6BT, CUCV Axled M715 Build

[sermis]

Me too

[snoopy]

Me three.

[oddave]

[Swampthang]

Updates?

[Barrman]

Not really, the law changed in Texas back in 2007. Juvenile offenders must be released before their 19th birthday instead of the 21st it used to be. Also, missdimeanor crimes no longer get them into the system. Only felony crimes.

That means about 1/3 less students in the system state wide than when I started working on the truck. Along with the fact that the ones we do get are normally more of the "crack head" variety compared to the stealing gum from the 7-11 variety. We went from around 400 here on my campus to I think 290 or so this morning. It normally takes me about 6 months to a year to get a student all trained up and working on vehicles. Doing fabrication work well, normally takes longer to teach. The last few months, once a student starts working on it, they get paroled or sent to a halfway house within weeks. I lost 9 real good workers so far this year. 3 more told me this morning they are going home within weeks.

State oversite has increased dramtically as well in the past few years. Used to be teaching students hands on was number 3 or 4 on my priority list each day. It might be around number 20 today. Actually, right now is a great example. I have my class of 8 students sitting reading the newspaper because the welding teacher is out so I have 5 of his students in here along with the auto body teacher had to go to a meeting with psycologist about the behavior and progress of some of his students. So, I have 5 more of his students in here. That is 18 students, I have 9 desk. These are all convicted criminals, some rival gang members, all not the best at anger or emotion control, so I am hesitant to get tools out when students I don't know are in my class. Basically, nothing is getting done. (Except the Zone.) Which really hurts because the last 3 students I have that can do the work aren't able to do so today.

Tomorrow is a special "open house" for any parents that can show up to see where their kids go to school. This is all part of the new state laws that figure the parents should be more involved with their criminal children. Even though most of them are here because of actions the parents did or did not do. Nothing will get done Friday.

I know I am making excuses, but it all comes down to this. Getting something done is no longer even thought of by the people that run this agency. Creating mounds of paper work on each student, insuring the students right to cuss me out and throw a fit is much more important to the newspapers. So, that is what we have to concentrate on.

All that being written, I finished up the 205 mounts at home the other day and just need to bring them back in. We have the 205 apart on a bench with a set of new gaskets and seals. All the parts are cleaned and ready to go back together. Once the 205 is mounted, we can start fabbing up the drive shafts. Then a few minor things like hanging the a/c under the dash, finishing out the radiator, condensor and intercooler mounts need to get done. Then, I will pull the cab off, take it home and paint it while the students add more beef to the motor mounts and start running brake lines. Once the cab is done and back on the frame, the front end will take a trip to my place, then the bed and then we get to see if everything we did will bolt back together again.

[loosewrenchcowboy]

i had a 96 cummins dodge 2500. thing would just kinda crank slow. charged the batteries-same problem. tried a new starter-same problem. turns out one of the batteries was bad-wouldn't pass a load test but held a charge fine-huh?! anyway-it took 2 new batteries, and it fired right up. i seems the 6bt takes 2 good batteries to crank it fast enough to make it fire. afterwards, in conversation, i've had 2 other people confirm the same problem and solution.

[loosewrenchcowboy]

PANTHER----

can't remember where i saw it posted, but somebody said the 89-93 dodge cummins truck crossmember is a perfect fit between the 715 frame rails for a 6bt swap. have not confirmed this so don't hold me to it-but worth checking out

[Panther]

PANTHER----

can't remember where i saw it posted, but somebody said the 89-93 dodge cummins truck crossmember is a perfect fit between the 715 frame rails for a 6bt swap. have not confirmed this so don't hold me to it-but worth checking out

You can find that over in the "camper special" thread. Yes it drops right in and I posted some pics.

[hardtail70]

i had a 96 cummins dodge 2500. thing would just kinda crank slow. charged the batteries-same problem. tried a new starter-same problem. turns out one of the batteries was bad-wouldn't pass a load test but held a charge fine-huh?! anyway-it took 2 new batteries, and it fired right up. i seems the 6bt takes 2 good batteries to crank it fast enough to make it fire. afterwards, in conversation, i've had 2 other people confirm the same problem and solution.

My ford powerstroke wont start in the winter unless both batteries are good. diesels need power to crank. remember they are high compression engines.

[sermis]

OK lookie what I have. I need valve stems to mount the other 3. Sure wish I had a truck to put them on, HINT...HINT...........HINT






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