2012 Ram R/T

Sharp! I love short bed standard cabs.

I see photobucket removed my old pics, so here's one of the truck that got away - my '84 D350 Crew I never should have sold...

The 360 coming out for some maintenance: all new brass freeze plugs, oil pan gasket and rear main seal, HD water pump, double roller timing chain with tensioner while it's out, and I'll think of plenty of other things to do while it's out.

Of course lots of cleaning up and factory paint to go on while it's out

Oh ya, forgot, doing the steering brace.

I gotta few MOPARS currently;

- 2016 Dodge Caravan (wife's hotrod)
- 2007 Jeep Commander (my DD: lifted, modded a bit...)

And the truck that brought me here - my '92 Dodge Ramcharger. Here's what it looked like, when I inherited it in 2006.






Here's what it looks like today.







If you're interested in how it got from Point 'A,' to Point 'B,' maybe I'll post a build thread on it. It's a l-o-o-o-o-o-n-g story...

I'm a sucker for the Ramchargers. So cool! Hang onto it, they are collectors for sure.

I've been casually looking for a few years for a '74-'78, preferably a '75, power wagon, short box, regular cab, 4X4 with 360, AT and A/C AND 100% rust free.
FOUND IT!

That one is a beauty. I saw it on craigslist when I was looking for a truck and was very tempted. It's a great looking truck. Congrats!

89 w250 I picked up this summer from a young guy that was in the service stationed on the west coast and brought back here to WI. Truck is clean with the exception of the flaking original paint.

those are two beautiful trucks

Hopefully your NOT going to run those trucks on your salty roads in the winter!

- EM

Not a chance mine will. I have other trucks to drive that have already been driven on the salty winter roads here. This truck was an Arizona/Texas truck and there is NO rust on it anywhere including the underside. Just what I wanted and I'm not going to mess it up here! Winter storage and limited Summer use is its future! Here I am picking it up in Texas.

^Excellent^

Trailering it back in a Dodge. That's what I like to see.

Most likely not as I have 2 other 4x4s that are rust buckets and don't need a 3rd

Yay, engine back in and runs and sounds great! Dang, ran out of Mopar brand paint when I got to pump, and they don't sell it locally. Stuff covers very excellent. Ordered another online, and will remove brackets and paint them and pump when I get it.

I did make sure the underside was covered real well because I don't want to have to paint anything under here now. Just a to refresh memory what I did: New quality gaskets everywhere, brass freeze plugs, new cam and lifters with about stock specs on cam but a little more low end grunt but keeping smooth idle, new valve seals, double roller timing chain with tensioneer, new HD Milodon water pump (would've liked to put in a MP one but had too many early failures), steering brace, plugs, wires, cap, and some other stuff I probably forgot now. Took a garden hose to block and flushed out a lot of crap. Distilled water and coolant now.

Another view of the factory 360-4