I found a dodge ext cab short bed with ctd intercooled 2wd has a 92-93 grill in it supposedly runs and drives fine and the truck is pretty straight looking but will definitely need paint,bumpers,tailgate and the interior is pretty rough doors sag,seats are crap,etc

Question: Is it worth anything extra being a short bed? and is there anything I need to look out for to make sure it was swapped out the right way or wrong way

 

Clubcab short box trucks never came with a cummins, so if it's not rusty, and it's just cosmetics, and If you can get it for a good price then for sure I'd pick it up. Has the swap been done right...well that is a subjective question. Depends on how "correct" you expect things to be.

It's a pretty easy swap to just drop a 12V and tranny into a truck....it's the other systems and components that need the upgrading. Did they upgrade the suspension, front and rear, to 8 bolt? How much of the donor truck was used...wiring etc?

 

Listen to thrashing cows!!! I bought a pieced together truck, Not knowing what I was buying. Basically everything from engine down had to be re-built,re-done and remounted....

 

When I first bought my crewcab it had the 89 cummins and a NV4500 installed....great I thought, the hard work is done. I spent the next 6 months fixing the slapped together work so that I at least felt safe driving it.

 

that's what I just went through! but well worth it!

 

I crawled under the truck today and it looks like it was a single cab long bed and they put on an older model ext cab and short bed it does not look like the axle was moved and the frame had been trimmed off a little on the back not all the cab mounts were lined up I drove it down the hwy a mile or so and the trans shifts kinda spongy and some slack in the steering but other wise seemed fine
but then he pulled out the title and the place he got it from wrote salvage for parts only in big letters across the title and he has never paid to get the title in his name BUT the good news is he only wants 1300 for it and said we can meet at the tag office and he will pay to get the title straight and then I can pay him I guess for that kind of money I can just use the parts on my other 2 trucks and sell the rest or just take it with the title as is and maybe get it even cheaper

 

id buy it now!! Where I live, extracab 4x4 1st gen cummins in ok-ish shape is going for 8-11K.... cause im still on the look out. you cant buy the motor for 1300!

 

It's not worth alot and if you look hard enough you can find complete motor's for 12 to 1500

 

Here 2500 would be cheap for a running engine. This week a friend picked up a 94 with a roached body for 3200 and was very happy.

 

They're getting a bit harder to find. 'bout a year ago i spotted a D350 in the country advertized as a farm beater parts truck for $2500. I paid $1500 cash for it, put a 3' piece of 4" RV sealer tape on the roof in front of the clearance lights to keep the rain out, and have been hauling dirt and firewood with it since. It actually runs slightly better than the one I have close to ten grand invested in, just ain't as pretty.

 

 

It all goes off where you look .I watch Craig's List pretty close and have found a lot of good Deal's .

 

I noticed it depends on your location too.

 

That is what I have been looking for for 3 years now............ Trust me, I was willing to pay 2K for one with a blown engine or rotted in 2....... Never found one for under 3K.

I gave up looking. Texas probably has a lot more of them, but I still don't see how you can go wrong.