Stewie, try to make yourself feel batter all you want, we all know you wish you had 4x4

RamCountryBoy, everything in a 205 is reversable (my understanding at least) so i could strip the whole thing down, and put it together as a driver side drop. Unless I'm off my rocker. I think its at least possible with the old divorced 205's...

 

so....how did the destruction occur?

 

Yeah...Stewie keeps telling/forcing his to be a 2500....


WR -- I'm in agreement with you on the rubustness of the 205. Cast Iron case dude! However, you broke the 241 in street driving is that right? The 241 is only better than the 231 with 6 planetary gears over 3. Effectively same case. I hope you determine what the failure root was and not duplicate it with a 205 or other.

 

hey wombat wanna go 4x'in?! bring your ram out!

seriously though, when you going to come take a ride in ye ol rattle trap?

 

I think it was due to bad u-joints in the front end. My passenger side u-joint and the one where my driveline meets the pinion are in bad shape. About a month and a half ago i modded my CAD (axle disconnect) so that it is live 100% of the time. Lots of people do this and have not complications, but with my 70 mile per day freeway commute, and bad u-joints vibrating the driveline to death, my high mileage transfer case finally gave up.

That's my theory.

Either way, I will not be putting the truck back on the road until i have fixed the u-joints (which probably means gear swap/locking hub/ball joint time since I'm going in that deep anyway )

Unfortunately this stuff aint cheap, so I will be collecting parts over time to keep my bank account intact.

I will PM you my phone number after I post this

 

sounds like it you should fix your 72 and drive it. it only needs a transmission doesn't it?

 

It really just seems like someone is trying to keep up with me... You only got 3 more to go!! lmao

 

Today I went to my moms house and had a little talk with the truck. Told her if she had behaved herself she wouldn't have to watch me cheat on her with Grampa's little Mitsubishi Mirage.


The transmission is actually the least of my worries. The wiring harness is burnt to a crisp, which in combination with the obscene amount or rust on it caused me to park it and quit trying to keep it on the road. When I get a house and a garage I plan to fully restore the truck from the frame up. until then, It's not worth fixing. As of right now it has no gauge cluster, no fuel tank, no radiator, unbolted the axle on one side, rotted to hell core support, bed, rockers, doors, floor pans, ugly beat up fenders, tailgate held up with a strap, no exhaust at all (manifolds either), and the original 2 barrel intake and valve covers from my power wagon just sitting on the engine keeping the weather out. Seriously not worth it. When I get done with it I suspect the only original sheet metal will be the cab and hood. Maybe the little valance thing that you see between the grill and front bumper.

F that!!! You keep that kind of thing to yourself! The truck might hear you and think it's a good idea!

 

ahahahahaha! I'm going to encourage your truck to break and wish it was a diesel

 

Haha try 2 wheeling after 4 inches of rain... I will leave you in the mud!

haha... Try forcing it to be a 3500 and see if it don't balk...

I think a big supercharged V10 Magnum would put any of those Cummins 5.9L's to shame....