A Pickup for you Perkins 354 fellows!!!

JD Seller · Jan 15, 2019

I stumbled across this on Youtube. Pretty neat truck someone put together. The current owner did not build it. Listen to him talking about his truck. He really has a good schlick going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4jjKoEw68
1986 Ford 150 diesel

Philip d · Jan 15, 2019

Haha that?s quite a truck,summer driver in these parts for sure,those 354?s love hibernating in cold weather when at all possible

olgentdc · Jan 15, 2019

That is really neat ,,btw.The 354 My MF 510 starts right up without ether down into the hi teens.thats ok dependability for southern ind.

rusty6 · Jan 15, 2019

(quoted from post at 21:01:35 01/15/19) I stumbled across this on Youtube. Pretty neat truck

I like that truck with the Perkins conversion. Had a 354 in a Massey 550 combine and it was great but obviously never had to start it in super cold winter conditions. If it starts anywhere near as good as the Perkins 300 in my Super 90 tractor I'd say its a darn good winter starting truck. An hour with the coolant heater and one turn of the starter its running.

rustred · Jan 15, 2019

I have that 354 in my massey 850 combine and one in my white 2-85 tractor, not good cool weather starting engines! plugged in and start great.

Commercial Farmer · Jan 16, 2019

7 354 Perkins here from naturally aspirated to turbocharged and inter cooled.

jon f mn · Jan 16, 2019

I want to do that with a case 504. You could get 300 hp out of them pretty easy.

UncleTom · Jan 16, 2019

I saw a 66 ford f150 from California pulling a camper once with a 428 and a 2 browning transmissions like that. diesel would be better.

Bob N.Y. · Jan 16, 2019

Now you know what to do with your old combine engine.

fixerupper · Jan 16, 2019

Thr first diesel pickup I saw was a 68 Chevy with a 354 Perkins. It was right in that period of time when diesels first showed up in commercially sold pickups. A diesel in a pickup sounded so strange to me at that time.

J. Schwiebert · Jan 16, 2019

When I was working in the Toledo area in the 90's a nearby farmer had one in 4 wheel drive Ford pickup. He bought a kit that had the plate to adapt the transmission to the engine and I think the motor mounts plus some of the necessary small parts.

caterpillar guy · Jan 16, 2019

We had a pukins in an old uni that needed the block heater and a can of ether to think about starting in winter, and the battery better be in good shape. Smoked like an old steamer pulling hard when running. Used 60 gallon of fuel a day chopping hay or corn with the knives sharp, and the ledger tight enough to tick. Never was impressed with a pukins.

Ray · Jan 16, 2019

A friend of mine has been driving around a Chevy pickup with a detroit diesel for 30 years. He is the second owner.

wilson ind · Jan 16, 2019

What are you talking about, some foreign engine?

1130Leo · Jan 16, 2019

Perkins engines do not like Ether, if one is using alot to start a perkins, it will break.....

INCase · Jan 16, 2019

what is that transmission set up?

i didn't/couldn't see him shifting the rear shifter in the video.

saw a 1979 Ford with a duetz diesel in it about 20 years ago. neat toy i guess.

seen a few guys put 4 cyld cummins in Jeep CJs.

you can do anything with time and $$$$$

ericlb · Jan 16, 2019

there was a couple companys doing Perkins and Detroit conversions back in the 70's and 80's , seems most uses a aux trans to keep the engines on their tourque peak, but its kind of fun shifting them, guess those ran about forever

timcasbolt · Jan 16, 2019

Nice conversion. Looks like a lot of work and thought went into it. Nicest one I've seen was a Cummins 4bt and turbo 400 from a bread truck in a 72 F100.

steve_in_mo · Jan 16, 2019

There's a local guy with a 4BT in a Jeep Wagoneer.

steve_in_mo · Jan 16, 2019

There was a guy down in Arizona that had put a 354 Perkins
in his 1978 F-250 to pull his travel trailer. He used a
manual transmission and had to modify the firewall to put
that big engine in there.

rrlund · Jan 16, 2019

Back when Prairie Farm Report was on RFD they showed one that somebody had swapped out of a combine. He said he had to move the radiator ahead a little. I remember he had that mounted on some old hockey pucks. Red Green would have been proud of that one. LOL

Destroked 450 · Jan 16, 2019

Guy in Mo. sent me a photo of his custom 78 F-350 with a Perkins engine he installed, said he's currently working on a F-550 Perkins conversion with compound turbo's.

I have a F-450 with a 5.9 Cummins 12 valve conversion.

Commercial Farmer · Jan 16, 2019

Dodge offered a 354 Perkins as far back as 1962.

Super H Mike · Jan 16, 2019

When I was in high school my buddies dad put a 4 cylinder Isuzu diesel with a turbo in his 79 F150 4x4. I guess it got really good MPG but sure sounded funny at that time.

T in NE · Jan 16, 2019

I think the builder of this one had a
thread on the diesel truck resource forum,
or 4btswaps forum.

oliverplow · Jan 16, 2019

Kinda neat, thanks for sharing. Hard to find a bigger perkins fan than me. I like them better than my cummins, and yes, I have three cummins.

A Pickup for you Perkins 354 fellows!!!

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