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Wagoneer M715 hybrid?

Warthog

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I have seen pictures people using a grand wagoner and adding a few 715 items.
 

res0wc18

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Yea i don't know if I would chop up the rear and add a bed, but I was thinking of doing an m715 type/inspired front end full turbo diesel resto mod and built custom steel fender flares to clear the k30/f350 axles

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They certainly did nice work! Is that a right hand steering wheel?

Why, though, did they keep that the Tornado engine? That's what killed the 715 and caused the Army to rebuild M35s for Vietnam.
 

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It is a Diesel engine. Maybe a later Asian version. I know KIA is building a diesel version - KM450 for the S.Korea military.

The website is from Indonesia

Also if they spent big bucks on the build, they may have had a custom valve cover made.
 
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I saw the exact same link on another website sometime back. One of the persons that commented on that post there stated that they identified the engine, iirc, as a Toyota diesel and that the Jeep logos were just glued or epoxied to the Toyota valve cover. Also, again iirc, that some of the interior was id'ed as Toyota.
 

saddamsnightmare

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August 21st, 2015.


Gotta give them credit, but I would have been better to start with a KIA M450 series truck.

Maybe he can get KIA to do an import worthy version of this with AC, as the KM450 does seem to have AC!:)
 
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