*sold*
Well I'm about to get my turbo mini on the road, so the dakota sadly has to go. I've owned it now for 2 years and turned it from a heap to a nice daily driver. It's a 1990 Red Dakota club cab short bed 5 speed with a 2.5 TBI.
The truck itself has like 188K miles on it, but the engine has like 140K because it was replaced by me at 182K with an engine that had 134K on it. The engine is from another Dakota, 2.5 TBI engine all stock. It runs good, it's my daily driver so to speak, and it makes a great runaround vehicle to pick stuff up. Everything works, it has 134a A/C, newer alternator, and I installed an underdrive pulley so it had custom belt sizes.
Here's the fun part, I had Turbo's Unleashed custom make me a 6 puck with blue plate for it! So honestly this thing is ready for some RWD turbo action!
Things I replaced within the last 2 years I've owned it (what I can think of right now anyway)
Paint Job
Clutch
Front rotors and pads
All 4 shocks
Tail lights
Exhaust (no cat, 2.25'' with cherry bomb in place of cat and turbo muffler)
Tires (205/75/15 futura Dakota's, nice tires that last long and have good traction)
Hurst shift knob
Alternator
A/C compressor
coil
Fuel pump (bosch)
Rear axle seals (major PITA, but now it's done for you)
And I have the rear shoes but they aren't installed yet
The only rust I've found is on the fender there which I got a pic of. Overall the truck is a great daily driver, it's not perfect but not crap either. I really hate to sell it, I've hauled a fridge and stove in the bed, and even pulled the 1800 pound popup camper you see in the one pic three hours away and it hauled it great for only being a 99 hp engine. It has good torque.
OK now for the only not so great thing. The headgasket could use a changing. It seeps a little, and also the spark plug holes in the head are almost stripped VIA the previous owner of this engine. BUT, I have a replacement head for you if you want it. I honestly just don't have time to change it. BUT PLEASE don't let this scare you, the truck is completely driveable anywhere, the coolant just leaks a hair out the front of the block and it's very slow leak, it does NOT mix with the oil or vice versa. I've been driving the truck for 2 years and 6000 miles now with the same leak. I fill the coolant like once every couple months it's such a slow leak, and like I said I towed my popup camper with this three hours away!!! I would not hesitate one second to drive it to california tomorrow, just make sure the fluids are full and you're good to go.
I believe this truck is well worth my asking price of $1200, I paid $1200 just to have the paint job and a couple dents and stuff fixed. I'm not in a huge hurry to sell, but the inspection is up at the end of May and I didn't really want to put the money into it for that. The only thing that I know of why it wouldn't pass right now is the rear shoes, which when I get a spare hour or two sometime they will be installed.
The truck typically gets around 20 MPG, which is an average with 75% city driving. I've gotten a low of 18 and a high of 25 MPG with all highway. Towing the camper I got 16-17 MPG on the highway, not bad IMO hauling a camper that weighs over half what the truck does LOL.
OK here's the pics, any questions feel totally free to ask. (please not I haven't had a spare minute to even clean it up for the pics, so don't hold that against me cuz it cleans up decent). Also don't mind the bird poop, I park below a tree in my driveway
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Originally Posted by SpoolinGLH
