Pics Of My Brother's Power Wagon!

[Diplomat_Wagon]

She's not pretty but a bush truck never is.

We just finished installing the killer front bumper we scored off of an old Railroad F-250, I think it looks pretty sweet! :dance:

I know we installed the mirrors in the wrong spot but we were covering holes in the door from the 3 other different mirrors the truck has had over the years.:doh:

No the lights on the bar are not hooked up yet.:shifty:[smilie=f:

It's a 360 4bbl/NP435 with a NP203 TC and a 9.25 3.55 SG rear.

All she needs now is some 33x12.50's! [smilie=i::giggedy:

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v364/1979_mopar/Im001807.jpg[/IMG]

 

[mr340]

Is that your stash in the background, or did Jamie run out of room at his parents house????[smilie=p:[smilie=g:[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v364/1979_mopar/Im001808.jpg[/IMG]

 

[gomopar440]

That looks sharp! That's just the kind of truck I'd like to have. Late 70's (78-79), smallblock, SWB, 4X4, regular cab. I'm not looking for one here but I have Mark keeping his eyes open back in PA for one for me. Besides being usefull for towing the Chally I'll HAVE to get a truck since I'll be moving to Texas at the end of the year. I think that's a state law or sumthin that every family there is required to have a truck...:hmmm: :toot:

 

[revolucien]

NICE!!! The tree killer looks awesome!

 

[beeper*71]

Nice bumper. Those old Power Wagons are tough as nails, had one I converted into a wrecker for use as a yard truck while working at the JY....no amount of abuse seemed to bother it.

 

[69.5CUDA]

id sugjest a mount running thru the grill to the top of that bar and then tie that down to the frame rails at about the shock tower points......the front frame rail mounts WILL let go of that bumper when they feel the need to

 

[Diplomat_Wagon]

id sugjest a mount running thru the grill to the top of that bar and then tie that down to the frame rails at about the shock tower points......the front frame rail mounts WILL let go of that bumper when they feel the need to

What do you mean by "leave"?


Yes Mr340, the "stash" is in the backround.

 

[gomopar440]

What do you mean by "leave"?

Ever see those "Worlds Scarriest Videos" shows on TV? The ones where a car, truck, bus, semi or whatever gets hit by a train and then s#!t gets blasted everywhere.
Those flying parts are "leaving" the vehicle.:bwuhaha:

 

[BootHead]

Looks like a fun adult toy from Dodge!

 

[69.5CUDA]

well i got nose swiped by a lil mazda with my ramcharger quite a few years back ..being that the bumper and all mounts to a 4 inch by 4 inch area with only 3 bolts per side theres not much there holding anything...needless to say my bumper and pusher were ejected from the face of the RC and riped the frame rails...after some fixing and redoing of the factory work a good bounce thru a mud hole showed me how weak the bumper attachment area is...any type of brushguard that comes up higher than below the headlights truely needs ancored at the top...in fact theres alot of newwer rigs out there that do just that...to name one..land rover and they know what there doing out in the wheeling world

i can proly dig up some carnage pic's ...not sure how they will turn out as i dont have a working scaner

 

[giowest]

well i got nose swiped by a lil mazda with my ramcharger quite a few years back ..being that the bumper and all mounts to a 4 inch by 4 inch area with only 3 bolts per side theres not much there holding anything...needless to say my bumper and pusher were ejected from the face of the RC and riped the frame rails...after some fixing and redoing of the factory work a good bounce thru a mud hole showed me how weak the bumper attachment area is...any type of brushguard that comes up higher than below the headlights truely needs ancored at the top...in fact theres alot of newwer rigs out there that do just that...to name one..land rover and they know what there doing out in the wheeling world

i can proly dig up some carnage pic's ...not sure how they will turn out as i dont have a working scaner

Yep, the body shops around here love brush guards, theyre affectionetly know as framebenders

 

[Diplomat_Wagon]

I will have to run that idea past him, if he doesn't want to do it then I won't make him....................mainly because I won't be able to any ways.

 

[Stretch]

id sugjest a mount running thru the grill to the top of that bar and then tie that down to the frame rails at about the shock tower points......the front frame rail mounts WILL let go of that bumper when they feel the need to

They will not!

 

[69.5CUDA]

..if you look at the frame you will note that the bumper attaches to the only chunk of frame past the last cross member ..everything forwad of the crass member will bend, crack, rip as needed to let go of the bumper

on a side note asumeing its 4wd..id go pull off the front shock mounts on the frame rails and check for cracks and make some HEAVY DUTY plates to back the shock mounts too..there prone to brakeing the frame there is well abused like a 4wd should be

 

[Stretch]

..if you look at the frame you will note that the bumper attaches to the only chunk of frame past the last cross member ..everything forwad of the crass member will bend, crack, rip as needed to let go of the bumper

I highly doubt that it will bend like that. If that was the case the front spring hangers would pound the frame up and into submission and people have been putting snow plows on those trucks for years. I can see it bending if you hit something but not from the weight of the bumper alone.

The frames on new trucks are far weaker than the old trucks because they are designed to bend in a crash and people hang Boss snow plows of the front of those half ton trucks every day with now problems.

 

[Foggy]

I like it.

 

[Diplomat_Wagon]

I agree with the Large one.

A buddy of mine had a plow on his '78 PW for 25 years and never a problem.

 

[beeper*71]

The 78 Ramcharger we have at the shop had a plow on it since new, It's nicknamed the Cornfield Crosser for good reason...seen air under all 4 on more than one occasion and it's still plowing snow. To bad we are retiring it this year...the body has finally rotted off the frame.

 

[Stretch]

You dont need a body to plow snow . Look how we do it in the U.P.

 

[Dr.Jass]

I dunno... a guy I knew in Pennsylvania had a plow rig on an '84 W250 he'd equipped with a 440/727 setup. A Mercury Villager attempted a left turn right in front of him, and he hit her right front corner to right front corner. That Dodge twisted more than John Kerry on any given issue. The passenger-side headlight was under the base of the windshield; the engine block, exhaust manifolds, front axle & springs, transmission case and transfer case adapter were all broken. The plow frame was completely destroyed... the Villager looked a lot less the worse for wear, though it was pretty destroyed as well.

I've done enough time ordering parts for dealership body shops to say that an impact with a whitetail at its normal height will bend the hell out of the front ends of the framerails on that truck with the brush guard, and that said brush guard will fold back and likely do just as much damage to the grille, hood, and fenders as if you'd hit the deer without it. It's all about leverage; the frame horns were never designed for that kind of stress. A properly-mounted plow rig doesn't impart the same stress; the plow frame extends back onto the frame quite a distance and most of the stress is longitudinal (for which it's designed) rather than bending. The bending load of a plow rig is spread out over a considerable distance, unlike a "cow catcher."