1970 Jeep Gladiator 1 Ton 6BT 12V Cummins Build

[Mikel]

Looking really good! Keep us updated

[Tad]

Excellent build!

[Chumley360]

Awesome!

Is the intercooler from the '94 as well?

[Resbum]

Thanks.

Chumley360- Yep, the intercooler came with the engine. When it was time to make it fit it was either major mods to body work or cut two rows off the top. I went the easy route.

Resbum

[Hook574]

Resbum, This is one of the best threads I have ever read! Well worth the wait on the pictures

I thought you might be a little OCD when I read it without the pictures, after seeing the pictures I now know you are a LOT OCD, thats why your build is coming out so well.

Congratulations on all of your hard word. I can't wait to see the rest.

[Austin 4x4]

awsome build. i love the way that frame looks rolling without the body on it.

[budojeepr]

Resbum, This is one of the best threads I have ever read! Well worth the wait on the pictures

X2

At first I thought you'd put the radiator in front of the valance, but behind the grille.

Sweet work!

[tgreening]

Yeah, sorry for the unintentional tease. I use to prefer imageshack over photobucket for media hosting, but it has really been giving me problems for the last six months. More than half the photos I had placed in an album for this thread were currupted and I had to recreate the whole album.

Anyways, this is where the truck is at right now. I'm currently making the track bars and the cab is out getting the sheetmetal work done. I'll post more when I have something to update.

Resbum

P.S.- I've documented the build with over 700 pictures, so far. As time permits, I could do detailed writeups of certain parts of the build if anyone wants more info.

It nice to see someone doing a buildup like this who is actually doing it, instead of paying to have the bulk of the work done and passing it off as their own. I can only wish I was making the kind of progress you're making. Mine tends to run in spurts, and tiny little spurts at that.

[budojeepr]

P.S.- I've documented the build with over 700 pictures, so far. As time permits, I could do detailed writeups of certain parts of the build if anyone wants more info.

I'm going to be selfish and ask for more detail on your mod to fit a larger radiator. I have one rig with a 454 and one with a GM diesel, and both have no reserve when it comes to cooling capacity.

Thanks!!

Brad

[Resbum]

It nice to see someone doing a buildup like this who is actually doing it, instead of paying to have the bulk of the work done and passing it off as their own. I can only wish I was making the kind of progress you're making. Mine tends to run in spurts, and tiny little spurts at that.

Austin 4X4 your avatar intrigued me so I checked out your build thread. Pretty freaking cool. The only way you can go bigger is to make it a dually.

Hook574- OCD? Man, I laughed my a** off when I read that. Yeah, there might be some of that going on.

tgreening actually kind of hit on it. 34 years ago I got my first project. It was a motorcycle that came to me as a frame and 3 boxes of parts. I was 14 and my dad bought me some basic tools and helped me get through it. For the next 33 years I was never able to do a project the way I really wanted to. Life, time, work, and finances always had to come first. Every motorcycle, autoXing, and 4X4 project always had to be a compromise.

I'm 48 now, divorced, and retired from the military back in March 2011. I decided after 30 years of working nobody but God was going to tell me what to do for a year or two. This project has been the first use of that time. I wander to the shop every day. Sometimes I work on it 3 hours, other times, like yesterday, I work on it 13 hours. Now that I've committed to going to the Ouray KOA Jeep Meet in July I see more of the 13 hour days in my near future.

I originally was just going to rebuild the Buick 350 and Turbo 400 that came in the truck, but the trans was a basket case and it's kinda morf'ed into what you see now. If I'd been married when I started this I'd be divorced now. I count myself extremely lucky that all the pieces fell into place that's allowed me to do this. With all my hobbies I've taken a lot of knowledge from forums because others made the effort to post info. If anyone can learn things from this thread it's just my way of paying that effort forward.

Resbum

[Resbum]

I'm going to be selfish and ask for more detail on your mod to fit a larger radiator. I have one rig with a 454 and one with a GM diesel, and both have no reserve when it comes to cooling capacity.

Thanks!!

Brad

No worries. I actually documented that part pretty well because I wanted to be able to revert the changes if I found it wouldn't work. When I do the next update posts I'll include one on the radiator mod.

Resbum

[budojeepr]

No worries. I actually documented that part pretty well because I wanted to be able to revert the changes if I found it wouldn't work. When I do the next update posts I'll include one on the radiator mod.

Resbum

Thanks (and thanks for your service!). I did some digging on ImageShack. This picture answered it for me...

Mind sharing the source for that lovely radiator?

[Hook574]

Mind sharing the source for that lovely radiator?

My thoughts exactly. Congrats on your retirment, I'm very jealous

[Mikel]

This is the radiator we put into a friend's M715 with a 6BT.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUM-380328/

[KaiserMan]

Mikel, can you tell us about the 6 lug wheels but GM hubs on that M715? Is it all custom?