Thought Id share this here as this site is way better than the first gen dodge forums where its all Cummins all the time....
I bought this truck in January of 2018 with the intention of making it a wheeling rig using some of the design concepts from 4WORs Ultimate tug truck build. Some other shenanigan's went down and this got put on the back burner but now I'm ready to dig into it again.
This is how it looked when I got it:
In hindsight I should have kept the plow but the guy I got the truck from said he could use it on his tractor and knocked 500 bucks off the price. I had been seeing this truck on one of the local classified sites for quite sometime listed as a 91 1 ton dodge, I figured it was a 3/4 ton or pieced together because any actual one ton was usually either a Cummins truck or a hack job where someone put one ton axles in a 1/2 ton and tried to pass it off as a true 1 ton. The body looked rough and being a plow truck I figured it was rotted out junk. Finally after 3 months of the ad being up I took the bait and went to check it out. The truck was owned by the 2nd owners having purchased it from the original owner for the sole purpose of plowing the driveway and hauling firewood. They had the original window sticker and a thick file folder of the trucks life, which I thought was pretty cool. They also had a love affair with Hurculiner (Id find out why later). I was pleasantly surprised to fine that it was indeed a true 1 ton with a 60 front, 70 rear, and NP205. It also had 3 pedals so I was sold. Knowing that I could easily recoup my purchase price by selling the front axle I pulled the trigger and brought it home.
The ride home proved to be pretty uneventful aside from lack of any headlights and a transmission that sounded like a cat going through a paper shredder in all but 4th gear (hey that's the one you use the most anyway).
I got to work stripping the herculiner from the bed (outside, none inside
) and was pleasantly surprised to find that there was really no rust hiding underneath:
I proceeded to add a 4" lift and a set of worn out 33s I had lying around and used the truck for about a year to haul my four wheeler around and haul scrap to the junkyard, in the meantime my dad had recently retired and was looking for a project as well as missing having a truck, so I picked up another 91, this time a D250 2wd that had been sitting for 10 years and proceeded to get it ready to give him as a Christmas gift so this truck got shoved in the garage and has been there for the past 3 years.
I bought this truck in January of 2018 with the intention of making it a wheeling rig using some of the design concepts from 4WORs Ultimate tug truck build. Some other shenanigan's went down and this got put on the back burner but now I'm ready to dig into it again.
This is how it looked when I got it:
In hindsight I should have kept the plow but the guy I got the truck from said he could use it on his tractor and knocked 500 bucks off the price. I had been seeing this truck on one of the local classified sites for quite sometime listed as a 91 1 ton dodge, I figured it was a 3/4 ton or pieced together because any actual one ton was usually either a Cummins truck or a hack job where someone put one ton axles in a 1/2 ton and tried to pass it off as a true 1 ton. The body looked rough and being a plow truck I figured it was rotted out junk. Finally after 3 months of the ad being up I took the bait and went to check it out. The truck was owned by the 2nd owners having purchased it from the original owner for the sole purpose of plowing the driveway and hauling firewood. They had the original window sticker and a thick file folder of the trucks life, which I thought was pretty cool. They also had a love affair with Hurculiner (Id find out why later). I was pleasantly surprised to fine that it was indeed a true 1 ton with a 60 front, 70 rear, and NP205. It also had 3 pedals so I was sold. Knowing that I could easily recoup my purchase price by selling the front axle I pulled the trigger and brought it home.
The ride home proved to be pretty uneventful aside from lack of any headlights and a transmission that sounded like a cat going through a paper shredder in all but 4th gear (hey that's the one you use the most anyway).
I got to work stripping the herculiner from the bed (outside, none inside
) and was pleasantly surprised to find that there was really no rust hiding underneath:I proceeded to add a 4" lift and a set of worn out 33s I had lying around and used the truck for about a year to haul my four wheeler around and haul scrap to the junkyard, in the meantime my dad had recently retired and was looking for a project as well as missing having a truck, so I picked up another 91, this time a D250 2wd that had been sitting for 10 years and proceeded to get it ready to give him as a Christmas gift so this truck got shoved in the garage and has been there for the past 3 years.
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