1969 Dodge W-200 Power Wagon Air Force Truck Crew Cab! Slant Six 225 NP-435 4x4

For those of you who don't want to read a book. here is the short story:An old Air Force Power WagonNew EngineNew PaintNew BrakesRuns and drives. Needs a few items to completed to be a daily driver. For those who want the whole story. keep reading. 1969 Dodge W-200 Power WagonAll the cool guys these days are cruising around in a 4x4 Crew Cab truck. Here is your chance to be a cool guy!This Air Force Crew Cab Dodge turns heads anywhere you take it. If you want a truck that will grab attention just about anywhere. this is the truck for you! Take it to the offroad park. take it to the military truck show. put it in parade. hell. just go to Home Depot. Anywhere you go. this truck will have heads snapping and people pointing. I have a million photos of everything I did uploaded to photobucket. but eBay won't let me link to it. Email me at valiantautomotive@gmail dot com and I will send you a link so you can have a look for yourself. I bought this truck a couple of years back from a gentleman who had driven it as his only source of transportation from the early 1990s until the mid 2000s. At some point. on the way home from work one day. the engine gave up the ghost. He parked it in his side yard. and there it sat. When it was finally time for it to find a new home. I dragged it to my shop and promptly pulled the engine and transmission. Here is what I did:Replaced the engine with a real 1969 PT225T. The T stands for Truck. The truck slant sixes were slightly different than those for cars. The main differences being shot-peened rods. sodium filled valves and a slightly different grind on the cam. All this made a tough engine even tougher. While I was doing all this engine work I:Converted the 225 to a 60s Carter 2bbl carbInstalled a 225 Super Six CamNew Timing ChainNew Standard Rod BearingsNew Standard Main BearingsPolished CrankNew Valve Stem SealsNew Manifold StudsNew Gates Water PumpNew Points and CondenserNew Plugs New Distributor CapTo keep things clean inside the engine I also had the machine shop vat the oil pan. valve cover and rocker arms and shaft. Any 225 will benefit from a rocker shaft and rocker cleaning as the passages for oiling in the stamped rocker arms get plugged up with goo over time. New heater hosesNew radiator hosesNew fuel line from pump to carbNew fuel filterNew fan beltI made some pretty nice and reasonably correct battery cables for the truck. I think you will be happy with them. they turned out nice. I also had the flywheel surfaced and installed a newer clutch disc and pressure plate I had left over from a previous project. I put new lube in the NP-435 Transmission and cleaned and painted the case. I have done nothing to the transfer case but it seems to work just fine. The transfer case is a NP-205 with a single lever. 1969 was the first year for the single lever shift. Now that the truck would run again. it needed to stop. This was quite an endeavor. Here is what I did:100% new coated steel brake lines with factory made double flares. All new brake hosesAll new (not rebuilt) wheel cylindersAll new brake shoesCleaned brake backing plates and paintedCleaned brake hold down hardwareCleaned bearingsCleaned HubsNew Master CylinderRemoved and Cleaned brake distribution blockI did nothing to the brake booster. but it seems to work. After all the brakes were rebuilt. it was time to bleed them. This is when it quickly became obvious that the brake and clutch pedal assembly had seized into one solid mass. So. in addition to everything else. the whole brake and clutch pedal assembly was been removed. cleaned. greased and reassembled. Now it works fine and the brakes could be bled with DOT 3 fluid. Once the truck could go and it could stop. it was time to tackle the body. which needed some serious help. Here is what I did:The worst rust from a structural standpoint was the front cab mounts. For this project. I decided to make some 3/16" steel plates that fit up inside the remaining cab mount bracket and use some new poly bushings. with fresh washers and bolts. This made the cab line back up with front fenders and hood. The hood was too rusted out at the front to make it worth saving so I located another hood with less rust and used it. The following parts were media-blasted to bare metal. primed with Southern Polyurethanes Epoxy Primer and Painted with Gillespie Strata Blue (mixed with a catalyzing hardener). Front Bumper and Grille GuardGrilleHoodWheelsEntire Truck BedRear FendersMetal Bed Strips that retain the wood planksMirror mounting brackets and armsTail Light mounting bracketsTag Mount bracketAnything not on the above list was sanded with a D/A sander. primed with Southern Polyurethanes Epoxy Primer and Painted with Gillespie Strata Blue (mixed with a catalyzing hardener). The frame behind the cab was cleaned with a wire brush and painted with a black paint made for iron fences. The paint is great for frames because it does not require a primer and it has no gloss but a very high UV resistance. The boards in the bed were included with the truck from the previous owner who had purchased them but never installed them. They are 2"x 6" Pressure Treated lumber which I carefully routed on the front and back of each board so that it would fit properly in the factory mounting slots welded in the bed. All this work had the truck mostly together for my purposes. The last few items I did are as follows:Located a pair of vintage NOS tail lights - USA made by PetersonRebuilt the backup light housings and installed NOS lensesRebuilt the headlight mounting buckets and installed NEW Wagner headlightsNew bicycle inner-tube on the tail gate chainsInstalled the correct side marker reflectors on the front fenders and rear bed sidesInstalled pristine Dodge 200 emblems from a California truck - excellent chromeLastly. I painstakingly recreated the door markings with as much historical accuracy as I could. It was a long process and I used AutoCad to draw up the best stencil I could. The result is the door markings you see here with the correct font. the correct spacing and the Air Force correct door numbers the truck wore while in the service. Now for the things you still need to fix:Two brake drums have cracks - one front and one rear. I have two replacements that will go with the truck and must be installed before the truck is driven on a regular basis or in traffic. etc. I have only driven this truck on and off a trailer. in the woods or on some country roads near my house. The mirror mounts need to be painted and installed. I have a correct looking NOS set of Grote mirrors that will go with the truck. I don't have the correct phillips-head screws that hold the mounts to the truck. The truck has a 70 grille which is not the same as the 69 grille. It bolts right on. but does not have provisions for turn signals. I bought some little LED lights to use for blinkers. or you can source the correct 69 grille. The water pump is not properly sealed. it leaks. It needs to be removed. have new gaskets and some RTV and careful reinstallation. The bed and rear fenders have some solvent popping in the paint. The rockers have rust. but less than most of these trucks. The step wells are pretty good. The dash pad is a nightmare. I have a nice one that is available for sale if the buyer wants it. I have the correct POWER WAGON emblems. they need a little work which is why they aren't installed. The brake light switch needs adjusting. The carb could use a rebuild. but its functional as is. The truck needs the in-cab gas tank connected. or a conversion to a Dodge Ram Charger gas tank. You pick. I have been driving it off of a Jerry Can. The rear bumper needs to be installed. The windshield gasket and the back window gasket are at the end of their life. They need replacing. They needed replacing 15 years ago. I am certain that you can find at least 1000 other things you want to change. but such is the nature of an old truck. So the logical question is: "If this truck is so wonderful. why are you selling it?" That is a good question. but easily answered. Since I built this truck I have acquired several other military trucks such as a Deuce and a Half (M35-A2) with a LDT-465 Multifuel and a Dodge M-37 Powerwagon. I also already own several old dodge trucks including other Sweptline and Power Giant Era vehicles. There simply isn't enough space to keep everything that I think is cool. I am out of space in my garage and out of time to work on this one. I am selling several other project cars in various stages of completion. Look for my other auctions. This truck only comes with a bill of sale as Georgia does not title vehicles older than 1986. The truck is sold as-is. where-is with no warranty of any kind expressed or implied. I reserve the right to end the auction early as the truck is listed for sale elsewhere. If you win the truck but lack the ability to get it to your home. I have a dually and a trailer. I will deliver for $2. 25/loaded mile within a 400 mile radius of Athens. GA. Maybe farther if you live somewhere cool that I want to visit anyway. I will not load the truck or leave the driveway without a $1. 00. 00 non-refundable deposit either in my bank account or my PayPal account. I will also work with the shipper of your choosing to get the truck loaded safely and headed your way. The winning bidder shall show good faith with a $500. 00 deposit within 24 hours of winning the auction. Full payment is due within 7 days. I am not a bank. If you don't have the funds. don't bid. Simple. On Jan-11-15 at 20:31:10 PST. seller added the following information:On Jan-14-15 at 19:31:24 PST. seller added the following information:I just wanted to take a minute and thank everyone that has taken time to email me to compliment the truck.  The positive feedback has been great to hear from so many different people.  I have also had several people asking the same questions so I wanted to add the answers to the listing. 1.  Q:  Is the engine completely rebuilt?      A:  No.  The items stated in the listing are the only things that were done to the engine.  The engine did not get a complete rebuild.  That means that the head was not removed and the pistons stayed in the cylinders.  The cam bearings were not replaced.  All external parts of the engine (and also the bellhousing and clutch linkage) were bead blasted to bare metal and primed and painted. 2.  Q:  Do the rockers need work?  What about the doors?      A:  The rockers do need work.  As stated. I did not make any attempt to fix any of the rust in the rockers.  All these trucks rust out there and this truck is no exception.  For my purposes it didn't matter.  The doors have some of the usual rust in the bottom corners that I was planning to address at some point in time when I fixed the quarters.  This truck is not perfect. don't expect it to be. 3.  Q:  It looks like there are some dents various places in the photos.  Are there dents?      A:  Yes.  There are dents.  The dents are mostly small and insignificant but there are dents in every panel.  Once again. it is a Power Wagon. if it is too perfect then you can't use it. 4.  Q:  What did you do to the floors?      A:  Nothing.  It appears that at some point in time. someone patched them and their work was pretty decent.  The PO told me he painted them with POR-15. 5.  Q:  How are the seats?      A:  It looks like they were recovered by the Air Force a long time ago.  The driver sits more on springs and less on vinyl.  Standard issue for an old Dodge Truck.  I was thinking of putting late model Dodge Ram seats in the truck.  Much cheaper than recovering and restoring and far more comfortable than the stock seats. Once again. thanks to everyone for all their kind words.  I have been amazed by the number of people who have taken time to tell me how much they like the truck.