Starting the Cummins R2.8 in the crate
We add fuel 12-volts and start this engine in the crate well before it found a home in the 2018 UA Derange Rover.
Transcript
00:00 Hey.
00:04 Hello everybody.
00:05 My name is Vern Simons.
00:07 I am the tech editor for Peterson's 4-Wheel and Off-Road magazine.
00:11 This is my amigo, Trent McGugelheimer.
00:14 Hi guys.
00:15 Or Trent McGee.
00:18 We have set up the R2.8, which just came out of a crate.
00:25 And it's hooked to a battery.
00:26 There's some fuel over here, fuel filter, got some rudimentary wiring hooked up.
00:33 And according to our contacts at Cummins, we can just start it right here.
00:40 So it's basically just fresh out of the crate, like literally still sitting on the pallet.
00:44 You can see the wood.
00:45 I'm going to turn this around and kind of show you what's going on, and then we're going
00:48 to fire it up.
00:49 Run it for very long.
00:52 Hi Robert Keller.
00:53 Of course.
00:54 Hi Robert.
00:55 We miss you, buddy.
00:56 See, there's the crate, or the base of the crate.
00:57 It's just bolted in right there.
00:58 We've got a battery here.
00:59 Note that we have both sides of the battery cables hooked to the negative side for kind
01:00 of a redundant ground.
01:01 Yeah, and then this is actually the Derange Rover's old power cable running up to the
01:02 starter.
01:03 And then we've got this trigger starter here.
01:04 And there's another wire somewhere in here that will turn the computer on.
01:05 And then we've got the battery.
01:06 And then we've got the battery.
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01:57 And then we've got the battery.
01:58 So you'll hear it.
02:05 So that's the everything turning on.
02:10 And then down here, I'm going to start this.
02:13 This is the, this should supply the GoJuice.
02:18 And if everything is right, this will start and run for a little while.
02:23 We don't want to run it very long because it doesn't have any coolant.
02:26 It does have motor oil in it.
02:29 Very important.
02:30 Any final thoughts, Trent?
02:31 It should fire.
02:32 Let's see what happens.
02:33 Hopefully it won't fall over.
02:34 Yeah, it might start running around the shop, which would not be so good.
02:40 Let's see what happens.
02:41 It runs.
02:42 It's working.
02:43 I feel like a jump right off the crate.
03:02 But it runs.
03:03 We did it.
03:04 Woohoo!
03:05 Cool.
03:06 So this will probably go ahead and kill it so you don't hurt it.
03:12 That's sad.
03:13 No water in there.
03:14 Well, that was fairly painless.
03:15 I don't know what's beeping.
03:16 It's just shutting down.
03:17 Okay.
03:18 Yeah, it worked.
03:19 What do you know?
03:20 That's cool.
03:21 Yeah.
03:22 It gives you an idea of how simple it is.
03:23 We literally spent 10 minutes, we spent more time trying to find a good battery.
03:34 Yes, that's true.
03:39 I have lots of bad batteries at my shop here, apparently.
03:42 Come over here, Trent, where we're not in the light.
03:46 So yeah, it took us a little while to find the right battery.
03:49 I'm going to show you a few more things around the shop that have kind of trickled in for
03:53 the project and show you a few things that I've done to it in the past couple weeks,
04:00 basically.
04:01 I've been traveling a bit since Moab, but I've gotten a few things done.
04:04 So let's have a look.
04:05 Grab it out of the way.
04:08 All right, so there's the R2.8.
04:11 It runs.
04:12 That is the battery out of Dino the Dinosaur.
04:14 That's my dog, Hank.
04:15 Hi, Hank.
04:16 He's about a year old.
04:17 There's one of the batteries that didn't work.
04:21 Temporary fuel tank.
04:23 Here's more of the crate that the R2.8 came out of.
04:26 That's a pretty sweet crate.
04:27 Yeah, it's really nice.
04:28 I mean, it's almost furniture grade.
04:31 It'll probably turn into furniture at my house.
04:34 So here is a, that is an NV3550 out of what I'm guessing is a 2002 because it says '02
04:41 on it.
04:42 Jeep Cherokee or Wrangler TJ.
04:48 That is a Magnum box, so 2.72 to 1.
04:54 Hooked to a Ford 205.
04:56 Both of those are from Offroad Design.
05:00 It's got all of the best stuff in there.
05:02 Check out that new output shaft seal housing on there.
05:10 It's going to have big 32 spline inputs, or outputs on both sides.
05:15 There's a, that is going to be a right hand drive JK steering box from Redneck Ram or
05:24 West Texas Offroad.
05:26 I think I need this to basically clear this big old oil pump, or I'm sorry, oil cooler
05:32 that's on the side of the R2.8, which is going to be very close to what are some pretty narrow
05:38 frame rails in here.
05:40 What else have we got?
05:44 Back over here are a stack of Falcon tires that are going to go on the thing.
05:50 38 inch by 17.
05:54 Here are adapter bits from Axis Industries.
05:58 So that's a different flywheel there for the starter or starter ring.
06:02 And then a Jeep 4 liter flywheel bolt on to that using this adapter down here.
06:10 There's a bunch of hardware.
06:12 And then that's the ring that makes the tranny and engine meet up.
06:20 In here is a bunch of stuff from Wilwood, I'm sorry Wilwood, Centerforce Clutch.
06:29 So there's going to be a clutch disc.
06:31 Huh?
06:32 Not Centerforce.
06:33 Wil, Wil at Centerforce.
06:35 He said there were some candies in here on Facebook, but I don't see any.
06:40 I'm upset.
06:41 He apparently sent some to some lady named, I can't think of her name.
06:50 She'll come to me.
06:51 Anyways, I don't know what else is going on.
06:53 Here's a...
06:54 Talk about the cage.
06:55 Yeah, I started the roll cage, so that's inch and three quarter DOM.
06:58 This goes down to where it will be frenched into the frame.
07:01 I'm going to drop the whole cage down so I can weld the top of it.
07:05 But I've got eight points that go down to the body and will be tied into the frame.
07:11 I kind of mangled the roof, getting the sunroof out, which is a gigantic heavy thing.
07:16 And I'm going to put something cool in there to replace that.
07:22 But I don't want to talk about it yet.
07:25 And then here's more cage.
07:27 So a B pillar that will go down and pierce through the floor.
07:31 There's the A pillar over there.
07:33 It's a bit of a mess in here, but it goes down to the floor where it will pierce.
07:38 Pulled out all the dash and all the wiring.
07:41 Going to use the Range Rover steering wheel.
07:45 The parking brake is awesome, but I don't know that I'm going to be able to use it.
07:51 And I don't know.
07:53 That's about all I can think of.
07:55 Somewhere around here I do have some clutch parts, like a pedal from Wilwood.
08:00 Oh, it's over there on the table.
08:04 I'm a bit of a messer.
08:07 Anyways, one of the really cool things about the R2.8 is we can disassemble all this wiring
08:14 and unconnect the fuel and basically put that crate right back together and it will take
08:18 about five minutes.
08:20 And with it wrapped up in that bag and inside the crate, I don't have to worry about grinding
08:28 and welding on various parts of the axles.
08:33 So Robert just asked if I'm going to do coil overs or just springs.
08:39 One of the cooler parts of the Range Rover is the suspension and I'm going to use a lot
08:43 of the factory suspension.
08:46 Skyjacker is coming back as our suspension sponsor for Ultimate Adventure.
08:53 So kind of like an early Bronco or a '78 full-size Bronco, it has these radius arms that run
09:01 down the axle.
09:04 And then this coil.
09:05 It's actually a lot like an early Bronco suspension on the front.
09:08 So I'm going to reuse a lot of that.
09:10 I figured out some coils actually from an early Bronco that are built by Skyjacker that
09:18 should fit in here.
09:20 Still just have to get the Dana Spicer Ultimate Dana 60 axles under here.
09:26 The front is outside.
09:27 I was just cleaning some brackets off of it.
09:29 I'm still waiting on the rear.
09:32 So radius arms in the front is what it's going to have.
09:35 I'm probably going to change some things like the way the shocks mount.
09:40 And then out back it actually has a three link.
09:43 So it has two lower control arms and then an upper wishbone with some sort of a weird
09:50 ... it's called like a load handling shock.
09:54 I'm probably going to take the load handling shock thing off.
09:56 I think it's leaking.
09:58 But I'm going to reuse that upper wishbone.
10:00 That's my plan right now.
10:02 I'll connect it to a bridge on the Ultimate Dana 60 rear axle.
10:11 So yeah, that's kind of where we're at.
10:13 I've probably taken enough of your time and enough of Trent's time.
10:17 Here's a bunch of wiring.
10:18 If you know anybody who has a Range Rover that needs wiring or interior parts and they're
10:23 anywhere near Phoenix, don't.
10:25 It's going into the dump.
10:27 Anywho, there she is.
10:29 Yeah, I'm going to keep it.
10:31 Robert asked if it's going to be stockage height.
10:33 I'm going to try and keep it real low.
10:35 You guys know that's what I like.
10:37 I like things that are low and stable.
10:39 This thing's going to be low and wide and stable.
10:42 I can cut I think two and a half inches out of the rear wheel opening, which should give
10:49 me plenty for a 38.
10:50 And I think I can cut even more, like three inches out of the front.
10:54 So I'm going to cut that open and keep the lines mostly factory looking.
11:00 See how much time I have in terms of rebuilding the fenders.
11:04 But yeah, I'm stoked about it.
11:06 I think it's going to be fun.
11:09 And good time to end.
11:11 There's the air compressor.
11:12 We'll see you guys.
11:13 Bye bye.
11:15 (audience laughing)