1946 Dodge Truck Rebuild
I finally decided to rebuild my 1946 Dodge truck from the ground up. My father originally built the truck in the 80s and drove it 200 miles round trip to work everyday. I eventually was driving it to high school before I blew the Buick 318 engine.
After trying to figure out how to rebuild it to daily driver reliability without spending a huge amount of money, I decided the best course of action would be to take a donor vehicle and remove the body and place the body of my 46 on the chassis.
I want it to be all Mopar, so I made a list of donor vehicles that I thought would be compatible. As it turns out, a coworker of mine had one of these vehicles.
Meet my donor vehicle:
1999 Dodge Ram 1500 single cab short bed. It is equipped with a 3.9 Magnum V6 engine and 2x4 4 speed 42RE transmission. The vehicle has only 128,xxx miles! It runs and drives, but needs some minor work to be road worthy.
I will try to update as much as possible as I go through this endeavor.
After trying to figure out how to rebuild it to daily driver reliability without spending a huge amount of money, I decided the best course of action would be to take a donor vehicle and remove the body and place the body of my 46 on the chassis.
I want it to be all Mopar, so I made a list of donor vehicles that I thought would be compatible. As it turns out, a coworker of mine had one of these vehicles.
Meet my donor vehicle:
1999 Dodge Ram 1500 single cab short bed. It is equipped with a 3.9 Magnum V6 engine and 2x4 4 speed 42RE transmission. The vehicle has only 128,xxx miles! It runs and drives, but needs some minor work to be road worthy.
I will try to update as much as possible as I go through this endeavor.