Moparmat2000
I'm Awesome
So i had a dilemma. Looking for a Mopar 42RH overdrive transmission from 1989-1995 that is hydraulically shifted with only 2 computer wire connections for O/D and Lockup so I can put it in my sons 69 cuda with toggle switches to control it. All the boneyards are telling me $200, you pull it, no guarantee it works. I got to thinking, and checking used truck ads online. Figured if I can get it cheap enough it might be worth it to just buy a whole truck, test drive it, pull the trans, and whetever else I can use. Then sell what I can off it, and scrap the rest. I scored a beat to **** 92 dakota for the princely sum of $400 with over 200k on it. Trans appeared rebuilt which is a bonus, it had a V8 mini starter I kept. Also the amount of SAE bolts, nuts, and fender clip nuts that were on this truck was a super bonus. I am really surprised by the lack of metric threaded hardware on it being that it's a 92 model. Sonny's 69 barracuda was half stripped out when we got it, and needed a lot of this hardware.
Anyways, to the meat and potatoes part of the story, I decided to make a utility/scrap metal trailer out of the back of it. I also wired a tow vehicle fed power panel wired to the running lights mounted behind the fuel door for a set of truck bed mounted LED flood lights on the truck bed and wired it to the trailers reverse lights for loading and unloading this thing is it's dark out. I still need to buy the flood lights, and do a quickie scuff and repaint job on it eventually. I kept the OEM truck wiring harness but de wired the RWAL and fuel pump wiring from it, added a flat 4 way end to it. Gutted the rear brakes off the backing plates, removed all the brake lines, and stuck the drums back on
Not sure if your state allows such things, but Texas does. This is the perfect thing to do with a parts truck once your done with it. I wanted an 88-98 chevy longbed to do this to originally to match my truck and have more load space, or a full size D150 longbed, but I needed the trans for sonny's car and the opportunity presented itself.
Anyways, to the meat and potatoes part of the story, I decided to make a utility/scrap metal trailer out of the back of it. I also wired a tow vehicle fed power panel wired to the running lights mounted behind the fuel door for a set of truck bed mounted LED flood lights on the truck bed and wired it to the trailers reverse lights for loading and unloading this thing is it's dark out. I still need to buy the flood lights, and do a quickie scuff and repaint job on it eventually. I kept the OEM truck wiring harness but de wired the RWAL and fuel pump wiring from it, added a flat 4 way end to it. Gutted the rear brakes off the backing plates, removed all the brake lines, and stuck the drums back on
Not sure if your state allows such things, but Texas does. This is the perfect thing to do with a parts truck once your done with it. I wanted an 88-98 chevy longbed to do this to originally to match my truck and have more load space, or a full size D150 longbed, but I needed the trans for sonny's car and the opportunity presented itself.
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