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Well I measured the dodge van leaf springs and they are way wider then on the dodge... So I either need to weld the leaf spring plates on in the right spot or not use that axle... What's your opinion?

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id take into consideration to the gear ratio, what front suspension you want to use, what M/T combo and if the truck is just going to be a driver or a workhorse/tow rig

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Well this truck has to be able to go trips and haul some engines around and haul 6 people and it has to do a good burnout lol I'm not a super crazy burnout guy and I don't even roast the tires very much I just like to know that in the event that I want to do a burnout that I can lay down a good one but what car/truck guy doesn't? lol so im thinking a 3.73 12 bolt posi will be a big step maybe even a 3.55 gear ratio if I could . And maybe a 700r for a trans the engine however... If I could I would do a 5.7 or even 4.8 LS with a Holley terminator EFI but one I think that's gonna be way to much money for me right now so I'm thinking something simple like a smallblock 350

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You should consider the Dodge dakota IFS for the frontend. These guys have a well considered kit they build. Industrial Chassis
My vote would be for a Dodge in a Dodge for engine choice. 318 or 360, lots of tasty parts available these days.

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id be partial to keeping it all Dodge myself. as far as parts tho most are double the price of a chevy. if going with a GM driveline, 350/400 th with a a 3:07/8-3:43/55 gears out back. I had my share of chevy's with either an inline 6 or V8 most with either 350 or 400th's and 3:07's worked great decent mileage and still had great towing/hauling capabilities. my 70 has the 318/727 with 3:23 rear, good cruiser and hauling combo and keeping all.

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That sounds perfect! I like the idea of a 400 trans and I don't mind trying out my luck with a dodge drive train but as you said there pretty expensive compared to GM and I already know smallblocks real good and I know bunches of places I could go to get help or parts for the smallblocks and I can find replacements real easy so therefore I chose the GM drivetrain

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But with that being said I'm going to make everything else stock maybe the paint scheme isn't stock but it will at least be stock

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I was speaking more in the terms of performance parts, but actually looking around the internet prices aren't that far off as they use to be. honestly if the 318 in my 70 wouldnt sound and run as good as it does id throw in a GM driveline also. I don't need big muscle in my rides as they are daily drivers and do want decent fuel mileage in case I do take it on a long trip somewhere. and if you happen to a chevy m/t sitting around looking for a new home im all for the budget build.

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heres some pics of the radiator support before and after

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and after

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I've got a couple lines on parts for this thing found an original white paint 65'1/2-67' d200 with perfect hood, grille, front bumper.... Bad news? The truck was bought to be a parts truck for them so the driver door is taken and I don't know what other things the guy wants from the truck.... I'm shooting to try and get the hood with letters, chrome grill with turn signals, chrome front bumper good condition, dash with ash tray and glove box, front door windows and windshield, any handles, driver front door panel, tailgate straps as well as taillights and housings

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Dodge should finally be coming home soon. Struck a agreement on a price for the truck. Going to get it for $500

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I'd venture a guess and say this truck is ultra rare. Like 1 of 10 existing rare. These would make similar year crew cab chevys a commodity.

I personally wouldnt cut it all up myself with how rare any short bed dodge is. Then again your already saving it. Just throwing my .02.

A newer 360(5.9) dodge truck motor and trans with the computer would be interesting.

Also consider looking into a newer dodge frame and setting the body over it. 2wd 94-02 dodge frames are almost free and you would get everything you want.

A '65 that was in diesel power. They channeled the body over an '06 frame. I think a 94-02 frame would actually be easier to use. http://www.dieselpowermag.com/featur...on_dodge_d200/

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Not sure if or how rare they are but certainly uncommon. The truck was parted out and left for dead, until the guy I bought it from, bought it just to use it for parts on a crewcab he had, but he decided not to since his was complete. The trucks pretty rough, and it's probably worse then a daily driver. But I plan to keep the body all stock, and just upgrade so to speak the suspension and drivetrain to something nice and reliable. My biggest things are, power, fuel economy, not hard to service/find/buy parts for and that can also do pretty good for if I want to tow something. So I'm thinking the only thing that can do all of that pretty cheap is finding a LS/4l80e and throwing that in I'll paint the interior and the engine bay/frame but the exterior body will be left in it's "patina" form and maybe shoot a clear over it

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Rare. Dodge trucks were out sold by ford and gm nearly 3-1 back in the 50's and 60's.

Thats why I suggested the 94-02 dodge truck frame and setting the body over it. You get everything you want. Cheap starting point, easy and cheap for parts and you can tow and get some economy. The hard part is putting the body over it. I still think it would be easier then grafting different suspensions onto your existing frame. Then again I see your in that mess of commiefornia. Other members have posted how expensive used/donor vehicles are there.

I can buy a 150K mile running and driving 94-02 dodge 2500 2wd ext cab long bed for $1500 or less with a rotted body here. More than likely under $1200.

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Yeah over here buying anything 80 or newer you can't get them less then 2500 at the cheapest.

I did however discover that Stewart Warner has started making the green line gauges again, so looks like the dodges instrumentation will be provided by SW! I don't really like the 61-71 sweptline truck gauges very much. They don't feel very 60's to me, and they look kinda cheap and an after thought. So the green line gauges will look 60's but also should work well with the truck

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Well paid for the truck yesterday, should go pick up the truck in 2-1/2 weeks

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Well today is the day I laid any doubt to rest that anyone's had about me getting this truck. Picked it up today, I'm officially the owner of a sweptline today. I've already began pulling the motor accessories (how few there are) off and getting ready to pull the motor and trans out, but I have cleans out the bed and I've began to clean the interior. Here's a shot

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Was checking the stance out with a wheel and I like the way this sits (only on the floor and not on the trailer)

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Well been checking out weight of a 65 dodge crew cab 4x4 sweptline 6ft bed and says 4,679 pounds. The 318/np435/NP201 weighs roughly 880-900 pounds and the LS/4l60 (cast iron block) weighs roughly 650 pounds so I've been told so I'm looking at 230-250 pounds of weight shed off just in the motor/trans alone. Not trying to make this dodge some super light race truck but I am taking into consideration that the more weight there is the more the fuel economy drops and probably rear wheel horsepower. So for those reason any unneeded weight I can shed is better for me. Another thing is when I go to register the truck here in picky CA and it's not a 3/4 ton 4wd anymore there probably going to look at the weight of it to help decide what they should classify it

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Got the 318/4spd out and everything off the firewall, still cleaning the truck and taking unneeded parts off. I did manage to find a guy selling 2 LS engines, 1 is a 6.0 with 70,000 for 700 bucks and the 2nd is either a 4.8 or 5.3 with pretty low miles as well for 450 bucks, so keeping those as an option. Going tomorrow to meet with a guy and get some dodge specific parts for the truck that I need to somewhat complete the body. Also talked to my brother (paint and body guy) about doing some PDR and cleaning up and painting the interior portions of the body and the interior of the truck and he said he's ready when I am, so now added to my list is to get my miller 200 back going again and buy an air compressor again.

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Well took my 67 out to go meet up and get the parts, ended up buying a nice chrome grille for it as well. When I got home I decided to do a mock up and see how it's going to look. So here's a shot of that

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That grill looks good, Good score. Those headlight rings are very rare and usually expensive when you can find one.

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Chrome grill looks nice .

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Yeah I'm going to need to find a nicer set, at least one since the passenger one is thrashed that I have.
I thought so too, when he offered it up I had to take that opportunity.

Today I gutted the dash of all the unneeded parts and took the front bench out and completely scrubbed the floor. I need to buy a CV front suspension soon so I can start preparing the front if the frame for it, and after that I'm going to need to find a way to make some mounts to fit the LS in there, pretty sure I'll need a oil pan from hoey to give me more clearance, it's going to be a little difficult trying to set the LS as low as I can yet still keeping the lowest point of them oil pan above the lowest point of the crossmember. Want to make a lower transmission tunnel to give some more room in the cab. Also sat in the truck to get a feel for how it's going to be now that the dash is in, and I gotta say I don't like the position if the gas pedal and the brake (maybe I'm used to the c10) but it seems to me that the brake and gas pedal are to far to the right. I'm probably going to move them over to the left 2-1/2 or 3 inches. The gas pedal should be super easy since I can buy an aftermarket pedal assembly that mounts to the firewall and uses a cable instead of a linkage.

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Cool Truck. I have a '65 Dodge Town Wagon to build

I really like the Power Wagon version on the first page but I'm partial to 4WD rather than the long and low look.

I think it's possible to convert the poly to hemi heads. That would be my choice

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That's pretty cool, I find it kind of cool that they didn't change the body style for the town wagons. But then again I've been finding out with my dodge that they were very cheap as far as making constant changes in the body or suspension wise. That would be pretty cool to do that conversion

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Found a set of (I'm not sure of the years but I think their) 61-67 custom cab emblems for the dodge, I like this early style better then the ones they used in the 69-71 trucks maybe 68, anyways just some polishing and some black paint and they should look pretty good.

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Those will clean up real nice .

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Nice. Moar pics :)

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Well I did take some pictures of when I took the bed off and CLR'd the back of the cab, not a huge difference but in person looks better. I also think I'm going to sand down that rust patch and repaint it since it's pretty rusty and it's covered by the bed. Here's before

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And after.

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Also found out pick n pull is going to have a half price day this weekend for their toolkit rewards members, so I may go and snatch up a crown Victoria front suspenion set up if I can. I need to find a factory frame specification and dimensions diagram for the sweptline era trucks and make sure my frame is nice and straight so when I put the new suspension there will be no surprises for me or for the alignment shop that has to tackle the job of aligning this truck haha

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unless you want to do your own subframe or graft the part of the CV frame, don't do it, the stock frame is to narrow. now you can try to find a 72 up to early 90"s dodge truck chassis or clip yours with the same year frame, but does require some work. if you go this route you can lower it by using dodge van lowered control arms as they have a 3" deep spring cup

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I didn't see your post til right now, why is the crown Vic suspension bad for the d100's? I know wheel choices are slim and you have modify the frame rails but I don't think that's too bad... Last week I went down and got the front suspension.. It was just under 100 bucks. Also received my custom emblems in the mail.

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Well been working a lot of hours, don't have time to work on the truck, but at least with some more money coming in I can get some things that have been holding me back from beginning the CV suspension install, so I figured once I get some gas for me welder and get the welder all squared away and I get the new suspension on its going to be difficult to push the truck around on rotors, so I figured Ill get a set of 17" steel rims as rollers and at my work we have a big stack of tires, some are no good but some are still pretty good tires so I found 4 matching tires, and I know a guy who has a set of 17x7 5x4.5 steelies which is what I need so I'm going to talk to him tomorrow and see if he still has them. Be nice to get the new suspension on and get a good idea how it's going to sit... On other news I found a yard that has 4 or 5 of these sweptlines and I'm going to try and go next Monday and as much if all the little small parts that the truck is missing and maybe some windows if there are any in decent shape... I'll post some pictures once I have something worthy to show

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ok you know about redoing the front rails. I had done that to mine when I had it. you have plenty of room for different wheels with the dodge.

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Sucks that they made the frame like that, I wish they wouldn't have made it taper out and instead just ran the rails 37 or 36-1/2 across from the bumper to under the cab but that would have been to easy! Haha. As far as the wheels go, the dodge seems to have a pretty wide body so I won't have to use the wildly backspaces CV wheels which Im glad to hear, I found a set of rims that will fit the crown Vic but also fit with the dodge and they don't look too bad so I just have to find a set

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Well I have news and progress! Today I went and bought a welding gas tank and the gas inside it, so now I should be able to get some welding done! And I also got some much needed missing parts for the truck, besides a new driver door and the rear bumper my body is complete, and better yet the new parts are factory white patina'd parts! Looks like I'm that much closer to keeping my patina. I also got from the same truck (67 d200) I got both the headlight bezels which are in really good shape, the complete headlight buckets and retaining rings, cowl panel, both hood hinges which are very smooth, hood latch for the radiator support, and the rear view mirror and bracket, the hood even came with the "DODGE" hood letters and sadly the side trim, but 5 holes on either side of the hood is a small price to pay to keep the patina. Got all of the parts for $142 bucks! I feel I lucked out anyways here's a picture

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Good score at a great price. As I mentioned once before, get those headlight rings anytime you find them.