This needs more attention. Great content keep it up!

rewatched--Keep 'em coming 🙂

Letsssss goooooooo

good to see someone saving them, that would've been in the pick n pull yard for sure out here in California.Looks like you basically bought a VIN to a dakota r/t .. wink....

I have third gen but it’s a 03 doesn’t have big headlight so would 4th generation dash still fit cause there huge difference from a 03 to 08 dash’s are differently designed.

I think I’ve seen 3-4 other people on tiktok with them as well, but yeah they kind of make it seem like it’s cake to do lol. We did a 6.4 PS dash in a 01 7.3, we had a kit to do it and it was still somewhat of a pain to do.

keep up the hard work ive been here since the stolen jeep video. this truck looks great keep up the hard work.

Hey man I love the videos I was just wondering if you were doing good and seeing if there’s any update on the next video release

adhd at its finest <3

there are full taps and half taps. you just need a full tap

I watched the whole video. Lol took long enough. But I’m actually kinda interested now to see the next video and if it worked or not! I think you did a good job. I’d be surprised if it leaked a bunch.

This is not an easy thing your trying to do. The only other option is an engine swap! Which I hate to say should have been the thing to do. Remove and replace with a non 53 block. The truck as a whole is haggered, high milage beat up, cow kicked, rusted and neglected. That being said you’re not out much. You could easily part the thing out and make back your $2k. He!! People will pay $1000 for that sport front bumper cover and all the stuff that goes with it to ‘sport convert’. You’re on the right track. Your learning. I’d prolly be messing stuff up to and I’ve been doing this stuff 20+ years! I’ve heard good things about block stitching. Welding the cast iron is to hard. The whole thing would have to be torn down and heated, at that point you might as well replace it. The block stitching works. B it man that crack is long. That’s a lot longer than ones I’ve seen before! All the 53 cracks I’ve seen are a couple inches at the most! That crack is all the way across and into the corner. You’re gunna break taps there’s no way around it. Or happens. Go slow and don’t force them! Use cutting oil. You don’t need to buy new drill bits, you can sharpen drill bits indefinitely till there down to a little nub! I have a drill dr. It makes sharpening bits a breeze. You get a perfectly angled drill bit tip every time! It’s something good to have in your drill bit drawer is a sharpener! Drill dr is what it’s called. Best case scenario you stitch the block and it seals it up and it holds. You get some drive time out of it. It’s still gunna need a motor, it’s still got 500k miles on it! Stitching it is going to buy you some time, but I’d start scouring around for a 56 block. They are the thickest and best ones in the chronological order of block casting numbers. 56 block will be in a 2002. I’m really suprised your red truck being a ‘01 had a 53 block. But yeah 01 was the last year of having the possibility of having a 53. And for all the people that say oh it’s got 500k miles it and it hasn’t cracked yet! It’s never going to crack! lol here ya go. It has been cracking and spreading for some time ya. It didn’t just crack like that over night. That’s several years and miles of driving it like that and heat cycles over and over and over to make it crack that long. I’d almost say it’s not fixable. That thing is huge. Like I said most cracks I’ve seen are 2-3” long and that’s it. Not a foot and a half long. Most repairs on a 2-3” crack is 4-5 stitches and that closes it up, and then it’s preheated with a torch and tig welded with a nickel rod. Fix the truck, Put it back together! You got hardly any Money in it. I wouldn’t have given more than the $2k you paid form a manual trans ‘01 red sport with 500k miles and a cracked 53 block. You can part it out and make back your money and then some. I’ll hand it to the guy at least he’s trying.

Why not weld it?

"Let go like who???" lmfao

Amen lets goooo

How do I tell if I have a 53 block? Bought an 01 2 years ago for $4000. Legit bought it for the v plow and salt spreader and got a free truck

I should call her

Keep up the work brother love these videos

Woah she has head studs

if you change that back door the new one will never shut

Nice

Oh man what a chore! I hope I never have to do mine 😅

Definitely would like to see more on the old red truck

I'd say even if it has 500k miles, as long as the engine runs you should use it as a beater till the engine totally dies. Like you said, use it to get experience on some reapairs and then when its finally fully in the grave, use it for parts. I'd like to see how long this thing can last.

309 welding rod weld it up

swap to the Durango

This video got me feeling pretty optimistic, just bought an 01 as well, nonrunning for 1800 no rust, 279000 on the dash,no cracked dash and interior is pretty decent. All stock aswell. Looking at replacing the head gasket and cooling system and that should be it. Will do fass system and guages once running

Great vid! 😊

Just discovered your channel! Great stuff!!

some cummins are a morgotety of are preety good keep up the work garett love ya

your dodges are like my beamers, im thinkin of makin a channel haha and we seem close in age which is fire Gained a sub today haha

Take the door and hood and radiator off the Durango and do a spray can job on the bed

scrap that blue rt its not worth fixing put the drivetrain in the black one or put the motor in the Durango its not that much work

Why not go 4 inches further under the car with the jack and lift on that full frame lol

Lol for a Dodge it doesn't look that Rusty.

Scratch that throw the R/T trans and motor from the blue truck in the black one

Take the motor out the R/T and transmission and swap it to the Durango !!!!

Sounds like a bad lifter honestly

Fix the Durango. Junk that piece of shit use it for part’s.

You are looking at suspension wise upper and lower control arms and a spring and it should be ok

Do you have any inner front door parts left and was your truck a infinity 6 speaker pillar mount tweeters truck?!

My truck has rusty outer rockers its a northern Ohio truck since new so it is to be expected i guess.. it does have its good points it has a original Ohio title and owners manual and the factory ignition key with the Rams head cut into the plastic on the key, and unfortunately the junkyard swapped doors are also red blasted black because it is a gloss black truck and the doors are from a regular cab or a early club cab truck so rounded corners and the quad cab door is square corners.

How much did your front doors cost you?!

My front speakers kinda worked until I replaced them with new aftermarket 3 way 6x9's and they have really decent bass response and sound great but they need spaced out away from the door the magnet structure on the back of the speaker interferes with the power windows going further than halfway down, and with the wiring harness being cut out, neither rear door speakers work nor the pillar mount tweeters so i get to trace wires and probably have to run all new wires on both sides and run up to the stereo and splice into the factory dash wiring plug and i don't want to do that and the dr side rear door is seized in place so i have to grind off the studs of the door latch and then pry on the top latch because it was seized on top and bottom of the door.lol lucky me...

Cheap Mopar plastic interior parts junk.... Mine is about 3 broken clips from getting tek screwed in place

I got a similar truck to this truck except a 2000 dodge ram laramie slt quad cab 318 magnum V8 gas long bed 1500 4x4 210k miles some rust around the edges front doors are junkyard swapped and the wiring harness is gone.. $1,500

Love the video keep it up brother

ay are you interested in selling that white 4th gen bed?

Just subscribed! Nice thumbnail

4th gen bed on it?