Gonna be disappointed, this old truck just lights right off

No, I sold it after it was pulled. I don't have room for spare engines, did the swap in my driveway.

@@DeadReckon I was hoping you still had it, and would sell the smog pump bracket. I need one to get my D-100 inspected, seems they check that stuff now, always passed before without the smog pump but not now. Got a pump but no bracket to mount the damned thing. Turns out to be a difficult piece to find for a /6, nobody kept them. Salute, to changing engines in the driveway. Been there done that twice. (different vehicles)

@@tonyunderwood9678 Ah gotcha, they don't care about smog pumps around here, if my truck came with one it was deleted way before I got it. They do perform a visual inspection for a cat sometimes, but they don't do emissions sniffing or care about smog or EGR.

@@DeadReckon Watch where you take it for a state inspection. I'm in Garden City, took my truck to Kelly's on G.C. Blvd. They gigged it for not having a smog pump. Hell, it never had one long as I've had it, previous owner likely removed it. I guess I could always look around for another inspection spot and have it re-inspected, although Kelly's said that the inspection places are being told to check stuff like that. Tacky.. I mean damn it's a 39 year old truck and they wanna flunk it for not having a smog pump, and only northern VA. actually sniffs for smog, not around here. Thinking maybe Kelly's is being a bit nitpicky... They actually said it would be legal to tag and drive it as an antique but if it's registered for standard plates (this one is) it's illegal to operate it without the smog pump. I mean wtf... Might end up finding some other inspection station that's not so gestapo'ish if I can't turn up a smog pump mount bracket.

@@tonyunderwood9678 Never used them, don't want to put the people I do use out on the internet either JIC. If you happen to catch me at home one day I can recommend a few places to go for inspection. I won't name the shop but I had one in trouble with the State Police over my '93 F150, it had a courtesy light over the bed, not a 3rd brake light, failed me for a 3rd brake light being out... That was a long, pain in the ass day.

Figures.

It's a really old way of doing it, and there is a good reason they don't do this anymore haha

They're great if you rebuild them, could also be the electronic ignition screwed up. My truck has points ignition, brand new distributor for like a 72 D100 I got off RockAuto. These carburetors once rebuilt run great.

@@DeadReckon we rebuilt mine and it still doesn’t run right I can’t figure out why and it might be the ignition screw up because I hit a bump hard enough my truck would shut off and I would have to go wiggle a wire and it was good again

@@Greasy_Rat_garage Yeah sounds like you got electrical gremlins. One of the reasons I got a points distributor for my truck. Here's the part numbers for the distributor and coil I used, the coil is different on points, I don't remember why SKP SKDICH05 STANDARD MOTOR PRODUCTS UC12

@@DeadReckon thanks I’m gona pull my cap and check it

@@Greasy_Rat_garage The hall effect sensors in those distributors can cause issues too, wiring between the control box on the fender or firewall, lots of ways they can fail.

What?

Not when I was growing up, but my Dad had that truck for nearly 10 years before he died, he really liked that old Dodge.

318

@@TacuacheDelpradoverde Yep

They do have wiring issues but they're such nice cars, I miss mine so much.

@@DeadReckon would you happen to know if a starter being completely stuck would mess up any electrical stuff? when i turn the key absolutely nothing happens, im thinking its the fuses, a chewed wire, or the ignition switch, but im not sure if it could potentially be the starter or not

@@Oddball159 Could've overheated wiring, get a test light or power probe and start poking, start at the battery, work your way back. Make sure the ignition solenoid has power and is being triggered by the key, you'll need two people for that unless you got stretchy arms haha.

This was a factory /6 but I swapped in the 318. The A-833 and rear diff have taller gearing 'cause it was a 6 cylinder truck, so it's a riot to drive even though the rear springs are begging to be relieved of duty.

I got rid of the car 'cause you gotta drop the engine to replace it.

I don't have the truck anymore, sorry, wish I'd kept it!

The electronic ignition box may be faulty, the only way to really tell since you're not getting spark but are getting coil voltage is to swap it out. I've linked some new ones below, but I've had so many issues with these owning a few of these trucks over the years I just converted my '83 to points ignition. www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/dodge,1981,w150+pickup,5.2l+318cid+v8,1099920,ignition,ignition+control+module+(icm),7172

I let this one go down the road, was way more than I planned on getting into.

Really glad I read this. I have a 97' wagon with 120'000 kilometers on it, love the little thing; definitely want to keep it.

They won't take over, it's a passing fad

You needn't concern yourself. There will be gas cars on the road for a long, long time to come... especially classic cars.... electric cars or no electric cars.

It was intentional to get power down and fuel economy up.

Considering I drove the car for a while then sold it for $1,800, I'd say I got my money out of it.

I miss this car but I didn't have the means to fix it right at the time, sold it to a guy who took it up to Ohio to restore. He was gonna use this as a parts car but he realized the car he already had became the parts car haha.

Yeah I miss this car, it was sweet.

Oh if I'd had some land to drive that car on, it would've had way more than full throttle to worry about after letting me down like it did.

Nah you're confusing that for a Honda. I miss that car, it was sweet.

Nah this definitely sounds like the morning after burrito night, speaking from recent experience

@@CallMeMrStopmotion So you don't like American V8's, keep it to yourself.

@@DeadReckon Lmao you saying that knowing the things I do on my channel is quite ironic; but I get it, even if it's trash, a man can still feel the need to defend what he has. That being said this LTD still sounds like the beefy nacho griller I shat out about 4 days ago, however that will never make it any less cool in anyone's eyes, clearly

@@CallMeMrStopmotion Considering you come to other peoples channels to nitpick, I don't *WANT* to see what you do on your channel. Barring that, this was the exhaust the car had when I got it, and I sold this car four years ago.

The nuts were rusted badly and I didn't want to risk breaking them off

Who?

Go lookup a picture of Julian from the trailer park boys and tell me that ain't you, all is missing is the drink 😂😂

@@wil3612 A bit yeah, but I've also been told I look like Jesus, John Wick, and a few others haha

Don't drink, don't like people who litter, had to clean that shit up at the house I grew up in. Road was above the roof line of the house on the hill, we frequently found cans and bottles on our roof.

@DeadReckon it's a joke dude, stereotypical of that kinda car.

I would if the car had a valid inspection and didn't need tires, if I could nurse it along for a while and it was already registered, sure, but I ain't even got this thing in my name yet.

It was a 1996, sold it years ago, the car had electrical gremlins.

Had to jack the car way up and go in from below, can barely get up in there too it. Stupid design.

Yep haha