Scruffy49

There is a private all Mopar graveyard closing down in my area, I can give the owner a shout and see if he has any 6v wiper motors. Need to know pretty quick.

Was the 41 a bench or bucket set up originally? And which would be your preferred seating style? If it was buckets, a set of replica CJ2A seats would probably be a spot on match...

I kinda like cream and chocolate brown... The cream you picked looks an awful lot like Sahara Beige/Sandstone... a.k.a. Cub Cadet Beige, which I'm using as the 2 tone offset on mine. Which will also keep most of its battle scars, just the rust and any tears repaired, maybe the grill bars banged out smoother. Cream and dark blue for mine.

Mine would probably take a day and a half in the 1/4... I can only push it so fast... on the rare occasions it deigned to run, 50 mph was flogging it for all it was worth. 3 speed and 4.78 rear gears can pull over a house, but they aren't fast at it.

Keep the visor and the wires. Add spotlights. Put her on the ground... It's a sedan, have fun with it.

You know the old "Dodge-Different" advertising slogan really ought to have been "Dodge- No two are even remotely similar to each other, even if they came off the line one right after the other"...

In the barn? At my place here in west Tennessee the wood boring bumblebees would have it buried under dust and wax inside of a month. And it would be filled with mice, mahogany wasps ( curious, but not aggressive until really pushed) and either a copperhead or a cottonmouth. My 49 truck was barn kept in western Washington, the seat was full of hazelnut shells (squirrels) and the bed was usually full of potatoes or kittens. For 20 years.

What about making a sheet metal intake? 3/16", tig welded, you could run a 2300 Holley or even a 390cfm 4160 4bbl, depending on how ambitious you are with it. Make a set of tube headers at the same time, better flow, less weight.

I'd just have the gen/reg bench tested at a decent starter/alternator shop. Starter, generator and regulator off pretty much any 235 from 55 and up should fit your 216. Gas gauge too... for that matter, 90% or better of the common aftermarket fuel gauges are spec'd for 12v - GM use... Straight 6 was in trucks through end of model year 1984. Parts are dirt cheap, dirt common, every bone yard in the country that hasn't sold out for 10 years or newer only has what you need. GM products are almost too easy... Borrow an internally regulated coil off a friend's V6 Ranger or Bronco 2 that is old enough to have an actual distributor. Coil will say no external ballast required.

Mine had oxidized red in the horns, eyes and nostrils. Perfect match to a friend's NOS parts is Testors 1103 model enamel. One Shot has a nearly identical shade, can not remember the part number.

There is also supposed to be a Motorcycles and Mopars event at my place in Rosemark TN in September... Waiting on the scooter tramps to choose a date. 54 acres including a 2 acre fishing/swimming pond, and a couple acre shooting range. Mostly shady. Regional get togethers on the same weekend...?

Okay. I'm strung out on muscle relaxants and pain meds right now, slipped and fell off the backhoe yesterday. The only factory installed pickup truck Hemi I've seen is in a pie plate Sweptline. He has the custom order sheet. It is fairly easy to make a baby Hemi look at home in a 54-56 or Power Giant that had a factory V8.

Check Dennis Carpenter or similar F1 catalogs. Very similar latch assemblies.

Austin, unless my eyes are playing tricks on me, I see spark plugs sticking out the side of the head... that would make it a poly, not a Hemi. Same basic block, intake manifold and guts, completely different plug location and combustion chamber.

I had a 58 D300 with a 315 (the factory truck engine is NOT a Hemi, just looks like one, it's a poly/wide block). That Sweptside is nice, but if it has a Hemi, it isn't a resto, it's a rod...

I'll have to check the trip route/schedule from Memphis TN. I've only ever ridden the Coast Starlighter from Tacoma WA to L.A. and the Southwest Chief from L.A. to Raton NM.

A car magazine showing a real working vehicle instead of a chromed out, perfect paint, whiskers on the tires garbage barge? About time...

Gasser front and taildragger rear might have looked... I'd be curious to know if anybody has found a conversion for modern shackles, the factory ones seem kind of flimsy. And upgrading the shackles to use polyurethane bushings would be a massive improvement over the ride quality fluctuates with greasing frequency type they came with. Robert...Dodge 69-71 truck front springs have the plastic slider pads in the front springs. They help. Speedway Motors carries spring liner materials, keeps the springs from digging in and/or binding. About $13 per spring pack. Or, grease between the leaves, cover with large heat shrink tubing. Liners are cheaper, easier, and a whole lot cleaner. Or keep your springs lubed with PB Blaster or similar, I did that on my antique horse trailer before/while pulling it cross country in 2011. Huge improvement.

Amtrak come anywhere close? I don't fly, know too many people who work for Boeing... And the 49 won't be anywhere near ready for a cross country run next year (will be lucky if it is back in one piece by then)... Looks like a great get together, wish I could have attended.

Rebuilt how? Full spring wraps or just replacing broken springs? Or tensioning sagging springs, which is very easy, stitch each spring top on 4 spots to a moving pad, stitch pad to seat frame... then reupholster as needed. Did my trucks that way for both seat backs, problem solved. If you mean replacing broken springs, I have a junk seat base that can give up a few coils...

That's a good place to start from. Straight 6 and auto from a truck through the late 70s or early 80s bolts right in. So does the rear axle out of an S10/15, even has the right bolt pattern. White or cream roof and visor, dark body and skirts, dummy spots, full wheel covers, decent tuck and roll job on the interior... Almost too easy, and a whole lot easier on the wallet. As much as I like my Mopars, I have to admit to having an 85 C10 short wide V6/auto that will be turned into a lowrider after my father in law is gone. I don't much care for the truck, but they are so cheap to build it would be screwy not to...

Search the forums for axle swaps. Cherokee, Ranger, Dakota are common donors. 2 new spring perches and bolt it in. If you have the original ball and trunnion universal joints, you're going to need a new driveshaft. And I have yet to see a driveshaft shop that will build a ball and trunnion on one end and regular u-joint on the other, so you'll need a different output yoke. Center section out of a car will bolt in if you get the correct number of side gears unit and the axle shaft spline count is the same. Not many people willing to part with a center section. I saw where you were looking for an engine and transmission. Get the latest model you can find, one that takes a normal u-joint, get a rear axle assembly from a V8 Cherokee and call it good. Or go ahead and hot rod it up a bit, if you can find a Mirada or older police Diplomat (late 70s to mid 80s) with a factory V8, get the whole thing as a donor. Track down a copy of the old Tex Smith book How to Build Hot Rod Trucks, walks you through a power train, front clip and interior swap.

The way I was taught is that anytime the battery is unhooked, you need to polarize the generator. Has worked w/o a hitch so far, the generator on my 49 outlasted the engine.

My complete 230 and column shift 3 speed was $125. Running engine, trans condition unknown since I never intended to use it and gave it away as a parts donor. Combo was pulled out of a 56 or 57 Savoy, guy who bought the car was going V8/auto. Truck engine and truck 4 speed, in good condition (visually as well as mechanically) and complete should fetch around $200-250.

V6 or 4 banger Ranger rear end? The V6 is an 8" or 8.8", the 4 cylinder is a 7.5"... The 7.5" is considered a bit of a weak sister rear end, but the one in my 94 standard cab 2wd 2.3L 5spd Ranger has over over 205K trouble free miles on it... The neighbor has a Ranger sourced 7.5 in a 5.0 track car. They are a bit narrow, you may need wheel spacers. And the brake fittings are metric threads on mine (Canadian built). If the parts Ranger is complete, grab as much as you can. My 92 parts junker is donating dozens of parts to my Dodges.