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Hi guy, Well its time for this good ole pickup to get 8 cylinder instead of 7. She has a vin #218 1343975 and been to New York and Mexico in her day a couple of times. I feel sorry for my landlord for the ride. New when they got her. I'm here in Bozeman, Montana and she pushes around the snow
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1964 W-100 replace engine com'n up
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dannymontani
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Date: October 13, 2009 01:41PM
Hi guy,
Well its time for this good ole pickup to get 8 cylinder instead of 7. She has a vin #218 1343975 and been to New York and Mexico in her day a couple of times. I feel sorry for my landlord for the ride. New when they got her. I'm here in Bozeman, Montana and she pushes around the snow with a more or less home built plow someone put on 15yrs or so ago and with my help, I dredged her up from near death. Still a nice Mohave yellow with her dents and dings here and there and a rusted out floor.
So to the point. I am at issue in my head whether or not to try to sell her to somebody who would want her as is to restore, or to drop in a 1998 318 (from what I am told) and give the ole girl a new heart. (Motor was a basically a freebee from a rollover.) I know the clutch will not make it through another session of our snow here this year, and it was slipping the other day when I did our first plow of the year. Dodge has told me dear landlord that the motor will bolt right up, no Johnny Cash here.
But I want/need to know which clutch KIT would fit right, as I've read in the past there are two kinds. And I can see that the exaust manifolds will be different. (Exaust system needing a full replacement anyway.) The other part I would need is a four barrel carb for it. I've heard/read that the 'Wieand' (sp) are the way to go, but which one? Which year? All we want to do is plow and get firewood one in a while. She's a parked the rest of the time. I suppose I should inquire whether or not to do any work with the tranny as well, still a grinder, but may wait until next year to get into it. Unless it really is a straight forward job of fixin' or finding.
Any information for me would be great and hugely appreciated. I've spent quite some time on the web, but really have no good answers to the questions here. Just other stuff. I've got to get on it asap as our winter showed up here about two months early.
Thanks, Dan Here's my email address as well
k2v@earthlink.net
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/2009 08:24PM by dannymontani.
Well its time for this good ole pickup to get 8 cylinder instead of 7. She has a vin #218 1343975 and been to New York and Mexico in her day a couple of times. I feel sorry for my landlord for the ride. New when they got her. I'm here in Bozeman, Montana and she pushes around the snow with a more or less home built plow someone put on 15yrs or so ago and with my help, I dredged her up from near death. Still a nice Mohave yellow with her dents and dings here and there and a rusted out floor.
So to the point. I am at issue in my head whether or not to try to sell her to somebody who would want her as is to restore, or to drop in a 1998 318 (from what I am told) and give the ole girl a new heart. (Motor was a basically a freebee from a rollover.) I know the clutch will not make it through another session of our snow here this year, and it was slipping the other day when I did our first plow of the year. Dodge has told me dear landlord that the motor will bolt right up, no Johnny Cash here.
But I want/need to know which clutch KIT would fit right, as I've read in the past there are two kinds. And I can see that the exaust manifolds will be different. (Exaust system needing a full replacement anyway.) The other part I would need is a four barrel carb for it. I've heard/read that the 'Wieand' (sp) are the way to go, but which one? Which year? All we want to do is plow and get firewood one in a while. She's a parked the rest of the time. I suppose I should inquire whether or not to do any work with the tranny as well, still a grinder, but may wait until next year to get into it. Unless it really is a straight forward job of fixin' or finding.
Any information for me would be great and hugely appreciated. I've spent quite some time on the web, but really have no good answers to the questions here. Just other stuff. I've got to get on it asap as our winter showed up here about two months early.
Thanks, Dan Here's my email address as well
k2v@earthlink.net
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/2009 08:24PM by dannymontani.
1964 W-100 replace engine com'n up