Project: Papa’s Dodge, stage one.

[Lonesome7.3]

I thought it would be nice to restore an old Mopar and trailer it around with my Papa's Dodge.

 

[Alljackedup408]

Wow.

That truck is in SOLID shape for it's age. I dig it man!

 

[Lonesome7.3]

I will be posting my latest efforts here shortly.

 

[Lonesome7.3]

Out with the old!



I tore out the old front suspension and steering parts. Allof it is pretty worn out. As you can see I had to stick knuckles in the springsjust to get them to ride height. The newer donor truck is giving up its diskbrakes and much beefier parts.

 

[tleach17]

What a sweet truck!! There is no truck bed in that kind of condition anywhere in New England. You have a excellent starting point.

It would look sweet with the white two tone like it had in the old pic. Very cool project.









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[tleach17]

P.S. I'm digging the tractor boom-pole tire swing your grandfather made.


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[Lonesome7.3]

One day it will be two tone and shiny once again.

 

[Lonesome7.3]

Oh, that photograph was taken before I was even born. Those are my older cousins in it.

 

[Lonesome7.3]

It has been a while since I have been able to work on this build.Between my works/school schedule and the weather, the trucks have satuntouched. I did however make a very small amount of headway. The damn pin inthis passenger side strut on the donor truck was a mofo to get out. I had todrill and hammer the crap out of it. The strut survived though and will bereinstalled on the 72. I cannot belive that one little pin consumed so muchtime. In the time it took me to get the pin out I had the complete front suspensionpulled from the 72.

 

[Draenor]

PB blaster is your friend.