Short Bed Dually Build

[cnicholls]

I posted this project this spring when I was building it, however, I thought I would share this video. The entire suspension, brakes and axles were swapped from two different one ton vehicles.

My Home Built Dually

Its my daily driver, and not meant to be a show truck. Yes it was painted outside, I realize that's not the right way to do it...

Total cost to do the upgrade was $2,300 including the 5.7 Cummins Turbo Donor Vehicle.


I do realize I could have just bought one. I did this because I ENJOYED IT

 

[WhiteExpress]

Neat! How do you change tail light bulbs?

 

[Ram_bo06]

very nice. looks like a lot of work you done there.

 

[rambob]

pretty sic looking.

 

[quietpeen]

nice work

 

[MPC_Lift]

wow lots of work there. only thing you should have done was get it professionally painted to give it the stock/custom clean look

 

[Badger]

I hate you j/k but I am jealous.

 

[Stangshcky12]

Really cool! Once I'm done with school I wanna build a reg cab short bed dually 3rd gen. I love the way mega cab dually flares look and now that I've seen a long bed with them I was let down. I think it would make a pretty cool drag truck

 

[cnicholls]

Thanks for the comments... I painted it myself,

1 I wanted to learn
2, It gets used, I didn't want a princess truck, I wanted a tough truck to pull my bobcat. It's going to get abused, and I don't care about what anyone else thinks
3. Im quite happy how it turned out.

As far as mpg it actually went up with the lower gear ratio combined with 19.5 semi tires that ride at 110 psi. Way better than my mud tires I had .

 

[Mopar1973Man]

Very clean looking truck and and done very well on the mod... (2 Thumbs up)

 

[Mad Cow]

Wow alot of work. Truck looks good.

 

[02hairlessram]

You had me a bit worries when I was looking at the video at the beginning,but you pulled it off. Very nicely done. Good job.

David

 

[The Assassin]

Nice!

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[bigbadram1500]

Nice. That's pretty awesome. Definitely something to be proud of.

 

[wermbang]

Looks great

 

[LB3711]

thats cool