1998 Dodge Ram 2500 - Dirt & Haul: Part 1 - Four Wheeler Network

Sometimes you find what you want when you didn’t even know you were looking for it. Such is the case when we stumbled upon this unmolested low-mileage former ranch truck ’98 Quad Cab longbed Dodge 2500 4x4 with a 5. 9L 12-valve Cummins diesel... Without really knowing what was in front of us at the time we did what we often have done as off-road guys and asked what the story on the old truck was. With an NV4500 five-speed transmission, A/C, cloth interior, manual windows, and vinyl floor covering, it’s almost exactly as we would have ordered it if we would have had a chance to buy a truck like this in 1998. In fact, the only option the... Oh well, it’s hard to complain about a 17-year-old truck that still runs pretty well and is set up as we want it. The best part of the tale is the truck had only 145,000 miles on the odometer, and because we had to wait for a slight title issue to... In the end, the waiting was well worth the reward of owning what has been described, to us, as a unicorn of a truck. Well, we want a tow rig, but being life-long dirtheads, improving the off-road ride and capabilities of the truck are also paramount. To do this, we drove our new-to-us ’98 Dodge 2500 up to the experts at Diesel Power Products in Spokane Valley, Washington. Source: www.fourwheeler.com