86Chummins
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- Nov 5, 2013
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this has been a great weekend! i went to an auction and i bought a mack dump truck for $3000 and a 1965 ford f600 grain truck for 600$. sold the mack over the phone for 3700 about 10 minutes after i bought it:Cheer: so i got the ford for free. i got it runnin at the auction site and drove it home! it even dumps!:rockwoot: it has a poorly running straight 6 and a 4 speed. lights and some guages work. only a little rust on the cab corners. i had thoughts of putting a 12 valve in it because it would be so easy. but i was poking around on craigslist and found a 354 perkins with a 5 speed and a divorced transfer case about 45 minutes from me, best part is he only wants $300 for it all!!! im going to pick it up in the morning. already have the tcase sold for 300$ :lolly: the only thing it needs is a rod bearing and prolly the crank turned. the motor supposedly has less than a thousand miles on it. i cant wait to get this swap going. il post pics up tomorrow. hopefully the motor is turbocharged! if not it will be before it goes in. is there anything to look out for on the 354's? thanks!