Ok i may or may not get flamed but here goes. My cousin has a 2000 Dodge dakota 4x4 extended cab slt pickup. it came stock with the 4.7v8 and auto trans. well about 5 years ago it started to smoke and carry on he replaced the timing chains and guides had the heads rebulilt and milled and still smoked bad if i remember correctly we did a compression check and it was low on a cyl or two. well he decided to just park it.
It has now been sitting at the edge of the woods at his house for 4 years or so with no pass side window in the door and missing the transfer case but everythign else is there. the truck was supposed to be repoed around the time he parked it also but the company (buy here pay here) place went out of buisness and never heard anything else out of it. I asked him about the truck the other day and i was told I can HAVE the truck if i haul it away.
So now im thinking wtf am i gona do with another vehicle lol. Im gona check into what i can do for an abandoned vehicle title but worse case ill part it out and make some money. now IF i can get a title should i try to fix the sick 4.7 and put a transfercase in it or yank all that crap out for a 5.3/4l60e combo? I had a 04 Dakota pretty much same exact truck before i got my yukon and i loved everything about the truck except the awful drivetrain. id take the 3in body lift out and bring it to stock height and just put a stock 5.3 and 4l60 in with matching transfercase nothing crazy but would involve some work. wondering if anyone has tried a swap like this or even think i should mess with the thing at all?
attached is a picture of what the truck looked like when it was parked. like said the pass side window has been gone for most of the time it sat also. the bushguard is also gone.
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