Mods
- New Starter
- Tires and Rims
- Bed Rack with Sideboards
- Tailgate
- Major Deep Clean
COMING SOON
- Full Body Work and Paint
- KDP
- Bigger Tires and Wider Rims (33's with 16 by 10 white spoke rims)
- Possible Fuel Pin
- New Brakes and Brake Lines
- Steering Box
- 2 Inch Leaf Springs In The Front
- Tires and Rims
- Bed Rack with Sideboards
- Tailgate
- Major Deep Clean
COMING SOON
- Full Body Work and Paint
- KDP
- Bigger Tires and Wider Rims (33's with 16 by 10 white spoke rims)
- Possible Fuel Pin
- New Brakes and Brake Lines
- Steering Box
- 2 Inch Leaf Springs In The Front
Build story
Even though I have had this truck for close to a year, it has a back story. Back when this truck was new, my parents looked at this truck at a dealership and thought that it was a really nice truck, but they didn't need it. A couple days later, my Dad was going by a friend of ours house down the road and this truck was sitting in his driveway! My Dad stopped and jokingly told him he had bought his truck, and the friend told Dad to take it for a ride. On that ride, Dad pulled into the driveway with it, and Mom thought that he had bought it. After she had asked him a couple questions, Dad told her that a guy down the road had bought it and he didn't. Now fast forward 28 years. I have gone by this truck all my life and thought it was a really cool truck because I had never seen another truck like it. I had heard the story from Dad about the truck, but I hadn't gone up to it and looked at it. One day, my brother and I were going home after lobster fishing and I looked at that truck and I thought, "I want to be a diesel mechanic and I would like a project. I remember Dad telling me it has a Cummins in it, and if my project was a diesel it would be the best of both worlds." That night we were sitting on the porch and I didn't have his phone number so I looked up the friend's nephew's email (because the friend had passed a couple years before) and told him who I was and told him that I was looking for a project. That night he got back and told me that he had thought about it and he said that he would sell it. He said that he would be there the next day and I could go look at it. I did look at it, and don't get me wrong, she wasn't the truck you see in the pictures. She had sat for 16 years, sunk in the ground and used as a storage room by people, bees, and mice alike. But I was very surprised that the truck only had 68,351 miles on it and very little rust! I told him that I was interested in it and asked him how much. He threw out a number that a person my age with a job could afford and I told him we would be right back with the trailer. We went and picked it up and since it got home we've done minimal mechanical work to it (because it's a Cummins) and aesthetics (like give it a super deep clean, put my brothers old tires off his 95 F350 Powerstroke on, got a bed rack for a couple hundred bucks, and a couple other small stuff). One thing that I have to fix is the baling wire holding up the exhaust, but it's structural. Most all of it has been elbow grease. But besides that, there are a couple big things that I have to do, but hopefully in the next coming months (maybe longer) she will be a driving and stopping Dodge again. I recently got my license and am looking forward to get the truck done. And yes, the Cummins purrs like a loud kitten.