This is a rough layout for a truck I'm building. The engine is the predecessor to the American DT360 and DT466 series, and part of the Neuss engine family built in the Neuss plant in Germany. The other Neuss engines are the 3 cylinder D155 and D179, 4 cylinder D206, D239, DT239, D246, D268, & DT268, and the 6 cylinder D310, D358, DT358, and DT402. They were produced from the mid 60's through the late 70's, and used in just about everything, tractors, combines, cotton pickers, construction equipment, and Seddon Atkinson trucks in England and ACCO trucks in Australia. My DT358 came from a Dresser 520B front end loader. The DT358 has a 98.4mm bore, 128.5mm stroke, and made 130hp & 340 lb-ft stock. The injector pump is an Ag spec Bosch VE, that I will be upgrading with cummins VE governor parts to get more RPM, from 2500 to 3600. I also upgraded the valve springs to handle the higher RPM, may not have been neccessary because they were set to 3000rpm in the truck application. The transmission is a Spicer 6453 5 speed overdrive that I got from a 5 ton M820 army 10 wheeler truck. Running a divorced NP205 transfer case and the axles and suspension will be a Chevy Dana 60 front, GM Corporate 14 bolt full float rear, both in 4.56:1, came out of a Chevy CUCV army pickup, ton and a quarter rated lead springs. Front axle has a Torq Locker lunchbox style detroit and a full detroit locker in the rear. That cab model comes from Coyote56's IH fire truck on here, I just stretched it into a crew cab and made the rear doors. Also redid the firewall and floor to be dimensionally accurate to my truck. That tailgate has a door on the backside so you can store things in it, and that tow bumper has compartments inside and a flip lid. I'm trying to get by without needing a toolbox, because it's going to be my daily driver and a farm truck so I'm going to have to have a fuel transfer tank in the bed. The engine in this model is gutted to make it less than 50mb, look for my model with just the frame to see inside the engine.
The truck itself has a crazy story. I'm the 2nd owner, bought it from a guy who bought it new in '65 and drove it his whole life, parked in '05. He was a national geographic photographer and drove it to South America many times, to take pictures in the rain forrest. There is a crane post in the bed, he used to have someone lower him into those giant holes in the amazon so he could take pictures in the underground rivers. The odometer shows 200k miles, but he says it's either 1.2 or 2.2 million, he's not sure haha.
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