I drove a ‘79 D300 stake truck, 360ci 4 speed. It was far from underpowered. I hauled front loaders, trailers and supplies without issue. Once hauled about 10k of boulders on the bed. Tires would rub on sharp turns. Truck was unstoppable.
@@SteveMagnante Thanks for what you do Steve. I watch your videos about cars I never even cared for (and some I do) every morning. Also I'm sure Katie dont think of herself as being a scene stealer but more like a "scene enhancer".😎😎
@@DanEBoyd Do you refer to the oil pump drive gear DOWEL PIN? (or was that gear pressed on? I forget)I never had one of the pins fail BUT I did have a gear's teeth actually become ground away by the cam gear! Instant bearing damage. But beyond a few wiped shells the crank survived because I just happened to glance at the mechanical Oil Pressure Gauge and saw ZERO. The bummer is how the oil pump and ignition distributor are divorced on the Slant Six. So the ignition will continue to function as the bottom end welds itself solid. Then again, the distributor drive gear IS secured by a small "roll / dowel" pin. I haven't had one of those fail but assume it could happen. Fun! Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
@@SteveMagnante I thought it was used to 'key' the timing gear to the camshaft, but I'm not sure. I know the loose pin can wreak havoc on the timing gears, but I think piston-to-valve contact is another result. I remember around 15 - 20 years ago, several of the automotive/truck shows on cable TV featured an install of the little kit which makes sure that the pin will never back out. Thanks for making these videos!👍
Had an absurd amount of memories in those old 80s dodge 🐏 pickups like getting grain. At a feed mill with my dad , towing horses . and a ramcharger was the first automobile I ever piloted! 🐎
My dad was a Ford truck guy , said Dodges were tin cans & rattle traps for years. But in the mid 90s I had a '89 Dakota I was selling and he bought it and he drove that truck and loved it till his legs could no longer handle driving a 5-speed. He liked that Dodge well enough !!
I had an 88 Dakota, 4X4 5 speed 3.9. That was the first 4X4 I ever had, and I have at least one 4X4 all the time now. Mine was a very dependable small truck. 😊
@@bertgrau3934 Mine was a pretty solid truck too, but the driving range was killing me. Between the gas mileage , the distance I had to go to work and the 'small' gas tank; I was only getting about 160 miles on a tank full ! I would fill up Sunday night; Wednesday and then on Friday for my weekend driving. After about 2 years of this I just didn't want to do it anymore so I sold it and bought a small car to commute to work (and bought a full sized truck for when I needed a truck)
@@bbo40 I bought mine out of a salvage yard, towed it home, the guy told me it would run, but it ran pretty bad. He was right. I got it to run was able to drive it. The brakes, steering all worked. So I pulled the engine, took it apart cleaned it. Took the parts to a machine shop. Had it bored, honed, the crankshaft reground, rods resized, balanced, new cam lifters. Took everything home put it together myself, reinstalled. I got 18 - 20 MPG. I drove it for 21, years sold it. The guy that bought it from me drove it for about 1 year and he sold it. I still see it being driven from time to time. Now I have a Ford F 150 with a 5.0 4X4 crew cab. I really like it. I mostly use it for vacation. Gets 19- 20 MPG.
I bought a 93 Cummins used in 94 and still have it. Its a W250. The funny thing about 250 and 350 is there was no difference ( single rear wheel models) except the rear spring block was a little bigger on 350. Same 4500# Dana 60 front, same Dana 70 rear. Also i have the A518 / 727 with OD and honestly its been a great transmission!! Love my Dodge trucks!!
I bought a 93 new and traded it in on a new 03. Still miss driving the old 93 and it had the most comfortable bucket seats of any vehicle I have ever owned. Trans was starting to suffer but the eng had been turned up.
I Had a 95 Cummins. That was a great truck that turbo is just about indestructible. Those first gens are super kool looking I see them around town every now and then here in San Diego. They’re going for good money now. They’re getting there respect. 👍
Fleet buyers knew and still know that the small block has plenty of power for any practical purpose as does the 225 in my '82 W150, and the lighter engines offer better traction, which really suffers in my friend's '93 Cummins D250. I even value the light engine when I don't have to bother shifting into 4wd and can still go places my 2wd Cummins friend can't. I have hauled cattle and my camper with my 225, and lose maybe 10 minutes, but that is nothing compared to time lost getting stuck; and as I wrote, fleet buyers know it. Wasn't the 360LA in the video more powerful than the Cummins anyway? The Cummins had torque, sure, so delay upshifts and then so what? Well, I do have low range granny gear with my 225 so I never lack for torque, but I guess not everyone does.
@alan6832 well I can tell you I have never been stuck in my 93 Cummins 4x4..beaches, snow or mud..never! In fact I sat at the beach access at Oregon inlet OBX and pulled out 7.3 Fords, Jeeps pulling jet skis.. I've pulled out my landlords Ford stuck in snow with snowplow. The thing is called beast! 3.54 rears, 205 transfer case, Torqueflite and pretty much stock tires.. love this truck so much its getting redone this winter for its 30th B-day. I will say a 2wd 150 with a slant is a hard one to beat as well.
@@Camcodrummer my W150 is 4wd, but the engine is so light compared to a Cummins that I sometimes don't have to bother shifting into 4wd. My friend's Cummins is 2wd and can hardly go anywhere, at least without ballast. I sold my 2wd F250 with 400 for the same reason, always needing ballast on the farm, and got the W150 instead. the 239v6 is lighter still, and the Ford 3.8V6 lighter still. 4wd does defeat the problem with heavy engines, but is expensive and complex and so not for everyone.
I had an 85 one ton. It was a great truck. Buddy of mine was coming up fast behind me in his brand new F150 5.4L Triton. Dropped her down in second and mashed the gas peddle. He got door to door and that was all he got. Mine had the Quadrajet four barrel 727 torqueflite. Biggest problem with it was it was not four wheel drive. Terrible in the snow or wet grass for that matter unless you had it loaded down.
When the TV show "Emergency" started production the production company built their own paramedic unit using a then new 1972 Dodge cab chassis it was powered by 440 four barrel power train. The show ran for six seasons and they would just replace the cab/ chassis unit every season but to maintain continuity and be able to reuse stock footage of the unit they kept the 1972 grill unit, switching it out because nothing else on the truck body ever changed.
YES! "Emergency" was one of the great shows of that time. A little before it was "Adam 12" which helped fuel my obsession with police cars! I loved the 1968-'70 Mopar B-body cop cars they had and then the 1970-'73 AMC Matadors they drove on the show. The Plymouths were always 383 4-barrel cars (you can see the dual exhaust and hear the rumble when they drive or accelerate) and the AMC's were 401 cars - with that cool red "smeared" 401 badge on each front fender and yes, dual exhaust. Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
Steve - This truck you are featuring looks solid enough to be a good candidate for restoration. Hope some one can salvage it and give it a new life. Thanks for the video.
Love me a first gen ram, they’re starting to grow in popularity now, I’ve got an 87 w100 I swapped a 360 and 4 speed into, badass truck, my daily driver is a 97 shortbed with the 3.9 v6 (318 with 2 cylinders chopped off) although I have a 360 magnum and nv3500 5 speed waiting for it🙂 keep up the awesome videos Steve! Love learning more about cars I haven’t thought much of before
Best invention for the Dodge trucks, the Dodge Cummins. It pulled all their work trucks up out of the slump. Especially wrecker rollback body trucks. That's where they needed these diesels. Even the Chevys and Fords and their diesels helped them out so much as far as like I just said the rollbacks and the Wreckers and any other business load hauling businesses. Thanks for this Steve. Also just like the Chevy square body, I like this Dodge body style, even if they rusted-out like paper after few years up north in the rust belt.
The 6.2L Chevy and 7.3L Ford/International engines were absolutely dogs without a turbo. My dad had an 86 Silverado with the 6.2L and he put a Banks Turbo on it. Really woke it up. My 85 Dodge didn't start to rust until it was 18 years old.
I have a 96 Dodge 2500 w/ the 12 valve Cummins, great engine but the Dodge part fell apart like a shipping crate . Those Cummins were in our Case /IH tractors and industrial equipment years before they were in Dodge trucks.
@@sodbuster4296 as good of an engine as Cummins makes, I never understood why Case IH never stuck with the Harvester engines. Case engines were good too but we had a 2590 Case and the transmission always gave us trouble. I can't remember now what the issue was. All my Dodge trucks lasted a long time and had lots of milage and age on them when they were sold or retired. In my experience it was the crap developed after Daimler that wasn't as good. Friend of mine worked as a designer in Auburn Hills told me Daimler started cutting everyone's budget from day one and they were expected to do more with less. How often does that work out?
@@danw6014 People always blew apart the power shift in those Case's... I honestly love it but it's a weak design if you are pulling heavy with them. As a hay tractor moving bales the power shift is awesome. For the rest of it Case and and Cummins created a partnership called CDC in about 1979 and by 1983 the B series was born being the 3.9, 5.9 and 8.3. We had an 1986 which is the same chassis as my 2294 but with the 5.9 cummins in it... wish I still had that one.
While I can always appreciate each day's content, I can't wait for tomorrow's episode on the Ram 50 as I am currently in the process of acquiring one for myself to add to my current fleet of Mopars.
My father purchased 2 1989 Dodge Ram W250s. He ordered them without bumpers to save money and put a steel i-beam (i think it was old rail road track) for the bumpers. He would push over trees with his truck.
1987....? It's hard to believe that in 1987, I was in my 3rd year in the Marine Corp, and that was a brand new truck. I remember getting out of boot camp and seeing a Camaro Iroc Z for the 1st time....boy, did I want one.
I had an '87 Dodge Ram long bed pickup with a 318 that I bought well used. It was a pretty good truck with a terrible turning radius. If this one in the video is actually an '87, somebody must have changed out the grille because it has the older "eggcrate" grille in it instead of the crosshair grille of later years.
I worked as a mechanic at a large open pit copper mine in Arizona in the late seventies. We were mobile mechanics fixing heavy equipment in the field. When I started we had a Chevy C30 dually with a 350 4bbl and it would pull the 15% grades out of the pit without trouble. In 1977 we got new trucks, Dodge D300s with the 360. What a toad! 45 mph tops going up the grades foot through the floorboards! 😂
Steve, that's not a Pintle Hitch and you be nice to Miss Katie she's just doing her job making the rounds like a good yard dog ... thanks for keeping the vids coming,
Always loved my dodge d150, very reliable truck, never had any issues with it. Really warm in the cold Canadian winters, the vents made the truck nice and cool in the summer and had all the power I needed when I hauled stuff in it.
I only was able to drive one Dodge D350 in my life. The year was 1992. The year of the truck was a 1989. The truck had a Cummins diesel, and manual transmission. At the time, I worked as a "mechanic's apprentice", for a small town car dealer that specialized in used diesel pickups. My boss had bought the truck at a automotive auction in Oklahoma City. A fellow employee and I were sent to get it. It ran great, but dang it was a rough-riding truck. Made it a very long 350 miles home from Oklahoma City, to northern Kansas.😁
My experience with Dodge Trucks is they are engineered very well for servicing. Practical design for brakes etc no funny stuff like Ford was known for. And the 360 trucks lasted a long time and ya fuel economy is still a thing in service vehicles so it was a good thing.
l can remember searching for a new truck way back then, as you said the body style had not changed in years, you could almost get a 4 wheel drive ,well loaded dodge for the same price as a 2 wheel , lightly opioned chevy or ford, dodges motor and body upgrade definitely saved them. double k from western pa
Correct on the 440 V8, however some did make it into 1979 motorhomes---they were leftover "run out" 1978 engines. That being they were gone when the supply was run out. Yes, Chrysler finally got smart and dumped Holley and Carter in favor of a Q-Jet which brought better performance and fuel economy. No, that's a one-ton rated truck. 1 is 1/2 ton, 2 is 3/4 ton and 3 is 1 ton. Chrysler gave up the HD market (for the US) a few years before this. Today you can get a Ram 5500 that competes with the Silverado HD series and Ford F-550. Yes, today's Rams still have the 6.7L Cummins "B" diesel in them as an option. We had several of them in our fleet a few years back and still have some. GM's HD offerings are a joke in the market and very incomplete. Stellantis is better, but Ford to their credit is the most flexible and upfitter friendly. That looks like a Grover air horn---they recently went out business. They were located in Los Angeles, CA and then last year stated that they were going out of business due to the economic climate in CA. I believe "The Air Horn Guys" may have bought them or the rights/plans for their products. Their model 1510 "Stuttertone" has been a fire and rescue truck staple for decades. Kleinn, Buell, Hadley and Wolo are other popular air horn companies, Correct, the dealership often had a network of body and equipment upfitters and usually the customer wrote one check to the dealer and they would handle the rest. It still works this way. Popular body companies that made bodies like that are Reading Body (Reading, PA), Knapheide (Quincy, IL), Stahl (Wooster, OH, who also at one time owned Campbell-Hausfeld), among others. Kleinn also makes train air horns and basically had a motto, "If you have to ask how loud it is, you shouldn't ask". Cadillacs had a "trumpet" horn option that sounded like a train horn. No VIN, can't win, but might go something like: 1B7 for US made Dodge Truck, W for incomplete vehicle, D for two wheel drive, 3 for 1 ton rated, 4 for standard cab, W for 5.9L (360 CID) V8 with four barrel (in this case a Rochester Q-Jet), then a random check digit, H for the 1987 model year, possible S for Warren Truck, Warren, MI assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Warren, MI plant opened in 1938 and still operates today under Stellantis. It was known as "Dodge City" for many years. No tag, can't brag.
Hello Google User GP. I was actually thinking of you when I selected this truck for a Junkyard Crawl video a few months ago. During my pre-video "reconnaissance" visit I noted the "cab and chassis" stickers and said "Google User GP deals with this up fitter business and mentions it in his Comments". Also, you'll note that I hand-wrote the word UPFITTERS on the door panel of this truck to remind me NOT to say "Conversion Outfit" as a description of the UPFITTERS that final-assembled the truck in its delivered form. Thanks again for watching, writing and COMMENTING. -Steve Magnante
@@SteveMagnante Nice of you to say. Yup, I deal with it every day for the past 18+ years. Prior to that, I was on the auto parts manufacturer/supplier side of the business at a different place. Yes, "upfitter", "secondary manufacturer", "body builder", etc., all refer to the same thing for the most part. The "last guy" to touch it usually puts a yellow (or other color) label on it to show that they kept the FMVSS standards intact when they did the upfit. You'd be surprised at the doozies I've spotted over the years. One time a Ford authorized upfitter had to stretch the chassis on some trucks were doing. The final product was so bad that you could see through the welds. We saw it by passing a flashlight over the welds and seeing light clearly through the other side. The frame were rusty and the job was extremely poor. They had to go back several times to be corrected. The Ford QVM (Qualified Vehicle Modifier) program I later found out is run by a third party (rolls eyes......). This last time we had them done, it was a different upfitter (a much more well known one) who did a much better job, although I did spot some finger tight critical frame bolts that they missed. LOL. Another time, I spotted a mistake on an upfitter label. They had "single" for the rear tires and they were dual. I pointed it out to them. Now, mind you, this person was a VP from a well-known tow truck manufacturer who holds many patents (he just retired last year) and has been in the towing industry for decades. He said, "No, that decal is right". I said, "No it's not. This truck has dual rear wheels. Therefore, the tire inflation pressures should be for a dual set up. That differs from a single set up. Look at any spec sheet for a tire and you'll see I'm right. In fact, let's look at this Ford F-550 right over here". (I then showed him the Ford label said "Dual" for the rear wheels.) His response? "I've been doing this for close to 50 years and you're the first guy to point that error out to me." (Face palm). I pointed out another error on to an engineer at a large emergency vehicle manufacturer and he first said, "No, I'm right" and then when I got back to the office a few days later, he sent an e-mail, "You're 100% right. I took another look. We'll fix it." (Sigh.......). I have a reputation among my coworkers as "You better check those placards. He's going to verify them." I was in Florida recently for work checking an order of trucks and I had them give me a copy of the fluid placard (lists the type of fluids and quantity used in the vehicle) and my coworker said as I was checking something, "Oh no, you're in for it....." Sure enough I said, "Yup, you guys have the wrong transmission fluid on these Fords. They now use ULV (Ultra Low Viscosity) fluid, not LV (Low Viscosity) fluid. It's wrong". Rumor also has it that because of an error I found, Ford had to send out a supplement to their Super Duty diesel owner's manuals as they had 15 quarts of engine oil with a filter, when it only requires 13. Putting 15 quarts puts it way over the full mark on the dipstick. LOL. One manufacturer did that placard FOUR times after making mistakes and not proofreading it. The hitch is that placard costs $400 each time they make a mistake. I then told them, "Why wouldn't you do it as a PDF and send it first so we can proof read it? Plus you should be using a plastic placard instead of that polished piece at $400 each". Yes, I've seen it all. LOL.
I had a 80 Dodge D150 reg cab short bed in the late 80s. Loved the slant six and 3spd manual. No options. It was my winter beater when my 65 Belvedere was in storage
man, those 1994 318/360 big rig look Rams were lemons! Everyone I knew who had one was constantly in the dealership repairing stuff (engines, trans, shocks, rear axles by 50,000 miles)--and when they were at gas stations, owners would come up to ask them if they too were having so many repairs. lucky the trucks were popular--they couldn't trade 'em to their Dodge dealerships and get anything close to blue book, so they traded in for Fords and GM because those dealerships heard they sold easily. we love to romance small engine trucks, they do a ton of work at 40 mph up a hill screaming their brains out :)
Steve! How could you not give Katie a belly rub there?!? Honestly, just for the sake of simplicity, I'd much rather have a truck like this than anything sold today. I don't need or want all of the so called hi tech gizmos that come with newer vehicles. The 360 gasser might've been a bit down on power and torque compared to the GM and Ford big blocks but, it was on par with the GM 350 and Ford 351W. As for the "oil burners" the GM 6.2 was never turbocharged unless the owner upgraded it through the aftermarket and, the Ford (Navistar) 7.3 was available with or without a turbo for several years. Wasn't the Ford 6.9 also still offered around this time?
When I was a kid, the first truck I really wanted was a 76 3/4 ton dodge 4x4 with a 360....my dad had bought it, but one day after school it was gone. He sold it. Then about 10 years later I was looking for 4x4 axles for a project and realized that I needed that truck back(it didn't happen like that though) Before 78 dodge had the biggest u joints of anything in the front axle.....
I've got a 02 dodge ram truck quad cab 2wd and it just turned over four hundred thousand miles it's been the best truck I ever had and I still drive it everyday, it has the four point seven liter. And only thing I have done is put new starter and waterpump and radiator. I think the oil I use makes a big difference I have always used mobile 1 full synthetic oil I use the one that is extended life for twenty thousand miles but I don't wait until that I change it every three to four thousand miles besides waiting for the twenty thousand miles.
Had an 84 W100 with the 318, same color as that truck, prospector model. I miss that truck, was a good one. Also had an 85 Ram 50 as well, 4wd, 5 spd with the failure of that 2.6 Mitsu engine. My 88 Dakota was ten times the truck the Ram 50 was, good to see that old Dodge, wish I could get it working again.
My father has a "78 Lil Red Express,and an "82 D150 318 long bed.I have a "01 Ram 1500 with a 318 Magnum and a "12 Ram Express Hemi....All are original owner all original untouched "Survivors"....Long live the Dodge Ram.....You can say Mopower runs in the family.
I bought my 91 Cummins Ram W350 DRW new, and I’m still driving it 32 years later. I would have bought one earlier, but I held out until the 5 speed manual trans became commonly available. I think I paid around 25K for it, averaged out over 32 years, that is a hell of a deal.
A friend of mine had a 1978 1 ton duelly with a slant 6 under the hood. It wasn't the fastest but back in those 55 mph max days, it would go. He even drove the 870 some miles to New York and then back. 200 miles was about my limit in it even when I was young plus it didn't have a radio.
This (specifically the last couple years 3/4- and 1-ton standard cab single wheel long bed) body style is my favorite Dodge pickup body style ever, by a LOT. I wish they could still be had in good shape for reasonable money.
Steve, I look at some of those featured trucks and I tell myself , why is that in the Burnston Automobile recycling yard ? I could have ran that at least another 5 years with a bit of tinkering. I put a lot of miles on cars / trucks I bought for less than 1000 dollars and put 500 dollars or so into them.
@@jonathanmorrisey5771 Correct, 3.9L V6 was a VIN code "X", the 5.2L V8 was a VIN code "Y" and the 5.9L was a VIN code "Z", all starting in 1988. There was also a 5.9L with four barrel in 1988, a VIN code "W" like this one in the video likely is.
I learned how to drive on my Dad's 1987 d100 4 spd(technically 3 spd with od), slant 6 with 1 barrel carb. I wished we had a 360. Lol However our truck was a great and reliable. 186k miles with regular maintenance before being traded in.
I mean, the 360 had more horsepower and torque then the ford and Chevy diesel engines so being underpowered was more a statement on that time period in general
My 1st vehicle was an 83' Ram w/old 225 slant six,2x2. Was a great runner. Upgraded to an 89' 2x2 w/3.9 v6 few years after but will always miss that 83'.
I wanted to get the dodge with Cummins engine in 1989 but they didn’t make a crew cab work truck so I bought the ford f350 7.3 crew cab still using it today to get the mail bread and milk pretty rusty but runs great for upstate NY
I had an 88, with an l pack when I drove it home my Ole lady said "where the heck are you going to park that tank?*I drove it from home to the gas station LoL 😁 yikes
I used to work for a snow removal company that had a D350. Old man swapped in a 440. In medium snow with the plow on the floor in low you didn’t need to push the gas much. The clutch was another story….
That was a long time running for that body style! They definitely needed the change! Because Ford and Chevy where killing dodge in the sale department. Great video Steve!
I’ve seen the earlier dodge diesels with the I believe Mitsubishi diesel and and early 89 non turbo Cummins. Just bought a 77 Air Force D300 service truck. We’ve drove mostly dodge trucks for the last 40 years
Don't forget the older 70's dodge had the Mitsubishi diesel option. Also the cummins 6b engine was designed for industrial uses, then wedged into the Dodge trucks.
This style of Dodge always looked to me like someone left a Chevy square body out in the sun and it melted around the edges. Others said a Ford and Chevy had a baby and this was it. The Cummins was a game changer in the small PU market. They did have growing pains along the way like everything else. A friend had a very early production model, it broke the flange off the crankshaft. It was not unheard of but was warranted. I bought Cab and Chassis new in the past. They were sold as an "incomplete vehicle", I could not get permanent plates until I had a body on it could be a state thing?
The Cummins engine option sort of changed the image of Dodge trucks. As soon as consumers who understood diesels caught on, Dodge has been setting the pace in diesel light trucks despite solid offerings from Ford and GM. Nevertheless, it seems like a bit of a gross miscalculation for Chrysler to stop offering big blocks in heavier duty light trucks.
The End Of Big Blocks was a direct result of the string of Energy Crises in the 1970's and government reactions to them. Detroit was TOLD to "change its ways" and down-size. Chrysler's situation was particularly bad and when they got the Government Bail Out the decision was made to GO ALL FRONT DRIVE (with a small number of exceptions). These exceptions were light trucks, full size luxury cars which could get by with the 318 and 360 small blocks. It is a fact that after the 1978 model year - the last for 400 and 440 big blocks, the big block tooling and production lines were DISASSEMBLED AND LIQUIDATED! This was a FOR SURE method of assuring zero "gas guzzlers" for Chrysler AND low-power for the trucks that actually needed the big engines. It was a lame time for the U.S. auto industry and Chry-Co in particular. But look how they rebounded with modern stuff like the SUPERCHARGED HEMI TRX!!!! Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
They were sold by Chrysler but supplied by Mitsubishi. Each of the "Big 3" had an alliance with a Japanese automaker. GM had Isuzu, Chrysler had Mitsubishi and Ford had Mazda.
They had to gear it to able to move it. Got the gutless 360/318. . Nothing like a big block in one of these gen trucks. But the 5.9 Cummins fixed the nadless small block in a one ton
I know it took Steve some real effort at 6 mins in to ignore the hubcaps in the bed. One thing about the LA Mopars. Ethanol issues aside, there's a good chance this truck would start and drive out of there.
Steve I hope Your recovering Well and Hope to see you Soon, Our Lord is looking after you, For sure. But I know 3 People who have converted to the Diesel , a 78 3/4 and 2 6 wheeler just like this Video, and they are real strong runners.
Chassis cab dodge dually rears make really good off road axles because they are a couple inches narrower than a regular dually rear. So they will fit under a single axle truck. Just put the smaller wheel studs on it
Wanted one of these late square body trucks so bad after I got out of college in 1989 but unfortunately wasn’t in a financial position to buy anything until the restyled ‘94 trucks had already come out. While the “big rig” styling of the ‘94 was all the rage, and certainly helped save the Dodge brand of trucks, to me they lacked the old school charm of these earlier models! For me, their “charm” was the fact that they were a tad awkward looking and hadn’t been restyled in almost two decades! Thinking back, how cool would it be today to own a ‘91 - ‘93 short box regular cab 4x2 Dodge truck (what I would have ordered) that had extremely low miles and spent the vast majority of its life parked in the garage? That would be one interesting and very RARE bird today……..😕
I’ll always have a soft spot for these as this was my Dads first new truck he ever bought in 1992. He got the 3500/dually/2WD/Cummins/ 4 speed. It was only $21,500 out the door all taxes and fees included. Most of these were pretty well used up 10 years later.
I did feature a 1983-ish D100 Miser pickup with the short bed, half ton chassis, 2WD and a FOUR SPEED Overdrive stick! You can find it in the Playlist. Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
Thanks for watching and writing. The T-shirt is from British musician Gaz Coombs. He just launched a CD called "Turn The Car Around" and the song "Long Live The Strange" is one of the singles. None of this has anything to do with the junkyard but I am a big fan of rock music and Gaz Coombs first band SUPERGRASS is a good one. I found the T-shirt on the Gaz Coombs website and sent away to Britain for the shirt. It arrived in 10 days. Beyond the shirt, if you like 1990's music - and the people who made it, maybe check out SuperGrass and Gaz Coombs new album "Turn The Car Around". Thanks again for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
Good Morning Gents ! 🇺🇸
I drove a ‘79 D300 stake truck, 360ci 4 speed. It was far from underpowered. I hauled front loaders, trailers and supplies without issue. Once hauled about 10k of boulders on the bed. Tires would rub on sharp turns. Truck was unstoppable.
Good Morning.
Katie gets her cameo. Love it.
She IS a mean scene stealer! But I have opposable thumbs! Take THAT Katie! Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
@@SteveMagnante Thanks for what you do Steve. I watch your videos about cars I never even cared for (and some I do) every morning. Also I'm sure Katie dont think of herself as being a scene stealer but more like a "scene enhancer".😎😎
I think The Dodge Cummins, Is the best motor out there even Today.
Yea,I remember going to the new car auto show when the Cummins was new in Dodge,that was real exciting time, great video thumbs up
Id rather a Cummins than a mopar engine.
The only mopar engine i trusted was the slant 6.
Except for the dowel pin of death...
@@DanEBoyd Do you refer to the oil pump drive gear DOWEL PIN? (or was that gear pressed on? I forget)I never had one of the pins fail BUT I did have a gear's teeth actually become ground away by the cam gear! Instant bearing damage. But beyond a few wiped shells the crank survived because I just happened to glance at the mechanical Oil Pressure Gauge and saw ZERO. The bummer is how the oil pump and ignition distributor are divorced on the Slant Six. So the ignition will continue to function as the bottom end welds itself solid. Then again, the distributor drive gear IS secured by a small "roll / dowel" pin. I haven't had one of those fail but assume it could happen. Fun! Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
@@SteveMagnante I thought it was used to 'key' the timing gear to the camshaft, but I'm not sure. I know the loose pin can wreak havoc on the timing gears, but I think piston-to-valve contact is another result.
I remember around 15 - 20 years ago, several of the automotive/truck shows on cable TV featured an install of the little kit which makes sure that the pin will never back out.
Thanks for making these videos!👍
Awwww, you woke up Katie in the shade😅
Morning Steve...
Morning Peter
Thanx steve
Had an absurd amount of memories in those old 80s dodge 🐏 pickups like getting grain. At a feed mill with my dad , towing horses . and a ramcharger was the first automobile I ever piloted! 🐎
Mr. B. Here ! ☕️☕️🍩 Morning Mags ! What joke no power for work trucks ! Thanks Steve for all the information !
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My dad was a Ford truck guy , said Dodges were tin cans & rattle traps for years. But in the mid 90s I had a '89 Dakota I was selling and he bought it and he drove that truck and loved it till his legs could no longer handle driving a 5-speed. He liked that Dodge well enough !!
I had an 88 Dakota, 4X4 5 speed 3.9. That was the first 4X4 I ever had, and I have at least one 4X4 all the time now. Mine was a very dependable small truck. 😊
@@bertgrau3934 Mine was a pretty solid truck too, but the driving range was killing me. Between the gas mileage , the distance I had to go to work and the 'small' gas tank; I was only getting about 160 miles on a tank full ! I would fill up Sunday night; Wednesday and then on Friday for my weekend driving. After about 2 years of this I just didn't want to do it anymore so I sold it and bought a small car to commute to work (and bought a full sized truck for when I needed a truck)
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I bought mine out of a salvage yard, towed it home, the guy told me it would run, but it ran pretty bad. He was right. I got it to run was able to drive it. The brakes, steering all worked. So I pulled the engine, took it apart cleaned it. Took the parts to a machine shop. Had it bored, honed, the crankshaft reground, rods resized, balanced, new cam lifters. Took everything home put it together myself, reinstalled. I got 18 - 20 MPG. I drove it for 21, years sold it. The guy that bought it from me drove it for about 1 year and he sold it. I still see it being driven from time to time. Now I have a Ford F 150 with a 5.0 4X4 crew cab. I really like it. I mostly use it for vacation. Gets 19- 20 MPG.
Steve, you're mean. She wanted a belly rub.
I had an 84 3/4 ton with 4.10’s and a 360/727.. that was a great truck
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I bought a 93 Cummins used in 94 and still have it. Its a W250. The funny thing about 250 and 350 is there was no difference ( single rear wheel models) except the rear spring block was a little bigger on 350. Same 4500# Dana 60 front, same Dana 70 rear. Also i have the A518 / 727 with OD and honestly its been a great transmission!! Love my Dodge trucks!!
I bought a 93 new and traded it in on a new 03. Still miss driving the old 93 and it had the most comfortable bucket seats of any vehicle I have ever owned. Trans was starting to suffer but the eng had been turned up.
I Had a 95 Cummins. That was a great truck that turbo is just about indestructible. Those first gens are super kool looking I see them around town every now and then here in San Diego. They’re going for good money now. They’re getting there respect. 👍
Fleet buyers knew and still know that the small block has plenty of power for any practical purpose as does the 225 in my '82 W150, and the lighter engines offer better traction, which really suffers in my friend's '93 Cummins D250. I even value the light engine when I don't have to bother shifting into 4wd and can still go places my 2wd Cummins friend can't. I have hauled cattle and my camper with my 225, and lose maybe 10 minutes, but that is nothing compared to time lost getting stuck; and as I wrote, fleet buyers know it.
Wasn't the 360LA in the video more powerful than the Cummins anyway? The Cummins had torque, sure, so delay upshifts and then so what? Well, I do have low range granny gear with my 225 so I never lack for torque, but I guess not everyone does.
@alan6832 well I can tell you I have never been stuck in my 93 Cummins 4x4..beaches, snow or mud..never! In fact I sat at the beach access at Oregon inlet OBX and pulled out 7.3 Fords, Jeeps pulling jet skis.. I've pulled out my landlords Ford stuck in snow with snowplow. The thing is called beast! 3.54 rears, 205 transfer case, Torqueflite and pretty much stock tires.. love this truck so much its getting redone this winter for its 30th B-day.
I will say a 2wd 150 with a slant is a hard one to beat as well.
@@Camcodrummer my W150 is 4wd, but the engine is so light compared to a Cummins that I sometimes don't have to bother shifting into 4wd. My friend's Cummins is 2wd and can hardly go anywhere, at least without ballast. I sold my 2wd F250 with 400 for the same reason, always needing ballast on the farm, and got the W150 instead. the 239v6 is lighter still, and the Ford 3.8V6 lighter still. 4wd does defeat the problem with heavy engines, but is expensive and complex and so not for everyone.
Soda pop! Steve's rapid fire jokes are funny
I had an 85 one ton. It was a great truck. Buddy of mine was coming up fast behind me in his brand new F150 5.4L Triton. Dropped her down in second and mashed the gas peddle. He got door to door and that was all he got.
Mine had the Quadrajet four barrel 727 torqueflite. Biggest problem with it was it was not four wheel drive. Terrible in the snow or wet grass for that matter unless you had it loaded down.
When the TV show "Emergency" started production the production company built their own paramedic unit using a then new 1972 Dodge cab chassis it was powered by 440 four barrel power train. The show ran for six seasons and they would just replace the cab/ chassis unit every season but to maintain continuity and be able to reuse stock footage of the unit they kept the 1972 grill unit, switching it out because nothing else on the truck body ever changed.
YES! "Emergency" was one of the great shows of that time. A little before it was "Adam 12" which helped fuel my obsession with police cars! I loved the 1968-'70 Mopar B-body cop cars they had and then the 1970-'73 AMC Matadors they drove on the show. The Plymouths were always 383 4-barrel cars (you can see the dual exhaust and hear the rumble when they drive or accelerate) and the AMC's were 401 cars - with that cool red "smeared" 401 badge on each front fender and yes, dual exhaust. Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
This d350 would have been the then current version of their truck...i just couldn't picture that taking it's place.
Steve - This truck you are featuring looks solid enough to be a good candidate for restoration. Hope some one can salvage it and give it a new life. Thanks for the video.
Love me a first gen ram, they’re starting to grow in popularity now, I’ve got an 87 w100 I swapped a 360 and 4 speed into, badass truck, my daily driver is a 97 shortbed with the 3.9 v6 (318 with 2 cylinders chopped off) although I have a 360 magnum and nv3500 5 speed waiting for it🙂 keep up the awesome videos Steve! Love learning more about cars I haven’t thought much of before
Windshield drip rail isn't even rotted out on that one. Decent builder. The roof driprail rust was the deathknell on those.
Road Salt takes its Toll in the North East
@@speedfreak8200 It sure does. Now they use salt brine on our dirt roads in the summer :(
Best invention for the Dodge trucks, the Dodge Cummins. It pulled all their work trucks up out of the slump. Especially wrecker rollback body trucks. That's where they needed these diesels. Even the Chevys and Fords and their diesels helped them out so much as far as like I just said the rollbacks and the Wreckers and any other business load hauling businesses. Thanks for this Steve. Also just like the Chevy square body, I like this Dodge body style, even if they rusted-out like paper after few years up north in the rust belt.
The 6.2L Chevy and 7.3L Ford/International engines were absolutely dogs without a turbo. My dad had an 86 Silverado with the 6.2L and he put a Banks Turbo on it. Really woke it up. My 85 Dodge didn't start to rust until it was 18 years old.
I have a 96 Dodge 2500 w/ the 12 valve Cummins, great engine but the Dodge part fell apart like a shipping crate . Those Cummins were in our Case /IH tractors and industrial equipment years before they were in Dodge trucks.
@@sodbuster4296 as good of an engine as Cummins makes, I never understood why Case IH never stuck with the Harvester engines. Case engines were good too but we had a 2590 Case and the transmission always gave us trouble. I can't remember now what the issue was. All my Dodge trucks lasted a long time and had lots of milage and age on them when they were sold or retired. In my experience it was the crap developed after Daimler that wasn't as good. Friend of mine worked as a designer in Auburn Hills told me Daimler started cutting everyone's budget from day one and they were expected to do more with less. How often does that work out?
@@danw6014 People always blew apart the power shift in those Case's... I honestly love it but it's a weak design if you are pulling heavy with them. As a hay tractor moving bales the power shift is awesome.
For the rest of it Case and and Cummins created a partnership called CDC in about 1979 and by 1983 the B series was born being the 3.9, 5.9 and 8.3. We had an 1986 which is the same chassis as my 2294 but with the 5.9 cummins in it... wish I still had that one.
Another great crawl video!!
While I can always appreciate each day's content, I can't wait for tomorrow's episode on the Ram 50 as I am currently in the process of acquiring one for myself to add to my current fleet of Mopars.
My father purchased 2 1989 Dodge Ram W250s. He ordered them without bumpers to save money and put a steel i-beam (i think it was old rail road track) for the bumpers. He would push over trees with his truck.
1987....? It's hard to believe that in 1987, I was in my 3rd year in the Marine Corp, and that was a brand new truck. I remember getting out of boot camp and seeing a Camaro Iroc Z for the 1st time....boy, did I want one.
I had an '87 Dodge Ram long bed pickup with a 318 that I bought well used. It was a pretty good truck with a terrible turning radius. If this one in the video is actually an '87, somebody must have changed out the grille because it has the older "eggcrate" grille in it instead of the crosshair grille of later years.
We're all pulling for you Steve. Hope to see you back in the Junkyard soon
I remember when this generation was featured on the t v show Emergency
Not this later version but the 1972
Emergency 51 was an awesome show, still is
I worked as a mechanic at a large open pit copper mine in Arizona in the late seventies. We were mobile mechanics fixing heavy equipment in the field. When I started we had a Chevy C30 dually with a 350 4bbl and it would pull the 15% grades out of the pit without trouble. In 1977 we got new trucks, Dodge D300s with the 360. What a toad! 45 mph tops going up the grades foot through the floorboards! 😂
Miss my 1977 Dodge Adventurer pick-up. Not a straight panel, or bumper. But could uproot a stump
Steve, that's not a Pintle Hitch and you be nice to Miss Katie she's just doing her job making the rounds like a good yard dog ... thanks for keeping the vids coming,
Always loved my dodge d150, very reliable truck, never had any issues with it. Really warm in the cold Canadian winters, the vents made the truck nice and cool in the summer and had all the power I needed when I hauled stuff in it.
Iconography !! Word of the day ! Thanks for sharing !!
I only was able to drive one Dodge D350 in my life.
The year was 1992.
The year of the truck was a 1989.
The truck had a Cummins diesel, and manual transmission.
At the time, I worked as a "mechanic's apprentice", for a small town car dealer that specialized in used diesel pickups.
My boss had bought the truck at a automotive auction in Oklahoma City.
A fellow employee and I were sent to get it.
It ran great, but dang it was a rough-riding truck.
Made it a very long 350 miles home from Oklahoma City, to northern Kansas.😁
My experience with Dodge Trucks is they are engineered very well for servicing. Practical design for brakes etc no funny stuff like Ford was known for. And the 360 trucks lasted a long time and ya fuel economy is still a thing in service vehicles so it was a good thing.
Nice to meet you today in Wallingford. Enjoy your videos and common bond enthusiasm for old cars and junkyards. Dennis
Keep these videos coming Steve - they're terrific!
l can remember searching for a new truck way back then, as you said the body style had not changed in years, you could almost get a 4 wheel drive ,well loaded dodge for the same price as a 2 wheel , lightly opioned chevy or ford, dodges motor and body upgrade definitely saved them. double k from western pa
Correct on the 440 V8, however some did make it into 1979 motorhomes---they were leftover "run out" 1978 engines. That being they were gone when the supply was run out. Yes, Chrysler finally got smart and dumped Holley and Carter in favor of a Q-Jet which brought better performance and fuel economy. No, that's a one-ton rated truck. 1 is 1/2 ton, 2 is 3/4 ton and 3 is 1 ton. Chrysler gave up the HD market (for the US) a few years before this. Today you can get a Ram 5500 that competes with the Silverado HD series and Ford F-550. Yes, today's Rams still have the 6.7L Cummins "B" diesel in them as an option. We had several of them in our fleet a few years back and still have some. GM's HD offerings are a joke in the market and very incomplete. Stellantis is better, but Ford to their credit is the most flexible and upfitter friendly.
That looks like a Grover air horn---they recently went out business. They were located in Los Angeles, CA and then last year stated that they were going out of business due to the economic climate in CA. I believe "The Air Horn Guys" may have bought them or the rights/plans for their products. Their model 1510 "Stuttertone" has been a fire and rescue truck staple for decades. Kleinn, Buell, Hadley and Wolo are other popular air horn companies, Correct, the dealership often had a network of body and equipment upfitters and usually the customer wrote one check to the dealer and they would handle the rest. It still works this way. Popular body companies that made bodies like that are Reading Body (Reading, PA), Knapheide (Quincy, IL), Stahl (Wooster, OH, who also at one time owned Campbell-Hausfeld), among others. Kleinn also makes train air horns and basically had a motto, "If you have to ask how loud it is, you shouldn't ask". Cadillacs had a "trumpet" horn option that sounded like a train horn.
No VIN, can't win, but might go something like: 1B7 for US made Dodge Truck, W for incomplete vehicle, D for two wheel drive, 3 for 1 ton rated, 4 for standard cab, W for 5.9L (360 CID) V8 with four barrel (in this case a Rochester Q-Jet), then a random check digit, H for the 1987 model year, possible S for Warren Truck, Warren, MI assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Warren, MI plant opened in 1938 and still operates today under Stellantis. It was known as "Dodge City" for many years.
No tag, can't brag.
Hello Google User GP. I was actually thinking of you when I selected this truck for a Junkyard Crawl video a few months ago. During my pre-video "reconnaissance" visit I noted the "cab and chassis" stickers and said "Google User GP deals with this up fitter business and mentions it in his Comments". Also, you'll note that I hand-wrote the word UPFITTERS on the door panel of this truck to remind me NOT to say "Conversion Outfit" as a description of the UPFITTERS that final-assembled the truck in its delivered form. Thanks again for watching, writing and COMMENTING. -Steve Magnante
@@SteveMagnante Nice of you to say. Yup, I deal with it every day for the past 18+ years. Prior to that, I was on the auto parts manufacturer/supplier side of the business at a different place. Yes, "upfitter", "secondary manufacturer", "body builder", etc., all refer to the same thing for the most part. The "last guy" to touch it usually puts a yellow (or other color) label on it to show that they kept the FMVSS standards intact when they did the upfit. You'd be surprised at the doozies I've spotted over the years. One time a Ford authorized upfitter had to stretch the chassis on some trucks were doing. The final product was so bad that you could see through the welds. We saw it by passing a flashlight over the welds and seeing light clearly through the other side. The frame were rusty and the job was extremely poor. They had to go back several times to be corrected. The Ford QVM (Qualified Vehicle Modifier) program I later found out is run by a third party (rolls eyes......). This last time we had them done, it was a different upfitter (a much more well known one) who did a much better job, although I did spot some finger tight critical frame bolts that they missed. LOL.
Another time, I spotted a mistake on an upfitter label. They had "single" for the rear tires and they were dual. I pointed it out to them. Now, mind you, this person was a VP from a well-known tow truck manufacturer who holds many patents (he just retired last year) and has been in the towing industry for decades. He said, "No, that decal is right". I said, "No it's not. This truck has dual rear wheels. Therefore, the tire inflation pressures should be for a dual set up. That differs from a single set up. Look at any spec sheet for a tire and you'll see I'm right. In fact, let's look at this Ford F-550 right over here". (I then showed him the Ford label said "Dual" for the rear wheels.) His response? "I've been doing this for close to 50 years and you're the first guy to point that error out to me." (Face palm). I pointed out another error on to an engineer at a large emergency vehicle manufacturer and he first said, "No, I'm right" and then when I got back to the office a few days later, he sent an e-mail, "You're 100% right. I took another look. We'll fix it." (Sigh.......).
I have a reputation among my coworkers as "You better check those placards. He's going to verify them." I was in Florida recently for work checking an order of trucks and I had them give me a copy of the fluid placard (lists the type of fluids and quantity used in the vehicle) and my coworker said as I was checking something, "Oh no, you're in for it....." Sure enough I said, "Yup, you guys have the wrong transmission fluid on these Fords. They now use ULV (Ultra Low Viscosity) fluid, not LV (Low Viscosity) fluid. It's wrong". Rumor also has it that because of an error I found, Ford had to send out a supplement to their Super Duty diesel owner's manuals as they had 15 quarts of engine oil with a filter, when it only requires 13. Putting 15 quarts puts it way over the full mark on the dipstick. LOL.
One manufacturer did that placard FOUR times after making mistakes and not proofreading it. The hitch is that placard costs $400 each time they make a mistake. I then told them, "Why wouldn't you do it as a PDF and send it first so we can proof read it? Plus you should be using a plastic placard instead of that polished piece at $400 each".
Yes, I've seen it all. LOL.
I had a 80 Dodge D150 reg cab short bed in the late 80s. Loved the slant six and 3spd manual. No options. It was my winter beater when my 65 Belvedere was in storage
man, those 1994 318/360 big rig look Rams were lemons! Everyone I knew who had one was constantly in the dealership repairing stuff (engines, trans, shocks, rear axles by 50,000 miles)--and when they were at gas stations, owners would come up to ask them if they too were having so many repairs. lucky the trucks were popular--they couldn't trade 'em to their Dodge dealerships and get anything close to blue book, so they traded in for Fords and GM because those dealerships heard they sold easily.
we love to romance small engine trucks, they do a ton of work at 40 mph up a hill screaming their brains out :)
Steve! How could you not give Katie a belly rub there?!?
Honestly, just for the sake of simplicity, I'd much rather have a truck like this than anything sold today. I don't need or want all of the so called hi tech gizmos that come with newer vehicles. The 360 gasser might've been a bit down on power and torque compared to the GM and Ford big blocks but, it was on par with the GM 350 and Ford 351W. As for the "oil burners" the GM 6.2 was never turbocharged unless the owner upgraded it through the aftermarket and, the Ford (Navistar) 7.3 was available with or without a turbo for several years. Wasn't the Ford 6.9 also still offered around this time?
PB blaster good! But I hide the Kryoil for my personal use
Kroil rules.
When I was a kid, the first truck I really wanted was a 76 3/4 ton dodge 4x4 with a 360....my dad had bought it, but one day after school it was gone. He sold it. Then about 10 years later I was looking for 4x4 axles for a project and realized that I needed that truck back(it didn't happen like that though)
Before 78 dodge had the biggest u joints of anything in the front axle.....
Now that is a truck. I love the Dodge. It looks savable.
I've got a 02 dodge ram truck quad cab 2wd and it just turned over four hundred thousand miles it's been the best truck I ever had and I still drive it everyday, it has the four point seven liter. And only thing I have done is put new starter and waterpump and radiator. I think the oil I use makes a big difference I have always used mobile 1 full synthetic oil I use the one that is extended life for twenty thousand miles but I don't wait until that I change it every three to four thousand miles besides waiting for the twenty thousand miles.
Still with you Steve!
I just have a few minutes for this junk this morning but that's alright, I like hearing Steve talk about these junky cars and trucks. 😀
Had a '86 360 just like this one only mine was a dump bed ✌💖☮
Had an 84 W100 with the 318, same color as that truck, prospector model. I miss that truck, was a good one. Also had an 85 Ram 50 as well, 4wd, 5 spd with the failure of that 2.6 Mitsu engine. My 88 Dakota was ten times the truck the Ram 50 was, good to see that old Dodge, wish I could get it working again.
Thank you Steve
You can take the 360 out of the big truck d-350 and put it in the small truck d-50 it's been done a million times tranny matches up
My father has a "78 Lil Red Express,and an "82 D150 318 long bed.I have a "01 Ram 1500 with a 318 Magnum and a "12 Ram Express Hemi....All are original owner all original untouched "Survivors"....Long live the Dodge Ram.....You can say Mopower runs in the family.
Katie!! Such a good girl!
I bought my 91 Cummins Ram W350 DRW new, and I’m still driving it 32 years later. I would have bought one earlier, but I held out until the 5 speed manual trans became commonly available. I think I paid around 25K for it, averaged out over 32 years, that is a hell of a deal.
A local Volunteer fire department has '79 Power Wagon brush truck with a Pierce pump. That has a 440.
I remember Auto week episode, Don Garlits said this was still the same truck as was years before,
A friend of mine had a 1978 1 ton duelly with a slant 6 under the hood. It wasn't the fastest but back in those 55 mph max days, it would go. He even drove the 870 some miles to New York and then back. 200 miles was about my limit in it even when I was young plus it didn't have a radio.
I owned a 1987 Dodge Ram 150 4x4 with the 318. It was a good truck.
Great job sir, and thank you!
This (specifically the last couple years 3/4- and 1-ton standard cab single wheel long bed) body style is my favorite Dodge pickup body style ever, by a LOT. I wish they could still be had in good shape for reasonable money.
Razr scooter!
Steve, I look at some of those featured trucks and I tell myself , why is that in the Burnston Automobile recycling yard ? I could have ran that at least another 5 years with a bit of tinkering. I put a lot of miles on cars / trucks I bought for less than 1000 dollars and put 500 dollars or so into them.
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The 12v Cummins turned this truck into a legend
That's a 1981-85 grille installed into this truck. Work trucks got repaired with whatever parts were handy.
I was thinking the same thing and I also thought they had gone to fuel injection by 87. I was thinking that was an 85.
No they still had carbs in 1987.
@@danw6014 Carter went out of the carburetor business and MoPar bought Q-jets starting in '85.
@@googleusergp IIRC.....TBI on the V8s started in '88.
I always wondered how the Slant-6 would have responded to EFI.
@@jonathanmorrisey5771 Correct, 3.9L V6 was a VIN code "X", the 5.2L V8 was a VIN code "Y" and the 5.9L was a VIN code "Z", all starting in 1988. There was also a 5.9L with four barrel in 1988, a VIN code "W" like this one in the video likely is.
Get well soon Steve!
I remember seeing 250s and 350s with utility boxes, dualies and powered by slant 6s from the former local phone companies of the broken up ATT
I learned how to drive on my Dad's 1987 d100 4 spd(technically 3 spd with od), slant 6 with 1 barrel carb. I wished we had a 360. Lol However our truck was a great and reliable. 186k miles with regular maintenance before being traded in.
I mean, the 360 had more horsepower and torque then the ford and Chevy diesel engines so being underpowered was more a statement on that time period in general
My 1st vehicle was an 83' Ram w/old 225 slant six,2x2. Was a great runner. Upgraded to an 89' 2x2 w/3.9 v6 few years after but will always miss that 83'.
Trucks of my youth. I was always partial to the Chevy C-10.
I wanted to get the dodge with Cummins engine in 1989 but they didn’t make a crew cab work truck so I bought the ford f350 7.3 crew cab still using it today to get the mail bread and milk pretty rusty but runs great for upstate NY
I had an 88, with an l pack when I drove it home my Ole lady said "where the heck are you going to park that tank?*I drove it from home to the gas station LoL 😁 yikes
I used to work for a snow removal company that had a D350. Old man swapped in a 440. In medium snow with the plow on the floor in low you didn’t need to push the gas much. The clutch was another story….
Hornets nest .... LOL
I was just thinking about that ....
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Katie 🐶 is watching out for you
That was a long time running for that body style! They definitely needed the change! Because Ford and Chevy where killing dodge in the sale department. Great video Steve!
Katie dog! 😂 👍
6:36 What?! No belly rub?
I’ve seen the earlier dodge diesels with the I believe Mitsubishi diesel and and early 89 non turbo Cummins. Just bought a 77 Air Force D300 service truck. We’ve drove mostly dodge trucks for the last 40 years
Barely see those anymore!
Don't forget the older 70's dodge had the Mitsubishi diesel option. Also the cummins 6b engine was designed for industrial uses, then wedged into the Dodge trucks.
This style of Dodge always looked to me like someone left a Chevy square body out in the sun and it melted around the edges. Others said a Ford and Chevy had a baby and this was it.
The Cummins was a game changer in the small PU market. They did have growing pains along the way like everything else. A friend had a very early production model, it broke the flange off the crankshaft. It was not unheard of but was warranted.
I bought Cab and Chassis new in the past. They were sold as an "incomplete vehicle", I could not get permanent plates until I had a body on it could be a state thing?
The Cummins engine option sort of changed the image of Dodge trucks. As soon as consumers who understood diesels caught on, Dodge has been setting the pace in diesel light trucks despite solid offerings from Ford and GM. Nevertheless, it seems like a bit of a gross miscalculation for Chrysler to stop offering big blocks in heavier duty light trucks.
The End Of Big Blocks was a direct result of the string of Energy Crises in the 1970's and government reactions to them. Detroit was TOLD to "change its ways" and down-size. Chrysler's situation was particularly bad and when they got the Government Bail Out the decision was made to GO ALL FRONT DRIVE (with a small number of exceptions). These exceptions were light trucks, full size luxury cars which could get by with the 318 and 360 small blocks. It is a fact that after the 1978 model year - the last for 400 and 440 big blocks, the big block tooling and production lines were DISASSEMBLED AND LIQUIDATED! This was a FOR SURE method of assuring zero "gas guzzlers" for Chrysler AND low-power for the trucks that actually needed the big engines. It was a lame time for the U.S. auto industry and Chry-Co in particular. But look how they rebounded with modern stuff like the SUPERCHARGED HEMI TRX!!!! Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
I drove a dodge 350 4x4 wrecker. It was a great truck . It definitely had more power than the Chevy we had with 350 .
How do you know all this?
Neat truck history. What's the info and details on that mini Ram pick up that was to the right? That was neat too. Never mind you covered it
More on the "baby Ram" with tomorrow's Junkyard Crawl video! Please tune in! -Steve Magnante
They were sold by Chrysler but supplied by Mitsubishi. Each of the "Big 3" had an alliance with a Japanese automaker. GM had Isuzu, Chrysler had Mitsubishi and Ford had Mazda.
Reminds me of my 1986 W350 dually w/360 4-speed stick. Not too fast but can climb brick walls.
They had to gear it to able to move it. Got the gutless 360/318. .
Nothing like a big block in one of these gen trucks.
But the 5.9 Cummins fixed the nadless small block in a one ton
My friend once told me that a Dodge Cummins engine sounded like 2 skeletons wrestling on a tin roof.
I know it took Steve some real effort at 6 mins in to ignore the hubcaps in the bed.
One thing about the LA Mopars. Ethanol issues aside, there's a good chance this truck would start and drive out of there.
Steve I hope Your recovering Well and Hope to see you Soon, Our Lord is looking after you, For sure. But I know 3 People who have converted to the Diesel , a 78 3/4 and 2 6 wheeler just like this Video, and they are real strong runners.
Chassis cab dodge dually rears make really good off road axles because they are a couple inches narrower than a regular dually rear. So they will fit under a single axle truck. Just put the smaller wheel studs on it
I had a 78 D200 w a 440. that sucker would pull anything.
I have a d150 85 dodge shortbox pickup like the truck a lot.
Wanted one of these late square body trucks so bad after I got out of college in 1989 but unfortunately wasn’t in a financial position to buy anything until the restyled ‘94 trucks had already come out. While the “big rig” styling of the ‘94 was all the rage, and certainly helped save the Dodge brand of trucks, to me they lacked the old school charm of these earlier models! For me, their “charm” was the fact that they were a tad awkward looking and hadn’t been restyled in almost two decades!
Thinking back, how cool would it be today to own a ‘91 - ‘93 short box regular cab 4x2 Dodge truck (what I would have ordered) that had extremely low miles and spent the vast majority of its life parked in the garage? That would be one interesting and very RARE bird today……..😕
I’ll always have a soft spot for these as this was my Dads first new truck he ever bought in 1992. He got the 3500/dually/2WD/Cummins/ 4 speed. It was only $21,500 out the door all taxes and fees included. Most of these were pretty well used up 10 years later.
Dennis Collins seems to have a soft spot and find Dodges and Ramchargers of this vintage
I did feature a 1983-ish D100 Miser pickup with the short bed, half ton chassis, 2WD and a FOUR SPEED Overdrive stick! You can find it in the Playlist. Thanks for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante
its only fitting that the junkyard genius has a junkyard dog to go with him
What was the little truck to the left of the D350? Great job. Love your channel.
Wish I still had my '79 Warlock II.
I love that shirt I want one where did you get it
Thanks for watching and writing. The T-shirt is from British musician Gaz Coombs. He just launched a CD called "Turn The Car Around" and the song "Long Live The Strange" is one of the singles. None of this has anything to do with the junkyard but I am a big fan of rock music and Gaz Coombs first band SUPERGRASS is a good one. I found the T-shirt on the Gaz Coombs website and sent away to Britain for the shirt. It arrived in 10 days. Beyond the shirt, if you like 1990's music - and the people who made it, maybe check out SuperGrass and Gaz Coombs new album "Turn The Car Around". Thanks again for watching and writing. -Steve Magnante