i like that you put all the footage together in one video, there is a reason most channels eventually move on from a bunch of 5 minute videos to doing feature lenght episodes, great to see you skipped that and are straight into the big league 👍
That was a great video Dave,your a hard working person with no delusions of grandeur just a champion in my eyes love your channel it should be growing cheers mate from Australia
13:09 as i know you should have a bushing each side of the perch, the sway bar link work up and down. You certainly have a squished lower bushing,or it's missing,that's why it's out of thread. The axle oil seems to be mixed with water,it will damage bearings and gears. Those dodge are nice,i would have one for sure if i lived in your country.
@15:37 instead of painting them spray them and your whole underbody with fluid film or a wax based protectant, when u paint stuff in the rust belt it actually makes it worse and in no time that painted surface will just flake off with rust
Love this. Identical (except the manual) to the truck my dad said he had before he sold it to pay for the hospital bills when my sister born. He might have actually had it still today!
0:45 lol I like how you just casually mention a frame replacement as though that's a normal everyday repair job and not the single most difficult thing you could to do a truck. Those must be worth a lot of money up there. Love the Ford wheels.
2/12/24..so (almost) Happy Mardi Gras Dave on this Monday b4 our annual crazyness🎉, glad to see you retro front end disc brakes, steering box & other fundamentals for driving in your cold climate. You do a lot of hard work & make it look easy. You, Andrew & Jesse Muller, you guys make complicated equipment interworkings look do-able thus encourage we viewers to go ahead & 'tackle' our various issues...mechanical or otherwise...It's great to see you (& above mentioned) make things work right! Humm...have you ever thought about politics?..hey, you can bring a few 🛠 hammers with you for those 'meetings', aye?💪⚙️🍺🍜😊
Being a new viewer, I think you could use an over head crane the length of your garage and or a lift for getting under the vehicles. Anyway great video.
One of my first times really working on a vehicle was changing a wheel bearing and ball joints with a buddy on his 05 ram 2500. It was not easy haha. Learned a lot from working on the truck (it always needed something ).
@28:34 Dave please tell me you have another jack stand that I can’t see and not relying on that floor jack to support that side! I’ve seen those jacks fail and I don’t want you getting crushed we’re no one can help you! Please use jack stands or some kind of sturdy cribbing to support vehicle you get under, your a good man don’t want to see you injured my guy
I was gonna say, andrew would be drooling to get a hold of the truck(too replace his), if nothing else give him a chance, if/when u decide to send it down the road ?! Plus cody and blue would LOVE❤ to ride in confort !!😂
Yeah so he can keep destroying these hard to find trucks now makes alot sense... sell to someone responsible not him I wouldn't even if I was hurting for money truck made it 23 years and he'll kill it within a year
Probably should of done the wheel bearings you went through all that and put the used ones back in i wouldnt ever especially anyways dodges front wheel bearings dont last at one bit lol but to each is own if you like doing the same thing often
@@Dumpster_Dave autozone sells cheap ones for like 180 and can also get bearings for them from oriellys and install new ones in the hub or they sell entire hub for 200 a side not sure if you tried them but napa tends to cost a little more and I think personally oriellys parts are comparable and sometimes can get things for like f550s that day where napa cant
Was it just me or was that awful looking gear oil? It was gear oil wasn't it? Ha Ha. I don't think I would own a dodge but this vintage is still pretty cool. The old 12Valve! I've always liked that sound.
This truck is about 95% rust free now with the hard work all done re fixing brakes and steering. Why not go the other 5% and cover the remaining rust covered bolts and parts with some kind of rust proofing ? Then spray ALL of the undercarriage with RustChek or something else that will protect it!
What moron designed the brake rotors the way that you have to smack out and press in the studs everytime?? Rotors are a wear part just like the pads and could easily be made to slip over the studs from the outside... Always a joy to watch you getting things done, thx a lot! 👍👍👍
What a real shame is in these trucks they are solid all around except the cheap plastic dash boards. I think the pre 98' models were better, but so many with cracked trash dash boards and really no way to fix them right. Junk Yards have already been gone through and they do not make them new any longer. I think there are some after market dash covers, built when the heater cores fail the dash boards break like crazy changing out a heater core or evaporator core. I wanted to buy another 1997 like the Ram I had and all of them I checked out had destroyed dash boards so I went with GM.
@@Dumpster_Dave hope you are able to fix it you might get lucky and find a dash if not maybe there is an after market salution available. It is a real sore spot for those wanting to restore these old Rams.
My wife was watching this video with me. I said it needs axle joints, ball joints, and wheel bearings. She asked “How can you tell that from here?” I said it’s a Dodge, they always need them- end of story.
@@Dumpster_Dave dave, we'r just teasing u ! Andrew likes those kinda dodges.... and u have one ! Plus we know yall are friends.. nice truck, u still have the newer one too right ?
96 Dodges need new frames and cabs, meanwhile I'm on the original everything in my 96 Toyota, needs nothing. Chrysler / dodge are just terrible products.
