Do you have to haul a big trailer, or do you just like big pickups? No matter what the reason is, this 1992 Dodge Ram 350 4×4 Dually 5-Speed truck can get the job done. A Club Cab may be the only thing I could think of to make this one even better, but that’s stretching it, no pun intended. The seller has this brawny beauty listed here on eBay in Brenham, in the great state of Texas, and the current bid price is $14,250, but the reserve hasn’t been met.
If all was right with the world, I would have a gigantic warehouse waiting for another resident, as in this truck would be mine. It checks every box for me, and I don’t even need a Club Cab. Just give me this pickup right here, the way it is, and I’d be a very happy man. The seller says they’ve owned this truck for a decade, it has a gooseneck hitch, and it’s always been a southern truck.
The tailgate appears to have been repainted, possibly, and they say it works, but it “needs a part to open correctly.” Otherwise, this rig looks fantastic, I don’t see any glaring flaws inside or out. Inside the bed also looks as clean as a whistle, which nobody under 60 has ever said. Dodge rated the 1-ton 350 4×4 with a maximum trailer weight of 11,200 pounds, yowsa.
As posh as a truck should ever be, this Ram 350 has the proper red velour inside and has power windows and power locks. That’s downright decadent for a truck this hard-working, but if it were a 2025 version, it would probably have a latte foamer and who knows what else. The 5-speed manual should be a Getrag G360, which is actually a 4-speed with an overdrive, having a super low first gear, designated as L, followed by 1,2,3, and O for overdrive and R for, of course, reverse. Here’s a photo of a shift knob on another Dodge diesel truck, as this one is missing the original shift knob and the seller says the one on there needs to be rethreaded.
The 5.9-liter Cummins inline-six Intercooled Turbo Diesel would have had 160 horsepower and 400 lb-ft of torque when new, rolling through the two-speed transfer case and manual transmission to all four wheels as needed. The seller says it runs and drives great and has a new battery and fuel pump. What would you use this big Dodge truck for?
You can’t beat a Crummins…. Oops… I mean Cummins lol. But seriously, you can’t. I always loved the sound of these, especially with a stick. Even my wife who isn’t really much of a car or truck person always said that these sounded more like a “real truck” than anything else. And she’s right. This Dodge is just beautifully kept. Inside and out. This was somebodys pride and joy for a long time. Nice truck Scotty. I don’t know what the reserve is, but if bought right, you’re getting a good deal.
Sometimes these WERE a CRUMMINS but the vast majority of them were nearly indestructible. Of course the larger engines earned the handle “COLUMBUS VIBRATOR” from the trucking fraternity. The ones like this were limited on what you could actually do because the VE pump was only safely reliable to 180 hp. Try to turn them up beyond that and you ran into mushy governor response and the internals of the pump self-destructing. The rollers and camplate just couldn’t take the additional peak injection pressure and in no time at all your pump internals were metallic mush. I heard of guys getting pumps set for 235 hp and I told them that it was good for a very short time. I might add that I had a guy on this page who claimed he was getting 400 hp on his. Arguing with him was pointless.
You need to look up The Hungry Diesel. He has pushed VE’s well past 400hp, dyno proven. I have one of his pumps on my truck and she rips.
I’m not going to argue with you, James. Whatever this guy’s doing is definitely off the beaten path. I’ve heard of guys using 13mm plungers but they still experience cam plate failures, plus shearing off the the hydraulic head retaining screws. I’ve also seen a lot of 235 hp VE pumps and the most I’ve seen them go is 15K miles before the insides fail.
I sent Hungry Diesel another letter (I heard of him and have tried to contact him before but he never got back to me) and hope that he will clue me into the mods that have been done.
Fifty years in the trade and I’ve gone through thousands of injection systems. But, even in my 70s, I’m still learning…
I say Crummins jokingly and fondly. I had a Cummins M11 in a 98 cab over Freightshaker. My only complaint was it was only a 9 speed. I truly believed that it needed at least a 10 speed or 13. It was set at I believe 300 hp and it was about 1000 ft pounds of torque. I ran loaded to the hilt with medical gas cylinders. Had to idle it all day due to having to power a lift gate on the trailer. And that thing got 8 mpg which to me was sincerely impressive. It was governed to 60 mph, which wasnt a problem untill they bumped up everything to 65 mph. It never missed a beat. Never complained. I guess you can which is why I like them to this day.
There’s sure a reason why Cummins was so popular. Those workhorses just never gave up. Oh, there were some times Clessie shot himself in foot; or rather his legacy. I remember the first Big Cam engines. There was about a cigarette paper’s thickness clearance between the con rod big end and the cam follower. It didn’t take long before something got a tad loose and that rod smacked that cam follower with enough force to knock it right out of the block. But Cummins fixed them and they kept on going…
I love my dodge Cummins 1998.5 , its first year 24 valve, but I would take this one in a second, exceptionally clean and tough.
Quarter glass and slider in the back. Lots of airflow. Just icing on the cake.
I’d be proud to drive this to the hardware store on a Saturday morning.
It is the 426 hemi of the 80s
Don’t see a a lot of pristine 12 valve Cummins like this, and this is even better with the stick (the auto has ALWAYS been their Achilles’ Heel. Had an ‘02 SLT 3500 with a 6 spd stick as the 1st Cummins in the family-an incredible “light duty” truck. Shamed my brothers Chevy 6.0 V8 Silverado so badly one day he bought a Duramax a week later!
Sounded like a washing machine full of walnuts but that just added to its charm.
This one would be parked proudly and in front in my dream garage .
By Brother had one of these, got 700,000 miles before it finally gave it up!!
What a nice truck. I hope whoever buys it takes as good of care of it.
Odometer quit working but its still super clean wish I could get it