I havent taken my system off yet. Its on the fender (top left corner of last pic) Im actually thinking of swapping my slant out right now and keeping it for a project later on down the road. My engine is a little tired and i think the carb is starting to show signs of trouble.

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Old truck: 82 D150 225, 2bbl, dutra duals, 2.5" straight pipe to dual 2.5" tail pipes. Mud tires, 4spd, old forest service truck.
Current truck: 98.5 Ram 2500 ccsb, sport, 24v cummins, 5spd, 4.5" lift, 35's, 5" straight pipe.

i hear ya.
I am in the middle of the HEI conversion. Bought a new non-computer carb, got a mechanical distributor coming and bought the hei IE and coil. Am working on mounting it now. I think it will take awhile once i get it working to determine how much of the wiring etc i will remove from the lean burn system. I also have a couple of shop manuals coming to guide me in the wiring mess. I have several engines so i won't need to go engine shopping yet. The slant/6 is a great motor if you decide to change the burn out, let me know, buy then i will know if i did ok.
jeff

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FRCC
(9) slant six engines / + misc parts for same.
1969 D100 318 4 spd

ok thanks. Yeah my slant is a good engine i just think itd cost me more to get to remotley where i want it than it would to find another engine for now. And being a college student i dont have much. lol plus next month i have to renew my insurance.

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Old truck: 82 D150 225, 2bbl, dutra duals, 2.5" straight pipe to dual 2.5" tail pipes. Mud tires, 4spd, old forest service truck.
Current truck: 98.5 Ram 2500 ccsb, sport, 24v cummins, 5spd, 4.5" lift, 35's, 5" straight pipe.

Ok guys and Gals ive got lots of pictures of what ive been doing since i last posted pics.

Blacked out tails, done legally
Off

On

Close up


My computer is being verry slow right now so here is a link to my photobucket. Lots of pics of my truck and everything that i have done so far. The first page is pics that are most recent: http://s857.photobucket.com/albums/ab131/cross17/

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Old truck: 82 D150 225, 2bbl, dutra duals, 2.5" straight pipe to dual 2.5" tail pipes. Mud tires, 4spd, old forest service truck.
Current truck: 98.5 Ram 2500 ccsb, sport, 24v cummins, 5spd, 4.5" lift, 35's, 5" straight pipe.

lookin good bud!

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1982 Dodge Ram D150 lwb
225 slant 6, 4-speed manual...all stock

Thanks man.

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Old truck: 82 D150 225, 2bbl, dutra duals, 2.5" straight pipe to dual 2.5" tail pipes. Mud tires, 4spd, old forest service truck.
Current truck: 98.5 Ram 2500 ccsb, sport, 24v cummins, 5spd, 4.5" lift, 35's, 5" straight pipe.

Ok lots of stuff done. Painted cab and roof, hood, cowl vent and bed rails. Hei ignition and painted air cleaner.

Hei ignition, this is right after the conversion wires are all nice and neat now.



These are without painted hood cowl vent or bed rails.

^^I have no idea what my friend is doing. lol


^^If you look about a foot in front of the rear tire you can see my glasspack its not red anymore, more of a yellow color. lol


Painted bed rail hood and cowl vent and wiper arms




The hood looks good in the pictures but the primer was crap so it showed through my 3 coats of paint. Ill repaint the whole thing when i restore it after college. This is just rattle can flat black.

All my pictures are taken with my phone. pretty good ehh?

Thanks for lookin!
Cody

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Old truck: 82 D150 225, 2bbl, dutra duals, 2.5" straight pipe to dual 2.5" tail pipes. Mud tires, 4spd, old forest service truck.
Current truck: 98.5 Ram 2500 ccsb, sport, 24v cummins, 5spd, 4.5" lift, 35's, 5" straight pipe.

Ok some new pictures.







Put a blue led in the tach and instrument cluster


Have my exhaust how i want it.


New wheels that will go on soon


Back up lights



New lights behind the grille. Round spotlights. Rectangular driving lights.


Yes i know they need adjustment. It isnt dark yet. Rectangle lights arent hooked up yet, needed an inline fuse, will get them wired up tomorrow.


Switches for the lights. Top is round lights. Bottom left (all red) is back up lights, bottom right is lower driving lights.



If you couldnt tell... I like lights

Oh and my air horns that im going to put on. Theyre fire truck horns


Thanks for looking
Cody

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Old truck: 82 D150 225, 2bbl, dutra duals, 2.5" straight pipe to dual 2.5" tail pipes. Mud tires, 4spd, old forest service truck.
Current truck: 98.5 Ram 2500 ccsb, sport, 24v cummins, 5spd, 4.5" lift, 35's, 5" straight pipe.

Nice truck! I can dig it.
I like what you have done with your truck, and on a budget. I also have a flowtech glasspack, which used to be purple.

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"Ja, Ich fahre ein altes auto."
'78 Volare 225
'67 Charger 318

Thanks! I wanted to get the purple horny but didn't have enough money on my paypal at the time, I'm actually thinking of getting a 12" cherrybomb. I've done a few more things since I last posted. When I find a 2bbl manifold and get it on I'll take more pictures.

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Old truck: 82 D150 225, 2bbl, dutra duals, 2.5" straight pipe to dual 2.5" tail pipes. Mud tires, 4spd, old forest service truck.
Current truck: 98.5 Ram 2500 ccsb, sport, 24v cummins, 5spd, 4.5" lift, 35's, 5" straight pipe.

I just ran across your post today. The truck is looking good. Obviously, lots of hard work, but it shows in your steady progress.

What did you ever finally do about mounting your front speakers? I ask because I recently added a new design to the dual-speaker brackets I make and sell. I've been making these for several years for A,B, and E-body cars, but this is my first one for trucks/Ramchargers.



Let me know if you are interested,
Jerry

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There's a difference between ignorance and stupidity.
Ignorance is not knowing any better.
Stupidity is knowing, yet doing it anyway.

Thanks Jerry. The front speakers I had by the shifter blew. They were old. Th kicker d series speakers under my seat have their own enclosed box. I just haven't gotten around to cutting holes in my doors to put them in and wire them up. I've done a few other things and added more speakers behind my seat and a surround sound sub. Sounds fairly good. I'll have to post pics soon of what all I've been doing eventhough it hasn't been much.

Cody

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Old truck: 82 D150 225, 2bbl, dutra duals, 2.5" straight pipe to dual 2.5" tail pipes. Mud tires, 4spd, old forest service truck.
Current truck: 98.5 Ram 2500 ccsb, sport, 24v cummins, 5spd, 4.5" lift, 35's, 5" straight pipe.

Ok lots of pics and updates. Last month i took the heater box out for cleaning and A/C system off since weve only had about a handfull of days this year that i actually wanted it. I also did some rewiring, tidied up my hei, wired in my engine bay fuse box, you can find the write up of that in the electrical section. I also had a can of high temp paint so i degreased and pressure washed the engine and just threw a coat of paint on to make it look a little better. I also have a new truck box. At the beggining of the month my ignition module got fried even with my big heat sink, so i installed the cooling fan that had been on the heat sink, which is out of an old computer, wired in a 3 amp mini fuse that is wired to the positive on the red alernator wire and it works great and havent had any problems since
Now for the pics

taking out the heater box



cleaning it out




Engine painted without A/C



If you look closesly to my heat sink you can see the black fan under it.

Fuse box








Truck box i got for free


And how about a little old truck flex. For somereason my phone was taking bad pics that day






Thanks for looking
Cody

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Old truck: 82 D150 225, 2bbl, dutra duals, 2.5" straight pipe to dual 2.5" tail pipes. Mud tires, 4spd, old forest service truck.
Current truck: 98.5 Ram 2500 ccsb, sport, 24v cummins, 5spd, 4.5" lift, 35's, 5" straight pipe.

Havent updated in awhile. since my last update i have replaced the intake and exhaust manifold gaskets, wired my hei into the power distribution box with a switch on the dash to turn power to the coil on and off. While the intake and exhaust manifolds were off i scrubbed them good and repainted them permanantly, I also scrubbed and painted the drivers side of the block hemi orange to brighten up the engine bay a little Enjoy

Bock after manifolds were taken off.

Manifolds, my exhaust has some cracks in it.

Test fit of my 2bbl manifold im making.





Block and thermostat housing painted


Manifolds painted



Also added an underhood light


Engine back together




Thanks for looking!
Cody

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Old truck: 82 D150 225, 2bbl, dutra duals, 2.5" straight pipe to dual 2.5" tail pipes. Mud tires, 4spd, old forest service truck.
Current truck: 98.5 Ram 2500 ccsb, sport, 24v cummins, 5spd, 4.5" lift, 35's, 5" straight pipe.

Wow havent updated in awhile, here are some pics:D

Had to replace the pivot for my clutch fork because it snapped in half so i painted bell housing and tranny




New 2.5" exhaust with cut out



Put my 2 firetruck air horns on finally




Here is a vid from in the cab first blast is with window up, last three are with window down
http://s857.photobucket.com/albums/ab13 ... 173524.mp4

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Old truck: 82 D150 225, 2bbl, dutra duals, 2.5" straight pipe to dual 2.5" tail pipes. Mud tires, 4spd, old forest service truck.
Current truck: 98.5 Ram 2500 ccsb, sport, 24v cummins, 5spd, 4.5" lift, 35's, 5" straight pipe.