I had a blue 79 powerwagon with the double stack rectangle headlight/grille, I LOVE that front end! Spent 5 years restoring it and it was so beautiful.
Before I knew how to work on cars I had a green 1975 Gold Duster with a 318 in beautiful condition I bought it for $100 with a bad timing chain. I tried to fix it myself and gave up on it, I sold the car for what I paid for it. Hind sight I should have paid a shop to fix it.
Had a 78 PW back when I was young and dumb. Two tone, blue/white, 360, RV cam, all the goodies...that thing screamed, threw mud, did burnouts on Super Swampers, and would absolutely move. It also destroyed driveshafts and 2 727's. It got pretty expensive for a poor and not very gainfully employed man of his early twenties. I did drive it to a Metallica show in Sacramento from my hometown (about 400 miles) and burned three tanks of gas. And then the second tranny blew up in the Bay Area on the way back at 2 in the morning. Good times. Was sad to see her go.
That’s Juno. She’s a sweetheart. She’s supposedly my daughter’s cat, but these days she’s generally terrorizing me for scritches when I’m trying to fall asleep.
That’s why I never look in my oil pan. It can’t be real if you don’t know about it. :) Great stuff. Sorry you got oil in your hair, though. The things you go through to entertain/educate us are greatly appreciated.
Always puzzled me that people would modify the full-time-four-wheel drive transfer cases, yes, they were gas hogs as daily drivers, but on the highway at a steady 70 mph I could get 17 mpg with my 79 w150 with 321 gears, 8 to 9 mpg driving around in the hills up here in the endless mountains. But that full time 4wd was great as you could drive it on any surface. Just bought a 77 w150, 318, so thanks for reminding me to change the timing chain before I run it. I had to change the timing set on my 79, I also pulled the intake, and valve covers and used a spoon and rubber spatula to clean the sludge out the engine as the dealer who did all the scheduled oil changes for the person, I bought it from only changed the filter and topped the oil off.
Dont quote me on this Jamie, but I believe that the early year 78 trucks got the clear turn signal lenses, because if you go look at the brochure for 78 they all had the clear lenses
Looking back on it, Dodge had some pretty good looking truck packages, with graphics and bolt on accessories, this truck definitely has that vibe, it’s a keeper! I miss round headlights, glass that didn’t change due to UV and cost less than $10. Before someone can comment that they didn’t illuminate anything, now everyone has arc flash LED’s that blind everyone, so you still can’t see squat, and you pay thousands for the privilege.
Dude, seriously. I’m just always blind. Rode with my brother in his Fury last night. He has those fancy super bright LEDs, and yet somehow everyone else’s super bright LEDs still blind you. It’s hopeless.
Looks like you opened up the Can of Worms. That will put a damper on your progress report. I rebuilt my dad's 318 for his 73 power wagon W 200 back in 1990, (that was caused by the timing set), and it still runs excellent to this day, it's parked next to my shop, and you helped me with some parts for it, Thanks.
Back in the “bad old days” 😂👏👏. A lot of people would have never caught all that de-briss in the pan…they would’ve just drained it, threw it back together and went on-for a very short while lol! Well done brother, a few dollars of well spent repair now will equal a long service life showing Dodge superiority going forward. How long will it take you Ryan?? 😏somewhere between 6 days and 6 months…👀🙄 well okay I guess 🤷🏻♂️😂 transparency goes a long way 🤣
I said timing chain as soon as I heard it. Then you said experienced mechanics will have been screaming timing chain my 21 year old snapped his head and looked at me in awe. Cool
Yeah! Half ton Power Wagons were awesome, specifically in the single cab short flavor. The blue club cab long bed I had here for a while was also a half ton W100, which seems nuts. It was a long and kinda heavy truck, but the lighter springs made it a surprisingly nice riding unit.
POWER WOOOGAN!!!! I thought they only came with the 9 1/4. Maybe im just lucky with my 80 but it makes me want to take it and swap it into my 86 but mannnn not having to worry about breaking the drive train is like just the best
Great video! Your vid made me decide to replace the timing chain in my '77 W200 with a 440. Sure enough, factory nylon gears, very sloppy timing chain - caught it just in time.
Stuck! I know, i have had a ramcharger se with the same setup! I changed the chain in the transfer case without removing the case, don't know if it was the right way, but it did work for me! Noise was gon!
my 72 440 w/about 128k miles had a similarly degraded sprocket. The metal spikes were all exposed and worn down, the car would surge at speed noticeably with the unstable cam timing. The chain could be slipped off, too.
I bought a 77 W100 originally a 440 that I rebuilt a 68 383 for it when my friend threw a couple rods with just 68k miles on it. I did convert the 203 to part time with a mile marker 203 conversion kit. I planned on a 208 and Dana 60's but even in deep mud with 40's in Azuza Canyon I failed to break it.
As a bored kid in a small town in the '70s, I would ride my bike down to the local dealer when the new year models showed up. Now I don't have the greatest memory, but still, I'm 95% sure the '78 models did not all have amber turn signal lens. Knowing Chrysler, I just figured they used amber when they ran out of clear. I like to imagine that they had an odd number, and somewhere there is one with mismatched lenses. Anyhoo, my belabored point is I would not be surprised if the lenses on this truck are factree...
It may have been a January first change, or a different changeover date. The conventional wisdom is 77=clear, 78=amber, but we should know better than to assume that (or anything else) is 100%
The thing about voltage regulators with these vehicles - if you use the Mopar Performance voltage regulator, you won't have issues. If you use the $35 cheap replacement models you will have issues. It's not the factory alternator's fault at all. I went through this myself after multiple vr failures and chose to find and fix the issue rather than do a workaround. I also ran a dedicated ground wire from the vr to negative of battery and installed one of those cheap digital voltmeter gauges ($12) on my dash so I can always see the output. Zero issues. Same thing with the cluster voltage regulator - don't buy the cheap replacements. I did and my gauges were showing wrong readings. Bought an original off Ebay and the gauges all went to reading correctly and again, zero issues after that. Yet you'll see guys bellyache about how innacurate the gauges are. Most of that is due to using inferior parts even though they say they are compatible with your vehicle.
I don’t have time to explain all the steps I went through on this one, and what I learned. I know it’s not the alternator’s fault. I’m the guy who made the Classic Chrysler Charging Systems video a couple years ago, in which I explained all of this, and tried to convince people *not* to throw away factory alternators. This was the solution he chose.
Consider how long that engine drove around out of proper cam timing. My Chrysler would foul plugs, surge, have general poor performance and economy until a new timing set was installed. It made a world of difference. I replace the chain as a rule in most cars I buy.
That looks "almost" like my ol 78' W150, except mine was a step-side long bed. Same color, same rims, same rollbar, mine had a plow mount frame on the front. Same transmission and transfer case too. Yes I agree, when you're off-roading, you'd better be careful. Ok, I'll quit now.
Jamie, I would like to have your thoughts on how to correct chronic coolant leakage between the aluminum timing cover on an LA engine and the engine block. I think it is caused by galvanic corrosion.
While I have seen a few horribly corroded timing covers, most I have seen aren’t, and I don’t think that is the primary issue. I see it as a design issue. It’s always at those same two extreme outer points of the timing gasket that it leaks. Magnums often have that same problem, and in those I have found the cause to be a disintegrating timing cover gasket. I think it’s down to clamping forces in that area.
Those damn nylon timing gears were the dumbest thing...mopar wasnt the only one to implement it either, there were some GM engines back in the day that used them but everyone always associates them with mopar. My dad had a late 70s Robinhood motorhome on a dodge chassis with a 360 and he lost the timing gear when it was still fairly new when he was pushing it super hard towing a boat up a grade. Had to stay in the motorhome in some guys shop in the middle of nowhere while they waited for the part...at least he brought his own house with him to sleep in 😂 one of the benefits of breaking down in a motothome i guess 😅
I mean it’s kind of the same reason, the joke when I traded my toolbox for that Charger was that I then had to stack my tools in it. I never did though. Haha.
I like these engines, however the dumbest thing about them, at least the earlier LA's, is that if you need to tighten the powersteering belt, coolant will seep past the timing cover gasket. My belt needs to be tightened but I just leave it, the timing chain cover gasket is at least 16 years old and has been seeping on previous times I tightened the belt.
Mebbe replacing 318 with another mopar offering would be wiser. Always appreciate your videos. Hey, have you ever thought about installing one of junkerups ball joint lowering kit in one of your sport mopars? I know your thing is straight liners but there is a steering wheel for fun option on virtually every mopar offering.
Actually drag racing is a relatively recent thing for me. We’ve been building capable handling Mopars for a decade now. We just drove two of them 340 miles down to Woodburn and back. Well, mostly back… anyway, several people have asked about his setup but I haven’t gone there yet.
Oh it’s ridiculous… there is zero shortage of stuff for me to do. Right, the truck is not a real tow truck doing real tow truck things and I’d like to be sure the local constabulary is aware.
I'm an old guy, and I remember Pontiacs having this problem with timing gears back in the sixties - wouldn't you think they would have figured this out by now?
I have had the service contract for the local USPS fleet for like four years now. I fix them at home. Some Mondays I find one or two of them dead in my driveway. No one else wants them... and I'm sure there are good reasons for that. Lol. I just did an LLV transmission last week.
I don't believe this bad boy is oiling properly. Looked mighty dry when you pulled the cover off. Fuel pump eccentric looked the same. You're definitely on the right track. She gonna need some tlc.
I had serious questions after I found the chunks of cam bearing. He says it has never shown any signs of low pressure or made any awful noises. Either way… it needs to be gone through.
After seeing the coolant shooting out of the water pump bolt holes, any thoughts on using studs in those locations so they don't have to be removed? This came up recently for me while doing some alternator work.
Not sure it’s worth the trouble. You shouldn’t have to pull those bolts often… yes, when pulling the alternator bracket, you have to be ready to pop that bolt back in! I have also seen these bolts rust themselves into the timing cover. I’d be concerned that a stud would do that over time, and then pulling the cover would be very challenging. Actually, you’d probably have to pull studs to pull the cover with the oil pan in place anyway. Yeah, I dunno.
I am not in the business of sourcing, selling, or shipping parts. I *am* in the business of hoarding parts. If you need a parts locating service, I highly recommend you contact Vanessa with Five Point Parts. She has a website with a parts request form. You can find that here: www.fivepointparts.com
Yes it was. I don’t remember the changeover date. May have been around February. The common understanding is clear = 77 and amber = 78, but that’s not the case.
I had a blue 79 powerwagon with the double stack rectangle headlight/grille, I LOVE that front end! Spent 5 years restoring it and it was so beautiful.
I had that ‘79 stepside with the stacked headlights, and it started to grow on me. But my favorite had always been the 74-76.
I'm not even waiting till I watch the whole video, that is one of my dream pickups!
Ive got the same M12 impact, that little thing is an absolute beast.
It’s raining sideways! Luckily, I have this video to watch
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Before I knew how to work on cars I had a green 1975 Gold Duster with a 318 in beautiful condition I bought it for $100 with a bad timing chain. I tried to fix it myself and gave up on it, I sold the car for what I paid for it. Hind sight I should have paid a shop to fix it.
The mighty oil slinging 318"...hope to see more... good content and thanks...🔧🔧👍
RIP 5.2! Happy to see another d/w truck thats cool and have high hopes it will join the undead dodges back on the road running better than ever.
Had a 78 PW back when I was young and dumb. Two tone, blue/white, 360, RV cam, all the goodies...that thing screamed, threw mud, did burnouts on Super Swampers, and would absolutely move. It also destroyed driveshafts and 2 727's. It got pretty expensive for a poor and not very gainfully employed man of his early twenties. I did drive it to a Metallica show in Sacramento from my hometown (about 400 miles) and burned three tanks of gas. And then the second tranny blew up in the Bay Area on the way back at 2 in the morning. Good times. Was sad to see her go.
Love those truck's
I haven't seen the ginger cat before, he looks like a nice chap.
He shall henceforth be known as "Marmaduke".
That’s Juno. She’s a sweetheart. She’s supposedly my daughter’s cat, but these days she’s generally terrorizing me for scritches when I’m trying to fall asleep.
@@DeadDodgeGarage Oh, a girl cat . I'd be interested in a video of all your animals. It seems that you're not short of them .🙂👍
Can't wait to see the rest of the story.
Nice truck! It deserves your help, and your just the man to do it. Looking forward to seeing you working on it again!
That’s why I never look in my oil pan. It can’t be real if you don’t know about it. :)
Great stuff. Sorry you got oil in your hair, though. The things you go through to entertain/educate us are greatly appreciated.
Have you seen that Bird Box meme where she’s installing a cam in an LS and not looking at the cam bearings? Haha.
I'll be here for the sequel/conclusion.
Oooh pretty dodge! Nice break from cussing my ford's transmission
Always puzzled me that people would modify the full-time-four-wheel drive transfer cases, yes, they were gas hogs as daily drivers, but on the highway at a steady 70 mph I could get 17 mpg with my 79 w150 with 321 gears, 8 to 9 mpg driving around in the hills up here in the endless mountains. But that full time 4wd was great as you could drive it on any surface. Just bought a 77 w150, 318, so thanks for reminding me to change the timing chain before I run it. I had to change the timing set on my 79, I also pulled the intake, and valve covers and used a spoon and rubber spatula to clean the sludge out the engine as the dealer who did all the scheduled oil changes for the person, I bought it from only changed the filter and topped the oil off.
Dont quote me on this Jamie, but I believe that the early year 78 trucks got the clear turn signal lenses, because if you go look at the brochure for 78 they all had the clear lenses
I am sure you’re right, and I’m also sure that I probably knew that at some point. That may be a 1/1/78 mandated change, or… who even knows
A pretty cool truck. Always had an appreciation for these. Can't wait to see the update on this one!
Hey, Morris the Cat!
Meow?!
@@DeadDodgeGarage 🤣
You need to get one of those 10'x10' pop up tents for working out in the sun.
Oh yeah. We have one of those. Lol.
Slowly becoming my favorite channel!!
Thank you!
This is where having a few spare great running 318s lying around is a huge plus. Even just one would do the trick.
Yep… I sold all of them 😭
The term "snowball" comes to mind.
Yeeeeep…
That Dodge is freakin sweet...even manual too!
Complete Rebuild 😊
Looking back on it, Dodge had some pretty good looking truck packages, with graphics and bolt on accessories, this truck definitely has that vibe, it’s a keeper! I miss round headlights, glass that didn’t change due to UV and cost less than $10. Before someone can comment that they didn’t illuminate anything, now everyone has arc flash LED’s that blind everyone, so you still can’t see squat, and you pay thousands for the privilege.
Well said. I hate driving at night…maybe I should try sunglasses; hey, that reminds me of an 80’s tune.
Dude, seriously. I’m just always blind. Rode with my brother in his Fury last night. He has those fancy super bright LEDs, and yet somehow everyone else’s super bright LEDs still blind you. It’s hopeless.
Looks like you opened up the Can of Worms. That will put a damper on your progress report. I rebuilt my dad's 318 for his 73 power wagon W 200 back in 1990, (that was caused by the timing set), and it still runs excellent to this day, it's parked next to my shop, and you helped me with some parts for it, Thanks.
Oh yeah! Outstanding!
Back in the “bad old days” 😂👏👏. A lot of people would have never caught all that de-briss in the pan…they would’ve just drained it, threw it back together and went on-for a very short while lol! Well done brother, a few dollars of well spent repair now will equal a long service life showing Dodge superiority going forward.
How long will it take you Ryan?? 😏somewhere between 6 days and 6 months…👀🙄 well okay I guess
🤷🏻♂️😂 transparency goes a long way 🤣
Nice video, your narration is great, and good knowledge on mopars
Thank you! I appreciate that.
Cool truck! I like every modification thats been done on it! Would be great restored!👍
You are cranking out the content, and I approve.
I’m trying! Thanks!
I remember having this problem with a Ford 289 back in the sixty's. Replaced with all metal gears and life was good again.
I said timing chain as soon as I heard it. Then you said experienced mechanics will have been screaming timing chain my 21 year old snapped his head and looked at me in awe. Cool
There you go! Haha.
I didn't know the power wagon came in w10 flavors...always thought they were w20s......learn something new everyday.
Yeah! Half ton Power Wagons were awesome, specifically in the single cab short flavor. The blue club cab long bed I had here for a while was also a half ton W100, which seems nuts. It was a long and kinda heavy truck, but the lighter springs made it a surprisingly nice riding unit.
POWER WOOOGAN!!!!
I thought they only came with the 9 1/4. Maybe im just lucky with my 80 but it makes me want to take it and swap it into my 86 but mannnn not having to worry about breaking the drive train is like just the best
Great video! Your vid made me decide to replace the timing chain in my '77 W200 with a 440. Sure enough, factory nylon gears, very sloppy timing chain - caught it just in time.
Oh dang. Good job!
Jaime, I am a Ford guy and a Secondary Dodge, Chrysler and Plymouth guy! I know don't bash me for being a Ford guy 🤣🤣,but I love the video's Man!!!!!
I wouldn’t do that. Haha. Thank you!
man, your on fire
After the water pump and ratchet, I was expecting the "baseball bat" to make an appearance 😂
Funny story - that’s in the next video 🤣
0:10. They look like they are trying to make a baby Dodge.
Maybe that’s how they made Plymouths…
Stuck! I know, i have had a ramcharger se with the same setup! I changed the chain in the transfer case without removing the case, don't know if it was the right way, but it did work for me! Noise was gon!
"So. What's wrong with it?"
"Everything."
84°?!?!?!? (Laughs in triple digit Texan who is dying of dehydration)
Today in Phoenix AZ 94° for a low temp and we topped out at 116°
86° would be a wet dream
Yeah, yeah, yeah…
And today in baton rouge.....100° with 71 dew point
😬
Those are pretty cool trucks
No bs this is my favorite UA-cam channel ever
You are too kind! Thank you.
my 72 440 w/about 128k miles had a similarly degraded sprocket. The metal spikes were all exposed and worn down, the car would surge at speed noticeably with the unstable cam timing. The chain could be slipped off, too.
I bought a 77 W100 originally a 440 that I rebuilt a 68 383 for it when my friend threw a couple rods with just 68k miles on it. I did convert the 203 to part time with a mile marker 203 conversion kit. I planned on a 208 and Dana 60's but even in deep mud with 40's in Azuza Canyon I failed to break it.
It is SO disgusting out, even here in Wisconsin. You should've called in. To everything.
I might try that tomorrow…
@@DeadDodgeGarage dang I think I just talked myself out of an episode lol
As a bored kid in a small town in the '70s, I would ride my bike down to the local dealer when the new year models showed up. Now I don't have the greatest memory, but still, I'm 95% sure the '78 models did not all have amber turn signal lens. Knowing Chrysler, I just figured they used amber when they ran out of clear. I like to imagine that they had an odd number, and somewhere there is one with mismatched lenses. Anyhoo, my belabored point is I would not be surprised if the lenses on this truck are factree...
It may have been a January first change, or a different changeover date. The conventional wisdom is 77=clear, 78=amber, but we should know better than to assume that (or anything else) is 100%
Just found your channel from your MCG. My dad moved to Tokeland when he retired. Maybe I’ll run into you sometime when I’m out there with my Valiant.
Oh dang, awesome! Sounds cool.
Well, that quick project took a turn.
Every time…
I like that black dodge pickup
The thing about voltage regulators with these vehicles - if you use the Mopar Performance voltage regulator, you won't have issues. If you use the $35 cheap replacement models you will have issues. It's not the factory alternator's fault at all. I went through this myself after multiple vr failures and chose to find and fix the issue rather than do a workaround. I also ran a dedicated ground wire from the vr to negative of battery and installed one of those cheap digital voltmeter gauges ($12) on my dash so I can always see the output. Zero issues. Same thing with the cluster voltage regulator - don't buy the cheap replacements. I did and my gauges were showing wrong readings. Bought an original off Ebay and the gauges all went to reading correctly and again, zero issues after that. Yet you'll see guys bellyache about how innacurate the gauges are. Most of that is due to using inferior parts even though they say they are compatible with your vehicle.
I don’t have time to explain all the steps I went through on this one, and what I learned. I know it’s not the alternator’s fault. I’m the guy who made the Classic Chrysler Charging Systems video a couple years ago, in which I explained all of this, and tried to convince people *not* to throw away factory alternators. This was the solution he chose.
Consider how long that engine drove around out of proper cam timing. My Chrysler would foul plugs, surge, have general poor performance and economy until a new timing set was installed. It made a world of difference. I replace the chain as a rule in most cars I buy.
Right! And that’s some great thinking.
Classic mission creep. That's the way it goes.
That looks "almost" like my ol 78' W150, except mine was a step-side long bed. Same color, same rims, same rollbar, mine had a plow mount frame on the front. Same transmission and transfer case too. Yes I agree, when you're off-roading, you'd better be careful. Ok, I'll quit now.
I like it!
Time for an engine swap, 360 or 440, or turn that tired 318 into a stroker.
Well, sometimes things don't go like you want them to.
Well, THAT escalated quickly...
I mean, that really got out of hand!
That poor motor lived a good life😂
Jamie, I would like to have your thoughts on how to correct chronic coolant leakage between the aluminum timing cover on an LA engine and the engine block. I think it is caused by galvanic corrosion.
While I have seen a few horribly corroded timing covers, most I have seen aren’t, and I don’t think that is the primary issue. I see it as a design issue. It’s always at those same two extreme outer points of the timing gasket that it leaks. Magnums often have that same problem, and in those I have found the cause to be a disintegrating timing cover gasket. I think it’s down to clamping forces in that area.
I'm not saying that push bar belongs on the front of your 68 Charger, but...I always thought that was the coolest part of the General Lee.
It’s not that I don’t think that’s cool - but I think you probably know by now I would *never* intentionally make my car more General Lee-esque
@@DeadDodgeGarage 100%
A little or a lot of sweat 😓 won't hurt you too much 😂😂😂😂😂
Those damn nylon timing gears were the dumbest thing...mopar wasnt the only one to implement it either, there were some GM engines back in the day that used them but everyone always associates them with mopar. My dad had a late 70s Robinhood motorhome on a dodge chassis with a 360 and he lost the timing gear when it was still fairly new when he was pushing it super hard towing a boat up a grade. Had to stay in the motorhome in some guys shop in the middle of nowhere while they waited for the part...at least he brought his own house with him to sleep in 😂 one of the benefits of breaking down in a motothome i guess 😅
You doubt your ramptruck,she just proves you wrong.😊 Always load heavy to right to compensate for crown in road. Old dump truck driver trick.😮
It’s not that I doubt the truck, it’s that I know how heavy it is with that up there 😬
I've long since started thinking of the Challenger as the Toolbox Challenger. Different reasons from the Charger, of course!
I mean it’s kind of the same reason, the joke when I traded my toolbox for that Charger was that I then had to stack my tools in it. I never did though. Haha.
I like these engines, however the dumbest thing about them, at least the earlier LA's, is that if you need to tighten the powersteering belt, coolant will seep past the timing cover gasket.
My belt needs to be tightened but I just leave it, the timing chain cover gasket is at least 16 years old and has been seeping on previous times I tightened the belt.
That’s definitely an annoyance, but I’ve had fine luck with any drips stopping when I’m done.
@@DeadDodgeGarage Yeah it'll be fine probably, I'm about to start a roadtrip so I'm not taking my chances lol.
Mebbe replacing 318 with another mopar offering would be wiser. Always appreciate your videos.
Hey, have you ever thought about installing one of junkerups ball joint lowering kit in one of your sport mopars? I know your thing is straight liners but there is a steering wheel for fun option on virtually every mopar offering.
Actually drag racing is a relatively recent thing for me. We’ve been building capable handling Mopars for a decade now. We just drove two of them 340 miles down to Woodburn and back. Well, mostly back… anyway, several people have asked about his setup but I haven’t gone there yet.
Things are never that easy
I hate when you are doing a job you don't really want to do, multiplies into a really big job! It has a tendency to happen to me most of the time.
Every time…
I had an 88 ford f150 do that same think i stopped and retimed it 200 yards befor I traded it in on a new one lol 😅 what a bastard i am 😅
A smart bastard is better than a dumb bastard
Yikes. Lol.
Theres more grunge in that oil pan than an Alice in Chains concert .
🤣
Great video Jamie but oil pan was painful to look at. You’re next video should be you telling Mitchell that his engine is f$&@ed seven ways to Sunday.
Oh… I told him. But you won’t be seeing that on video 😅
Time for a carbed magnum 5.9?
We’re definitely talking about that possibility.
The Ford did not escape lol.
🤣
not for hire ? you appear to be buried in work. still enjoying your videos.
Oh it’s ridiculous… there is zero shortage of stuff for me to do. Right, the truck is not a real tow truck doing real tow truck things and I’d like to be sure the local constabulary is aware.
Bummer :-(
Even a hammer can break.
Time for a 360!
I'm an old guy, and I remember Pontiacs having this problem with timing gears back in the sixties - wouldn't you think they would have figured this out by now?
You would think… nowadays it’s nylon timing chain guides causing similar problems 🙄
If you get that truck stuck somewhere, you will be glad you put the rollbar on so the helicopter has somewhere to strap up to.
I hope I did a good job bolting it down 😬
You mention the LLV, were you a postal mechanic at one time? The Iron Duke was also used in the 1982 DJ-5L postal jeep.
I have had the service contract for the local USPS fleet for like four years now. I fix them at home. Some Mondays I find one or two of them dead in my driveway. No one else wants them... and I'm sure there are good reasons for that. Lol. I just did an LLV transmission last week.
there is a 79 truck near me for sale
I don't believe this bad boy is oiling properly. Looked mighty dry when you pulled the cover off. Fuel pump eccentric looked the same. You're definitely on the right track. She gonna need some tlc.
I had serious questions after I found the chunks of cam bearing. He says it has never shown any signs of low pressure or made any awful noises. Either way… it needs to be gone through.
After seeing the coolant shooting out of the water pump bolt holes, any thoughts on using studs in those locations so they don't have to be removed? This came up recently for me while doing some alternator work.
Not sure it’s worth the trouble. You shouldn’t have to pull those bolts often… yes, when pulling the alternator bracket, you have to be ready to pop that bolt back in! I have also seen these bolts rust themselves into the timing cover. I’d be concerned that a stud would do that over time, and then pulling the cover would be very challenging. Actually, you’d probably have to pull studs to pull the cover with the oil pan in place anyway. Yeah, I dunno.
Umm, kinda thinking that 318, if it was a turkey in the oven, had that thingy pop up 'cause it's cooked
I absolutely meant to say “stick a fork in it” at some point. And then that almost made it to the thumbnail. Haha.
And that's how you get ants!
Is that what you want, Lana? Ants?!
P.N.W. problems: 86 degrees is hot. RUST!
Hopefully he puts a 360 Magnum in that engine compartment at least.
We definitely discussed that possibility. It would be good.
Nice truck. Shame about the bearings. Ugh.
Hi Jaime, great video. How can i best contact you about a potential part you may have that i could buy? Thanks
I am not in the business of sourcing, selling, or shipping parts. I *am* in the business of hoarding parts. If you need a parts locating service, I highly recommend you contact Vanessa with Five Point Parts. She has a website with a parts request form. You can find that here: www.fivepointparts.com
Feb 2nd was the build date that the white lenses changed to orange.
My random guess was off by a month. Thanks!
@@DeadDodgeGarage it was. Awesome truck btw.
Working on the day of the Sabbath. Your friend is blessed rather they know or not. Lol probably not feeling blessed
Well the work happened on Friday. I try to avoid actual wrenching on the weekends - but that isn’t always 100%…
My 1978 D100 has clear lenses, and the 1978 dealer brochure shows only clear lenses. Was it a mid year change?
Yes it was. I don’t remember the changeover date. May have been around February. The common understanding is clear = 77 and amber = 78, but that’s not the case.
@DeadDodgeGarage mine was built November 1977.
“It’s only for b bodies”
Yea
How’s that working out boss man
It’s aaaalmost like I told you so 😂
👀💀
Buddy L memories
Had a 75 Ramcharger with the full time 4x4....it got stuck all the time...even with a sure grip diff.....lots of shoveling....🤦♂️
Aaand I just saw the FB Marketplace listing...
Yeeeeeap… I did find a spare engine, but no idea when the swap can happen. So if it sells it sells, and if not we’ll fix it.
Please fix that mirror on your truck. My condolences for that 318.
You have no idea how much that annoys me… but I almost never see it. Lol.