of a nice new truck with 4 doors, I started searching for older trucks that I could possibly turn into what I wanted. Even longer story short, a friend had a MINT first gen crew cab dodge short bed that I wanted in the worst way, but he just wont sell, and ended up having this squarebody fall into my lap. At first glance it was everything I DIDN'T want. 2 wd, gasser, dually, longbed. But at the same time because it was all of the above, it was about as clean as I've ever seen one since it probably never saw much winter driving.

So I drug home a crew cab dually, with a busted trans. 454/400.





It has newer paint, matching cap. NO rot what so ever. Some minor scale on the frame but floors are solid, cab corners solid, bed etc etc I couldn't say no.

So the plans were to make it 4x4, 6bt with a 5 speed, newer seats and drive it!