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I don't have a Ram but I have a 1976 Power Wagon Adventure Sport, that has a mildly built 440. The truck originally had a 400 but somewhere along the line someone put in a 1968 Plymouth 440.
The story behind the truck is my dad bought it in the early 80's, he bought it for around 3,000 dollars off of a car lot as a repo. He did not know much about it and so he took it to a Dodge dealer everyone said it had a 383 or 400. The Foreman of that shop came out and pointed out the identification plate on it and it said 440. My dad got excited because that is what he wanted to do to it after reading about the **** Landy Power Wagon. He started to do a little research and found out the engine is a 1969 440 Super Commando out of a Roadrunner. The engine was pretty tired and had a 600cfm Carter on it, he rebuilt the engine and did everything he could to the engine at the time, an engine shop estimated it around 480 to 500 plus HP.
He did a custom dark grey metallic paint job with silver and grey stripes, 8 inch lift with 1 ton springs. He had 37s on it but those kept burning out the front wheel bearings so he went to 35 inch tires.
He stopped driving it because the 6mpg was getting expensive and time caught up to. I got tired of seeing it sit and started to work on it and repair some of the rusted out spots as well as update it to modern technology. I took the old bench seat out and put in bucket seats from a 1997 Chrysler Concord. It had a 3 core brass radiator but in stop and go traffic it would over heat. I was in a junk yard looking for parts and just happened to come across a brand new aftermarket radiator in a 98 V10 Ram. I pulled that and after some creativity I mounted the radiator.. Next challenge was to hook up the coolant lines, I work in a machine shop that does a lot with stainless steel so I grabbed some stainless tubing went to the local auto parts store found some radiator hose and made my own radiator hose. Took off the old flexy fan and inplace are electronic fans from a 1997 Chrysler.
After working on it I am slowly getting my dad inspired to work on it again. He replaced the 780 Holley with a 880 Thermoquad. I thought to go one step further and make it more driveable and replace the carb with the Fi-tech system, I have done hours of research and came to the conclusion I am going to go with one.
I was looking at buying the fuel command center but started to wonder does the 76 Power Wagon have a return fuel line? if so I was going to do the High Pressure pump instead. I was looking at it and it looks like there is 2 fuel lines one is a main fuel line but I can't figure out what the second one does. It looks like it could be a vent line but it also looks like it could be a return line. The line just follows the main line then stops with nothing hooked up to it. I can't any information or diagrams of it.
I don't have a Ram but I have a 1976 Power Wagon Adventure Sport, that has a mildly built 440. The truck originally had a 400 but somewhere along the line someone put in a 1968 Plymouth 440.
The story behind the truck is my dad bought it in the early 80's, he bought it for around 3,000 dollars off of a car lot as a repo. He did not know much about it and so he took it to a Dodge dealer everyone said it had a 383 or 400. The Foreman of that shop came out and pointed out the identification plate on it and it said 440. My dad got excited because that is what he wanted to do to it after reading about the **** Landy Power Wagon. He started to do a little research and found out the engine is a 1969 440 Super Commando out of a Roadrunner. The engine was pretty tired and had a 600cfm Carter on it, he rebuilt the engine and did everything he could to the engine at the time, an engine shop estimated it around 480 to 500 plus HP.
He did a custom dark grey metallic paint job with silver and grey stripes, 8 inch lift with 1 ton springs. He had 37s on it but those kept burning out the front wheel bearings so he went to 35 inch tires.
He stopped driving it because the 6mpg was getting expensive and time caught up to. I got tired of seeing it sit and started to work on it and repair some of the rusted out spots as well as update it to modern technology. I took the old bench seat out and put in bucket seats from a 1997 Chrysler Concord. It had a 3 core brass radiator but in stop and go traffic it would over heat. I was in a junk yard looking for parts and just happened to come across a brand new aftermarket radiator in a 98 V10 Ram. I pulled that and after some creativity I mounted the radiator.. Next challenge was to hook up the coolant lines, I work in a machine shop that does a lot with stainless steel so I grabbed some stainless tubing went to the local auto parts store found some radiator hose and made my own radiator hose. Took off the old flexy fan and inplace are electronic fans from a 1997 Chrysler.
After working on it I am slowly getting my dad inspired to work on it again. He replaced the 780 Holley with a 880 Thermoquad. I thought to go one step further and make it more driveable and replace the carb with the Fi-tech system, I have done hours of research and came to the conclusion I am going to go with one.
I was looking at buying the fuel command center but started to wonder does the 76 Power Wagon have a return fuel line? if so I was going to do the High Pressure pump instead. I was looking at it and it looks like there is 2 fuel lines one is a main fuel line but I can't figure out what the second one does. It looks like it could be a vent line but it also looks like it could be a return line. The line just follows the main line then stops with nothing hooked up to it. I can't any information or diagrams of it.
