The Dodge Ram Truck

fiver

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I was just wonderin if I could have the light bar, it would be a direct bolt on to the 1500.
I need the little plastic air dam strip for the top of the tail gate too, pass on the rest of the parts.
 

Brad

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Mine still ran fine but the leaking heater core was gonna be expensive to replace. The dash was going to need replacing as it was heat checked to Hell and wasn’t coming out in a single piece. I decided I didn’t want to spend that kind of $ on a truck with that many miles on it,
 

fiver

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mine is still hanging on at 175-K on the 4.7.
I was somewhat worried about the stupid 3 chain timing chain thing they run, the kit alone is 1600$.
keeping clean oil etc. insures the tensioner works properly, but I have beat on, and used the poor thing pretty good over the last 8 years that I have had it.
 

358156 hp

At large, whereabouts unknown.
Hmmm. Looks kind of like some of the Contractors pickups around here. I suspect there may be more excitement on the drivers side from the way the rear axle is offset.

It'll buff out...
 

smokeywolf

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Looks like a half ton, so you're not going to salvage any Cummins parts out of the front seat.

Love my Cummins, hate my Bosch VP44. Yes, my dash is falling apart bit-by-bit.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Love my Cummins, hate my Bosch VP44

Says the guy who hasn't had to replace his engine two or three times because a common-rail injector failed. Nothing wrong with a VP-44 as long as you don't replace it with a cheap, junky reman one after the p1693 death code happens. Putting a Geno's Garage inline noise isolator on the TPS helps a whole bunch, too. The p7100 was bombproof but not as efficient or drivable as the computer-controlled VP.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Mine still ran fine but the leaking heater core was gonna be expensive to replace. The dash was going to need replacing as it was heat checked to Hell and wasn’t coming out in a single piece. I decided I didn’t want to spend that kind of $ on a truck with that many miles on it,

If you had a Gen 2 with the Incredible Disappearing Dash, a heater core job takes about 3 hours if you know how to shortcut it by using 5 feet of rope. Pays 5.5 flat rate. Money in the bank. You need an ac recycling machine and a couple of special disconnect tools, though.
 

Brad

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Mine was a 2001 I think? Got rid of it when I got the Tundra. Don’t miss it at all.
 

Ian

Notorious member
No doubt, Tundras are great trucks. If Toyota had put a Vortec 5300 in it instead of the belt-drive 4.7/5.7L it would even get respectable gas milage.
 
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freebullet

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But then the 5.3 lifters would grenade the whole motor & on we go hehehe.

I don't know what exactly happened but witnessed a super fancy pants ram loose the rear driveshaft & the entire transfer case @65mph on the freeway. It was not awesome. It reaffirmed my experience with dodge vans from years ago. Company I worked for had 4 vans, all dodge, required 8-12 transmissions per year to keep them going. Hard pass...
 

Pistolero

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Near as I can tell the Dodge and Chrysler names are extinct, at least on the trucks.
The only say "Ram" all over them.

I guess that is better than saying "Fiat". :rofl:

Bill
 
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Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
The last Dodge/Plymouth/Chrysler products I owned were mid to late 70's Dusters, Furys and pickups. Next gen I drove was mid to late 80's police package Diplomats. That pretty much killed off the whole Chrysler family for me. I really sweated out which brnad 1 ton van I wuld end up with when I started doing the commercial trucks exclusively. I put close to 200K on an E350 Ford with the V10 and it was a peach.

Now, should I ever get a chance at a Power Wagon from 55-60 or another Road Runner or Duster, I'm sure I'd fine my love for Dodge product rekindled!
 

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
That's a gas rig, what do you expect! If it was a Cummins the pole would be down and as someone here said it would just need to be buffed out.
I've got a 1995 with 278K on the Cummins with the manual transmission. Great work truck. Put it in low range and granny on the trans, and at 2000 rpm I can get out and walk faster the Dodge is moving.
It's now the second string truck, picked up a use Tundra as the main driver, but, the Dodge is saved for the heavy work and has found a home till rust takes it to the grave.
 

fiver

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the parts on mine all say bosch on them.
100 sumthin for a replacement washer fluid pump, 12$ for a rubber grommet to keep it from leaking.
the water pump costs less than that.