Dodge truck slant six id

[Hardchina]

Blokes, anyone know what year this truck is? also any info on the engine?
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[LandyAndy]

Trucks were AT4,AT5, D4n D5n???
Brian Helm is the man who seems to know a fair bit about Chryslers/Dodges.
The slant six was also used in the valiant cars of that age,AP5 AP6.Quite a strong motor,Valiants werent called "flying coffins" for no reason
Andrew

[101RRS]

I would say it is late 60s and the engine is the same engine fitted to Valiants of the time - the 145hp variant (if the engine was blue it would be 160hp).

The body is similar as small Inters of the time - not sure what the joint design manufacturing arrangement was.

Later some of these Dodges had the 318 Fireball V8 out of the Valiants in them as well.

Garry

[bblaze]

AT4, had one for a work truck back in 1980 for about 8 months and then upgrade to a s11 wagon
cheers
blaze

[Bigbjorn]

Good strong long lived engine. Rarely needed overhaul under 300,000 MILES, not kilos. Came in 170, 225, 245 cubic inches. Only 225's sold here and a few 245's in trucks. The true truck engine had five core plugs down the side of the block against three on the car engines. Available in the US with an aluminium block and iron head. Mopar Performance had lots of go-faster bits for them, including aluminium heads. Only inbuilt problem I know of was exhaust manifold leaking and cracking. Many of these were human caused by not following the correct procedure when replacing the manifolds.

I managed a fleet of 70 reps cars. VC sedans, slant six with Torqueflite autos. The most nearly maintenance free motor cars I ever had to run. Fitted big bore exhaust systems as a matter of course when the original rotted out, and ran a two steps lean main jet. Reps loved them and didn't knock them about as Vals were upmarket from Holdens and then very down market Falcons. The drum brakes, upper control arm bushes, and idler arms were the most frequent repairs/replacements.

[mopar]

I would say it is late 60s and the engine is the same engine fitted to Valiants of the time - the 145hp variant (if the engine was blue it would be 160hp).

The body is similar as small Inters of the time - not sure what the joint design manufacturing arrangement was.

Later some of these Dodges had the 318 Fireball V8 out of the Valiants in them as well.

Garry

the engines are different to the car variants, im not cmpletely sure about the 225 slants but im pretty sure they were lower compression, i know the 245 hemi's were low comprssion and the 318 in trucks was the 318-3 not the fireball, the -3 had steel crank, low compression and forged pistons, the manifold and heads are also different, and not interchangeable (manifold and heads must both be changed).
im pretty sure the above truck is an at4

[Redback]

Wasn't there an International variant of these trucks

Baz.

[FISHGUTS]

Many moons ago I had a mint condition 1963 AP6 with a 225 Slant Six, column shift auto with custom twin exhausts coupled up to extractors. Ripped off the standard carby and inlet manifold and plonked a 650cfm 4 barrel Rochester (jetted accordingly) on it with after market off the shelf inlet manifold. Only issue I had was it constantly bent the flimsy Push Rods but a Saturday morning in the carport strip down straighten and rebuild kept her ticking along nicely. Kinda went though, with a right boot full...

Cheers,

Peter.

[UncleHo]

G'day Hardchina

Dodge AT4 series,1962/3 up to 1970 small wheels, but dual rear, the smallest 3/4-1 ton was the AT4-114 next up was AT4-225 then AT4-345 2 1/2 ton,the bigger trucks (V8's)were 475/575/675, this looks like a 345 with the duals,so it would probably be an AT4-345 with the 345 motor this truck shared the same cab with the International AA and AB series, and as said by Brian Hjelm a very long lived motor the trucks were favoured by newpaper coys/ and publishers like Gordon & Gotch as delivery trucks, the Brisbane Courier Mail had a large fleet, and the counrty trucks would really fly 60-80 MPH loaded, they wouldn't stop to drop off papers to suburban or country newsagents, they would be hurled out the passenger side window,so every 5-10 drops the wads of papers would be transfered from rear to cab the Brisbane to Toowoomba run could be done in under 2 hours from the Courier Building to T/ba GPO, I used to drive one in 64 Stopping with loaded/overloaded truck was not even contemplated you just steered around it the police never did book a driver unless it was an accident and the truck was at fault bigtime.


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