Ive been looking for a 1970 Dodge pickup for several years. My birth year. Ive got a 69 383 with matching 727 that would go in there perfect. Love this stuff
Another sweptline going👍👍... Need one back in my life...Last time l drove one was 1984....up to Hurricane Ridge for a snow tubing trip....The slow manual steering was "fun"on those mountain curves...
👍Good stuff. I dig those old trucks. I’d like to find a decent 64 International harvester PU like my G-PA had. Yes, they were ugly but good memories. As a kid in late 80s I went everywhere with him in that big green beast.
Love it!! Back in 1989, I decided I wanted a truck and my Daddy did woodworking and he needed use of one to haul lumber. I found a truck IDENTICAL to yours, but medium blue in color, at the local rural junkyard (remember those?) at a good-guy price, with no engine/trans. Of course it was a 318/727 truck, but the same yard had a '75 Imperial (rear disc brake 9.25" axle!!) for the same good-guy price, so I combined the two! I smiled when I saw your radiator-to-fan clearance, I used late model truck mount brackets on the 440 and made some 1/4" steel plates that relocated the motor 3-4" rearward (I forget) using the original 318 rubber mounts. I had to swap the 1pc kickdown rod for the 3pc early (1960s) setup, because the heads were only an inch or so from the firewall. Positioned the crossmember rearward and used a custom mount I fabbed using a van (?) 727 mount and an extra plate on the bottom to meet the crossmember holes. Had a 3.54 Dana 60 that was shot (probably why they parted/junked it), and I was not very differential savvy at that point in my career, so when it finally grenaded, I swapped a 4.10 Dana in. Thought I'd gain all kinds of extra pulling torque but lose MPG...WRONG! The 440 just didn't care, still a tow beast and gas drinker, LOL! I did the 440 fairly mild, 272/.455" MoPar PurpleShaft, HP red springs, kept the Thermoquad and ran 2x413 center dump early Chrysler manifolds with 2.5" duals and Sonic Turbo mufflers turn-downs under the bed (resonance!!). Loved it for many years until I scored a clean '86 D-250 and entered the world of ball-joint trucks with A/C & P/S. Jerked the 440 and sold the truck body to a friend who put a 500" Cadillac in it with a TH400 that I built. MEMRYS!! :D
Wow! That’s amazing. What a story. I’ve never had a big block sweptline yet… I almost rescued a 383 truck from a local yard some years ago but it wasn’t meant to be. Some day I will have one of these I can actually use.
That "Custom" badge on the door means that the truck was actually custom ordered from the factory by the dealership for a customer who wanted some specific extras. It's a low trim level D200, but looks like it was ordered with the "camper special" package, front chrome bumper (they were normally painted white), and with the upper and lower aluminum side trim, (not offered on the low trim level D200 line). Overall, that's very cool piece of history you have there.
I really, really meant to say that it pulls a bit to the everywhere. But for some reason it didn’t happen. Embarrassing, I know. I’ve done the “LIVE, DAMN YOU!” bit several times - although I think this one (it’s actually a Datsun forklift) was the original. The one I used in the intro was a crappy Jeep. Haha.
That thing is awesome! I had the chance to buy a ‘71 with a 383 and 727 a few years ago. Speaking of 318 freeze plugs, the 318 in my ‘74 cuda has a couple leaking ones that are currently being replaced in the shop. It must be a common thing with 318’s as they age.
Stock steel ones do disintegrate over time. I think when this one shot a plug out it was an installation problem. It’s a cool truck! I need to get it finished. You’ve reminded me that I had a chance to save a 383 powered ‘71 from the junkyard. I would have had to give them $1000 for it, which was a lot of money at the time - for me, and for what it was.
I literally have that same exact truck. Down to the paint color and 3 gas tanks. My filler doors are the same. Always curious if that was a factory option. Mine is an original 29000 mile truck. Great video. Love the channel!
Nice! I actually don’t know if they were factory installed, dealer installed, or what - but I know a lot of trucks have them. The tanks themselves were made by Gem. My ‘48 Power Wagon has one of the same tanks, but it definitely wasn’t original to that truck.
You can use a six cylinder truck radiator in those. Just swap the brackets from side to side. That truck's paint is a natural for the SOS pad and linseed oil treatment.
I had a six cylinder truck radiator in it. The lower hose interferes with the power steering pump. Yeah! I may well do that in an future video. I had a lot of that surface rust staining cleaned up way back when.
Good looking old truck, Do you know where I can find upper A-arms with the small bolt ball joints, for a 1967 dodge dart gt with drum brakes, A-body I have looked everywhere with no luck so far, bye the way love your channel you crack me up sometimes, THX, man.
I just bought a 1968 W-100 Dodge Adventurer flatbed. She is beautiful and her name is Chardonnay. She run's good and just got her plates from DMV. I sent her to the hospital to hopefully replace her artery's and then off to her cosmetic surgeon for new drivers and passengers windows and sealing the windshield. But I'm not going to change her beautiful light yellow patina body. I just found out she is extremely rare due to being a 4x4. What do you about her?
Doesn't look like pumping the brake pedal did anything whatsoever towards stopping the truck, but, at least you got a little quad work on the right leg.
It did actually. 3-4 pumps and there would be a relatively firm pedal. There is definitely a bunch of air somewhere. Relatively unsafe and insane in any case.
Unfortunately I don’t, as I was pretty focused on getting it done at the time. I just removed the lower leaf springs and helpers that I deemed extra - both front and rear. I think it was 2-3 on the front springs, and more on the rear. I did have to pull the spring center bolts and reinstall them afterward. I had to space the front U bolts with washers because I couldn’t find shorter ones, and I replaced the rears.
If I wanted to, yes - but then you aren’t allowed to drive it daily or use it as a truck. As it will be going to the new owner as soon as I’m done with it, I’m not going to bother with registration.
Starter! 😅 the alternator is on the Charger now… I need to remedy both of those things. I should disassemble that dump truck at some point. It’s just sitting there being ugly currently.
Totally off topic buddy, but how big is your shop? I've been building the "not a Dodge" in a 13'x17' garage and it sucks. It's a tiny car and completely fills the space.
It’s 30x70, which is truly amazing. The shop we ran our business out of was 30x100, but it had offices in both ends, a weird shop space in the middle that was damn near impossible to put cars in, and low ceilings. If it had been up to me, the shop would be 40’ deep so I could fit two cars in a bay. There is a tidal slough in the way though.
Is there a video of you deleting some of the leaf springs ? Mine rides like a brick too. It's so nice and solid, I definitely will get rid of the shitty straight axle, and horrible suspension.
Unfortunately I didn’t get video of it. After pulling the springs, it rides surprisingly well. But it sure doesn’t handle well… the crown Vic clip seems to be the way everybody is going. I just pulled the lower helper springs - anything that wasn’t bolted into the pack - and then pulled the packs apart and I think pulled the lowest out of all four of them. I can’t remember completely.
@DeadDodgeGarage Oh, do you happen to know anyone with a Nice chrome 64 Dodge truck grille ? I am going to convert my 70 to look like a 64. 64s just look Wicked to me. Thanks !
@@shaunclifton5281 Well, I have one, but I couldn't call it 'nice.' Nick Lamb with Lambvinki's Garage would probably be a good guy to talk to for sweptline parts. Of course you need more than just the grille - are you changing the radiator support and all to get the dual headlight mounting stuff? The earlier nose sure is more attractive.
Brake booster! I think part of it’s the excessive pedal travel from air in the lines. I have heard many make noise like that over the years. It really shouldn’t, but it does work.
That ol girl makes all three of my trucks look good. I needed that.
Just one of many services I offer!
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 300TH VIDEO!!!! 🎉🎊 🎉
I had a 1967 Dodge D200 with the 318. I love the engine bay you could put your tools on the side. That’s a nice truck.
Oh yeah. They’re the best trucks to work on. You’ve got the big huge built in tool trays, and a hood that goes vertical and gets out of your way!
Ive been looking for a 1970 Dodge pickup for several years. My birth year. Ive got a 69 383 with matching 727 that would go in there perfect. Love this stuff
Another sweptline going👍👍... Need one back in my life...Last time l drove one was 1984....up to Hurricane Ridge for a snow tubing trip....The slow manual steering was "fun"on those mountain curves...
Sweptlines are cool! I have a 69 that I pulled out of a junkyard 10+ years ago and now it’s sitting in a field somewhere in Tennessee waiting on me.
Love the ol Dodge D200 😍
Very cool!!!!!!!👍
You need to take the floor patch off. Then you can Flintstone it to a stop. Fred would be so proud !!!!
👍Good stuff. I dig those old trucks. I’d like to find a decent 64 International harvester PU like my G-PA had. Yes, they were ugly but good memories. As a kid in late 80s I went everywhere with him in that big green beast.
Love it!! Back in 1989, I decided I wanted a truck and my Daddy did woodworking and he needed use of one to haul lumber. I found a truck IDENTICAL to yours, but medium blue in color, at the local rural junkyard (remember those?) at a good-guy price, with no engine/trans. Of course it was a 318/727 truck, but the same yard had a '75 Imperial (rear disc brake 9.25" axle!!) for the same good-guy price, so I combined the two! I smiled when I saw your radiator-to-fan clearance, I used late model truck mount brackets on the 440 and made some 1/4" steel plates that relocated the motor 3-4" rearward (I forget) using the original 318 rubber mounts. I had to swap the 1pc kickdown rod for the 3pc early (1960s) setup, because the heads were only an inch or so from the firewall. Positioned the crossmember rearward and used a custom mount I fabbed using a van (?) 727 mount and an extra plate on the bottom to meet the crossmember holes. Had a 3.54 Dana 60 that was shot (probably why they parted/junked it), and I was not very differential savvy at that point in my career, so when it finally grenaded, I swapped a 4.10 Dana in. Thought I'd gain all kinds of extra pulling torque but lose MPG...WRONG! The 440 just didn't care, still a tow beast and gas drinker, LOL! I did the 440 fairly mild, 272/.455" MoPar PurpleShaft, HP red springs, kept the Thermoquad and ran 2x413 center dump early Chrysler manifolds with 2.5" duals and Sonic Turbo mufflers turn-downs under the bed (resonance!!). Loved it for many years until I scored a clean '86 D-250 and entered the world of ball-joint trucks with A/C & P/S. Jerked the 440 and sold the truck body to a friend who put a 500" Cadillac in it with a TH400 that I built. MEMRYS!! :D
Wow! That’s amazing. What a story. I’ve never had a big block sweptline yet… I almost rescued a 383 truck from a local yard some years ago but it wasn’t meant to be. Some day I will have one of these I can actually use.
Always liked the style and truckiness of the sweptline
That "Custom" badge on the door means that the truck was actually custom ordered from the factory by the dealership for a customer who wanted some specific extras. It's a low trim level D200, but looks like it was ordered with the "camper special" package, front chrome bumper (they were normally painted white), and with the upper and lower aluminum side trim, (not offered on the low trim level D200 line). Overall, that's very cool piece of history you have there.
Interesting. Yep, it’s a camper special - complete with *ridiculous* spring packs and saddle tanks.
I had one very similar to that, it had a 383, bucket seats an eldelbrock 4 barrel intake with 4 barrel Edelbrock carb, same color, had 3 tanks.
That thing has a great sound!!!!!
LIVE DAMN YOU!!!!! so that's the truck in the intro. EPIC!!!!..the truck wonders...pulls a bit to the everywhere.
I really, really meant to say that it pulls a bit to the everywhere. But for some reason it didn’t happen. Embarrassing, I know. I’ve done the “LIVE, DAMN YOU!” bit several times - although I think this one (it’s actually a Datsun forklift) was the original. The one I used in the intro was a crappy Jeep. Haha.
@@DeadDodgeGarage hahahhaah EPIC!!!
You fired the truck up to go for a rip, and the way you revved it, all I heard in my head was the opening to Jerry Was a Racecar Driver.
He never did come first all that much, but he never did come in last… or whatever the line is
@@DeadDodgeGarage He never did win the checkered flag, but never did come in last.
With a Bocephus sticker on his 442, he'd light em up just for fun
Primus 🤘
@@shaunclifton5281 Well played, sir!
That thing is awesome! I had the chance to buy a ‘71 with a 383 and 727 a few years ago. Speaking of 318 freeze plugs, the 318 in my ‘74 cuda has a couple leaking ones that are currently being replaced in the shop. It must be a common thing with 318’s as they age.
Stock steel ones do disintegrate over time. I think when this one shot a plug out it was an installation problem. It’s a cool truck! I need to get it finished. You’ve reminded me that I had a chance to save a 383 powered ‘71 from the junkyard. I would have had to give them $1000 for it, which was a lot of money at the time - for me, and for what it was.
It's funny how things change. That truck came new with gilded lilly trim and all the comforts of a "truck." :-)
Oh I agree. In some of them you could get ✨ bucket seats ✨ and that was pretty much the pinnacle of luxury. Haha.
Creaking like a old battle ship on that lift ?! She looks good with those black wheels .
"It's a witch!" 😂😂😂
I'm glad I'm not the only one that pats my truck on the dash for a job well done
“We found a witch! May we burn her?!”
@@DeadDodgeGarage How do you know she's a witch?? 😂
In your case, that's not a "parking brake." People used to call it the "Emergency Brake." That's what you've got.
Indeed, indeed. I definitely had a couple emergencies too.
Thats when the rusty floorboards come in handy, the fred flintstone brakes
I literally have that same exact truck. Down to the paint color and 3 gas tanks. My filler doors are the same. Always curious if that was a factory option. Mine is an original 29000 mile truck. Great video. Love the channel!
Nice! I actually don’t know if they were factory installed, dealer installed, or what - but I know a lot of trucks have them. The tanks themselves were made by Gem. My ‘48 Power Wagon has one of the same tanks, but it definitely wasn’t original to that truck.
Very cool Andrew, I've always wanted an older Dodge like that!!!!!!!!!
Nice truck; mine was of a later generation. Glad the Fury lives on in a way but dancing on the corpse made me sad...
Gotta like the slab-sides.
"and by perfection I mean it will latch, eventually". 😄
You can use a six cylinder truck radiator in those. Just swap the brackets from side to side.
That truck's paint is a natural for the SOS pad and linseed oil treatment.
I had a six cylinder truck radiator in it. The lower hose interferes with the power steering pump. Yeah! I may well do that in an future video. I had a lot of that surface rust staining cleaned up way back when.
@@DeadDodgeGarage I did it in a W300. No power steering and a straight frame. Maybe that helped.
Dodgey it needs some loving now 👍🏻💯🇦🇺⛽️.
HA ! I have the same truck , except mine has a white top, no rust, 71,800 original miles 383 with AC. 70 Gold Camper Special
Good looking old truck, Do you know where I can find upper A-arms with the small bolt ball joints, for a 1967 dodge dart gt with drum brakes, A-body I have looked everywhere with no luck so far, bye the way love your channel you crack me up sometimes, THX, man.
I just bought a 1968 W-100 Dodge Adventurer flatbed. She is beautiful and her name is Chardonnay. She run's good and just got her plates from DMV. I sent her to the hospital to hopefully replace her artery's and then off to her cosmetic surgeon for new drivers and passengers windows and sealing the windshield. But I'm not going to change her beautiful light yellow patina body. I just found out she is extremely rare due to being a 4x4. What do you about her?
Finally after like two years, all is revealed the gold swept line previously shrouded in mystery has its woeful tale told to the world....
Good stuff 👍
Hey, how's that Christmas tree air freshener holding up?
Don't leave home without it!
we need more sweptline videos 😮
I can help with that! Haha.
Some success
Nice
Doesn't look like pumping the brake pedal did anything whatsoever towards stopping the truck, but, at least you got a little quad work on the right leg.
It did actually. 3-4 pumps and there would be a relatively firm pedal. There is definitely a bunch of air somewhere. Relatively unsafe and insane in any case.
Brakes are a good thing 😅
They are called "West Coast" mirrors, but only on the East Coast....
Haaaahaha. That explains that.
Do you have a video on how you lowered it?
Unfortunately I don’t, as I was pretty focused on getting it done at the time. I just removed the lower leaf springs and helpers that I deemed extra - both front and rear. I think it was 2-3 on the front springs, and more on the rear. I did have to pull the spring center bolts and reinstall them afterward. I had to space the front U bolts with washers because I couldn’t find shorter ones, and I replaced the rears.
Can you get antique-classic permanent plates?
If I wanted to, yes - but then you aren’t allowed to drive it daily or use it as a truck. As it will be going to the new owner as soon as I’m done with it, I’m not going to bother with registration.
Is the demon alternator still on the dumptruck?
Starter! 😅 the alternator is on the Charger now… I need to remedy both of those things. I should disassemble that dump truck at some point. It’s just sitting there being ugly currently.
Totally off topic buddy, but how big is your shop? I've been building the "not a Dodge" in a 13'x17' garage and it sucks. It's a tiny car and completely fills the space.
It’s 30x70, which is truly amazing. The shop we ran our business out of was 30x100, but it had offices in both ends, a weird shop space in the middle that was damn near impossible to put cars in, and low ceilings. If it had been up to me, the shop would be 40’ deep so I could fit two cars in a bay. There is a tidal slough in the way though.
Is there a video of you deleting some of the leaf springs ? Mine rides like a brick too. It's so nice and solid, I definitely will get rid of the shitty straight axle, and horrible suspension.
Unfortunately I didn’t get video of it. After pulling the springs, it rides surprisingly well. But it sure doesn’t handle well… the crown Vic clip seems to be the way everybody is going. I just pulled the lower helper springs - anything that wasn’t bolted into the pack - and then pulled the packs apart and I think pulled the lowest out of all four of them. I can’t remember completely.
@DeadDodgeGarage Oh, do you happen to know anyone with a Nice chrome 64 Dodge truck grille ? I am going to convert my 70 to look like a 64. 64s just look Wicked to me. Thanks !
@@shaunclifton5281 Well, I have one, but I couldn't call it 'nice.' Nick Lamb with Lambvinki's Garage would probably be a good guy to talk to for sweptline parts. Of course you need more than just the grille - are you changing the radiator support and all to get the dual headlight mounting stuff? The earlier nose sure is more attractive.
You should have did some slow Mo's with some sexy music Patina Party.
Patina Party!!! I can’t say any of that slow mo stuff has ever been my style. Haha.
@@DeadDodgeGarage I know that's why it would be funny and might go viral because it's you nobody would see that coming. Even you would laff at that.
I always wanted a swept side man they're sick trucks.
I need a gas tank for 1976 D200, not the in-cab. Can you help with resources?
All I would do is hop over to Google and start searching. I don’t know which tanks are available and which aren’t.
You need to find a good mechanic to fix that door for you. 😂
🤣 I’ll see what I can do on that
Cap'n Obvious here but why not bleed the brakes first?
Bleeders are rusted solid and I thought they were better than they are. It’s fiiiine…
The non brakes make air brake noises - weird
Brake booster! I think part of it’s the excessive pedal travel from air in the lines. I have heard many make noise like that over the years. It really shouldn’t, but it does work.
@@DeadDodgeGarage Makes sense now you said it , keep up the great entertaining vids , most enjoyable regardless of what the subject is