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I second that! Do get the Factory Service Manual. I recently got a reprint from Faxon Literature on EBay, and I’ve learned more about my truck in a few weeks looking through that thing than I knew in all the years I’ve owned it. Good advice from PwrWgnDrvr.

Well EBay didn’t have a listing for our trucks, but they had three for 1972 and up. They want over $220 for them!! And they look like NOS, so they didn’t even have to go salvage them!

Hmm, I’ll have to look for one.

In another thread there’s a factory specified modification that allows you to keep your ammeter and eliminate the troublesome bulkhead connectors in the alternator circuit which are prone to overheating. Most ammeter problems are caused by either loose connections or corroded connections there. I al...

Snowdog, I know I’m ‘way late to this party, but your connectors are called Packard type 56, males and females, from 12ga wire up to 18 ga. Or should I say down to 18 ga. 12ga is bigger. I got mine at Delcity.net, along with a crimper which was less than $15. The terminals are removable from the con...

Thanks so much for that explanation. I would never have figured it out on my own, I’m sure. I’m in the process of trying to adapt a 1983 Ram tilt steering column into my 1970 D100. The mechanical part I can figure out what changes need doing, but the turn signal switches are not the same, as the ‘83...

In my FSM I’ve stared at that turn signal switch diagram for hours trying to figure out how it’s meant to operate. I’ve dabbled in electronics since I was fifteen and was an electrician before I retired, and I’ve never seen a switch drawn like that and can’t figure out how it works. Seems like every...

What’s with the front markers/turn signal lenses here? A bigger picture is on the Body/Trim/Paint forum, second page, fifth topic down. There are other pics in that brochure that show the same thing with the front lenses.

This would be the one?

And I thought I had visited every single post on this forum that mentioned hood-mounted indicators. And I had seen the other pics on those pages, don’t know how I missed that big pic of the indicator. Thanks so much!

Does anyone have a close-up picture of the hood mounted turn signal indicators that were found on some Adventurer Package Sweptlines? I’d kind of like to put them on my truck, but there are several different ones out there and I don’t know which ones come on the Dodge trucks. I’d appreciate any pics...

I just looked these up on eBay and they are now LEDs. About $21 as of November 2023.

Re: Parts request I will email you the tracking numbers as soon as everything is ready to ship. I do keep up with the list of people waiting on parts. About half of them never reply once I have parts available for them though. So thanks for answering my email. Kenny Exline Exline Custom Auto, llc 71...

I found this hubcap and one other in pictures online, and I was wondering if maybe the center part and the disc were separate pieces, with the center part being mounted to the wheel and extending up through the center of the disc which friction fits to the wheel as usual. I didn't find any JUST cent...

Sorry, should have posted this with the above post

I found the same as the above poster. 80-81 Mirada, 80-85 van. Looks like it’s the centerpiece of a full hubcap.

Speedcooling.com is another above-base-model radiator supplier that I looked at in my search. I liked their products, but can’t remember now why I went with the other company.

I bought a radiator from Classicindustries.com, they sell a brand called U.S. Radiators. I haven’t installed it yet, as I’m not that far along in my project, but I took it out of the box and checked it over. I had read a lot about aftermarket radiators being flimsy and twisty, and this one seemed ve...

Didn’t the earlier poly have a third bolt near the middle of the valve cover also? I had an earlier one in a 63. It had the usual 2 bolts on the valve cover. The big difference was a longer crank and block with the flywheel attached with thru bolts, the nut between the crank flange and block (behin...

I had that same problem once, and it ended up being a bad ignition ballast resistor. Put an ohmmeter across it and see if it’s open. If it is, that’s your problem. Mine did exactly that. It would run while cranking but as soon as you turned the key back to “on” it would die.