'65 D300 Front Axle Hubcap Socket/Dipstick Tube & Dipsti


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Posted by beemrmax on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 13:56:02 :

Howdy all, 1st post here ;-)

Long time Power Wagon lover, learned to drive back in about '76 in a 1941 WC, had to beg endlessly to get to take it down to the lake and back on my own, memories... Never grew out of the Dodges, got into muscle cars in the 80's, back into trucks into the 90's up to now. Restored a '65 W200 4 headlight into a daily runner in the late 90's, but then quit working on Cats in the woods... so it just sat at the house in town a lot, sold it to a buddy... same year I ended up moving back to the place where I learned to drive the WC back in '76, 12 miles from the nearest paved road... Dumb move selling the W200, regretted it ever since... awful timing to say the least. Currently have a '63 D100 "Irene", a couple D200 trucks, a '64 "Joann" and a '68 "Ralph", a '65 D300 Duallie "Big Al" (just got this truck and going through it to get it ready to haul some manure this fall, and a '70 W300 "Jimbo", just got it yesterday, it was sitting at this AG-Link parking lot, just bought last night for the most ridiculous sum I've ever bout a Dodge truck for, my head's still kinda spinning... It's got all service records to 1976 when the wheat farmer I just bought it from got it for a trap wagon, they were doing up to 4 oil change/filters a year on it, every 1000 miles, more extensive maintenance than any vehicle I ever seen!!! It's got the most MONSTROUS utility box I've ever seen on a truck this size, about 10' long at least, probably weighs a ton easily...


The D300 by comparison was owned by a guy with horses who used it to haul hay a few times a year and prided himself an never doing anything to it in the almost ten years he owned it, not even putting air in the tires... the fronts (125psi tires) were down to 30 psi... Anything you'd ask him would get the same response "never did anything to it, and he wasn't kind enough to unload the 2 + tons of hay he'd go get with it, he's just leave it on the truck til it was gone...


Anyway, enough rambling...I need to find a socket that fits the front hubcap of the '65 D300, it's an EIGHT SIDED cap, 2 1/4" across the flats. Anybody know where to get one, has one? I'll have to make one I suppose if I can't find one. Also DESPERATELY need a dipstick tube & dipstick for a Wide Block 318 with a 6qt pan. I need this ASAP. Any help would be appreciated.

Thx!!!



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