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55 Chevy Cummins
« on: February 15, 2015, 07:18:19 PM »
Been collecting parts the last 10 months for this build.

Bones; is a 1955 Chevy 1ton gettin a cummins swap. This truck is really solid with very little rust.
24v Cummins  (less than 50k on the clock)
nv4500 5-speed from the same donor truck (less than 50k miles)
96ish dodge 2500 chassis
Baged, FBSS digital control, dual compressors
Dually wit Alcoa wheels
8" stacks????  a Tuner, A-Pillar gauges, and smoke switch.
Stock bed cut down to around 5' to 6' or I may run a late model dually bed cut down

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Build plans and name may change without notice!
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2015, 07:22:46 PM »
Airbag parts. and donor parts truck.

The air tank may change. I have acquired double tank setup I may use instead.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2015, 07:28:24 PM »
Donor Power Plant and wheels.
4 Alcoa Wheels and 2 steelies fit a chevy so we had to bore the inside center to fit the dodge axles.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2015, 10:45:26 AM »
That my friend is gonna be bad ass.......
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« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2015, 08:01:59 PM »
Sounds like a cool project!

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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2015, 06:36:09 PM »
Still got this. Been constructing a new shop I bought used from CL (60x50) and bout ready. Electric and phone hooked up this week. Trying to sale a few things to get roll up doors and I'm ready to move in and get started on this ride.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2015, 09:12:02 AM »
Awesome, looking forward to the continued build thread.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2015, 04:04:43 PM »
Wow .... sounds like you've got a plan .... I dream of a shop that size.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2015, 08:58:34 PM »
Hey, Skinny!!  How's it goin'??
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2015, 06:04:46 PM »
Got the garage doors and lift installed in the new shop. Working on air line plumbing and some inside walls. Hope to get started back on the project in the next month or so. Seems the older I get the longer it takes to get thing done.  :o
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2015, 11:20:33 PM »
Awesome
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2016, 06:45:04 PM »
We have been so busy with the shop project I don't have any updates foe this project. Maybe it will be ok to post a few pics of the shop (Skinny's Cave) project.?

I got the building used from CL for 5k and the threw in a 24" port a cool and 3 18"x20' culverts.
got it loaded in one load but it proved to be a lot of weight for my home built trailer (Scrappy) build thread; http://www.gaorc.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=932 . and then we started dirt work, had to do 6' of fill in. I was lucky that we could pull the fill dirt from a hill in my front yard.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2016, 07:21:55 PM »
Prepping foe the crete, then laying some crete out. 1st truck load showed up at 8am and we put the saw on it and cut it around 4:30pm. Some friends come over and helped me and that pour crete everyday. Man they were fast. Has some left over so we poured an apron/small driveway.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2016, 07:32:04 PM »
so we got the building put and found out we did not have the end wall. 
O well, seems everyone not honest on CL.  :o  LOL

Anyways, it cost another 2k the frame and cover the ends so we ended up with 7k in the building. Still not that bad. I'm happy with that as the concrete cost that much. And yes I did the ends in green on purpose.  :P

The building in the background of the 1st pic is a school/church built in the late 1890's. I use it foe storage now but hope to restore it foe a community center someday. The black board is still hanging on the wall.

Yes that's a piebald deer in the pic. She is bout 8 years old this year and has had fawns 3 times that we have seen. This year she has twins. All fawns have been normal brown.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2016, 08:51:48 PM »
Great pics, Skinny!!  Maybe when we pay off the house in a couple of years we can put up a building like that. The shop I use is 40X80 and has electric doors on each end.  The guy that owns it was thinking about working on tour busses, but he says now that when he retires he never wants to see another bus!!  I used to work where he does and I can certainly relate!!

The shop costs me nothing and I have total access.  I DO have to put fuel in the heaters once in a while!!
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2016, 10:12:40 AM »
Thanks, Was only planning for a 28x32 but got this used building cheaper than I could build a 28x32.

Sound like a super nice shop. If I had that option I wouldn't be building one. I live so far back in the woods, I'm not close to anything.  :'(  LOL
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2016, 06:26:14 PM »
Yeah!!  I live about two miles from I24, but it's sorta rural.  The school my wife teaches at is close so she only goes about half a mile back and forth.  The shop is a little over a mile from the house, but there's no "facility" so I make a hurried trip back home now and then, but it's far enough off of the road so's I seldom have any visitors that I don't know real well!!

Hope you get it all done soon and can get out and cruise with some of us!!

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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #17 on: February 01, 2016, 08:08:12 AM »
Very nice.
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« Reply #18 on: February 01, 2016, 08:52:33 PM »
Nice wish my shop was bigger and had enough ceiling room for a rack!

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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2016, 06:37:35 AM »
Thanks guys.

this is what I moving from. 2 lathes,, a mill, and press have already been moved out before pic was taken. There was no room to walk. LOL

new shop and some stuff moved in and garage door hung. We painted the entry door inside and out with chalk board paint. Figured its a good place for notes.  ;D
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2016, 05:36:25 PM »
And before you know it the new shop will be as full as the garage before it.  ;D Mine is full as is the back shop and the garage attatched to the house. and my small out building.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #21 on: February 04, 2016, 08:14:23 AM »
Lol lowboy, that's what happened with my shop.

Shop looking good. Wish I would have done a second door in mine.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #22 on: February 06, 2016, 10:12:50 PM »
Lol lowboy, that's what happened with my shop.

Shop looking good. Wish I would have done a second door in mine.

I hear ya guys. There like closets, no matter how big you build'em you'll fill'em.
Its gettin full already and I haven't moved everything in yet.

build a small porch to put the air compressor and small roof over it and entry door.
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Also, started the bath room with 4x6 shower stall and will have the washer/dryer in there. Goin to floor over it for a loft area in the Apt\man cave.
We are goin to build a 24x25 apartment\Man Cave in the corner where the bath room is.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #23 on: February 06, 2016, 10:41:47 PM »
bath room floor got acid stained and clear epoxy top coat.
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Started first floor side wall. Then took an old hay wagon we had that was built from an old bus frame and placed it on the top of the 1st floor walls to use as the upstairs loft floor. Worked out great.
We did have to remove the axle for head room. Left the leaf spring on the frame for the ratty looks.
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Then the upper walls was finished. The garage door is for moving stuff in the cave easier and pull the bikes in there if we want. Truck is in there temporarily. Plan it to make it look like an old gas station front.
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Re: 55 Chevy Cummins
« Reply #24 on: February 07, 2016, 02:29:48 PM »
Very kool setup!!! like the gas station idea. I did the bar. Kinda same old same old. Just don't put satelight TV out there or you'll end up watching more TV than working! That was my biggest down fall.I've been watching a Walking dead marathon today
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