1993 Dodge Ram W250 Club Cab LE 4×4 Diesel

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We’ve seen some nice Dodge diesel pickups here on Barn Finds lately and this 1993 Dodge Ram W250 Club Cab LE 4×4 Diesel is another good-looking example. Having had “one elderly owner since new”, this one appears to have been cared for and looks like it’s in outstanding condition. The seller has it listed here on eBay in Happy Valley, Oregon and the current bid is $12,500, but the reserve isn’t met.

I can’t believe this truck has been on the planet for 32 years already, it looks like a nice one, much too nice to be this tough of a truck to be in this condition. There are a couple of dings but I don’t see any rust and the seller says it’s been in the Pacific Northwest so rust shouldn’t be an issue. They show a couple of underside photos and it looks great under there other than some normal surface rust. They say the one owner never took it off-road.

1993 was the last year for the old-style Dodge Ram pickup, based on the D-Series from way back to 1972. You can see a few dings on the tailgate trim in the photo above, but from what we can see, inside the bed looks good. Of course, with a bedliner in place, it’s impossible to tell. The Club Cab went away for the 1983 trucks but came back again in 1990. The crew cab disappeared after 1995 and didn’t come back until 1998 for the next-gen Dodge pickup lineup.

The interior appears to have led a pampered life as well. Other than a couple of small cosmetic issues, there isn’t anything in the seller’s interior photos that would raise one of my eyebrows. There is no five-speed manual here as seen on some recent Dodge 4×4 diesel pickups shown here, but the automatic has worked for 114,000 miles. Here’s what the Club Cab area looks like.

The big thing here is the engine, which is a Cummins 5.9-liter inline-six turbodiesel with 160 horsepower and 400 lb-ft of torque. It rolls through an automatic and transfer case to all four wheels as needed and the seller says it’s been maintained and runs and drives great. How would you use this big Ram diesel 4×4?

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Comments

  1. CarbobMember

    $16,900 now. I think it still has a ways to go before the reserve is hit. If I was in the market for a pick up truck I’d be all over this. Here in the mid Atlantic costal area; you’d be looking a long time to find one this nice.

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  2. tony

    is there a way to get it inspected if your a out of state buyer thanks

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  3. geomechs geomechsMember

    These were a good truck back in the day. Actually, now that I think of it, they’re still a good truck today. You can’t kill the engine but the body may fall down all around you. Some electrics leave a lot to be desired. If you’re looking at this truck, make sure that the updates have been installed in the fuel injection pump; there’s some components inside that, if they haven’t been changed, will lead to the demise of the pump. Cam rollers and the two big springs are trouble points. I had a customer who told me that my price was way too expensive and he could buy one off E-bay for half the money. I told him to go ahead.

    Turned out that it didn’t have any updates done. It lasted about 10K miles and a roller broke. The other three followed suit and the guy was stranded out in the middle of nowhere. Pump pretty much destroyed from the inside out.

    Another precaution: especially in the summer or warmer climates, keep the tank full. The high internal pressures of the injection pump can put it up to near meltdown. Just testing them in the shop can put them up towards 200 degrees and you are constantly having to recirculate the test oil to keep the pump cooled down. Let your fuel level get low and it will heat up sufficiently to allow the pump to overheat–and fail…

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    • Driveinstile

      Geomechs. About what you said….. we need more good diesel mechanics like you. Not just a parts changer, but people who can DIAGNOSE a problem. And shame on your customer for not listening to the voice of experience. They sure learned an expensive lesson, and hopefully next time, if there is one, they’ll listen to you.

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      • geomechs geomechsMember

        Thanks for the good words, my friend. The repair business is really going through a tough time right now. There’s so many mechanics that are totally lost if they can’t plug in a laptop. I tell those youngsters that the laptop doesn’t tell you what’s wrong; it only tells you where to look. I had a guy come in with a DDEC 60. It was smoking white and running like crap. He had just come from a shop that had replaced the injectors. It still ran lousy. The laptop “told” (?) the mechanic to replace a couple of injectors. The guy came over to our place. Pulled the covers and were greeted by (2) heavily galled injector journals on the camshaft. It turned out that (all) the journals were galled. A new camshaft and followers and it ran great. But the laptop revealed an engine balance problem so without listing the possible causes they just replaced the injectors. I’d have liked to be a fly on the wall when that driver went back to that first shop with that wrecked camshaft…

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  4. Rick Duggan

    Nice truck. Both bumpers look like they have been tweeked , or crunched. I wonder if anything else has been damaged by ” park by crunch method? “

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    • Driveinstile

      I agree, definitely some tweakage going on there.

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  5. Roger

    Good luck finding a nicer one. Go to the “stealership” and pay, oh around $100K and you have to use DEF and it’s all plastic and thin metal.
    I had a 91, it was a beast. I would say the auto transmission is the weak link on one of these trucks, but it’s a nice truck for sure.

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  6. Scotty GilbertsonAuthor

    Auction update: this one made it to $27,000 and the reserve wasn’t met, so it’s been listed again.

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