1978 Dodge Powerwagon

[PlateauNDN]

 

[Bullkllr]

Oh baby...that there's a real truck!

[Boss .300 winmag]

Nice truck, I wouldn’t change anything with the running gear. Worth more stick isn’t it?

[wadu1]

Nice truck, I wish I had my 78 it was my first new 4X4 318 4 speed, name power wagon was on the hood and 2500 was on the front fenders.

[ridgefire]

I am torn on keeping this truck and selling the crewcab powerstroke or vice versa. Any ideas on what this thing is worth? It has the 360 in it with headers and a Edelbrock carb. The truck is in fairly decent shape and runs good. I just wish it had a overdrive in it and was not full time four wheel drive.

[Dan-o]

I am torn on keeping this truck and selling the crewcab powerstroke or vice versa. Any ideas on what this thing is worth? It has the 360 in it with headers and a Edelbrock carb. The truck is in fairly decent shape and runs good. I just wish it had a overdrive in it and was not full time four wheel drive.

Dump it while you still can.

I will give you $250, because I am a softy.

(I think you will regret getting rid of it if you do.   I bet it's worth more to you than the cash.)

[Mudman]

Keep the Ford.  No question.  $2500-4000 would be my guess of value.?

[woodswalker]

I am torn on keeping this truck and selling the crewcab powerstroke or vice versa. Any ideas on what this thing is worth? It has the 360 in it with headers and a Edelbrock carb. The truck is in fairly decent shape and runs good. I just wish it had a overdrive in it and was not full time four wheel drive.

Keep the Dodge, keep the Powerstroke.  Drive the Dodge for the heavy lifting, the Powerstroke for everyday.

[Dhoey07]

I am torn on keeping this truck and selling the crewcab powerstroke or vice versa. Any ideas on what this thing is worth? It has the 360 in it with headers and a Edelbrock carb. The truck is in fairly decent shape and runs good. I just wish it had a overdrive in it and was not full time four wheel drive.

https://classiccars.com/listings/find/1978-1980/dodge/power-wagon

[Sandberm]

Truck looks sweet!

THANK YOU FOR NOT PUTTING BLACK WHEELS ON IT.

[Boss .300 winmag]

I think with the right guy you could possibly get $4500-$6000.

[James]

A few company sell part time kits for dodges, off the top if my head mile marker does but I am sure there are others.  NP203 T case in it right?

You could look at a gear vender over drive unit, ranger overdrive unit, aux trans off a med duty truck, a clark 5 speed, or maybe a late model transmission.

[DRobnsn]

Here's the mile marker kit. You'd only want the transfer case kit though. Apparently the hub conversion doesn't work on 8lug Dodge dana 44s in those years. http://www.offroadexchange.com/milemarker.htm

To convert the front to hubs you'd need to swipe most if not all of the outers from a dana 44 that already has hubs. You'd want to do some research to make sure you get the correct parts but there are lots of Dana 44s out there.

The other option for the trans t case delema is to put in a newer OD auto trans with a part time t case attached to it. Like the 518A/618A auto trans. Then you'd need to deal with the driveshafts lengths, Trans and T case shifter differences and probably a few other things. That would help your high RPM highway issue though.

[Mudman]

Well sounds like ya should swap ring n pinion gears to lower ratios.  Speed issue solved.  Leave as full time. Never gonna get good gas mileage anyway.

[ridgefire]

Thanks for the replies. How do I get away from the front bearings on this particular axle? Already did a bearing and don't want to do that again. Sounds like it's a problem area with that year's dana 44.