ANOTHER Free Truck! :)

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Fishy

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1985 Dodge Ram 150. Retired forestry service truck. Slant 6, 4 speed manual, 2wd, standard cab. Aside from one very, very minor dimple in the front of the passenger fender, the thing is flawless!! It's like new! :cool: Smog pump is seized, no biggie. Tags expired last year. Not sure if it will pass DEQ or not. One of 69.5's friends had no room for this thing once he got his other car home so he just gave it to me!! :giggedy:Was either that or he was gonna scrap it! Not a clue what I'm going to do with this one as of yet other than try to sell it before December to help fund my 2 week Xmas vacation back in Michigan. If I can't sell it by then, well...... I'm sure I'll find some kind of use for it! :toot:No this one will not end up face first into a tree!! :D

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od?...umm 1st is granny low.....unless im missing something...

aside from a few rather minor electrical glitches its great...ignition switch has to be played with to work..no headlight power

and i think its only got an honest 50 or 80k on it
 
I didn't think you could get the old granny 4 with a slant six. I believe that the /6 and 318 2bbl got the 833OD tranny, but I could be wrong. I thought the granny 4 was 3/4 and one ton only?
 
i thought so too..but again..this is a government truck.....and the 4spd is granny low.that first is insanely low lol....so unless theres some crazy gear outback........ill have to slide under it and look at the trans.....i have seen planty of 1/2 ton trucks with granny low units
 
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i thought so too..but again..this is a government truck.....and the 4spd is granny low.that first is insanely low lol....so unless theres some crazy gear outback........ill have to slide under it and look at the trans.....i have seen planty of 1/2 ton trucks with granny low units
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Well I wondered that as well, about the Gov't truck and it's possible options, since they seemed to get whatever they wanted.
 
All A833 overdrives have a 3.09:1 first gear. It's not granny-low, but it's a big difference between a normal A833's 2.47, 2.65, or 2.66:1 first gear. I'm betting it's not a truck trans. If you get under there, chances are it's an aluminum-case A833, sporting a cast-iron tailshaft housing with dual shifter-mount locations, but only the forward one's drilled. They're very common in '80s Slant Six trucks. The handful of 2WD Slant Six Forestry trucks I've seen were all A833ODs. With a 3.21 gear, they'll storm out of the hole--you'll win any 20-foot drag race you encounter. After that, you're history! :D
 
wrong wrong and wrong LOL.....its genuinely a TRUCK GRANNY GEAR 4SPEED!!!!!...ill slide back under it and take pic's if i have to to prove it....also...it seems the rear gear is something about a 355 on my first guess...and seems to be a limited slip unit.......id be VERY supprised if it was 323...but not suprised if it had 411's....

lets not forget..what the government wants they get.....
 
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Well I wondered that as well, about the Gov't truck and it's possible options, since they seemed to get whatever they wanted.
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wrong wrong and wrong LOL.....its genuinely a TRUCK GRANNY GEAR 4SPEED!!!!!...ill slide back under it and take pic's if i have to to prove it....also...it seems the rear gear is something about a 355 on my first guess...and seems to be a limited slip unit.......id be VERY supprised if it was 323...but not suprised if it had 411's....

lets not forget..what the government wants they get.....
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Well there you go...my earlier statement was correct....:D
 
will grab pics as soon as i get back up to the 40 where it will serve as a farm truck for now......but yeah its one of those mamouth castiron units that the stick comes right out the top(mopar top loader?) and hang a ways down under the rig..also i noticed a tag on the rear i want to take a wire brush to out of curiousity
 
I've owned two pick ups with the spicer four speed - both were former sask power fleet trucks. One was a 360 3/4 ton and the other was a 360 1 ton with stupid low rear gears and single rear wheels .. (not a dooly)

I should never have sold the 1 ton. It was the very definition of a stump puller.
 
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Yeah, that's definitely not an A833OD... that's the same shift pattern as my friend's Dad's '77 W200.

I've seen a few of those forestry-service trucks over the years (one was a four-door '83-'85 era--I should have bought that truck) but the ones I saw were all the OD trans. Strange.
 
ill upload the pic's i snagged in a few..but this is the 3rd truck that i know of that was a a government truck that i actualy paid attention to..all 3 being leaning towers of power all backed with the granny low..2 of the 3 were 2wd 1/2 ton the other was a RR rig that was 4x but still a leaning tower with the granny 4sdp the other 1/2 ton was a DOT rig
 
Damn... 3.21 open. :doh: :D

I can't quite make out the other one, but it looks like a date code. :hmmm:
 
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