Fired up the M135 today

Due to the current economic situation this country is in,I now have the time and money to work on my duece. A fellow member emailed me about my power steering conversion (which i later decided against due to my KISS principle) and my email has decided it cant send him the file,so i will try it here for all to view. This is my M135/Detroit deisel conversion i have been working on the last three years. I just finished the wiring and installation of my new LED tailights this afternoon. Since this truck will become my daily driver,I have this thing about being seen at night. She is a little loud at the moment,since im still working on the custom exaust system

Bill

Sweet !!! What did you use for a trany and t-case for your convertion ????? Tim

hippiedude said:

Sweet !!! What did you use for a trany and t-case for your convertion ????? Tim

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I think he is using the stock t-case.

Bill your truck looks great. cant wait to see it moving. Good Job.
keep the pics and videos coming.

I am using the stock t case and the tranny is a four speed something that came from the donor truck (Frito Lay ford delivery van) Next weeks project is to build a dog house cover out of checker plate. That should really test my fitup skills

Bill

wow thats a really nice truck

Bill, your truck sound great, nice to see it running.

Young Bill

Heres another video i took this afternoon. All the Tonka toys in the background belong to my boss.......and he pays me to play with them.........I love my job

Very nice man, looks like it will be quite the ride when its done.

congratulations on great work!

I wish I could open the attachments. I have plans for a similar biuld when I get home. I want to use a M211 with a multu fuel though.

Nice work!

I love the sound of that motor, and have a weakness for the M135/211 series of trucks. Thanks for the videos!

Why did you decide to go stick instead of keeping with an automatic theam of the truck? Just wondering is all.

I went with a manual transmission because the original auto was too long. Instead of moving the t-case back i decided to go with the stick. The other reason is that the original auto was unknown as to what condition it was in,and since this will be my daily driver reliability is number one. I have had it out for a drive on the back roads and it has all kinds of torque till i get to high gear,it is still accellerating but is now under a noticeable load. It goes fast enough to keep up with traffic and im sure this will be the last set of wheels i will ever have to buy

Bill

When you say original you mean the one that came in the M135 or the one that was on the motor? I would have gone with an Alison out of a school bus or something like that. I am in no way critizing your work and I think it is very well done and I'm very impressed, just picking your brain....

Original as in the 135 auto. I changed to stick because im a gear jammer at heart and I really liked how it shifted. I got a chance to drive the Frito Lay truck the engine came out of ,and was impressed by the low end torque,so i decided not to change a good thing. I really wanted to put a brownie auxilary tranms in too,but there just wasnt enough room. That way i would have had a twin sticker and really make that little Detroit snort

Bill

VERY cool Bill! I love to see good engineering.....

Keep us posted on your project!

Very impressed..............cant wait to see it done.