sons new truck

bill mart

Well-known Member
my son bought this truck at a State of Montana equipment auction and had it shipped to Western NY. Its a former Air Force truck.1985 Dodge 1 ton. Here's the before and after pictures. I offered to hand rub it out and wax it. Big mistake, there's a whole lot of sheet metal there. Bill
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A co. I worked for a few years ago had one just like that. The owner kept a couple old pickups around as 'spares'. Everyone seemed to hate that old Dodge. I used it quite a bit as a shop truck / parts chaser and thought it wasn't a bad old rig. Ours had a 360 / auto. We lost two trannys in it in a short amount of time. Found out the oil cooler in the bottom of the radiator was plugged. A new external cooler solved that problem. After that we had a corkscrewed drive shaft and several broken U-joints & bent yokes, but other than that those Orangutans that drove it couldn't tear it up. It lasted several more years. Tough old truck !!
 
When I worked for the state running road crews, we had a 1 ton Dodge van same year as this that thing idled all day 5 days a week following inmates picking up trash. It had well over 300.000 miles when I left and it was still going. so how many hours do you think 300.000 miles with mostly idling all day equals. I never have been a Mopar fan but I could not guess how many hours that thing had and by dozens of different drivers. Now thats one tough truck
 

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