i’m not worried about it - I personally enjoy other generations of Dodge trucks as well.
I am building one at the moment...
Why the frame swap? I didn’t think the ford frame got significantly better until the body style change to super duty
I'm thinking about putting ~15-75% of a 2nd gen Ram into/under my Highboy. Black Betty burned it's last bridge with me so either I put it's motor and maybe chassis under my 71, or I sell her and find a donor truck and stuff that motor in the 71. I kinda don't want to do it, but the 360FE needs a complete overhaul, the tranny could use the same, the radiator leaks, exhaust is fubared, it needs a new front driveshaft built, etc. Plus, It would gain towing ability, and the sound......
Heavy diffs and 4 wheel disc breaks. Was originally going to adapt the diffs the the gm frame. But decided to go with the frame. The pinion on the gm front axle was on the wrong side for the transfer case plus the ford sits higher.
PCM shorted?
Dunno, don't care. All grounds have been cleaned, all computer connectors have been coated in dielectric grease, I'm done. As soon as I get around to it the truck's getting sold and I'm not working on it unless I absolutely have to. I've put $12k+ into fixing it and the fawking thing has done nothing but fight me at every turn so I'm selling it and cutting my losses.
Maybe that'll be it's fate. I love how it looked and I enjoyed driving it, but I put $15k and over a year of working on it only to have a truck I drove for 5 months while fixing it nightly and now it now won't start or stop. I'll lose 7k or so selling it, but it won't cost me any more time or money.
Update on this truck: did you sell it?
Nope, it's still sitting in a distant corner of the yard 'cause I'm a slacker.
You need to make a list of your trucks so we can keep up.
