Superdog Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Saw this on the Big Iron auction site,still scratching my head.1970 DM487,repowered with a NTC290 Cummins,13 speed with a 3 speed Brownie.Lots more pics on the auction listing,current bid was only $410.Gotta love the bumper. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
storkmack Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 That's impressive. -Brad Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 At first I was anxious to see how they shoehorned a turbocharged Cummins into a DM. Now I wish I'd never looked. 2 Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakebrake86 Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Nice. Quote Jake Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Looks like that poor DM recieved some T L C...........Torch Level (&) Come-along! Admit it,that took some skill.Why just before he attempted that feat,he was a butcher! ..................................motor looks more like an NH-250 to me (unless there was no room for the turbo,so it got left out!) 1 Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb502 Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Looks like a military surplus Cummins from a 5 ton they were all delivered naturally aspirated most never got turbos but some got lucky. Quote "Any Society that would give up a little LIBERTY to gain a little SECURITY will Deserve Neither and LOSE BOTH" -Benjamin Franklin"If your gonna be STUPID, you gotta be TOUGH" "You cant always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I am speechless! Looks like something assembled in Castro's Cuba. Paul 1 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoClueJoe66 Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Well I wonder which part of the state is missing some guard rail......lol 2 Quote This message was brought to you by Hargraves Potted Meat Product. Chopped full of "Peckers & Lips" since 1933 - John Boy & Billy Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxfymn Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I guess it embarassed the Bulldog so much that he ran away! 2 Quote Money, sex, and fire; everybody thinks everyone else is getting more than they are! Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Well I wonder which part of the state is missing some guard rail......lolI don't think that bumper was installed using the traditional method.Theory ( i.e. me overthinking again): The truck was rolling down the interstate and the bulldog saw his reflection on the stainless steel doors of the truck in front. Appalled by what he saw, he jumped off the hood of the truck. With only a driver to pilot it now, the DMTLC careened out of control and took out some gaurdrail. The owner, who's taste in workmanship is evident elswhere on the truck, thought the new bumper looked good and left it on. Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 WOW......now what can I say? I'm going to leave it alone. I'm just glad the person still has some Mack still on that frame. mike Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Pretty good. That truck will probobly go cheap. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 http://www.bigiron.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?bigiron6/90070/1Theres an MH on there too.And whats the bungee cord for on the inside of that DM? And I like that clutch pedal. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted December 29, 2012 Author Share Posted December 29, 2012 Looks like that poor DM recieved some T L C...........Torch Level (&) Come-along! Admit it,that took some skill.Why just before he attempted that feat,he was a butcher! ..................................motor looks more like an NH-250 to me (unless there was no room for the turbo,so it got left out!)you are right,I totally missed the lack of turbo,I was just repeating the specs listed,unless he mounted the turbo somewhere else,LOL. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpwlker Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 I don't even think it is a 13 speed. even with the handle spun sideways I do not see the red splitter button or hell a gray or blue one for that matter. Also when I passed the Ritchie Bros Auction today on 70 west of Columbus I saw a Green DMM all by it's lonesome. Looked to be an old mixer truck no drum but looked like art of the rotator still on it. Know nothing about it as this as it was a drive by stalking Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 I'm digging the guardrail bumper! and the clutch pedal! used to be an old-timer around South Jersey when i was a kid,had a 4000 White with a rail-road tie for a bumper!..........................Mark Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 looks kinda like this R400 that they repowered with a 671 Detroit and 10 speed Roadranger. Moved the bumper and radiator forward with about 200 flat washers and threaded rod and fiberglassed an extra foot in the hood haha. the twin to it had a V8 Detroit in it mated to the original TRD77 9 speed overgear gas job transmission with the cast exhaust manifolds resting right on the frame rails with straight weed burner pipes on it wiht glass packs. sad thing is they were actually really nice consecutive serial number 1966 R400's. the white one i managed to save the totally rust free site truck cab off of from the scrappers. the red one had the v8 with homemade shutters. i saved the doors and odds and ends, heater, battery boxes and a perfect plastic headliner. i was racing the scrappers as they bought up the whole construction company junk pile but the guy was nice enough to give me the one cab and parts for helpin him load other junk. that headliner is a real bitch to get out when your fighting bees and racing the scrappers . they also scrapped a really solid but cannabilized DM400 with a scania. can only save so much. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullhusk Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 looks kinda like this R400 that they repowered with a 671 Detroit and 10 speed Roadranger. Moved the bumper and radiator forward with about 200 flat washers and threaded rod and fiberglassed an extra foot in the hood haha. the twin to it had a V8 Detroit in it mated to the original TRD77 9 speed overgear gas job transmission with the cast exhaust manifolds resting right on the frame rails with straight weed burner pipes on it wiht glass packs. sad thing is they were actually really nice consecutive serial number 1966 R400's. the white one i managed to save the totally rust free site truck cab off of from the scrappers. the red one had the v8 with homemade shutters. i saved the doors and odds and ends, heater, battery boxes and a perfect plastic headliner. i was racing the scrappers as they bought up the whole construction company junk pile but the guy was nice enough to give me the one cab and parts for helpin him load other junk. that headliner is a real bitch to get out when your fighting bees and racing the scrappers . they also scrapped a really solid but cannabilized DM400 with a scania. can only save so much.Ladies & gentleman ley me introduce to you the first R700 set back front axel!!! one of one ser# 0000-1BULLHUSKPS any of you old timers will know that # from an old 50's Superman show Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cncFireman Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 "what r we gona do fer a bumpar" "well billy bob did have a gaurd rail laying around back" Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 I wonder if that came from that old Junkyard Wars show??? Lets see, we have a frame, cab, motor and some scrap steel and we need to build a truck LOL!! Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 looks kinda like this R400 that they repowered with a 671 Detroit and 10 speed Roadranger. Moved the bumper and radiator forward with about 200 flat washers and threaded rod and fiberglassed an extra foot in the hood haha. the twin to it had a V8 Detroit in it mated to the original TRD77 9 speed overgear gas job transmission with the cast exhaust manifolds resting right on the frame rails with straight weed burner pipes on it wiht glass packs. sad thing is they were actually really nice consecutive serial number 1966 R400's. the white one i managed to save the totally rust free site truck cab off of from the scrappers. the red one had the v8 with homemade shutters. i saved the doors and odds and ends, heater, battery boxes and a perfect plastic headliner. i was racing the scrappers as they bought up the whole construction company junk pile but the guy was nice enough to give me the one cab and parts for helpin him load other junk. that headliner is a real bitch to get out when your fighting bees and racing the scrappers . they also scrapped a really solid but cannabilized DM400 with a scania. can only save so much.I did see at Hribar Truck & Equipment(Racine,Wis) an early R 600 with an NH-220 installed by Cummins.They "tastefully" modified the hood adding what equaled an RB nose to the standard R hood,to clear the engine and mount a taller than normal radiator in it.It was nicely done.I didn't have my camera along that day.Called a couple weeks later and the woman there told me it had been cut up.Crap!!! It was "barn fresh" Had a triplex,underslung camelback,a Bostrom Viking T-Bar seat (not torn) & a 23 channel C.B. in it.! Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 you are right,I totally missed the lack of turbo,I was just repeating the specs listed,unless he mounted the turbo somewhere else,LOL.Prolly has a belt driven turbo mounted between the frame rails. 1 Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-153896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Hey Mike, that replacement door on there came off a V8 F model!!! That homework worked!!! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-154002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmackattack Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 looks kinda like this R400 that they repowered with a 671 Detroit and 10 speed Roadranger. Moved the bumper and radiator forward with about 200 flat washers and threaded rod and fiberglassed an extra foot in the hood haha. the twin to it had a V8 Detroit in it mated to the original TRD77 9 speed overgear gas job transmission with the cast exhaust manifolds resting right on the frame rails with straight weed burner pipes on it wiht glass packs.All that work and you could buy a R700 and just drop the engine in?... 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-154070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 the were just site trucks in the summertime. they had 3 B models,4 R400's, a few DM400's and 5 DM600's. they were butchers. everything got painted garbage truck white eventually and repowered and cobbed up. we bought 2 out of the 3 B models, the cab off the R 400 and a few parts off the other R400. the 5 DM600's they sold off and the DM400 with scania they scrapped. can only save so much tho. luckily the B models they didnt change the engines. still had the 402's in them. they were real hack jobs. the one B model they took an air chissel to the firewall to put a hole in it rather than adjust the throttle linkage so it wouldnt fit. throw the driverseat away and slide the pass bench seat over for someone to drive on all day. real butchers, i think all their employees hated them. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29052-and-the-redneck-engineering-award-of-the-year-goes-too/#findComment-154072 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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