#  @deaddodgegarage Dead Dodge Garage Dead Dodge Garage posts on YouTube about chrysler, collector, plymouth, engine the most. 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(DAVE)](/topic/$dave) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "The Case For The [---] - I Bought A Beautiful [----] Dodge Challenger I have wanted this exact car for years now. This generation this package this engine and ideally this color. So naturally when I learned that this car had arrived at my favorite local used lot I got pretty excited. It's got all of the stuff I wanted in a modern Mopar. Ok heated seats would have been nice. But I had to own it. For me the big highlight is the basic V6 engine. Over the last handful of years I've arrived at the opinion that the Pentastar V6 is excellent. So in this episode I want to try and explain why that is. I" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5tXPyIAvYpw) 2024-04-20T15:53Z 86.4K followers, 32.2K engagements "The Super Duper Six - Feeding Boost Through A Carter BBD On My [----] Plymouth Valiant (IT WORKS) This is my turbo slant six project. I guess it's been well over a year now since I started on this build and to this point it has largely been an unusable disappointment. But that all changes today with a simple discovery - you can in fact set up a Carter BBD carburetor for a blow through turbo application. And by set up I mean do absolutely nothing and just slap a carb hat on it of course. Let's see if we can blow some stuff up. Mopar Classic Car Collector Car Boosted Turbo Build Mechanic DDG" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8GOxo2IsWLQ) 2025-11-23T18:00Z 86.4K followers, 84.4K engagements "Semi Hemi - [---] "Poly" A-Series Cylinder Head Deep Dive - Why It Exists Swap Questions And More In the beginning there was a Hemi. And it was good. Of course because we're talking about Chrysler here anything that costs money is too expensive so engineers quickly set about figuring out a way to make the Hemi cheaper. Enter the original "poly" - a single rocker shaft cylinder head design that dropped right onto Dodge and Chrysler Hemi blocks starting in [----]. It borrowed many of the basic design characteristics of the dual rocker Hemi but accomplished almost the same job with a single rocker" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CCTxcScLvBs) 2025-02-05T21:00Z 86.4K followers, 130.4K engagements "Ticking Time Bomb - A 2019+ Ram [----] Mechanic's Perspective [---] Hemi Tech Buyer's Guide And More Also in this video - Ram DT Hemi exhaust manifold replacement discussion of CV axle issues and other common problems. And some blood. I bought a modern Ram and at least a handful of people have asked me about it. So after testing it extensively on my recent road trip across the country I decided it was finally time to make a video about it that no one will watch. This truck is one of my favorite things of ever. It's ridiculously comfortable for a lifted 4x4 truck it's too fast it can tow the world" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eXL1EPsph8s) 2025-10-11T17:00Z 86.4K followers, 108.4K engagements "The Fastest Mopar [---] Six Barrel Build And Break-In In YouTube History (For Our [----] Sport Fury GT) Listen there was supposed to be a lot more happening in this video. Its not my fault. I bet @rocketresto will show the engine getting detailed and painted though. Mopar Muscle Car Classic Car Engine Rebuild Engine Overhaul Restoration Mechanic DDG Mopar Muscle Car Classic Car Engine Rebuild Engine Overhaul Restoration Mechanic DDG" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=12YNY_UA6uA) 2025-11-05T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 22.1K engagements "Tangled Up In Blue - [----] Studebaker Champion Brake Tech [--] Volt Conversion Tips And MUCH More This is my [----] Studebaker Champion. It wasn't mine but now it is mine - and it's high time that we drag this thing out of mothballs and give it the attention it so desperately needs. On this episode we're going to touch just about every system in the car - the engine transmission clutch brakes fuel system electrical system. practically all of the things. At the end let's hope we've got a properly functional Studebaker - because I actually already found it a forever home. Let's dig in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9iZcTUF6y7M) 2026-01-25T19:18Z 86.4K followers, 38.6K engagements "A Tale Of Torque And Luxury - [----] Chrysler 300G With [---] Long Ram Power On today's episode it's a walk around and test drive of Gary Hergert's [----] Chrysler 300G. This car has lived a long and colorful life - namely the factory cinnamon color lipstick red whatever color the smoke billowing out from under the hood when it caught on fire was and finally the factory cinnamon again. The full size Chrysler performance car is humongous heavy and loaded with torque and chrome" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qjz5V2BO6QU) 2023-05-14T14:00Z 85.7K followers, 25.5K engagements "Survivor This Two Owner [----] Dodge Dart Is A Slant Six Powered Street Machine (With Original Paint) In this video: various drum brake service tips how to tell if paint on your classic Chrysler product is original or not and a look at a neat survivor Dart. "Hazel" LaurieLea's [----] Dodge Dart Custom is an awesome example of my favorite kind of classic car - the kind that gets used as a car. It has been well loved by its two owners and although it's starting to show some wear from use in various places it's a reliable and trustworthy daily drivable car that is almost complete devoid of rust" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2nXtC4fQJkY) 2023-11-11T20:25Z 85.8K followers, 26.7K engagements "Tin Grille Tips Cummins Tricks - Prepping Our [----] Dodge Crew Cab And Donor 6BT For Matrimony This is our [----] Dodge D200 crew cab Cummins swap project for @rocketresto . On the last episode (which was nine months ago for absolutely no reason) we stripped the parts truck in preparation for this build. This time around we're prepping the [--] valve Cummins plug and the truck receptacle to be permanently joined. But I'll tell you hwhat things didn't quite go to plan and I kinda had to leave town in the middle of the project. So. anyway some stuff happened a good bit of which was ridiculous. Here" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Yxb8eKPxEQ) 2026-02-01T18:00Z 86.4K followers, 30.5K engagements "Turbo Slant Six Building The Manifold Hacking In An Intercooler And Much More On My [----] Valiant It might seem like my turbo slant six build is moving at a glacial pace. Actually compared to some projects around here it's all coming together very quickly. On today's episode I tackle the most daunting part of this project - building a custom turbo exhaust manifold to mount the finest cheapest turbo eBay had to offer. I'm sure that will go perfectly given my propensity to eschew precise and careful measurement in favor of just kinda eyeballing things and plowing ahead" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=C6JY59aLFpw) 2024-09-22T19:57Z 86.1K followers, 49.1K engagements "Building A Spicier Slant - [---] Slant Six Assembly Compression Calculations Cam Degree & Much More On today's episode it's the long awaited completion of my performance [---] slant six build. In previous episodes I introduced the project and the basic recipe fitted the crankshaft in the block and then (months later) removed the greasy old engine from the [----] Dodge Dart GT that will be receiving this new build to remove some necessary parts. The big prize was supposed to be the late 70s cylinder head - which was unfortunately found to have been massively overheated warped and cracked. Today" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G0n6Wc4pbj0) 2025-11-12T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 38.2K engagements "A Greasy Tired Slant Six - [----] Dodge Dart GT [---] Engine Removal Teardown And Much More Over the last year I've done a couple videos showing a lightweight 80s slant six engine explaining that we would be building this engine with an eye toward mild performance and installing it in a [----] Dart GT. The time has finally come to dig into the car remove the greasy old [---] and harvest the pieces we'll need to assemble the fresh drivetrain. At the same time I'll be dealing with some other small issues - notably the fact that the car is leaking just about every fluid from just about everywhere." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NcgIyWtjLJo) 2025-10-01T19:00Z 86.2K followers, 33.7K engagements "IT'S ALIVE Turbo [---] Slant Six Solid Engine Mount Build Downpipe & Wastegate Setup And Much More It's the moment I've all been waiting for At long last it's time to actually hear what it sounds like when you run the tiniest slant six engine through the world's cheapest T3/T4 hybrid turbo. But first I'll have to get that turbo actually attached to the engine which in this case will be complicated. There's definitely a lesson here about measuring parts before welding them together. And then of course I'll have to get it to start again which for some reason has also become complicated. Mopar" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QEZmsrTGd8Y) 2024-10-13T18:00Z 86.1K followers, 51.3K engagements "Perilous Progress - Dissecting My [----] Plymouth Diesel Taxi Transmission Tech And Much More This is Perky the internet's favorite (only) [----] Plymouth Taxi that was engine swapped when new with a Perkins P4C diesel engine. In previous videos I introduced the project gave the car a once over and put Perky back on the highway after many years. I almost immediately learned about the presence of a very blown head gasket - and then made the poor mistake of trying to fix that. It all kinda snowballed from there and now we're removing the very dead original engine to install a replacement which" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XhHwAxzHkHA) 2026-01-14T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 48.2K engagements "The Slant Six Delete - [----] Dodge D100 Small Block V8 Swap Door Restoration Tech And Much More It's an Allan episode I bought this [----] Dodge D100 in what I like to call a "crime of opportunity." The price was right and it seemed like the perfect chance to test my home built turbo slant six setup (which had been disappointing to that point) on a [---] engine. The results of that test were somewhat favorable though it clearly needed extensive tuning work. However for the second time in a Dodge truck this year we learned that [---] transmissions don't like being filled with rain water and when the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dtqdwBEVs60) 2025-07-05T18:40Z 85.8K followers, 35.9K engagements "How To Fix The Holley [----] On Your Slant Six Mopar (Throw It Away) Today on Dead Dodge Garage I show you how to fix everything wrong with the stock fuel toilet found on gazillions of slant six powered machines like the Dodge Dart Plymouth Valiant and even Dodge trucks. What you do is you unbolt the Holley [----] carburetor slam dunk it right into the scrap pile and replace it with a random Carter BBS from eBay. Its just that easy. @LambvinskisGarage @rocketresto" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nBHJSg0hj4I) 2022-10-18T14:35Z 85.9K followers, 10.6K engagements "DDG Live From The Road (Another Dodge Truck Adventure) Typical right" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf4I2cc3XD0) 2026-02-02T02:25Z 86.4K followers, [----] engagements "My Turbo Slant Six [----] Plymouth Valiant Still Sucks - Degree Wheel Cam Check Carb Swap And More Over the course of this video I think I tried every single somewhat plausible commenter suggestion that I hadn't yet tried. Put a Holley on it Ok. Maybe your rebuilt distributor is bad Fine. Is the cam installed wrong I thought so too so let's check that. Did you lash your valves correctly I think so but let's try that a second time. Maybe it's the turbo Maybe that tiny slant is choking trying to exhale through the turbo. Alright let's rip the entire turbo setup off and test that theory. I've done" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tStSMgg23LQ) 2025-04-19T16:30Z 85.9K followers, 37.5K engagements "A Smoky Rebellion - [----] Dodge Dart Swinger Revival Ignition Tips Mechanical Diagnosis And More Two weeks ago the somewhat spicy [---] under the hood of my [----] Dodge Dart Swinger was seized solid and brimmed with rain water. I didn't think this was a viable revival candidate by any measure. But miraculously I coaxed some movement out of the rusty rings and suddenly one of my favorite activities because possible - trying to make smoke with a long dead Chrysler engine. And it turned out this one had all kinds of smoke to give - starter smoke blow-by smoke sticky intake valve smoke and more." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tY4WHi3b5Gk) 2025-11-16T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 56.4K engagements "Terrible Ticking Sounds - [----] Dodge W100 [---] Fix Common Valvetrain Problems And How To Find Them This is my [----] Dodge W100 Power Wagon. In previous episodes we got this truck running and limped it off of a property in California on flat tires dragged it home then dug in on cab repairs brakes and many other projects - none of which are actually finished yet. But we're making progress and on today's Engine Wednesday video we're digging into the mildly spicy [---] between the fenders to look for the source of an awful high pitched noise that has developed on the driver side bank. Spoiler alert." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wQrBM7iPb4g) 2026-01-28T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 37.2K engagements "The Big Slant Six To Small Block V8 Swap Guide How To Give Your A-Body Mopar Some Muscle In this video I cover all of the steps you'll need to take and parts you'll need to source to park an LA (or Magnum) small block V8 under the hood of your classic Mopar A-body that was originally equipped with a slant six engine. That means a [---] [---] [---] or [---] LA engine a Magnum [---] or [---] or even a radical [---] stroker (or beyond.) The cars we'll be discussing are 1963-1976 Dodge Darts Demons and Dart Sports and 1963-1976 Plymouth Valiants Scamps Dusters and Barracudas. A lot of this information will" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4BvdM4So9qI) 2024-08-14T19:00Z 86.3K followers, 52.7K engagements "DDG Live Thousands Of Miles Down Another Livestream To Go I'm tired" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=C8oJxTOinnk) 2026-02-09T02:09Z 86.4K followers, [----] engagements "The Legendary [----] Plymouth 'Cuda AAR A [---] [--] Speed Powered Factory Road Course Racer Dodge and Plymouth E-Body cars are some of the most memorable muscle era machines. They were late to the party arriving in [----] - and some enthusiasts might argue that they were really only any good for two years '70 and '71. Found in some of the best of them were [---] Hemis which obviously deserve a mention. But those cars were heavy unwieldy a pain in the butt to service and often broken. In my book the best package that could be had was the small block [---] with a four speed behind it. In the short and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LdZXC1sBxIU) 2023-10-06T19:00Z 86.3K followers, 50.7K engagements "Obscenely Rare [----] Sport Fury GT [---] [--] Barrel Short Block Build Piston Tech And More This [---] six barrel engine belongs to our [----] Plymouth Sport Fury GT V-code car. These things are exceedingly rare and today I have the pleasure of overhauling this one. Except it's not all pleasure because as usual we're going to hit a few roadblocks along the way. And the elephant in the room is that the Muscle Car And Corvette Nationals show is less than a month away and the car - which is supposed to be featured there - is still very much in pieces. But today I'm doing my part to get this long dead" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RGNZqLzMU98) 2025-10-29T19:00Z 86.3K followers, 34.8K engagements "Gotta Save Them All - [----] Dodge D350 Roadtrip Rescue For @Mclovingarage (Plus Bonus Trains) Today on Let's Drive [----] Miles To Save More Trucks Garage we're going back to the well and preventing a trio of Dodge trucks that shared a field with my [----] Power Wagon from going to the scrapper. Alright. one of them may well end up there anyway but at least its bits will go on to help save other tin grilles. The main unit we're looking at today is a [----] Dodge D350 Prospector pickup. It's a one ton single rear wheel model with a [---] four barrel engine under the hood. This truck hasn't even been" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZGD2qnDKfuU) 2026-02-08T18:00Z 86.4K followers, 31.9K engagements "I Waited A Month For Parts And My Aces EFI System Still Doesn't Work (A Turbo Slant Six Update) I don't know about you but I'm getting tired of listening to this poor [---] slant six engine crank. My [----] Plymouth Valiant Signet seemed like the perfect platform for a turbo slant six build. I've made a couple missteps as it has come together sure. But in today's episode I'm going to try and get the Aces Killshot Classic system up and running after revamping the electrical connections and adding a fuel pressure gauge. Spoiler alert it just straight up doesn't work. Mopar Muscle Car Classic Car" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jP-TiiyQh4o) 2025-01-31T20:00Z 86.3K followers, 49.2K engagements "Glorious Hemi Noises - [----] Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody Last Call (A Mopar Guy's Review) It's the last of the Challengers. This [----] Challenger with [---] Hemi power isn't quite a Hellcat - and that's probably for the best because at [---] horse ponies it's already got more than enough gusto to put its operator in prison with no chance of parole at a moment's notice. As a total Mopar nutjob I have countless miles of experience with classic Chrysler muscle but also a good bit of seat time in modern offerings like my lowly V6 Challenger - so I feel qualified enough to throughly test" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ojPNVhP2Khg) 2025-05-17T16:45Z 86.3K followers, 26.9K engagements "Back To The Basics - Figuring Out My [----] Plymouth Valiant Slant Six Project Car Nightmare The more you know the more you realize you don't know. This project has done a great job of teaching me that - and trying my patience. After months of abandonment in my yard I've decided it's finally time to do something about this stalled project. But just like every other stage of this project it's not going to go the way I expect. Mopar Classic Car Collector Car Diagnosis Mechanic DDG Mopar Classic Car Collector Car Diagnosis Mechanic DDG" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pOqTfVtcyhg) 2025-11-08T18:30Z 86.4K followers, 34.7K engagements "One Year Wonder - [----] Plymouth Valiant Signet [---] History Revival Test Drive And Much More If you'd like to own this fine automobile contact Tom with @rocketresto at Tom@RocketResto.com for details. Over the last couple years I've revived at least two other Valiants at Rocket Restorations that could easily be confused for this car. Both were whiteish/yellowish two doors hailing from this middle generation of A-bodies that ran from '63-'66 But neither of those cars were as exciting as this one is in the mechanical department. See this '66 Signet hardtop has something most Valiants don't - a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qtYYyoXwIvo) 2025-12-07T18:00Z 86.4K followers, 40.5K engagements "Perky Blunders - Piecing Together A [----] Plymouth Diesel Taxi With Homemade Gaskets And Elbow Grease This is the replacement Perkins P4C engine for my [----] Plymouth Taxi "Perky." Perky is the most popular project car on my channel without compare and like many of you I would love to see it back together and running again. So today with some much needed help from Allan and Peter (and Ted) I'm taking a stab at getting the new Perky back in one piece and looking better than any P4C ever has. What could possibly go wrong Mopar Collector Car Classic Car Restoration Engine Rebuild Mechanic DDG" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rpUag4UTApI) 2026-02-04T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 51.4K engagements "Why Did This [----] Dodge Charger R/T Just Sell At Mecum For $170000 (Its Unsafe And Bad) If you see something say something. I saw something in the pictures of this outwardly beautiful Charger that is so stupid and downright unsafe I had to say something. So here we are. Auction buyer beware. Mopar MuscleCar Auction ClassicCar Mopar MuscleCar Auction ClassicCar" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dv6d6p-6dwc) 2022-10-25T15:07Z 86.3K followers, 486.9K engagements "Handy Magnum Swap Info - Whats Different From An LA Engine Heres a somewhat detailed look at the differences and similarities between two Chrysler engine series - the 64-93ish LA small block V8 such as a [---] [---] or [---] and the freshened 93-03ish Magnum [---] and [---]. If you want to put a Magnum in your Mopar muscle car or old Dodge truck heres what you need to know" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ExRvctx2zmM) 2022-04-11T03:58Z 86.4K followers, 36.1K engagements "Classic Mopar Charging Systems: How They Work and How To Diagnose Failures A somewhat detailed explanation of the function of the classic Mopar alternator voltage regulator and related components and circuits. If youre having trouble getting your Mopar muscle car or Dodge truck to charge the battery this video will give you several ideas to help figure out your issue. Mopar Electrical How to Muscle car Mopar Electrical How to Muscle car" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_AN-spfapGw) 2021-12-28T19:45Z 86.4K followers, 101.5K engagements "Rebuilt And Forgotten 40+ Years Ago - Chrysler [---] Big Block Engine Teardown Inspection And More This is the Mopar [---] RB engine that was originally rebuilt and detailed for installation in the [----] Plymouth Superbird Tom with @rocketresto bought last year. The owner completed the engine build and a quick paint job for the car then abandoned that project in the mid 1980s. This engine sat in a corner next to the car for over four decades - before we emptied the building and excavated the Superbird eleven other cars the [---] and countless other parts over the course of two and a half days. On" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_LEgxGracJA) 2025-08-27T19:00Z 86.4K followers, 49.4K engagements "CHEAP [----] Dodge D100 Plus My Home Built Slant Six Blow-Through Turbo Kit Equals. If you've been following the channel for a while then you know that a working turbo slant six has been my white whale for years now. In fact while I've been contemplating this whacky idea for over a decade it was April of [----] when I first announced this project in a video and showed many of the components I would eventually go on to install on my [----] Plymouth Valiant - most of which were discarded over time in favor of other components that didn't really work either. When I found this $500 Dodge truck for sale" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=e9BwQUy_wBI) 2025-05-03T18:36Z 86.4K followers, 69.1K engagements "Street Performer - Mopar LA [---] Build Recipe Ring Grinding Tips Bottom End Assembly And Much More Over the last several months I've done a handful of videos documenting the plan the unexpected teardown and diagnosis and the cylinder head selection and overhaul for this Chrysler [---] small block engine. This is the original power plant for Mark's [----] Plymouth Barracuda and soon enough it will be back in its home under the hood of that car. Remember this is a street driver with exhaust manifolds and [----] gears and those factors have influenced every decision we've made for this build. But we" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1qZFJ564UQI) 2025-02-26T21:50Z 86.4K followers, 91.8K engagements "The Big Ballast Resistor Video A Simple Yet Misunderstood Part Of Your Classic Chrysler Product On today's episode we take a look at a really simple electrical device that has mystified Mopar owners for decades. More than that it has truly mystified many well intentioned people trying to give diagnostic advice on the internet. I covered ballast resistors in my Classic Chrysler Ignition Systems video but I thought it deserved its own video so here we are. Mopar MuscleCar ClassicCar Trucks Mechanic Mopar MuscleCar ClassicCar Trucks Mechanic" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Re_L-OlEOo) 2023-08-19T14:10Z 86.4K followers, 263.9K engagements "The Big HEI Ignition Conversion Video How To Convert Your Classic Mopar (Or Anything Else) To HEI I teased this concept in my Mopar ignition systems video and have been asked many times since to explain it in more detail. So on today's video let's do that. Link to the wiring diagram I have always used (that as discussed always seems to have the distributor wires backwards): https://www.allpar.com/attachments/hei-mod-conv-jpg.4496/ Mopar MuscleCar ClassicCar Mechanic Wiring Mopar MuscleCar ClassicCar Mechanic Wiring" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Avp0Lzw83e4) 2023-08-27T17:56Z 86.4K followers, 100.6K engagements "Perky's Backup Plan - Tearing Down A Perkins P4C For My [----] Plymouth Diesel Taxi (A Greasy Mess) Everybody wants to know what's going on with Perky my diesel powered Plymouth taxi. And I understand that because it's something very interesting being the one and only car of its type known to survive and remain in (until recently) operational condition. Commenters often make suggestions for power plant replacements or send me links to various Perkins engines found online. Thing is I've had the solution to this problem the entire time - in fact it came with the car. This is a spare Perkins P4C" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DOKiHa6Pj7o) 2025-11-19T20:14Z 86.4K followers, 65.5K engagements "What Killed These Cam Bearings Common Issues What To Look For And Redemption For This [---] A month or so ago I did a video on this [---] with a mysterious cam bearing failure issue. This was a fresh rebuild that developed a minor oil leak on the run stand and there also seemed to be a minor mechanical noise. In opening the engine to diagnose the former I found a possible cause of the latter - all of the cam bearings were damaged with some more damaged than others. Since then this block and camshaft have both visited our favorite local machine shop in pursuit of fixing this problem. Now we're" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UqcwtLrjz2U) 2026-02-11T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 30.4K engagements "On Borrowed Time - Grumman LLV History Common Issues Iron Duke Engine Replacement And Much More If you live in suburban America you are probably well familiar with the humming buzzing and somewhat concerning rattling sounds produced by the Grumman LLV postal delivery vehicle as it meanders by. You might even be familiar with the sound of the starter and flex plate teeth grinding each other to pieces as the Iron Duke engine under the hood is restarted for the hundredth time in a given day. Personally I have a complicated relationship with these "Long Life Vehicles." On the one hand I've been" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dcFiVSElTJI) 2025-12-03T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 246.8K engagements "Bone Stock And Decent - [---] LA Mopar Teardown Inspection And Re-Seal For Allan's [----] Dodge D100 I tear down a lot of these engines. Like a lot. I must have torn open a couple dozen of them in the last six months. And never in all my years of Chrysler buffoonery have I opened up a bone stock verifiably original engine and found what I found inside this one. Nothing. It's just fine. Sure the seals are all a bit crispy and sure it's got some sludge here or there. But the condition of this engine truly surprised me in a way that has not been normal in these pursuits. So today instead of crawling" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eolsBiPio8A) 2025-07-16T19:00Z 86.4K followers, 42.1K engagements "Classic Mopar Ignition Systems - How They Work How To Diagnose Issues In my second installment on muscle era Chrysler electrical systems its a look at the ignition including a description of how the common systems work and how to know if your issue is or -is not- caused by the ballast resistor. Mopar Electronic ignition Mopar Electronic ignition" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oTSxN1Kwfuk) 2021-12-31T06:09Z 86.4K followers, 93.8K engagements "Go Fast Slant Build Lightweight [---] Info Deck Milling Tech Short Block Assembly And Much More In a previous engine Wednesday video a few months ago I tore down this lightweight 80s [---] slant six removed from a truck I had owned at one point in the distant past. The block and related components took a trip to the machine shop for a good cleaning a crank polish bore job and deck milling operations. Now it's back and on today's episode we'll finally start assembling this engine. In the not too distant future we'll be completing this build and installing it in a [----] Dodge Dart GT. Mopar Classic" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pJFNMtlZV0c) 2025-05-14T19:00Z 86.4K followers, 59.3K engagements "The Fantastic [---] Max Wedge - This [----] Dodge [---] Hides Factory Speed Parts Under An Unassuming Hood My thanks to Tom with @rocketresto for helping with this video. Check out the Rocket channel here: http://www.youtube.com/@rocketresto Drag racing didn't start in the 1960s but it sure got big (and crazy) in that decade - and the auto manufacturers noticed. At Chrysler in a time not long before the arrival of the legendary [---] Hemi (which would soon become a permanent fixture in top fuel classes and more) a series of ever-advancing factory built race cars would help cement their reputation on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=u5bv6mYUJYg) 2024-11-08T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 96.8K engagements "The Big Hemi - Seized [----] Chrysler [---] Engine Teardown Component ID Technical Info And Much More I really like first generation Hemi (or "dual rocker") engines. I like that Chrysler's original intention was to create a versatile engine platform suitable for use in everything from regular passenger vehicles to heavy duty trucks but with the potential to more than double the original horsepower rating in six short years with no major architectural changes baked in. I appreciate that it was designed with relatively little regard for production costs with the focus instead on quality performance" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wv26yF_PuAs) 2025-08-06T19:17Z 86.4K followers, 74.3K engagements "The Never-Ending Project - Survivor [----] Plymouth Barracuda Axle Swap Clutch Tips And Much More This is "Blackfish" DDG Gold Member Dave's [----] Plymouth Barracuda survivor car. In previous videos we got this car running and driving again after decades with a fresh fuel system then made many improvements to the original [---] under the hood and installed some rare Commando parts. On today's episode we touch almost every single other system in the car and try to get this sweet machine back on the road for real. Unfortunately we learn some interesting things about old worn piston rings along the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-AMpsysgX6Q) 2025-03-08T21:31Z 57.9K followers, 28.4K engagements "DDG Live The [---] Vids [-----] Subscriber Sunday Live Streamabration Eyyyyyyyyyyy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-XVbUheUOEU) 2024-12-16T04:12Z 50.2K followers, [----] engagements "When The Dots Lie - Camshaft Timing Degree Wheel Tips Windage Tray Tech And More For Our Hot [---] I'm far from the first mechanic (or YouTuber) to stumble across a new part that leaves something to be desired. But today I've found something that I can 100% guarantee would've led to a builder who didn't know to look for it putting an engine together with the camshaft timing completely wrong resulting in disappointing engine performance. So today let's go over a couple different methods for verifying that your cam timing is at least in the right ballpark. At the same time we've got a shiny new" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-j9VbrYuiyY) 2025-03-19T20:00Z 58.9K followers, 34.1K engagements "Well Beaten Wagon - This [----] Dodge Dart Station Wagon Needs Help This [----] Dodge Dart "long roof" station wagon (with [---] slant six power) has been off the road and in storage for some unknown number of years. I agreed to buy the car without actually taking a close look at it which I'll tell you right now is something you probably shouldn't do. So on this episode I try to get this '64 Dart operational again but at almost every turn I find something else I didn't want to see" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0FOSbEcRBms) 2025-01-25T18:03Z 54.2K followers, 27.2K engagements "Wipers Heat And A Fond Farewell For Our [----] Plymouth Barracuda "Ultimate Daily Driver" Project Colin's back with one final installment on our [----] Plymouth Barracuda project. I started this build with big dreams of building a comfortable modern interior in a crusty Barracuda shell with 80s slant six power and a four speed A833 overdrive transmission intended to produce acceptable horsepower and excellent fuel economy. At some point I (predictably) lost interest and moved on to other things and eventually I traded the car to Colin for the Llama Barn Valiant (which has also since moved on to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0JZzOO7agtE) 2025-01-19T17:00Z 53.6K followers, 23.8K engagements "SEIZED SOLID This [----] Dodge [---] California Highway Patrol Car Needs Help If you follow Tom over at his @rocketresto channel then you likely know he (and his brother Gary) are big C-body and police car nerds. So naturally they were giddy when they came across this original mostly surviving California Highway Patrol car - which might just be one of the greatest examples of both of those things. On today's episode we take a close look at this fine automobile before turning our attention to the engine compartment - where the outlook is not exactly rosy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0PkclvPwbKA) 2024-12-07T19:31Z 49.5K followers, 29.8K engagements "DDG Live The Actually Getting Stuff Done Sunday Live Well one thing and it's not actually done but it probably will be some day soon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0StmqX_1PcE) 2025-08-25T01:26Z 73.2K followers, [----] engagements "I'm Building The CHEAPEST [---] Hemi On YouTube Ex-Racer Junk Used Factory Parts And My Genius Plan Help me thank Tom Hergert with Rocket Restorations for making this build happen by checking out his channel and hitting subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@rocketresto This Engine Wednesday I've got something special for you. Quite some time ago now I teased the idea of piecing together a [---] Hemi and dropping it in my [----] Dodge Charger. At the time I didn't actually have the means to do this and thankfully Tom Hergert with @rocketresto sold the (very expensive) NOS Mopar Performance 426" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0YXRZyKf1i4) 2025-01-01T20:00Z 52.4K followers, 25K engagements "Ramp Truck Nose Job Classing Up My Beater [----] Dodge D350 Cummins Truck With [----] Dodge Truck Parts On today's episode Allan and I make the DDG ramp truck way less crappy with a complete front end and door swap from a dead [----] Dodge truck. Along the way we figured out all of the important differences between the early and late parts which anyone looking to do a similar swap will certainly find useful" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0eJXPDcwrLc) 2024-10-20T17:29Z 75.5K followers, 28.3K engagements "Gutless Wonder - This [----] Dodge Challenger Needs Help (Ignition Carb Brake Fixes And More) I may never understand why the first video on this car did so well. It's not the classic Mopar we're accustomed to here - in fact it's really not a Mopar at all. It's a classic Japanese sport coupe wearing an American muscle car badge. But people really loved seeing this thing - and so many commenters remembered these cars fondly. So today I've decided to go a bit farther on my [----] Dodge Challenger (which is really just a rebadged Mitsubishi Galant Lambda) and search for the escaped horsepower I" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1PBjn0O2JUc) 2024-11-30T19:25Z 48.7K followers, 52.8K engagements "Rare Parts And Problem Solving - [----] Dodge Challenger Steering Fix Countless Repairs And Triumph "You said you drive a Challenger" "I DO" At the end of the last episode on my [----] "Dodge" "Challenger" I had broken a tap off in the original unobtanium tie rod adjusting sleeve and left the shop dejected and demoralized. But today I've got a new sleeve that was intended to fit a "Dodge" "Ram 50" and I reckon that might work. With that sorted it's time to work through the rest of the list of projects standing between me and daily driving this tiny drift machine from Japan" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1SWR3u7QdbY) 2025-01-04T18:08Z 52.6K followers, 26.4K engagements "DDG Live The All My Rowdy Friends Are Here For Sunday Evening Thing You sure Hank done it this way" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1fFwS6PaLuM) 2024-12-09T04:12Z 49.5K followers, [----] engagements "High Class - I Revived This [---] Powered [----] Imperial Crown Coupe Then Buried It In A Field I swear we used to actually restore cars. But a surprising amount of my time at Rocket Restorations lately has been spent reviving Tom's quality acquisitions. Case in point this [----] Imperial Crown Coupe. It's big it's beautiful it's extremely green. It's the [----] Pound Pickle. It's got a [---] that appears to be very fresh and the gas in the tank smells like it was refined in the last decade so the chances for internal combustion tire smoke and tomfoolery are high. You'd better grab yourself a gas" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2PxfzVIDxRY) 2024-03-10T16:44Z 30.2K followers, 30.7K engagements "DDG Live The Forwardly Looking Sunday Streamaganza Everybody loves the Exner cars. It's me I'm everybody" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2otrrbuqWT0) 2025-10-06T01:15Z 75.9K followers, [----] engagements "Little Magic - Go-Fast [---] Small Block Takes Shape (Full Build Recipe Cam Selection And Much More) It's been quite some time since I first announced my intentions to build a spicy [---] for drag racing use in my [----] Plymouth Barracuda project. But the plan has never been fully cemented - until now. Today I've finally got a freshly machined [---] LA engine block ready to go and a pile of special speed parts for this small-inch underdog engine. In this video I want to go over the complete build plan for this unit top to bottom including my final piston and rod choices camshaft selection and my" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3XFmMTGwHiA) 2025-04-09T19:00Z 60.5K followers, 27.8K engagements "As Bad As It Looks - Reviving A Homebuilt "Jeep" With Volkswagen Beetle Power For Field Destruction I'm not even sure a mother could love that face. This is the Mighty Mutt a Type [--] VW chassis with a home made flat fender Jeep-style body crudely attached to it and some rotten woodwork surrounding the engine in the back. Tom Hergert with @rocketresto rescued this automotive tragedy from a junkyard situation in the middle of nowhere California where it had sat dormant for an unknown number of years. Today we're going to attempt to coax some life out of the Mutt and if that works out our mission" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3j_2PCFJH9c) 2025-04-20T19:00Z 61.5K followers, 22K engagements "This Amazing [----] Chrysler [---] Convertible Made Me Fall In Love With C-Bodies It had to happen sooner or later. Commenters ask for more C-bodies all the time and tell me that I need to add one to my fleet. I've always found them excessively large but now I'm starting to come around to that point of view. These things are great. They're smooth comfortable and some of them - like this beautiful [---] - are extremely well styled. When I first saw the pointy nose I thought it was awkward but it quickly grew on me. Of course I think '68 was the high water mark for Chrysler Corporation across the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3xBSMhs1rdw) 2024-07-06T17:39Z 68K followers, 19.1K engagements "The Dodge / Chrysler [---] Pentastar V6 Oil Cooler Problem - And How To Fix It Todays episode is something approaching a technical guide detailing the extremely common Pentastar V6 oil cooler problem and how to fix it correctly Something like correctly. Brought to you by lessons learned the hard way. Oh yes I believe the same information applies to the smaller engines used in Jeeps as well - found in [---] and [---] liter sizes I believe" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4-KSBYiPopc) 2023-10-26T13:46Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements "Field Repair [----] Dodge Coronet CHP [---] Cop Car Fix Extensive Reliability Testing On Dirt I love fixing kinda crappy old Dodges. I love big block B-bodies. And I love whipping cars around in a field. So on today's episode let's combine these ideas and fix a retired California Highway Patrol car equipped with a [---] in a field. Is this as good an idea as I think it is Hopefully Tom agrees. @rocketresto Find Toms video on this car here: NewProjectintotheShop1976Dodg" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4FDz6q7UyFQ) 2023-09-01T18:02Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Wheelie Machine - I Bought An Abandoned [----] Dodge A100 With A [---] In The Bed (But It's In Pieces) Two weeks ago today (during my weekly Sunday livestream) my friend Nick with @LambvinskisGarage sent me a link to a Facetubes Marketplace ad for this van-truck-thing with a slightly taken apart [---] mounted in the bed. Essentially it's a budget-built replica of the Little Red Wagon wheelstander - but in aged yellow and black. The moment I saw it I was in love and I immediately called the seller and made a deal. Last weekend Allan and I drove several hours away to north of Seattle WA to pick up" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4Gv2LHKVbJs) 2025-02-02T17:53Z 55.2K followers, 56.8K engagements "I'm Building An Abominable Machine - Stripping My [----] Dodge Charger For Rust Repair And Awesomeness I'm far from the first guy to build a ratty second generation Charger. And I'll be far from the first guy to drive one in the dirt. But the way I do that is going to be. unique. On today's episode Allan and I finally dig in on the crappy [----] Dodge Charger that has been stuck on a lift in my shop for many months and go over my plans to create the purpose built dirt road destroyer I have been dreaming about for years" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=53UdFWl5io0) 2024-11-17T18:13Z 46.3K followers, 20.4K engagements "The Big Classic Mopar A/B/E Body Front End Overhaul Video Rebuild Tricks Part Selection And More On today's episode I'm rebuilding the front end of Dylan's Dart Sport in preparation for the installation of a [---] stroker a five speed TKX transmission and many other nice parts. I thought I'd take this unique opportunity to walk you through the front suspension overhaul process point out some special rebuild tips and procedures and make some choice part recommendations to help bring your classic Mopar into a modern age of decent handling and performance. This same information applies to many" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5GPyKEdinG4) 2024-10-19T18:45Z 75.7K followers, 44.5K engagements "A Dream Come True - Turbo Slant Six Gets Home Cylinder Head Overhaul And A Long Awaited Test Drive The day has finally arrived. This project has been many years in the scheming and planning and many months in the actual doing - but today it's finally going to be completed to the point of a test rip up and down the street. First though we've got one big problem. At the end of the last video as soon as the engine was up and running with some extra air induction from the eBay special T3/T4 hybrid turbo it became very apparent that the head gasket was no longer winning with us. Exhaust was" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Kb4ZrezZCs) 2024-11-03T20:20Z 45.2K followers, 27.5K engagements "Classic Mopar No Crank No Start - How To Diagnose Issues - Dead Dodge Garage Today on Dead Dodge Garage its the big no crank no start classic Mopar diagnosis video. I take a deep dive into the different components that factor into cranking and starting and give you a handful of helpful diagnostic tips if you cant get your classic muscle car era Dodge Plymouth or Dodge truck to crank. This information applies to the A-body such as the Dodge Dart and Plymouth Valiant; B-body such as the Dodge Charger and Plymouth Belvedere; C-body such as the Chrysler Newport and Dodge Monaco; E-body meaning" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5QPUM-fRRSI) 2022-01-07T18:34Z 60.2K followers, 128.8K engagements "Can I Drive This Terrifyingly Sketchy [----] Dodge D350 "Ramp Truck" Home (Towing My New Project Car) See Tom's video on the truck here: https://youtu.be/UywGl0N8D_Usi=DeC3EcqC_qWH9CKx Tom with @rocketresto has a habit of dragging home junk that I really want. The latest example of that is this [----] Dodge D350. With an intercooled Cummins [---] under the hood this truck should be reliable and a willing performer for hundreds of thousands of miles to come - in theory anyway. Unfortunately this thing sat in a field for a lot of years while the brakes rusted over and the tires literally rotted to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6gbX93hFve4) 2024-04-13T18:34Z 31.6K followers, 10.2K engagements "DDG Live The Slightly Warm Almost Summer Evening Edition You're lucky I'm not shirtless in the pool just saying" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6zO0qANFbNw) 2025-06-09T01:07Z 67.5K followers, [----] engagements "Will This Amazing Survivor [----] Chrysler LeBaron GTS Run After [--] Years (The Best Revival Ever) I know what you're thinking. You're thinking you've seen some great revivals in your time and you're wondering how this one could be different. Well. did you look at it This [----] Chrysler LeBaron has somehow survived to the present day in incredibly good condition and with only [-----] miles on the clock. This video has everything you've come to expect from Dead Dodge Garage but like.more. Misery. Smells. Broken parts. More misery. More smells. More survivor Mopar flavor. More learning (against my" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=76TxrlpYVFY) 2024-08-16T19:00Z 38.5K followers, 23.7K engagements "What's A [---] Swapped [----] Dodge Challenger Drive Like A Red '71 Project Update Wow. The [---] Hemi and T56 Magnum drivetrain setup in Austin's Challenger do absolutely ridiculous things. This build is a cut or five above the usual projects I've got going on. In fact it doesn't really have a Dead Dodge Garage-y air to it at all. But it's something special - and a project I'm very proud of. I'm extremely impressed by the "finished" product and seeing it head down the road will definitely be bittersweet. @rocketresto" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=784NeSrkuIo) 2023-09-09T17:59Z 18.6K followers, 19.3K engagements "Marking Its Territory - Let's Fix My [----] Dodge Charger's Leaking Radiator This is my [----] Dodge Charger which is affectionately known as Corndog after a silly off-road excursion involving a cop car and a hot case lunch. I've owned the Charger for over two years now and bit by bit I've brought it up to snuff in various videos on the channel. The biggest issue for the last year has been a leaking radiator that I installed (with full knowledge that it leaked.) So today I'm finally going to fix that - just in time to park the car for the rainy season. Typical" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7xEfIy2q_Fk) 2024-10-02T18:00Z 44.9K followers, 13.6K engagements "DDG Live The Friggin' Ford Funday Fest I for one am shocked. SHOCKED I tell you. at the largely positive response to today's video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8Rw5qi7HCRg) 2024-09-16T03:11Z 44.7K followers, [----] engagements "Broken Banana - [----] Dodge A100 Wheelstander Project Update Build Plans And More (Bonus Burnouts) This is the Flying Banana. Everybody loves the Flying Banana - especially me. On today's episode my entire plan was to explain that the transmission is totally dead and the entire rear half of the truck needs a major rethink. It turns out only one of those things is true. Either way I'm going to take a close look at the Little Red Wagon which the Banana is loosely based on then sketch up a suspension system that will hopefully make this thing a contender. Also glorious exhaust noise and some" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9CSxBi6VIr4) 2025-06-07T17:45Z 67.5K followers, 25.5K engagements "Will This [----] Plymouth Trail Duster [---] Big Block Run After [--] Years Get your DDG merch at https://shop.deaddodgegarage.com Are we really still wondering if these classic Mopars will run Don't they always run Well almost. anyway let's do big block Trail Duster things. And if it does the running the driving and the stopping I suppose we'll have to go bury it in a mud hole or something. And then go check out Tom's video telling the crazy story of buying this truck over at @rocketresto" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9E1Rnyqeg90) 2023-12-09T16:15Z 60.8K followers, 56.2K engagements "DDG Live With Tom Hergert - The Let's Buy All The Junk Sunday Stream Yep it's really him. @RocketResto" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9EpK1X4MOpY) 2025-07-28T01:18Z 71.2K followers, [----] engagements "Where's The Boost This [----] Dodge Daytona Shelby Turbo Needs Help (Diagnosis Tuning Tech And More) I teased this Daytona in a previous video and more than a few people in the comments were excited to see it. This front wheel drive whip from the early 90s just might be the ultimate K-car derivative. It's got a relatively fancy jet fighter interior sporty lines and accouterment and a turbo [---] under the hood. It bares Carroll Shelby's name on the doors and carries other special equipment to match. Unfortunately it also has 187k miles on the clock and from the general look of the car those miles" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=A053LpaYdFA) 2024-12-27T21:40Z 52.4K followers, 51.9K engagements "What Is A Rebody When Clones Go From Fun To Fraud. Fender Tags Vin Swapping And More Explained This video has been on my to-do list for quite a while. I got to thinking about it again recently as my friend Dave was window shopping [----] Plymouth Duster 340s - which for some reason are now a highly valuable commodity. So on today's episode we talk about about some of the different ways that a less desirable classic Mopar magically turns into a more desirable and collectible car - ranging from harmless and fun to downright illegal. As usual there's a whole lot more that I could say on this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AJozClYTsUk) 2023-08-26T19:51Z 45.2K followers, 15.9K engagements "Top End Teardown - [----] Chrysler Cordoba [---] Performance Plans Cylinder Head Removal And Much More Surprise It's Dead Dodge Garage Arkansas Edition - with many thanks to @JustMoparJoe for the loan of a bay in his shop as well as some help on this project. Check out Joe's channel at: http://www.youtube.com/@JustMoparJoe No this [----] Chrysler Cordoba isn't my [----] Chrysler [---] - but you'd be easily forgiven for thinking it was because the two cars are practically identical. Incidentally before I got the [---] it belonged to the same gentleman who owns this car. Apparently he has a type. Anyway" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BfbuYwCQQcY) 2025-09-17T19:00Z 75K followers, 29.6K engagements "392 Hemi Swap First Fire Up And Exhaust Sound Red '71 Dodge Challenger Build Update *NOTICE* I said the Sunbust Mopar show is Saturday (August 19th) but it's actually Sunday (August 20th.) That's my bad. Is it done No. Is it almost done Ehhhhh. In any case let's take a look at this awesome [---] Hemi swap in a [----] Dodge Challenger that finally actually runs This project has been pretty nuts. Every little bit has required attention thought and hours of work. Bit by bit it has shaped up into what you see now. It's very exciting for me as I've never gotten to build a car like this before. My" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BhnE6qzdHvo) 2023-08-11T15:41Z 45.2K followers, 14K engagements "Some Assembly Required - [----] Dodge Dart GT [---] Carb Tech Home Headliner Tips And Much More On this episode we've got something special. It's a mostly original paint black on black 273/push button powered [----] Dodge Dart GT. I just got this car from Chris the third generation owner in a family that has owned this sweet machine since [----]. The interior was removed from this car for a small rust repair in the floor and some refinishing well over a decade ago and it has unfortunately sat unfinished ever since. Today Allan and I are diving in head first on piecing the car back together. We learn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bn9XEy0WgOY) 2025-04-06T17:00Z 60.5K followers, 42.7K engagements "DDG Live A Brief Hello From The Road Woooo" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bp9wXX8PluY) 2025-09-15T01:36Z 74.8K followers, [----] engagements "Down To Race Weight - Stripping My [----] Plymouth Barracuda To Build The 70s Drag Car Of My Dreams Do you want to become a DDG member to help support projects like this one Click here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUIXuaxSLnF5Jhr6E_fca_A/join This is my Barracuda. There. aren't any others like it actually. Hm. Anyway this car has been around on the channel almost since the beginning. And in previous videos I've discussed my brilliant plans to turn it into the perfect period drag racer that looks like it time traveled from the 1970s. But what I haven't done is actually start building it - so" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=C5jh2iYy68g) 2025-01-12T17:50Z 53.1K followers, 20.3K engagements "Intake Port Matching - Improving Factory Castings And Finding Hidden Horsepower (A [---] Build Update) There are many small operations you can complete on your factory cast iron cylinder heads to help them shine and make real power for nothing more than the cost of the tools to do it and some of your time. One of the more important operations is matching the ports of your intake manifold to the intake ports on your cylinder heads. This is an important transitional area where messy factory (and aftermarket) castings can disrupt airflow and rob horsepower. So on today's Engine Wednesday" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=C8ZTiSo6Pyk) 2025-01-15T21:00Z 53.3K followers, 17.6K engagements "Working Through Problems On My [----] Dodge W150 Slant Six 4x4 - Dead Dodge Garage On todays episode I dig into the poor running Iron Goat II and after assuming that all of my problems were caused by a Weber carburetor the previous owner had installed I learn that the points (which this truck shouldnt have) are adjusted so badly the truck shouldnt run at all. Its moving in the right direction but definitely isnt perfect yet" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CCLQ4NZ3ryI) 2022-03-05T16:36Z 76.4K followers, 22K engagements "This [----] Dodge Monaco "Blues Brothers" Tribute Has Sat Broken For Years. Can I Make It Run Again Something something it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. This [----] Dodge Monaco C-body has been hiding in the background of many videos shot at Rocket Restorations for the last two years. Many people have asked about it but to this point it has continued to sit there broken and full of bees. But today it's supposed to be picked up by a shipper to finally go to its new home. Before that though I'd really like to hear that cop [---] run again. Let's dive in and see what happens. @rocketresto" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CCMQIHHmbYU) 2024-06-21T23:19Z 45.3K followers, 17.6K engagements "Soak It Beat It Heat It Repeat It - [----] Perkins Plymouth Taxi Head Gasket Removal Nightmare This is Perky. Perky is a thing of beauty. Truly a bewildering spectacle to the average citizen. One part basic no-frills transportation two parts fantastical Exner beauty and three parts aggressive slowness - thanks in full to the Perkins P4C engine under the hood of this finned wonder. In previous episodes I've detailed my journey with Perky so far including torquing many important suspension fasteners with hopes of keeping my passengers and myself alive making major improvements in the engine room" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CDB7bZVdauw) 2025-06-21T15:00Z 70.6K followers, 44.9K engagements "RARE [----] Dodge Dakota [---] R/T Revival And "Restoration" Begins It's like a pickup truck but smaller and less capable. It's like a muscle car except in just about every way. And yet when Dodge slapped the legendary R/T badge on the side of this [----] Dodge Dakota they created something remarkably fun. The [---] Magnum under the hood only makes [---] horsepower but the torque figure is closer to [---] lb/ft. The [----] limited slip differential gives great pickup and creates tire smoke with authority. The small suspension tweaks underneath the regular second generation Dakota body add up to make a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CLJfdh-3FcY) 2024-03-08T20:35Z 45.1K followers, 22.1K engagements "DDG Live The Spring Cleaning Sunday Extravaganza Anybody wanna buy five A-bodies" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CgV4d-2F3-0) 2025-05-12T03:16Z 62.7K followers, [----] engagements "Alive At Last - [----] Chrysler Newport Brake Fix Much Needed Cleanup Triumphant Return To The Road This is Mitchell's [----] Chrysler Newport. I helped him pick this car up from a junkyard two and a half years ago got it running and un-seized the brakes and then - for reasons that aren't worth explaining - left it sitting abandoned in my driveway on four flat tires until about two weeks ago. In the previous video on this car Allan and I got it fired up again and (barely) rolling on four tires that kinda hold air. Today we're going to finish all of the important things we failed to get to in the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CujJ2qHfLeM) 2025-04-05T16:00Z 60.3K followers, 22.8K engagements "Seized Brakes And A Little Spinout - [----] Plymouth Valiant Signet Hardtop Comes Back To Life I could spend every day reviving these A-bodies. Especially if it's going to be this easy. Today we get a slant six powered [----] Plymouth Valiant Signet [---] (whatever that means) running again. That's the easy part though. the slightly more challenging part is to get it rolling again. But if we can pull that off well it's probably time for some testing" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DSzWUs2k_BA) 2024-01-12T19:00Z 45.3K followers, 19.4K engagements "The Vibration Chronicles - Fixing Obnoxious Problems On My [----] Dodge Challenger Mitsubishi Thing Sorry Brady but it hasn't exploded yet. In fact my [----] "Dodge" "Challenger" (which is totally just a badge engineered machine from Mitsubishi) has been 100% reliable and quite fun as a daily driver even during this unseasonably dry cold snap. But a [---] mile highway test drive revealed a couple issues that need to be addressed. The first is that my bodged repair on the driveshaft center support bushing did nothing and under hard acceleration it feels like the shaft wants to come through the floor" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DsIEz8zxPgM) 2025-01-24T20:00Z 54.2K followers, 22K engagements "Sweet Survivor - This [---] / [--] Speed [----] Plymouth Barracuda Needs Help After [--] Years Off The Road If you follow the channel you know that I am a big fan of first generation "big window" Barracudas. I even own one which I call the Garbage Can 'Cuda for obvious reasons. So imagine my surprise and delight when Dave a DDG Gold Member asked me to work on this beautiful unit. It's a 138k mile [----] Plymouth Barracuda with the original [---] under the hood and a four speed manual transmission. It's been off the road since the mid 90s and clearly needs some tender love and care. Let's dive in and see" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E78vR8yMvXU) 2024-11-23T20:09Z 47K followers, 42.9K engagements "Chrysler's Best Axle - [----] "Garbage Can" Plymouth Barracuda Gets An [--] 3/4 Upgrade This is my [----] Plymouth Barracuda called the "Garbage Can Cuda" which is slowly being transformed into a classic-styled drag car. One important step in that process is installing a rear differential that can take the heat. I can all but guarantee that several commenters on this video will say I need to opt for a Dana [--] instead but I'm going to insist on using the A-body's factory performance axle - the [--] 3/4. Basically the Chrysler [--] 3/4 axle is just like a Ford 9" but slightly worse. It's a relatively stout" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8kpwD3oxg) 2024-08-03T18:22Z 44.9K followers, 14.6K engagements "Will This [---] Swapped [----] Plymouth Valiant Run And Drive After Sitting For [--] Years I mean. yeah. It's a big block Mopar. Come on guy you've seen the show" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Eqcuw8vnX58) 2023-10-07T14:00Z 73.2K followers, 126.9K engagements "Strange Dana [--] Swap - The Ultimate Axle Upgrade For Dylan's [----] Dodge Dart Sport (And Your Mopar) I've been working on Dylan's [----] Dodge Dart Sport project for over a year now. No I don't know how that happened either. In previous videos I explained the formula for this build pulled the original slant six drivetrain (which was in pretty sorry shape) explained how I will convert the car to a V8 and fully overhauled the front suspension with some choice upgrade parts in preparation for the drivetrain swap. Today we're addressing another important part of the chassis improvement equation -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Erl5Gy0ikUE) 2024-10-25T20:00Z 75.5K followers, 21.1K engagements "Performance Timing Curves For Dummies Like Me (Ignition Basics Distributor Mods And Tuning) In this video I give you some of the basics on ignition timing curves why we need them (usually) and what you need to do to make yours work on a warmed over American V8 utilizing extensive and specific anecdotal knowledge based around the small block Chrysler engine" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EynMhI6zCD0) 2023-05-13T16:58Z 44K followers, 33K engagements "No Name Or Bust - "Garbage Can" [----] Plymouth Barracuda Build Plan [--] 3/4 Axle Tech And Much More I've been planning to go to the No Name Nationals since the inception of Dead Dodge Garage. In fact reaching the [---] subscriber requirement to compete was my main goal when I started this channel. Now actually getting there wasn't on the list of possible things in the early days once I fulfilled that requirement but it was a neat idea. My intention for a couple years now has been to piece together the Garbage Can 'Cuda - a flagship drag racer that would be built from scratch on the channel" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fq9bYp76pyg) 2025-08-17T19:52Z 73K followers, 23.1K engagements "Budget Rally Car - [----] Dodge Neon Crash Damage Fix Bumper Build Super Swampers And Offroad Glory Here's an easy recipe to make a pretty bad car great. Un-bend all of the parts of said car that have been put through another vehicle a house or another immovable object. 1) Replace any major engine components that have holes in them they aren't supposed to have. 2) Replace any essential suspension components that more closely resemble a pretzel than they are supposed to. 3) Install a set of 29" super swampers using nothing but a pry bar and a sledge hammer. Congratulations You're ready to party" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FtseGpifcsY) 2025-03-23T20:04Z 59.2K followers, 22.3K engagements "This [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon Is An Original Paint Survivor (That Rides Like A Pile Of Bricks) I love Power Wagons. I've had a bunch of them. But I've never done any real seat time in a 60s era Sweptline Power Wagon which is unfortunate because I've always thought they were some of the coolest. I actually own one of these trucks myself but unlike Gary's truck we're seeing here mine is an awful piece of garbage. Anyway this truck has been sitting in Montana for many years and while it's already running and kind of driving it's going to need a lot of help in the near future. Let's take a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FwXrfvRWVc0) 2024-06-22T18:00Z 45.3K followers, 21.8K engagements "Chrysler's Unknown Race Weapon - The Ultimate [---] Is This Modified R Block From Mopar Performance Ok it's not unknown to hardcore Mopar racers. But it was certainly unknown to me when I tripped over this weird looking small block in a pile of parts @rocketresto dragged home. Since then I've gotten an education on the evolution of Chrysler's LA series small block long after the original performance variants had left the production line. So on today's episode let's take a close look at this R block and see what there is to learn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JY72hpn7lRI) 2025-01-08T21:00Z 73.3K followers, 132.4K engagements "A Symphony Of Expensive Sounds - This [----] Chrysler Street Hemi Needs Help (A Detailed Autopsy) I don't know why the shop is littered with [---] Hemi engines now but I sure like it. Tom with @rocketresto dragged this one home from the Spring Fling show in Van Nuys CA a few weeks ago. Supposedly it was running in a car within the last couple months but was removed and replaced with a date correct engine. I have a great interest in assembling a working [---] engine so I decided to give this one a close look to see if it was a better candidate than my damaged race Hemi block. All I can say is. are" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JYOB6Bo9Q4o) 2025-05-21T19:00Z 65.4K followers, 26.8K engagements "The Big Shunt Wire Guide - Prevent Electrical Meltdown In Your Classic Mopar With This Easy Fix On today's episode I install a charge bypass wire (or "shunt wire") in a [----] Dodge Challenger to help protect the new wiring harness I just installed. I have used the same procedure in my [----] Dodge Charger my [----] Plymouth Valiant and countless other cars. In fact this is a useful technique for just about any classic car with an ammeter or amp gauge - especially in cases where various electrical components have been upgraded or accessories have been added. It's quick it's easy it's cheap and the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jf56TbV7q_Q) 2025-01-03T19:59Z 52.3K followers, 14.2K engagements "DDG Live Let's Jump All The Yellow Cars In The Field For A Safe And Legal Thrill The cackling will never get old" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JfLQLETCnGU) 2025-04-21T03:18Z 61.3K followers, [----] engagements "Driving A Daytona A Brief History Of The [----] Dodge Charger Daytona Wing Car Dead Dodge Garage merch is available now Check out our latest shirt design "More Bad Than Car." at https://shop.DeadDodgeGarage.com It's just like a normal Charger but extra. OK so people occasionally slam on their brakes in the middle of the road to try and get a picture of it. It was built to go really really fast. But it drives very nicely at normal road speeds. It's also worth a small fortune. Other than that it's just like a normal Charger" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K17OmssJlMg) 2023-03-04T19:42Z 53.9K followers, 12.5K engagements "All About The "Baby Hemi" - Dodge [---] Part ID Size Comparison + Much More (Can I Build This One) Last week I did a video on a DeSoto [---] Hemi V8 going over the general layout of the engine comparing it in size to an A/LA series engine and to the other first generation dual rocker shaft engines and coaxing some life out of what was previously a rusty seized and sad dead player. When I went to buy that engine the seller informed me that he also had a Dodge [---] engine in pieces which had come from the same gentleman (who had unfortunately passed away.) Just like the DeSoto I have no history on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KBMNc0ztzLU) 2025-03-12T19:00Z 58.9K followers, 34.5K engagements "What's Wrong With This [----] Mercury Capri Fluid Leaks Bad Noises And More On The Best "Mustang" I think the Fox Mustang/Capri is a neat car at least in theory. Drop some V8 grunt in a small [----] pound or less rear wheel drive car add some crisp straightforward styling and a decent interior. In practice. I'm not sure it's quite so great as it should be. What I do know is that in its time Chrysler had no good answer to the Fox Body. So today I want to take a long hard look at what I personally consider to be the greatest of those cars - the inaugural [----] Mercury Capri - and see what it's all" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KQpoiSb8fIs) 2024-09-15T19:26Z 57.7K followers, 26.1K engagements "DDG Live The You Probably Cant Hear Me Edition Really tho this might not work at all" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KUu0gl78BCE) 2025-05-26T01:25Z 65.4K followers, [----] engagements "Pertronix Problems This Rare [----] Plymouth Roadrunner Needs Help (How To Wire Pertronix Ignition) Chrysler big blocks have always been excellent engines. Even the low compression lower power 70s units generally deliver mounds of torque and sufficiently move trucks RVs and cars like this one down the road without issue. However to get the full effect you really need all [--] cylinders to be at the party - and today's subject doesn't have them anymore. This [----] Plymouth Road Runner has recently had a complete front suspension overhaul and restoration (to delete an inadequate aftermarket" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KXvKi6Bx718) 2025-02-14T20:00Z 60.7K followers, 26.4K engagements "DDG Live The Maybe We'll Talk About Cars This Time Sunday Stream Apparently the viewers care more about [----] Rams than [----] Chrysler 300Js. It's official I don't know how anything works" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KYDUoIiy7WI) 2025-10-13T01:23Z 76.3K followers, [----] engagements "Oops Dale's Demon Is WAY Faster - My Last Drag Runs For [----] And My [----] Dodge Demon 340's Future It's been several months now of waiting patiently for a response from @UncleTonysGarage and Slaghammer. I've still got his timing light which I (unintentionally) stole during the Great Ice Cream Race and which I would be happy to ship back to him. In the interim my home track Bremerton Raceway's very last test and tune of the year came around and I knew there was still a lot of time to shave off of my previous best 1/8th mile time of [----]. So Byron and I loaded the Demon on the ramp truck and hit" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kd0RHKqaD1Y) 2024-10-30T19:00Z 75.4K followers, 20.9K engagements "DDG Live The Where The Heck Am I Sunday Streaming Extravaganza Coming to you live from a hotel room that is way too nice for me in Butte Montana" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KgVG5EXkPG4) 2023-09-18T03:59Z 44.9K followers, [----] engagements "DDG Live Tom And Jamie Talk About V Codes And Space Ships (The Weekly Sunday Live Thing) There's too much happening. Like officially just too many things" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LDDcSFPLb-c) 2025-03-17T03:18Z 58.5K followers, [----] engagements "The CHEAPEST [---] Poly Rebuild - Restoring Rusty Parts Block Prep And The Art Of Good Enough In the last episode on my [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon I removed the crusty A-series [---] "Poly" engine with the help of a couple friends and a tractor. We then stripped the block in preparation for the kind of quick and dirty engine overhaul one might have seen on a farm back in the bad old days. In today's video Allan and I rehabilitate many engine components in preparation for an extremely cheap rebuild. Along the way I'll show you some of the techniques I've come up with for saving parts that may" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LI2O902wloM) 2025-01-29T20:00Z 61.5K followers, 35.1K engagements "Fake Fox Body From Japan - Will This [----] Dodge Challenger Run And Drive After Years Off The Road Alright "rare" is a bit of a relative term. In '81 there were about [-----] of these bad boys produced - meaning more of them existed than '71 [---] Demons for example. And over the second generation Challenger's run there were apparently over [------] of them sold a statistic I find fantastic and somewhat staggering. But they certainly must be rare in the modern age given that I have never seen another one and only had the faintest of ideas that they were even built. Of course rare does not" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Li5_QWuJOxU) 2024-08-30T19:31Z 44.8K followers, 89.9K engagements "Together At Last - [----] Plymouth Barracuda [---] Engine Detail Install Cam Break-in And Much More This is Mark's [----] Plymouth Barracuda. Way back in October or something it came in for some top end work including a cam change a four barrel conversion and some other small details. When I dug into the original [---] under the hood it quickly became apparent that it needed much more than hotrod parts. Between a mismatched set of cylinder heads (one open chamber one closed chamber) excessive crankshaft thrust and a leaking core plug at the back of the block this poor engine needed a complete" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LrGueHXm7T8) 2025-07-13T18:30Z 70.8K followers, 30.9K engagements "DDG Live It's Sunday Again So We'll Do The Stuff My tummy hurts though" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ly9thCkUm7c) 2025-07-14T03:15Z 70.5K followers, [----] engagements "SEIZED AND BAD Can I Fix This [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon It's been almost a year since I bought this beat old Dodge 4x4 truck and started this project. Yeah. I know. Let's just say things haven't quite gone to plan. Let's check in on this nightmarish project and see what's what" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=M3C_J0syT8w) 2024-03-16T17:37Z 45.3K followers, 34.4K engagements "DDG Live From The Middle Of Arkansas Wheelies WHEELIES" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MnGMJFU2Xtk) 2025-09-22T01:28Z 75.1K followers, [----] engagements "DDG Live The I'm-Real-Excited-About-The-Barracuda Sunday Livestream Party Thing Wooooooo" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NIuUpP5qPJ0) 2025-09-08T01:18Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements "DDG Live The What's New Is Also Broken Sunday Stream Party I'm not late YOU'RE late" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nis_NXIRKA0) 2025-03-10T03:18Z 58K followers, [----] engagements "A Rocky Start - [---] Hemi Factory Restoration Build Recipe Component Deep Dive And A Big Problem We didn't know what it was this morning and now we're building two of them. This is Chrysler's legendary [---] Hemi engine. The second generation of their Hemi-headed engines it was originally conceived in [----] specifically to dominate NASCAR and was employed to smoke the competition at local drag strips shortly thereafter. For [----] it would find its way into regular production street cars to homologate it for a return to NASCAR - and it would grow to legendary status as a rare wild undeniably" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nw4ZyuKkK4g) 2025-04-30T19:00Z 62.2K followers, 26.5K engagements "Grandpa Truck - This Long Dead [----] Jeep J10 Needs Help (Column Science Major Gas Leaks And More) One of Tom Hergert's favorite things to do is drag home dead rusty garbage. One of my favorite things to do is revive dead rusty garbage - so this situation tends to work out pretty well. Today Tom has brought a couple treasures back from a junkyard type situation in the mountainous middle of nowhere part of California and it's once again time to grab a gas can and steal a battery from some other project car. The first is this sweet Jeep pickup which turns out to be not so rusty. In fact it's" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OJ7VsdrSS74) 2025-03-29T16:00Z 71K followers, 41.5K engagements "Operation Snowball - [----] Mopar [---] Roller Cam Setup Head Gasket Tech Quench Notes And Much More A couple months ago I did a video tearing down a [---] that had been making some horrible rattling sounds. Inside a couple chambers I found little chunks of unknown debris and in the oil pan I found a bunch of blasting sand. Needless to say that engine went to the machine shop for some cleaning and a rethink - and today we're finally reassembling it using nice fresh parts. One small problem - none of those parts actually fit right or work together the way they're supposed to. @rocketresto" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OM-NL5HqYnY) 2025-06-11T19:00Z 67.8K followers, 25.5K engagements "Hot Mess - This [---] Powered [----] Dodge Challenger Needs Help - Electrical Overhaul Tuning And More This whole operation was one big flashback because I've already owned almost exactly the same car and I've already been through all of the same stuff. So on today's remake of Groundhog Day I dig into this [----] Dodge Challenger with [---] power and attempt to fix everything wrong with it. Spoiler alert - it goes exactly how you would expect which is to say. mixed bag" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ONL-TFi_nnI) 2024-12-21T19:08Z 51.1K followers, 27.3K engagements "DDG Live This Time It's Personal Or Whatever It's way too hot for this I'll tell ya what" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OVJ5vjKSZj0) 2024-07-08T03:12Z 45.1K followers, [----] engagements "What's Wrong With This [----] Dodge Challenger Electrical Gremlins Big Block Tuning Tech And More This [----] Dodge Challenger is the only E-body I've ever owned. I bought it off of the "Mopar Ranch" which you can see in an older video on the channel. After getting it back on the road and enjoying it for a time I sold the car 6-7 years ago and it has been on quite the journey since then (despite not actually traveling very far.) In fact I randomly stumbled across it in a shop some time ago when picking up another Mopar and featured it in a video when it was still in primer. At that time it was" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=P56B_fWWWE8) 2024-09-07T19:38Z 44.8K followers, 35.2K engagements "Building The Barracuda - Drivetrain Install Drum Brake Tech and MUCH More For My Drag Car Project Buying Dead Dodge Garage merch helps support this project Grab your DDG Scrap Pack shirt and stickers or any of our other awesome designs here: https://shop.deaddodgegarage.com It's everybody's favorite crusty [----] Plymouth Barracuda the Garbage Can 'Cuda Last time we fiddled with a bunch of little things and installed the gear chunk (spoiler alert it leaks and it's coming back out.) On this episode Allan and I make some SERIOUS progress on the car touching nearly every system from front to back" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PQhSCJjYFrk) 2025-08-24T17:00Z 73.4K followers, 34K engagements "Valvetrain Science - Performance [---] Rocker & Pushrod Fitment Stacking Tolerances And Much More This is the street performance [---] LA I've built for Mark's [----] Plymouth Barracuda over a series of videos. It seems like every single engine I try to put together these days has issues with parts not fitting together and this engine was no exception. Our biggest problem was pushrod fitment - even with a hydraulic lifter setup I generally insist on adjustable rocker arms for any performance build. For this engine Mark opted for the fancy Harland Sharps. After discovering that our new pushrods were" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7KyYB7-Pw) 2025-06-25T19:15Z 68.9K followers, 24.4K engagements "EFI And An Overdrive Gear - This [----] Dodge Coronet [---] Convertible Is Finally A Perfect Driver It's been well over a year since we last saw Don's [----] Coronet [---] convertible on the channel. Since we last saw it the bulk of the project has finally been completed with only a few straggling issues left to be sorted. But I never got around to wrapping up the project with a final video because it left Rocket to make it to the last big car show of the season last year before it was completely finished. Since that time I have been asked many times about the Silversport Transmissions A41 overdrive" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pv4br2eFKY8) 2024-08-02T19:00Z 44.8K followers, 13K engagements "The Saga Of The Stubborn Cylinder Head - The "Perky" [----] Plymouth Diesel Taxi Update No One Wanted This project is driving me insane. All I wanted to do was replace Perky's terribly leaking head gasket and continue enjoying the car while I overhaul the spare engine. Instead I have been rewarded for my efforts with a really neat looking piece of yard art that turns my hands and clothing inky blank whenever I get near it. Anyway people keep asking about it so I thought today I'd let everyone know how things are going. Spoiler alert - not good" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5cNY3zO8I8) 2025-08-09T16:22Z 76K followers, 44.6K engagements "Battery Powered Rocket - A Mopar Guy's Review Of The 450+ HP [----] Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus No this isn't your regular Dead Dodge Garage video - because today I have a unique opportunity to be the first regular guy off the street to drive the very first brand new Dodge Charger at my local Dodge dealer Five Star / Harbor Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram. When this new Charger model was announced as a concept car in August [----] I was immediately excited - because look at it. Yeah it's a sleek looking modern car but there is so much second generation Charger in it that it's impossible to ignore. It" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QIfxyCqNnWQ) 2025-03-16T17:00Z 58.9K followers, 40.6K engagements "Trash Or Treasure Mopar [---] LA Garage Sale Find Teardown Inspection Part Identification And More I love the Chrysler LA engine. It's my happy place. I have all of the fastener sizes and torque specifications memorized. I know the ins the outs the oddball quirks and important details of this engine family like the inside of my eyelids. I stack them in my shop like cordwood. When I was a bachelor I had LA heads and performance intakes lined up on the carpet in my living room. (Yes that's a true story.) So when I randomly find one at a garage sale particularly with some aged but desirable speed" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QRV5529dEbE) 2025-05-28T19:00Z 67.3K followers, 78.5K engagements "I'm Drowning In Projects - Every Car In The Dead Dodge Garage Fleet Update It's been a crazy year for me. Many things have happened in [----] and the channel has more than doubled in size. If things go to plan I'll have even crazier builds coming in [----]. You might even see me at some big drag racing and other Mopar events across the country. Today though I'm going to go through all of the cars I've got stacked up around the shop and give you the winter [----] State Of The Fleet. If you're keeping score at home the last State Of The Fleet was exactly a year ago tomorrow. Who knew I could be that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QVY97KOjwkI) 2024-12-29T19:20Z 52.1K followers, 23.2K engagements "A Dart In Plymouth Clothing - [----] Plymouth Scamp History Interior Build Glass Tech And Much More This is my [----] Plymouth Scamp. I bought it from my friend Jeff who owned it for about eight years. In that time he made all sorts of nice modifications including freshening the suspension adding a sway bar spicing up the [---] Slant Six under the hood and more. Unfortunately it had an unscheduled meeting with a deer on the highway one evening and it now needs some various repairs to be brought back up to snuff. Today we'll cover a bunch of that we'll go for a sporting drive and we'll take a close" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QiMVxpPS8s4) 2025-04-13T20:22Z 72.8K followers, 49.5K engagements "DDG Live The Unexpected Road Trip Sunday Streaming Extravaganza Featuring my other brother" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RFKvmUYyc1I) 2023-10-16T03:23Z 45.3K followers, [----] engagements "DDG Live The Doomed Buggy Sunday Streamy Party Are you a PT Can't Or a PT Can" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RUd4ljqzdmo) 2025-06-16T03:18Z 68K followers, [----] engagements "Dale's Demon Returns [----] Dodge Demon [---] 4-Speed Maintenance Street Setup Bang Shifting Action This is my Demon. which is called Dale's Demon. This has confused some people over the years but I'm fine with that. Over the last couple years I've used the Demon to get some seat time going down 1/8th mile tracks starting out in the 9s and ultimately ending up in the high 7s. While there's definitely more on the table there ultimately this car deserves to be retired from drag racing and preserved for future generations. Also I'd like to enjoy it as an actual car. So today we're going to put the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RcIycfKisKU) 2025-05-11T18:15Z 74.7K followers, 31.4K engagements "End Of The Line - This [----] Studebaker Commander Could Be A Daily Driver (But There's A Problem) Since spending a handful of years with a [----] Studebaker Hawk project in my life I have developed a real appreciation for these orphaned classics. While they don't quite have "honorary Mopar" status (as enthusiasts often allow for AMC products) they are in the same expanded universe - and you've got to love an underdog. So when I had the opportunity to buy this last year [----] Studebaker Champion I jumped on it. Of course bringing a project car home is easy. The immediate question was. what do I do" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RgMO1abQFNw) 2024-12-01T18:41Z 48.5K followers, 29.2K engagements "No Name Nationals [----] Banging Gears Bracket Racing And Breaking Stuff In The Garbage Can 'Cuda It's finally here No Name Nationals is a drag racing event specifically created for automotive YouTubers with [---] subscribers or more. The possibility of attending this event was part of the reasoning behind starting my YouTube channel and after several years of wanting to make the journey [----] miles to Sikeston for the party I've finally pulled it off. Of course I brought a car that's been fully together for less than two weeks and surprise surprise there are going to be some teething problems." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rogiy9tw-Jg) 2025-09-28T20:31Z 75.5K followers, 27.7K engagements "DDG Live The Challengers Appear Sunday Thingy "This is probably one of the worst cars ever built." - Another YouTube channel talking about my [----] Dodge Challenger using my footage" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rq90D5j3Dos) 2024-12-23T04:26Z 51K followers, [----] engagements "Tin Grille School Bus - This [---] Powered [----] Dodge D200 Crew Cab Long Bed Needs Help The battery's dead. It won't fire at all without a healthy drink of gas poured down the carb. It's gutless and clouds of fuel vapor occasionally spout from the air horn like old faithful under acceleration. The electric fuel pump bodged under the hood is a strong hint that the fuel supply system leaves something to be desired. There's a strange whistling noise emanating from the carburetor and a horrible dry scraping noise from the water pump. The good news is this [---] big block powered [----] Dodge D200 crew" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SFZRhWCpxdE) 2024-11-16T18:22Z 46.3K followers, 17.4K engagements "OK The Aces Killshot Classic Finally Runs BUT. (A New Direction For My Turbo Slant Six Build) I gave it one more shot. I probably didn't need to but I did. And it finally kinda runs. Despite my best efforts it absolutely refuses to run well. I tried all of the things that were suggested. I made (almost) all of the changes we all knew needed to be made. I spent hours trying to tune this thing in every conceivable way. And it still just doesn't work. Also it leaks gasoline on my turbine housing from poorly sealed throttle shafts. And as great a video as my [----] Plymouth Valiant erupting into a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SFoTN8-9pp4) 2025-02-07T20:00Z 55.4K followers, 26.7K engagements "DDG Live The I'm Running Out Of Places To Hide The A-Bodies Sunday Party Three cars in three days That's just too many" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SJ1cNx38WnM) 2025-03-31T03:11Z 59.8K followers, [----] engagements "DDG Live Jamie And Tom Talk About Exciting Things NOS parts and Perkins Plymouths oh my" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SbYm7pKcgkQ) 2025-05-19T03:12Z 63.6K followers, [----] engagements "Just One More Thing. Wiring Dylan's [---] Swapped [----] Dart Sport Brake And TKX Tech And Much More This is Dylan's [----] Dodge Dart Sport. In previous videos we removed the original slant six drivetrain overhauled the suspension installed a Magnum-based [---] stroker a TKX five speed manual transmission a Dana [--] axle and much more. In the last episode we heard the engine fire to life. briefly. In the doing we learned that the brand new TKX was jammed in gear. So in this video we start by ripping it back out to fix the shift linkage problem. Then we install an exhaust. Then we plumb the braking" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SniYSvX-Tgk) 2025-06-08T18:45Z 67.7K followers, 32.3K engagements "DDG Live The Six Cylinders Of Fury (Lancer) Sunday Streamy Thing Hey the Dat-soon has a six too. It's even kinda slanted" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T8sdkZr4iLk) 2025-03-03T03:36Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements "273 Transformation - [----] Plymouth Barracuda Four Barrel Swap Rare Commando Parts And More This is Dave's mostly original survivor [----] Plymouth Barracuda. In the first episode on this car I replaced the gas tank got the car running again after years of sitting and took it for a quick test drive up and down the road. I then tore into the engine to replace the valve stem seals the timing chain and much more before throwing in the towel and leaving it in pieces for a month. On today's episode it's finally time to wrap up the refresh on the little [---] V8 under the hood get the car fired up again" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UH_8c7xfiRA) 2025-01-05T19:40Z 52.5K followers, 28.9K engagements "Dead Car In The Background - [----] Chrysler Newport Ignition Fix Brakes And More (2.5 Years Later) I know why I operate the way I do. I know why I bounce from project to project leaving a mess of unfinished operations lingering in the wings. I have the attention span of a gnat and I'm constantly searching for the happy chemicals. Typically I try to get back to the various projects on the property for another round of fixing in a matter of weeks or months. For some reason it's been two and a half years since this [----] Chrysler Newport was dropped onto a trailer and dragged back to my place for" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ULdxMEfZmHc) 2025-03-22T18:45Z 59.2K followers, 35.1K engagements "DDG Live Now With More Liveliness (The Normal Sunday Thing) That's a joke if I became any more lively I think we'd have a problem" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1S8AXvmDE) 2025-09-01T01:07Z 73.8K followers, [----] engagements "DDG Live With Tom Hergert @RocketResto I'm sure we'll talk about Fords" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=W62Q_DSbaTk) 2024-12-30T04:24Z 52K followers, [----] engagements "The Bad Sounds - Dana [--] Rebuild Dead Wipers Door Seals And More For This [----] Dodge Crew Cab On the last episode on this [----] Dodge D200 crew cab belong to Mitchell (no not that Mitchell the other Mitchell) I fixed all kinds of weird problems including but not limited to just about every pump attached to the engine an unwillingness to start and a very poor running condition. At the end of that episode I took it for a test drive which went remarkably well - except for the bad noises that seemed to be emanating from the Dana [--] rear axle. There were a handful of other small projects to tackle" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XKE_SZ527EY) 2024-12-20T20:00Z 50.9K followers, 17.1K engagements "The Rarest Teardown - [----] Plymouth Sport Fury GT [---] [--] Barrel Autopsy Disassembly (Will It Turn) Tom Hergert with @rocketresto has already done multiple videos on this awesome [----] Plymouth Sport Fury GT so if you want to know more about the car and its history I suggest you hop over to his channel and take a look. Today though we've got something very special and as-yet unseen in the modern age as far as we are aware - we're pulling the seized numbers matching 440-6 out of this long neglected V-code muscle boat and tearing into it with hopes of finding good news and a rebuildable engine." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XSU6A4QnrPQ) 2025-04-02T19:00Z 60.5K followers, 47.4K engagements "Ratty Driver Rehab - [----] Plymouth Fury Front End Fixes Carb Swap And A Crappy '69 Charger Visit" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XahgQce8eFE) 2025-07-06T17:30Z 69.9K followers, 24.1K engagements "Brake Safety Upgrade - Swap The "Pump And Pray" For A Dual Master Cylinder (A [----] Barracuda Update) If you've got a classic Mopar from [----] or earlier then you're likely familiar with the single pot master cylinder colloquially known as the "pump and pray." Because this brake system lacks any redundancy in the event of a hydraulic failure at any of the four wheels you're going to lose your brakes - and that's never a good time. Converting these early cars to the [----] and newer dual master cylinder is by no means a new idea and today we're installing one in Dave's [----] Plymouth Barracuda." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XcMUGkN9fkY) 2025-01-11T17:06Z 53.1K followers, 16.9K engagements ""We've Got A Race Car" [----] Barracuda Fuel System Build Wiring Job Engine Break In And MUCH More No Name is less than two weeks away at this point and we still haven't heard the Barracuda run. It doesn't have an electrical system an ignition system a cooling system a floor. you know little things. So today Allan and I are once again thrashing on the Garbage Can 'Cuda in an effort to get it together and operational. This project has been all consuming. I lay awake at night remembering small things we still haven't done. But it's really starting to look like we may have a race car in time to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y1IkznztIis) 2025-09-07T19:01Z 74.6K followers, 36.4K engagements "DDG Live The Sharing Is Caring Sunday Streamaganza I have no idea what I'm talking about" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y51uhX-jvoU) 2025-07-21T01:09Z 70.9K followers, [----] engagements "I Built The Ramp Truck Of My Dreams (Mostly) In [--] Days - [----] Dodge D350 Cummins Car Hauler Part [--] My everything hurts. I'm pretty sure I inhaled enough welding fumes grinding dust and wood shavings during the course of this project to take a few years off my life. I worked so hard sweated so much and ate so little for four days that my old pants fit again. I'm not joking - that actually happened. Anyway as I explained over the course of the first two videos on this first gen Cummins truck I have long had a vision for my ideal car hauler. It comfortably fits an A-body Mopar on the back to go" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YXxNG-LqUag) 2024-05-12T19:28Z 45.2K followers, 27.3K engagements "So Many Breakdowns - [----] Perkins Plymouth Taxi Injection Pump Tech Highway Test Run And Much More This is Perky. Perky is a silly name because the Perkins P4C under the hood is anything but. This [----] Plymouth was ordered as a taxi and converted to diesel power when new. It's one of very few examples of the breed surviving in the US today. As a matter of fact I don't know that anyone else in America (or even the world) is daily driving one of these cars let alone cruising one on the freeway. If you happen to own one I don't recommend that you attempt the latter - and in today's video I'll" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yfd790ZDra8) 2025-06-01T18:00Z 73.3K followers, 75.8K engagements "Bad News Inside - This [---] For Our [----] Plymouth Barracuda Performance Build Is Worse Than I Thought Building budget performance small block Mopar engines is just about my favorite thing in the world. These engines respond very well to basic hot rod modifications and it's extremely rewarding to floor the loud pedal and burn rubber with an engine you pieced together yourself for almost no capital investment. Unfortunately in the case of Mark's [----] Plymouth Barracuda engine the original goal of staying out of the bottom end of the engine and keeping things affordable is no longer achievable." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YjpyoKio95E) 2024-11-15T20:00Z 46.3K followers, 19.2K engagements "DON'T Send A Down Payment This $10k [----] Dodge Charger Is A Scam And You're The Target So you want to buy a Charger. You aren't alone. I've tried to buy many Chargers over the years and have seen countless examples sold by other parties. If you've got a Charger for sale (and it's priced right) people will line up around the block to buy it. It seems like everybody wants one. And that's what makes scams like the one I'm looking at today so sinister. When you respond to an ad like this you KNOW there will be competition. How do you secure your chance at owning this Charger You send the seller a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ylv1esTUQRw) 2024-11-10T17:07Z 46.3K followers, 40.1K engagements "Truck Bed Teardown - Knocking Mopar [---] LA Engine Autopsy Part ID Damage Assessment And Much More This [---] LA Chrysler engine previously lived in a [----] Dodge B200 van. It ran fairly well but when it got warm it started making a happy little knocking sound. Apparently this sound developed during a timing adjustment session after revving the engine. I have always suspected this to be a damaged piston skirt or a wrist pin issue. But today Allan has removed the engine from the van for possible use in another project. Obviously before that happens we need to go hunting for that knocking sound and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z1oQ0RGmXTc) 2025-06-04T19:00Z 67.3K followers, 34.4K engagements "First Start Nightmare - Tearing Down A Brand New [---] Big Block In Search Of An Awful Clunking Noise Welcome back to Engine Wednesdays a recurring Dead Dodge Garage series where I dig into the engines that make our beloved classic Chrysler products tick (or knock smoke leak etc.) On today's episode we're looking at a brand new (24 year old) [---] build that made some very unfortunate sounds when it was first fired up in the [----] Dodge Charger it belongs to. It only ran for a few seconds and the hope is that whatever is making the noise has not yet wreaked any terrible havoc on the shiny new" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZCcGqIamxJ8) 2024-12-11T20:00Z 50.1K followers, 37.4K engagements "A Bunch Of Banana Fixes - Bedside Bashing Wiring Overhaul Bracket Fab And More For My [----] A100 This is my [---] powered [----] Dodge A100 van/truck thing. I have dubbed it.The Flying Banana despite the fact that it is neither of those things. But some day soon I hope to campaign this glorious unit as a drag racer and/or wheel stander and to that end many improvements need to be made. So on today's episode Allan and I dive in and see how much of the list we can knock out" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_YwFU8WxWLM) 2025-02-08T19:00Z 55.4K followers, 23.5K engagements "Top End Troubles - Tearing Down A [---] Hemi That Never Ran Right (A [----] Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda Update) In a previous video Tom (@rocketresto) and I removed this [---] Hemi from a [----] Plymouth 'Cuda after I found it to run rough despite extensive tuning attempts and discovered a lack of exhaust temperature in the manifold runner from cylinder #1. On today's episode I'm going to dig in and look for obvious issues in this engine - and it won't take me too long to find them" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=__3RJ62PWMU) 2024-12-04T20:00Z 50K followers, 45.1K engagements "DDG Live The Sunday Night Mopars And Gui-tars Hangout Stream (Or Whatever) There are you happy" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=a5WGWkKHb2o) 2025-08-18T03:13Z 72.9K followers, [----] engagements "DDG Live The Fantasic Smell Of Burning Diesel Oil Sunday Stream Party It could be worse I guess" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aDZ4WToiZxs) 2025-06-23T03:25Z 68.5K followers, [----] engagements "DDG Live The Tree Bouncing Bonanza Sunday Stream Party Are you impressed I'm impressed" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aZhSTBnoBhU) 2025-01-27T04:12Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements "Will This Crusty [----] Jeep J10 Pickup Run And Drive After Sitting [--] Years In A Rainforest Well one outta two aint bad" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aokTgcTl20I) 2022-08-08T15:19Z 71K followers, [----] engagements "Pulling The Poly - Disassembling My [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon's Rusty [---] For A Budget Rebuild Today on Dead Dodge Garage my friend David comes for a visit. This invariably means that it's time to work on my abandoned sad and crusty [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon once again because I'm such a great friend. Anyway this truck has been a dead player in the fleet since I brought it home and although David and I got the engine turning last year it didn't take long to devolve into a quagmire of epic proportions that I have had no interest in dealing with. Today though I've got two great friends a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bQqNqpKRlTg) 2025-01-18T17:43Z 53.6K followers, 21.2K engagements "Speedy Big Block Science - [---] Source Head CC Check Compression Calculation And Much More I'm not usually this guy. In my world compression is at most an afterthought. I usually just throw mostly stock stuff together and it just kinda works. However today is a different day - and this is a different engine. In this [---] we've got shiny new flat top KB pistons that protrude from the block slightly and closed chamber cylinder heads with relatively small combustion chambers. So some actual calculations are necessary here to make sure we're in the realm of safety. To that end I've devised a quick" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bS7CqjVKNq8) 2025-07-23T19:00Z 71.2K followers, 20.7K engagements "How To Design Custom Car Parts Using Cardboard (A [----] Dodge Challenger [---] Hemi Swap Update) I've never claimed to be a master fabricator (or a master of anything really) but I do have a few tricks up my sleeve. One of the best might be using a humble piece of cardboard to create a custom car part. The custom cold air intake box that I build in this video is by far the most complicated piece I have ever made - and it is rooted in this simple idea. Follow along as I demonstrate the process and you too will be able to make just about anything out of sheet metal that you can conceive using CAD" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=c0Z412-T3Zg) 2023-10-12T18:00Z 45.3K followers, [----] engagements "1500 Mile Rescue Towing A Blown Up [----] Dodge Power Wagon With My Home Built Cummins Hauler The ink had hardly dried on the last ramp truck video (in which Allan and I swapped the majority of the body panels) when I got the call informing me that Jorden was parked on the shoulder of an interstate and in need of a rescue. He was on his way from Utah to DDG World Headquarters to help with a couple projects and hopefully do some tuning on his [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon. Well. it needs a bit more than a tune now because over the course of about [---] miles the [---] under the hood of the '79" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=c1nD2sEuwTc) 2024-10-26T18:08Z 75.4K followers, 23K engagements "Ranch Rescue - Crusty [----] Dodge Charger Gets A Bath After [--] Years (Bonus B-Body Juggling And More) On today's episode it's a long-awaited update on Colin's [----] Dodge Charger project. This car has been off the road since a couple years before he was born and it's been sitting at the ranch rotting into the earth for at least a couple decades. So today is a momentous occasion because Colin borrowed the DDG ramp truck to finally haul the Charger home in just about the sketchiest way possible. First we'll have to move a Fury and a '68 Roadrunner that really should've been welded back together" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cCyUnQeE_QU) 2025-07-20T16:00Z 71K followers, 26.7K engagements "I Broke My [----] Dodge Charger [---] Big Block Doing Dumb Stuff (Or Did I) I *swear* this isn't click bait. Well alright you caught me. it's not nearly as broken as I thought. But I was absolutely convinced I had done mechanical damage to the top end of the original [---] B engine under the hood of my [----] Dodge Charger. I thought I was being challenged to a stoplight-to-stoplight competition by a modern Dart and I wanted to show him who's boss. Yeah I know a stock [---] and [----] gears isn't exactly a recipe for a streetlight drag machine but it was worth a shot right There's a lesson in here" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cUWeyK1nCtU) 2024-06-29T15:49Z 45.3K followers, 24.9K engagements "Stud Debacle Solved - LA Mopar Main Fastener Options That Actually Work (A [---] Build Update) In last week's video I made the poor decision to show a dumb idea I had which was dumb. It involved accounting for the overly long shoulder on our Milodon [-----] main studs with a couple extra washers. Don't do that - and if you are going to do that certainly don't film it. Here's a way to get main studs that actually fit in your LA Mopar [---] (or any other [--] bolt LA engine) without having to tap extra threads in your block or drawing the ire of various internet commenters. The fix in this case is ARP" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dAT_3KOcibY) 2025-03-26T19:00Z 59.3K followers, 20.2K engagements "DDG Live From A Ramp Truck In The Middle Of Nowhere Who had money on that one" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dJk3fL1GtMY) 2024-05-27T01:18Z 33.9K followers, [----] engagements "DDG Live Home Sweet Home Edition Yes I bought another project car today. No this shouldn't come as a shock to anyone" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=egGrR8IPN34) 2025-09-29T01:27Z 75.5K followers, [----] engagements "Blown Up In Every Way - LA [---] Mopar Small Block Teardown Carnage Inspection And Failure Analysis All I can say is. wow. I knew the inside of the engine from my recently purchased [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon was going to be bad. But this thing appears to have blown up in just about every way possible all at once. In this Engine Wednesday video we'll sift through the ashes of this previously overhauled [---] small block Chrysler engine and try to find some leftover bits worth using. I'm not holding my breath" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eyD4zf-iT_c) 2025-07-02T19:51Z 74.4K followers, 43K engagements "A Big Mess - [----] Chrysler Cordoba [---] Top End Swap Cam Change Edelbrock Carb Tech And Much More On last week's episode I tore into this relatively low mile bone stock [---] under the hood of a [----] Chrysler Cordoba to prepare for a cylinder head change cam and lifter replacement and four barrel carb and intake swap with @JustMoparJoe . I wasn't able to get it fully apart before leaving for the No Name Nationals but today we're back and it's time to finish this project. As you probably know I live in Washington state yet I am completing this project in Arkansas. Lots of planning went into" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fFwQ0AXx-to) 2025-09-24T19:00Z 75.5K followers, 37K engagements "Last Minute Thrash - [----] Barracuda Oil Pressure Problems Front End Fix Making It Legal And More Support this insanity Buy DDG Merch https://shop.deaddodgegarage.com This is the Garbage Can Cuda and it's not done. But it kind of has to be because the No Name Nationals drag racing event is in a week and it's going to be there one way or another. The main pressing issues are super high engine oil pressure an inability to set the ignition timing correctly and a bunch of race safety issues that will almost certainly keep it from passing tech. So today we.fix all of that safety stuff and waste a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fL7B3MUV6OI) 2025-09-14T17:00Z 74.8K followers, 32.4K engagements "What Makes A [---] Six Pack Engine Special On today's episode we take a look at a legendary Mopar performance engine from the muscle car era. The [---] Six Pack (or Six Barrel if found under the hood of a Plymouth like the [----] Plymouth Roadrunner seen here) has a reputation for being a little sluggish off the starting line and then coming alive once those outboard carbs finally open. But it seems there is a bit of a misunderstanding as to what parts were actually special to the Six Pack engine given that the legendary "Six Pack connecting rods" were also found in the regular high performance 440" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fLqHdabV0nc) 2024-03-17T17:12Z 49.7K followers, 29.2K engagements "Mopar Gauge Problems Solved - Dead Lights Gauge Testing And More For This [----] Plymouth Barracuda If you're a classic Mopar owner it's highly likely that you have encountered these same problems at one time or another. It seems like just about every one of these cars has one or more dead gauges and dash lights that will only work after playing with the headlight switch - or not at all. On today's episode we're going to dig into the gauge cluster on Mark's [----] Plymouth Barracuda Sport Special test the various gauge and light circuits do a bit of detective work and solve all of these classic" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ftNV9ohwy-M) 2024-11-02T16:17Z 45.2K followers, 11.6K engagements "DDG Live The Perky Plymouth Takes Over The Internet Sunday Special At least I think that's how that's gonna go" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gMgyGNnV1ng) 2025-06-02T03:14Z 66.5K followers, [----] engagements "Budget Build Gone Bad - This Mopar [---] Scrap Pile Save For My [----] Plymouth Barracuda Is Going Back For quite a while now I've been planning to put together a high performance low buck [---] small block Mopar engine for my [----] Plymouth Barracuda drag car called the Garbage Can Cuda. I have several reasons for thinking this is a great idea - for one thing the [---] was the only V8 available from the factory in those cars. For science I'd like to see what I can do with this small inch engine. And perhaps most importantly because no one (even people well familiar with Chrysler engines) seems to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gxbKF8ZIXwI) 2024-11-06T20:00Z 45.3K followers, 13.4K engagements "A Brilliant Gas Gauge "Fix" For This [----] Plymouth Fury (And How To Diagnose A Bad Fuel Gauge) This video is going live about twelve hours after Colin left for Plymouth in his [----] Plymouth Fury. I know this will come as a shock but he's already had some minor issues. But that's another story - today I'm going to figure out how to fix his fuel gauge so he'll have at least some vague idea of when he will run out of fuel over the course of his 6000+ mile drive. To do this we'll use a Power Probe to diagnose gauge circuit issues and take another look at how these often-dead gauge circuits" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gyO_hxpknVY) 2024-03-30T14:47Z 45K followers, 11.7K engagements "A One Inch Chunk Of Fuel Hose Tried To Set This [----] Dodge Charger On Fire - An Important Lesson Old rubber bad. Ethanol bad. Fire on Charger engine bad. New good fuel hose good New not good fuel hose bad. Plastic fuel filter.fine. Questions" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hXpEJFX_d8s) 2023-10-15T14:32Z 45.2K followers, [----] engagements "I'm Building A Cummins Crew Cab Donor Truck Disassembly 12v Cummins Tech Swap Tips And Much More Here's the basic recipe: you take a [----] Dodge D200 crew cab that needs an engine a [----] Dodge D250 with [--] valve Cummins turbo diesel power that needs a new truck and you combine the two. Sure there are countless other ways to jam reliable economic Cummins power into a classic rig. But by installing these engines at the factory in '89-93 trucks Dodge made this tin grille swap very straightforward. On today's episode Allan and I disassemble the donor truck and along the way I cover all kinds of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hffMxX6SRZM) 2025-04-26T15:45Z 61.9K followers, 30K engagements "The 1940s Chrysler Hemi [--] Cylinder Prototype Development Engine You've Never Heard Of This picture has been making the rounds on the internet. Like many similar posts it prompts more questions that it answers - but there is a lot of interesting information to be gleaned from the few photos available. On today's episode I'm going to take a closer look at this interesting tidbit from Chrysler history and see what there is to see" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hxyPrgfvcwY) 2025-05-07T19:00Z 69.8K followers, 42K engagements "Slick Shift - The Ultimate Mopar Drag Racing [--] Speed - Conversion Tips Shifter Tech And Much More It's my birthday And to celebrate I'm bringing you this video about building myself an old school "slick shift" Mopar four speed A833 manual transmission. This all aluminum racing unit will find its way into my Garbage Can Cuda classic style drag racer project in the near future - with any luck anyway. In today's video I do a deep dive on the whys and hows of the slick shift conversion cover the ideal shift cover assembly for your A833 and set up a vintage Hurst Vertigate shifter for this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i2igAnBrVKo) 2025-06-27T19:03Z 69.3K followers, 27.1K engagements "Washington DC SS United States And More "Plymouth In A Plymouth" Part II In A [----] Plymouth Fury Part two of this 8000+ mile "Plymouth In A Plymouth" family roadtrip takes us from Tennessee to an old family mill several new states Washington D.C. Philadelphia Plymouth MA and finally Maine the opposite Northern corner of the US from home in Washington state" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iDfDA9hS0x0) 2024-07-14T19:17Z 44.9K followers, 10.1K engagements "How To Rebuild The Carter BBD Carburetor Sure Carter AFBs Thermoquads and Holley four barrels could be found adorning the intake manifolds of fire breathing Mopars large and small during the muscle car era. But what can be found under the hood of any standard cruising model V8 car or pickup truck The venerable Carter BBD. And sure many people will skip right to scrap binning the BBD in favor of a double pumper or similar. But for the rest of us how do we keep these things working Actually thats the easy part" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iIRSQZuRAuY) 2022-09-18T14:27Z 68.4K followers, 18.8K engagements "DDG Live The 69000.nice.Sunday Stream Hangout Session Chat Happy Fun Time Just [---] more subs to go" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmaRDugF2jc) 2025-06-30T03:22Z 69.2K followers, [----] engagements "Buy Our Wagon Big Block Swapped [----] Dodge Coronet [---] Station Wagon Deep Dive It's time for some spring cleaning around Dead Dodge Garage World Headquarters. We just have too many cars. We had too many cars like five cars ago. And Mrs. Jamie has decided that the right thing to do is sell her wagon instead of allowing it to sit around any longer. So in today's extra bonus video we're going to do a deep dive on the Coronet wagon show off all of the neat upgrades and some small issues take it for one last rip and offer it to the YouTube viewing public for sale. The price is $12000 and it's" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmmHauznzdo) 2025-05-09T19:00Z 62.7K followers, 24.5K engagements "Epic Pit Thrash - Fixing My Four Speed Grudge Racing And Winning Hardware At The No Name Nationals In the last episode from the #nonamenationals I pulled some wheelies won some races embarrassed myself a couple times lost some critical gears in the four speed transmission and finally threw my hands up at the end of the day with a broken race car. On today's episode it's time to fix that the fun way - by pulling my noisy four speed in the pits at Skelton Raceway and going through it on the deck of my car trailer with some much needed help from @IndirectConnection1 @VintageAdventurerDrives and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jtr-x3CQ6ZM) 2025-10-04T15:01Z 75.9K followers, 20.4K engagements "'66 Coronet Wagon Roadtrip Woodburn Mopar Nationals Prep And Roadtrip (The Inevitable Happens.) DDG Memberships are here Click "Join" to.join. Or hit this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUIXuaxSLnF5Jhr6E_fca_A/join Everybody's favorite [----] Dodge Coronet [---] station wagon is back In a previous episode I revived our neglected wagon yet again then re-abandoned it in the driveway after the throttle stuck open. Today I've got a special job for the wagon (because my [----] Dodge Charger is still slightly broken.) That job is a cruise down to the Mopar Nationals drag race swap meet and car" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=l76ox0pYocA) 2024-08-18T20:35Z 38.3K followers, 18.6K engagements "First Fire [----] Dodge Dart Sport MSD Wiring Hydraulic Clutch Setup Brake Swap Tech And Much More This is Dylan's Dart Sport. This build aspires to seamlessly combine the survivor flavor of an aggressively beige [----] Dodge Dart Sport with a [---] horsepower [---] stroker Magnum engine a TKX five speed manual transmission a Dana [--] rear axle four wheel disk brakes and many other small touches to create an incredible car to drive. I've been neglecting this build in favor of whatever shiny thing I'm most excited about at any given moment for way too long now. And racing season in Washington has" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lDkCTQwhn_Y) 2025-05-04T18:15Z 62.4K followers, 26.6K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"The Case For The [---] - I Bought A Beautiful [----] Dodge Challenger I have wanted this exact car for years now. This generation this package this engine and ideally this color. So naturally when I learned that this car had arrived at my favorite local used lot I got pretty excited. It's got all of the stuff I wanted in a modern Mopar. Ok heated seats would have been nice. But I had to own it. For me the big highlight is the basic V6 engine. Over the last handful of years I've arrived at the opinion that the Pentastar V6 is excellent. So in this episode I want to try and explain why that is. I"
YouTube Link 2024-04-20T15:53Z 86.4K followers, 32.2K engagements
"The Super Duper Six - Feeding Boost Through A Carter BBD On My [----] Plymouth Valiant (IT WORKS) This is my turbo slant six project. I guess it's been well over a year now since I started on this build and to this point it has largely been an unusable disappointment. But that all changes today with a simple discovery - you can in fact set up a Carter BBD carburetor for a blow through turbo application. And by set up I mean do absolutely nothing and just slap a carb hat on it of course. Let's see if we can blow some stuff up. Mopar Classic Car Collector Car Boosted Turbo Build Mechanic DDG"
YouTube Link 2025-11-23T18:00Z 86.4K followers, 84.4K engagements
"Semi Hemi - [---] "Poly" A-Series Cylinder Head Deep Dive - Why It Exists Swap Questions And More In the beginning there was a Hemi. And it was good. Of course because we're talking about Chrysler here anything that costs money is too expensive so engineers quickly set about figuring out a way to make the Hemi cheaper. Enter the original "poly" - a single rocker shaft cylinder head design that dropped right onto Dodge and Chrysler Hemi blocks starting in [----]. It borrowed many of the basic design characteristics of the dual rocker Hemi but accomplished almost the same job with a single rocker"
YouTube Link 2025-02-05T21:00Z 86.4K followers, 130.4K engagements
"Ticking Time Bomb - A 2019+ Ram [----] Mechanic's Perspective [---] Hemi Tech Buyer's Guide And More Also in this video - Ram DT Hemi exhaust manifold replacement discussion of CV axle issues and other common problems. And some blood. I bought a modern Ram and at least a handful of people have asked me about it. So after testing it extensively on my recent road trip across the country I decided it was finally time to make a video about it that no one will watch. This truck is one of my favorite things of ever. It's ridiculously comfortable for a lifted 4x4 truck it's too fast it can tow the world"
YouTube Link 2025-10-11T17:00Z 86.4K followers, 108.4K engagements
"The Fastest Mopar [---] Six Barrel Build And Break-In In YouTube History (For Our [----] Sport Fury GT) Listen there was supposed to be a lot more happening in this video. Its not my fault. I bet @rocketresto will show the engine getting detailed and painted though. Mopar Muscle Car Classic Car Engine Rebuild Engine Overhaul Restoration Mechanic DDG Mopar Muscle Car Classic Car Engine Rebuild Engine Overhaul Restoration Mechanic DDG"
YouTube Link 2025-11-05T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 22.1K engagements
"Tangled Up In Blue - [----] Studebaker Champion Brake Tech [--] Volt Conversion Tips And MUCH More This is my [----] Studebaker Champion. It wasn't mine but now it is mine - and it's high time that we drag this thing out of mothballs and give it the attention it so desperately needs. On this episode we're going to touch just about every system in the car - the engine transmission clutch brakes fuel system electrical system. practically all of the things. At the end let's hope we've got a properly functional Studebaker - because I actually already found it a forever home. Let's dig in"
YouTube Link 2026-01-25T19:18Z 86.4K followers, 38.6K engagements
"A Tale Of Torque And Luxury - [----] Chrysler 300G With [---] Long Ram Power On today's episode it's a walk around and test drive of Gary Hergert's [----] Chrysler 300G. This car has lived a long and colorful life - namely the factory cinnamon color lipstick red whatever color the smoke billowing out from under the hood when it caught on fire was and finally the factory cinnamon again. The full size Chrysler performance car is humongous heavy and loaded with torque and chrome"
YouTube Link 2023-05-14T14:00Z 85.7K followers, 25.5K engagements
"Survivor This Two Owner [----] Dodge Dart Is A Slant Six Powered Street Machine (With Original Paint) In this video: various drum brake service tips how to tell if paint on your classic Chrysler product is original or not and a look at a neat survivor Dart. "Hazel" LaurieLea's [----] Dodge Dart Custom is an awesome example of my favorite kind of classic car - the kind that gets used as a car. It has been well loved by its two owners and although it's starting to show some wear from use in various places it's a reliable and trustworthy daily drivable car that is almost complete devoid of rust"
YouTube Link 2023-11-11T20:25Z 85.8K followers, 26.7K engagements
"Tin Grille Tips Cummins Tricks - Prepping Our [----] Dodge Crew Cab And Donor 6BT For Matrimony This is our [----] Dodge D200 crew cab Cummins swap project for @rocketresto . On the last episode (which was nine months ago for absolutely no reason) we stripped the parts truck in preparation for this build. This time around we're prepping the [--] valve Cummins plug and the truck receptacle to be permanently joined. But I'll tell you hwhat things didn't quite go to plan and I kinda had to leave town in the middle of the project. So. anyway some stuff happened a good bit of which was ridiculous. Here"
YouTube Link 2026-02-01T18:00Z 86.4K followers, 30.5K engagements
"Turbo Slant Six Building The Manifold Hacking In An Intercooler And Much More On My [----] Valiant It might seem like my turbo slant six build is moving at a glacial pace. Actually compared to some projects around here it's all coming together very quickly. On today's episode I tackle the most daunting part of this project - building a custom turbo exhaust manifold to mount the finest cheapest turbo eBay had to offer. I'm sure that will go perfectly given my propensity to eschew precise and careful measurement in favor of just kinda eyeballing things and plowing ahead"
YouTube Link 2024-09-22T19:57Z 86.1K followers, 49.1K engagements
"Building A Spicier Slant - [---] Slant Six Assembly Compression Calculations Cam Degree & Much More On today's episode it's the long awaited completion of my performance [---] slant six build. In previous episodes I introduced the project and the basic recipe fitted the crankshaft in the block and then (months later) removed the greasy old engine from the [----] Dodge Dart GT that will be receiving this new build to remove some necessary parts. The big prize was supposed to be the late 70s cylinder head - which was unfortunately found to have been massively overheated warped and cracked. Today"
YouTube Link 2025-11-12T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 38.2K engagements
"A Greasy Tired Slant Six - [----] Dodge Dart GT [---] Engine Removal Teardown And Much More Over the last year I've done a couple videos showing a lightweight 80s slant six engine explaining that we would be building this engine with an eye toward mild performance and installing it in a [----] Dart GT. The time has finally come to dig into the car remove the greasy old [---] and harvest the pieces we'll need to assemble the fresh drivetrain. At the same time I'll be dealing with some other small issues - notably the fact that the car is leaking just about every fluid from just about everywhere."
YouTube Link 2025-10-01T19:00Z 86.2K followers, 33.7K engagements
"IT'S ALIVE Turbo [---] Slant Six Solid Engine Mount Build Downpipe & Wastegate Setup And Much More It's the moment I've all been waiting for At long last it's time to actually hear what it sounds like when you run the tiniest slant six engine through the world's cheapest T3/T4 hybrid turbo. But first I'll have to get that turbo actually attached to the engine which in this case will be complicated. There's definitely a lesson here about measuring parts before welding them together. And then of course I'll have to get it to start again which for some reason has also become complicated. Mopar"
YouTube Link 2024-10-13T18:00Z 86.1K followers, 51.3K engagements
"Perilous Progress - Dissecting My [----] Plymouth Diesel Taxi Transmission Tech And Much More This is Perky the internet's favorite (only) [----] Plymouth Taxi that was engine swapped when new with a Perkins P4C diesel engine. In previous videos I introduced the project gave the car a once over and put Perky back on the highway after many years. I almost immediately learned about the presence of a very blown head gasket - and then made the poor mistake of trying to fix that. It all kinda snowballed from there and now we're removing the very dead original engine to install a replacement which"
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 48.2K engagements
"The Slant Six Delete - [----] Dodge D100 Small Block V8 Swap Door Restoration Tech And Much More It's an Allan episode I bought this [----] Dodge D100 in what I like to call a "crime of opportunity." The price was right and it seemed like the perfect chance to test my home built turbo slant six setup (which had been disappointing to that point) on a [---] engine. The results of that test were somewhat favorable though it clearly needed extensive tuning work. However for the second time in a Dodge truck this year we learned that [---] transmissions don't like being filled with rain water and when the"
YouTube Link 2025-07-05T18:40Z 85.8K followers, 35.9K engagements
"How To Fix The Holley [----] On Your Slant Six Mopar (Throw It Away) Today on Dead Dodge Garage I show you how to fix everything wrong with the stock fuel toilet found on gazillions of slant six powered machines like the Dodge Dart Plymouth Valiant and even Dodge trucks. What you do is you unbolt the Holley [----] carburetor slam dunk it right into the scrap pile and replace it with a random Carter BBS from eBay. Its just that easy. @LambvinskisGarage @rocketresto"
YouTube Link 2022-10-18T14:35Z 85.9K followers, 10.6K engagements
"DDG Live From The Road (Another Dodge Truck Adventure) Typical right"
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T02:25Z 86.4K followers, [----] engagements
"My Turbo Slant Six [----] Plymouth Valiant Still Sucks - Degree Wheel Cam Check Carb Swap And More Over the course of this video I think I tried every single somewhat plausible commenter suggestion that I hadn't yet tried. Put a Holley on it Ok. Maybe your rebuilt distributor is bad Fine. Is the cam installed wrong I thought so too so let's check that. Did you lash your valves correctly I think so but let's try that a second time. Maybe it's the turbo Maybe that tiny slant is choking trying to exhale through the turbo. Alright let's rip the entire turbo setup off and test that theory. I've done"
YouTube Link 2025-04-19T16:30Z 85.9K followers, 37.5K engagements
"A Smoky Rebellion - [----] Dodge Dart Swinger Revival Ignition Tips Mechanical Diagnosis And More Two weeks ago the somewhat spicy [---] under the hood of my [----] Dodge Dart Swinger was seized solid and brimmed with rain water. I didn't think this was a viable revival candidate by any measure. But miraculously I coaxed some movement out of the rusty rings and suddenly one of my favorite activities because possible - trying to make smoke with a long dead Chrysler engine. And it turned out this one had all kinds of smoke to give - starter smoke blow-by smoke sticky intake valve smoke and more."
YouTube Link 2025-11-16T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 56.4K engagements
"Terrible Ticking Sounds - [----] Dodge W100 [---] Fix Common Valvetrain Problems And How To Find Them This is my [----] Dodge W100 Power Wagon. In previous episodes we got this truck running and limped it off of a property in California on flat tires dragged it home then dug in on cab repairs brakes and many other projects - none of which are actually finished yet. But we're making progress and on today's Engine Wednesday video we're digging into the mildly spicy [---] between the fenders to look for the source of an awful high pitched noise that has developed on the driver side bank. Spoiler alert."
YouTube Link 2026-01-28T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 37.2K engagements
"The Big Slant Six To Small Block V8 Swap Guide How To Give Your A-Body Mopar Some Muscle In this video I cover all of the steps you'll need to take and parts you'll need to source to park an LA (or Magnum) small block V8 under the hood of your classic Mopar A-body that was originally equipped with a slant six engine. That means a [---] [---] [---] or [---] LA engine a Magnum [---] or [---] or even a radical [---] stroker (or beyond.) The cars we'll be discussing are 1963-1976 Dodge Darts Demons and Dart Sports and 1963-1976 Plymouth Valiants Scamps Dusters and Barracudas. A lot of this information will"
YouTube Link 2024-08-14T19:00Z 86.3K followers, 52.7K engagements
"DDG Live Thousands Of Miles Down Another Livestream To Go I'm tired"
YouTube Link 2026-02-09T02:09Z 86.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The Legendary [----] Plymouth 'Cuda AAR A [---] [--] Speed Powered Factory Road Course Racer Dodge and Plymouth E-Body cars are some of the most memorable muscle era machines. They were late to the party arriving in [----] - and some enthusiasts might argue that they were really only any good for two years '70 and '71. Found in some of the best of them were [---] Hemis which obviously deserve a mention. But those cars were heavy unwieldy a pain in the butt to service and often broken. In my book the best package that could be had was the small block [---] with a four speed behind it. In the short and"
YouTube Link 2023-10-06T19:00Z 86.3K followers, 50.7K engagements
"Obscenely Rare [----] Sport Fury GT [---] [--] Barrel Short Block Build Piston Tech And More This [---] six barrel engine belongs to our [----] Plymouth Sport Fury GT V-code car. These things are exceedingly rare and today I have the pleasure of overhauling this one. Except it's not all pleasure because as usual we're going to hit a few roadblocks along the way. And the elephant in the room is that the Muscle Car And Corvette Nationals show is less than a month away and the car - which is supposed to be featured there - is still very much in pieces. But today I'm doing my part to get this long dead"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T19:00Z 86.3K followers, 34.8K engagements
"Gotta Save Them All - [----] Dodge D350 Roadtrip Rescue For @Mclovingarage (Plus Bonus Trains) Today on Let's Drive [----] Miles To Save More Trucks Garage we're going back to the well and preventing a trio of Dodge trucks that shared a field with my [----] Power Wagon from going to the scrapper. Alright. one of them may well end up there anyway but at least its bits will go on to help save other tin grilles. The main unit we're looking at today is a [----] Dodge D350 Prospector pickup. It's a one ton single rear wheel model with a [---] four barrel engine under the hood. This truck hasn't even been"
YouTube Link 2026-02-08T18:00Z 86.4K followers, 31.9K engagements
"I Waited A Month For Parts And My Aces EFI System Still Doesn't Work (A Turbo Slant Six Update) I don't know about you but I'm getting tired of listening to this poor [---] slant six engine crank. My [----] Plymouth Valiant Signet seemed like the perfect platform for a turbo slant six build. I've made a couple missteps as it has come together sure. But in today's episode I'm going to try and get the Aces Killshot Classic system up and running after revamping the electrical connections and adding a fuel pressure gauge. Spoiler alert it just straight up doesn't work. Mopar Muscle Car Classic Car"
YouTube Link 2025-01-31T20:00Z 86.3K followers, 49.2K engagements
"Glorious Hemi Noises - [----] Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody Last Call (A Mopar Guy's Review) It's the last of the Challengers. This [----] Challenger with [---] Hemi power isn't quite a Hellcat - and that's probably for the best because at [---] horse ponies it's already got more than enough gusto to put its operator in prison with no chance of parole at a moment's notice. As a total Mopar nutjob I have countless miles of experience with classic Chrysler muscle but also a good bit of seat time in modern offerings like my lowly V6 Challenger - so I feel qualified enough to throughly test"
YouTube Link 2025-05-17T16:45Z 86.3K followers, 26.9K engagements
"Back To The Basics - Figuring Out My [----] Plymouth Valiant Slant Six Project Car Nightmare The more you know the more you realize you don't know. This project has done a great job of teaching me that - and trying my patience. After months of abandonment in my yard I've decided it's finally time to do something about this stalled project. But just like every other stage of this project it's not going to go the way I expect. Mopar Classic Car Collector Car Diagnosis Mechanic DDG Mopar Classic Car Collector Car Diagnosis Mechanic DDG"
YouTube Link 2025-11-08T18:30Z 86.4K followers, 34.7K engagements
"One Year Wonder - [----] Plymouth Valiant Signet [---] History Revival Test Drive And Much More If you'd like to own this fine automobile contact Tom with @rocketresto at Tom@RocketResto.com for details. Over the last couple years I've revived at least two other Valiants at Rocket Restorations that could easily be confused for this car. Both were whiteish/yellowish two doors hailing from this middle generation of A-bodies that ran from '63-'66 But neither of those cars were as exciting as this one is in the mechanical department. See this '66 Signet hardtop has something most Valiants don't - a"
YouTube Link 2025-12-07T18:00Z 86.4K followers, 40.5K engagements
"Perky Blunders - Piecing Together A [----] Plymouth Diesel Taxi With Homemade Gaskets And Elbow Grease This is the replacement Perkins P4C engine for my [----] Plymouth Taxi "Perky." Perky is the most popular project car on my channel without compare and like many of you I would love to see it back together and running again. So today with some much needed help from Allan and Peter (and Ted) I'm taking a stab at getting the new Perky back in one piece and looking better than any P4C ever has. What could possibly go wrong Mopar Collector Car Classic Car Restoration Engine Rebuild Mechanic DDG"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 51.4K engagements
"Why Did This [----] Dodge Charger R/T Just Sell At Mecum For $170000 (Its Unsafe And Bad) If you see something say something. I saw something in the pictures of this outwardly beautiful Charger that is so stupid and downright unsafe I had to say something. So here we are. Auction buyer beware. Mopar MuscleCar Auction ClassicCar Mopar MuscleCar Auction ClassicCar"
YouTube Link 2022-10-25T15:07Z 86.3K followers, 486.9K engagements
"Handy Magnum Swap Info - Whats Different From An LA Engine Heres a somewhat detailed look at the differences and similarities between two Chrysler engine series - the 64-93ish LA small block V8 such as a [---] [---] or [---] and the freshened 93-03ish Magnum [---] and [---]. If you want to put a Magnum in your Mopar muscle car or old Dodge truck heres what you need to know"
YouTube Link 2022-04-11T03:58Z 86.4K followers, 36.1K engagements
"Classic Mopar Charging Systems: How They Work and How To Diagnose Failures A somewhat detailed explanation of the function of the classic Mopar alternator voltage regulator and related components and circuits. If youre having trouble getting your Mopar muscle car or Dodge truck to charge the battery this video will give you several ideas to help figure out your issue. Mopar Electrical How to Muscle car Mopar Electrical How to Muscle car"
YouTube Link 2021-12-28T19:45Z 86.4K followers, 101.5K engagements
"Rebuilt And Forgotten 40+ Years Ago - Chrysler [---] Big Block Engine Teardown Inspection And More This is the Mopar [---] RB engine that was originally rebuilt and detailed for installation in the [----] Plymouth Superbird Tom with @rocketresto bought last year. The owner completed the engine build and a quick paint job for the car then abandoned that project in the mid 1980s. This engine sat in a corner next to the car for over four decades - before we emptied the building and excavated the Superbird eleven other cars the [---] and countless other parts over the course of two and a half days. On"
YouTube Link 2025-08-27T19:00Z 86.4K followers, 49.4K engagements
"CHEAP [----] Dodge D100 Plus My Home Built Slant Six Blow-Through Turbo Kit Equals. If you've been following the channel for a while then you know that a working turbo slant six has been my white whale for years now. In fact while I've been contemplating this whacky idea for over a decade it was April of [----] when I first announced this project in a video and showed many of the components I would eventually go on to install on my [----] Plymouth Valiant - most of which were discarded over time in favor of other components that didn't really work either. When I found this $500 Dodge truck for sale"
YouTube Link 2025-05-03T18:36Z 86.4K followers, 69.1K engagements
"Street Performer - Mopar LA [---] Build Recipe Ring Grinding Tips Bottom End Assembly And Much More Over the last several months I've done a handful of videos documenting the plan the unexpected teardown and diagnosis and the cylinder head selection and overhaul for this Chrysler [---] small block engine. This is the original power plant for Mark's [----] Plymouth Barracuda and soon enough it will be back in its home under the hood of that car. Remember this is a street driver with exhaust manifolds and [----] gears and those factors have influenced every decision we've made for this build. But we"
YouTube Link 2025-02-26T21:50Z 86.4K followers, 91.8K engagements
"The Big Ballast Resistor Video A Simple Yet Misunderstood Part Of Your Classic Chrysler Product On today's episode we take a look at a really simple electrical device that has mystified Mopar owners for decades. More than that it has truly mystified many well intentioned people trying to give diagnostic advice on the internet. I covered ballast resistors in my Classic Chrysler Ignition Systems video but I thought it deserved its own video so here we are. Mopar MuscleCar ClassicCar Trucks Mechanic Mopar MuscleCar ClassicCar Trucks Mechanic"
YouTube Link 2023-08-19T14:10Z 86.4K followers, 263.9K engagements
"The Big HEI Ignition Conversion Video How To Convert Your Classic Mopar (Or Anything Else) To HEI I teased this concept in my Mopar ignition systems video and have been asked many times since to explain it in more detail. So on today's video let's do that. Link to the wiring diagram I have always used (that as discussed always seems to have the distributor wires backwards): https://www.allpar.com/attachments/hei-mod-conv-jpg.4496/ Mopar MuscleCar ClassicCar Mechanic Wiring Mopar MuscleCar ClassicCar Mechanic Wiring"
YouTube Link 2023-08-27T17:56Z 86.4K followers, 100.6K engagements
"Perky's Backup Plan - Tearing Down A Perkins P4C For My [----] Plymouth Diesel Taxi (A Greasy Mess) Everybody wants to know what's going on with Perky my diesel powered Plymouth taxi. And I understand that because it's something very interesting being the one and only car of its type known to survive and remain in (until recently) operational condition. Commenters often make suggestions for power plant replacements or send me links to various Perkins engines found online. Thing is I've had the solution to this problem the entire time - in fact it came with the car. This is a spare Perkins P4C"
YouTube Link 2025-11-19T20:14Z 86.4K followers, 65.5K engagements
"What Killed These Cam Bearings Common Issues What To Look For And Redemption For This [---] A month or so ago I did a video on this [---] with a mysterious cam bearing failure issue. This was a fresh rebuild that developed a minor oil leak on the run stand and there also seemed to be a minor mechanical noise. In opening the engine to diagnose the former I found a possible cause of the latter - all of the cam bearings were damaged with some more damaged than others. Since then this block and camshaft have both visited our favorite local machine shop in pursuit of fixing this problem. Now we're"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 30.4K engagements
"On Borrowed Time - Grumman LLV History Common Issues Iron Duke Engine Replacement And Much More If you live in suburban America you are probably well familiar with the humming buzzing and somewhat concerning rattling sounds produced by the Grumman LLV postal delivery vehicle as it meanders by. You might even be familiar with the sound of the starter and flex plate teeth grinding each other to pieces as the Iron Duke engine under the hood is restarted for the hundredth time in a given day. Personally I have a complicated relationship with these "Long Life Vehicles." On the one hand I've been"
YouTube Link 2025-12-03T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 246.8K engagements
"Bone Stock And Decent - [---] LA Mopar Teardown Inspection And Re-Seal For Allan's [----] Dodge D100 I tear down a lot of these engines. Like a lot. I must have torn open a couple dozen of them in the last six months. And never in all my years of Chrysler buffoonery have I opened up a bone stock verifiably original engine and found what I found inside this one. Nothing. It's just fine. Sure the seals are all a bit crispy and sure it's got some sludge here or there. But the condition of this engine truly surprised me in a way that has not been normal in these pursuits. So today instead of crawling"
YouTube Link 2025-07-16T19:00Z 86.4K followers, 42.1K engagements
"Classic Mopar Ignition Systems - How They Work How To Diagnose Issues In my second installment on muscle era Chrysler electrical systems its a look at the ignition including a description of how the common systems work and how to know if your issue is or -is not- caused by the ballast resistor. Mopar Electronic ignition Mopar Electronic ignition"
YouTube Link 2021-12-31T06:09Z 86.4K followers, 93.8K engagements
"Go Fast Slant Build Lightweight [---] Info Deck Milling Tech Short Block Assembly And Much More In a previous engine Wednesday video a few months ago I tore down this lightweight 80s [---] slant six removed from a truck I had owned at one point in the distant past. The block and related components took a trip to the machine shop for a good cleaning a crank polish bore job and deck milling operations. Now it's back and on today's episode we'll finally start assembling this engine. In the not too distant future we'll be completing this build and installing it in a [----] Dodge Dart GT. Mopar Classic"
YouTube Link 2025-05-14T19:00Z 86.4K followers, 59.3K engagements
"The Fantastic [---] Max Wedge - This [----] Dodge [---] Hides Factory Speed Parts Under An Unassuming Hood My thanks to Tom with @rocketresto for helping with this video. Check out the Rocket channel here: http://www.youtube.com/@rocketresto Drag racing didn't start in the 1960s but it sure got big (and crazy) in that decade - and the auto manufacturers noticed. At Chrysler in a time not long before the arrival of the legendary [---] Hemi (which would soon become a permanent fixture in top fuel classes and more) a series of ever-advancing factory built race cars would help cement their reputation on"
YouTube Link 2024-11-08T20:00Z 86.4K followers, 96.8K engagements
"The Big Hemi - Seized [----] Chrysler [---] Engine Teardown Component ID Technical Info And Much More I really like first generation Hemi (or "dual rocker") engines. I like that Chrysler's original intention was to create a versatile engine platform suitable for use in everything from regular passenger vehicles to heavy duty trucks but with the potential to more than double the original horsepower rating in six short years with no major architectural changes baked in. I appreciate that it was designed with relatively little regard for production costs with the focus instead on quality performance"
YouTube Link 2025-08-06T19:17Z 86.4K followers, 74.3K engagements
"The Never-Ending Project - Survivor [----] Plymouth Barracuda Axle Swap Clutch Tips And Much More This is "Blackfish" DDG Gold Member Dave's [----] Plymouth Barracuda survivor car. In previous videos we got this car running and driving again after decades with a fresh fuel system then made many improvements to the original [---] under the hood and installed some rare Commando parts. On today's episode we touch almost every single other system in the car and try to get this sweet machine back on the road for real. Unfortunately we learn some interesting things about old worn piston rings along the"
YouTube Link 2025-03-08T21:31Z 57.9K followers, 28.4K engagements
"DDG Live The [---] Vids [-----] Subscriber Sunday Live Streamabration Eyyyyyyyyyyy"
YouTube Link 2024-12-16T04:12Z 50.2K followers, [----] engagements
"When The Dots Lie - Camshaft Timing Degree Wheel Tips Windage Tray Tech And More For Our Hot [---] I'm far from the first mechanic (or YouTuber) to stumble across a new part that leaves something to be desired. But today I've found something that I can 100% guarantee would've led to a builder who didn't know to look for it putting an engine together with the camshaft timing completely wrong resulting in disappointing engine performance. So today let's go over a couple different methods for verifying that your cam timing is at least in the right ballpark. At the same time we've got a shiny new"
YouTube Link 2025-03-19T20:00Z 58.9K followers, 34.1K engagements
"Well Beaten Wagon - This [----] Dodge Dart Station Wagon Needs Help This [----] Dodge Dart "long roof" station wagon (with [---] slant six power) has been off the road and in storage for some unknown number of years. I agreed to buy the car without actually taking a close look at it which I'll tell you right now is something you probably shouldn't do. So on this episode I try to get this '64 Dart operational again but at almost every turn I find something else I didn't want to see"
YouTube Link 2025-01-25T18:03Z 54.2K followers, 27.2K engagements
"Wipers Heat And A Fond Farewell For Our [----] Plymouth Barracuda "Ultimate Daily Driver" Project Colin's back with one final installment on our [----] Plymouth Barracuda project. I started this build with big dreams of building a comfortable modern interior in a crusty Barracuda shell with 80s slant six power and a four speed A833 overdrive transmission intended to produce acceptable horsepower and excellent fuel economy. At some point I (predictably) lost interest and moved on to other things and eventually I traded the car to Colin for the Llama Barn Valiant (which has also since moved on to"
YouTube Link 2025-01-19T17:00Z 53.6K followers, 23.8K engagements
"SEIZED SOLID This [----] Dodge [---] California Highway Patrol Car Needs Help If you follow Tom over at his @rocketresto channel then you likely know he (and his brother Gary) are big C-body and police car nerds. So naturally they were giddy when they came across this original mostly surviving California Highway Patrol car - which might just be one of the greatest examples of both of those things. On today's episode we take a close look at this fine automobile before turning our attention to the engine compartment - where the outlook is not exactly rosy"
YouTube Link 2024-12-07T19:31Z 49.5K followers, 29.8K engagements
"DDG Live The Actually Getting Stuff Done Sunday Live Well one thing and it's not actually done but it probably will be some day soon"
YouTube Link 2025-08-25T01:26Z 73.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm Building The CHEAPEST [---] Hemi On YouTube Ex-Racer Junk Used Factory Parts And My Genius Plan Help me thank Tom Hergert with Rocket Restorations for making this build happen by checking out his channel and hitting subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@rocketresto This Engine Wednesday I've got something special for you. Quite some time ago now I teased the idea of piecing together a [---] Hemi and dropping it in my [----] Dodge Charger. At the time I didn't actually have the means to do this and thankfully Tom Hergert with @rocketresto sold the (very expensive) NOS Mopar Performance 426"
YouTube Link 2025-01-01T20:00Z 52.4K followers, 25K engagements
"Ramp Truck Nose Job Classing Up My Beater [----] Dodge D350 Cummins Truck With [----] Dodge Truck Parts On today's episode Allan and I make the DDG ramp truck way less crappy with a complete front end and door swap from a dead [----] Dodge truck. Along the way we figured out all of the important differences between the early and late parts which anyone looking to do a similar swap will certainly find useful"
YouTube Link 2024-10-20T17:29Z 75.5K followers, 28.3K engagements
"Gutless Wonder - This [----] Dodge Challenger Needs Help (Ignition Carb Brake Fixes And More) I may never understand why the first video on this car did so well. It's not the classic Mopar we're accustomed to here - in fact it's really not a Mopar at all. It's a classic Japanese sport coupe wearing an American muscle car badge. But people really loved seeing this thing - and so many commenters remembered these cars fondly. So today I've decided to go a bit farther on my [----] Dodge Challenger (which is really just a rebadged Mitsubishi Galant Lambda) and search for the escaped horsepower I"
YouTube Link 2024-11-30T19:25Z 48.7K followers, 52.8K engagements
"Rare Parts And Problem Solving - [----] Dodge Challenger Steering Fix Countless Repairs And Triumph "You said you drive a Challenger" "I DO" At the end of the last episode on my [----] "Dodge" "Challenger" I had broken a tap off in the original unobtanium tie rod adjusting sleeve and left the shop dejected and demoralized. But today I've got a new sleeve that was intended to fit a "Dodge" "Ram 50" and I reckon that might work. With that sorted it's time to work through the rest of the list of projects standing between me and daily driving this tiny drift machine from Japan"
YouTube Link 2025-01-04T18:08Z 52.6K followers, 26.4K engagements
"DDG Live The All My Rowdy Friends Are Here For Sunday Evening Thing You sure Hank done it this way"
YouTube Link 2024-12-09T04:12Z 49.5K followers, [----] engagements
"High Class - I Revived This [---] Powered [----] Imperial Crown Coupe Then Buried It In A Field I swear we used to actually restore cars. But a surprising amount of my time at Rocket Restorations lately has been spent reviving Tom's quality acquisitions. Case in point this [----] Imperial Crown Coupe. It's big it's beautiful it's extremely green. It's the [----] Pound Pickle. It's got a [---] that appears to be very fresh and the gas in the tank smells like it was refined in the last decade so the chances for internal combustion tire smoke and tomfoolery are high. You'd better grab yourself a gas"
YouTube Link 2024-03-10T16:44Z 30.2K followers, 30.7K engagements
"DDG Live The Forwardly Looking Sunday Streamaganza Everybody loves the Exner cars. It's me I'm everybody"
YouTube Link 2025-10-06T01:15Z 75.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Little Magic - Go-Fast [---] Small Block Takes Shape (Full Build Recipe Cam Selection And Much More) It's been quite some time since I first announced my intentions to build a spicy [---] for drag racing use in my [----] Plymouth Barracuda project. But the plan has never been fully cemented - until now. Today I've finally got a freshly machined [---] LA engine block ready to go and a pile of special speed parts for this small-inch underdog engine. In this video I want to go over the complete build plan for this unit top to bottom including my final piston and rod choices camshaft selection and my"
YouTube Link 2025-04-09T19:00Z 60.5K followers, 27.8K engagements
"As Bad As It Looks - Reviving A Homebuilt "Jeep" With Volkswagen Beetle Power For Field Destruction I'm not even sure a mother could love that face. This is the Mighty Mutt a Type [--] VW chassis with a home made flat fender Jeep-style body crudely attached to it and some rotten woodwork surrounding the engine in the back. Tom Hergert with @rocketresto rescued this automotive tragedy from a junkyard situation in the middle of nowhere California where it had sat dormant for an unknown number of years. Today we're going to attempt to coax some life out of the Mutt and if that works out our mission"
YouTube Link 2025-04-20T19:00Z 61.5K followers, 22K engagements
"This Amazing [----] Chrysler [---] Convertible Made Me Fall In Love With C-Bodies It had to happen sooner or later. Commenters ask for more C-bodies all the time and tell me that I need to add one to my fleet. I've always found them excessively large but now I'm starting to come around to that point of view. These things are great. They're smooth comfortable and some of them - like this beautiful [---] - are extremely well styled. When I first saw the pointy nose I thought it was awkward but it quickly grew on me. Of course I think '68 was the high water mark for Chrysler Corporation across the"
YouTube Link 2024-07-06T17:39Z 68K followers, 19.1K engagements
"The Dodge / Chrysler [---] Pentastar V6 Oil Cooler Problem - And How To Fix It Todays episode is something approaching a technical guide detailing the extremely common Pentastar V6 oil cooler problem and how to fix it correctly Something like correctly. Brought to you by lessons learned the hard way. Oh yes I believe the same information applies to the smaller engines used in Jeeps as well - found in [---] and [---] liter sizes I believe"
YouTube Link 2023-10-26T13:46Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Field Repair [----] Dodge Coronet CHP [---] Cop Car Fix Extensive Reliability Testing On Dirt I love fixing kinda crappy old Dodges. I love big block B-bodies. And I love whipping cars around in a field. So on today's episode let's combine these ideas and fix a retired California Highway Patrol car equipped with a [---] in a field. Is this as good an idea as I think it is Hopefully Tom agrees. @rocketresto Find Toms video on this car here: NewProjectintotheShop1976Dodg"
YouTube Link 2023-09-01T18:02Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Wheelie Machine - I Bought An Abandoned [----] Dodge A100 With A [---] In The Bed (But It's In Pieces) Two weeks ago today (during my weekly Sunday livestream) my friend Nick with @LambvinskisGarage sent me a link to a Facetubes Marketplace ad for this van-truck-thing with a slightly taken apart [---] mounted in the bed. Essentially it's a budget-built replica of the Little Red Wagon wheelstander - but in aged yellow and black. The moment I saw it I was in love and I immediately called the seller and made a deal. Last weekend Allan and I drove several hours away to north of Seattle WA to pick up"
YouTube Link 2025-02-02T17:53Z 55.2K followers, 56.8K engagements
"I'm Building An Abominable Machine - Stripping My [----] Dodge Charger For Rust Repair And Awesomeness I'm far from the first guy to build a ratty second generation Charger. And I'll be far from the first guy to drive one in the dirt. But the way I do that is going to be. unique. On today's episode Allan and I finally dig in on the crappy [----] Dodge Charger that has been stuck on a lift in my shop for many months and go over my plans to create the purpose built dirt road destroyer I have been dreaming about for years"
YouTube Link 2024-11-17T18:13Z 46.3K followers, 20.4K engagements
"The Big Classic Mopar A/B/E Body Front End Overhaul Video Rebuild Tricks Part Selection And More On today's episode I'm rebuilding the front end of Dylan's Dart Sport in preparation for the installation of a [---] stroker a five speed TKX transmission and many other nice parts. I thought I'd take this unique opportunity to walk you through the front suspension overhaul process point out some special rebuild tips and procedures and make some choice part recommendations to help bring your classic Mopar into a modern age of decent handling and performance. This same information applies to many"
YouTube Link 2024-10-19T18:45Z 75.7K followers, 44.5K engagements
"A Dream Come True - Turbo Slant Six Gets Home Cylinder Head Overhaul And A Long Awaited Test Drive The day has finally arrived. This project has been many years in the scheming and planning and many months in the actual doing - but today it's finally going to be completed to the point of a test rip up and down the street. First though we've got one big problem. At the end of the last video as soon as the engine was up and running with some extra air induction from the eBay special T3/T4 hybrid turbo it became very apparent that the head gasket was no longer winning with us. Exhaust was"
YouTube Link 2024-11-03T20:20Z 45.2K followers, 27.5K engagements
"Classic Mopar No Crank No Start - How To Diagnose Issues - Dead Dodge Garage Today on Dead Dodge Garage its the big no crank no start classic Mopar diagnosis video. I take a deep dive into the different components that factor into cranking and starting and give you a handful of helpful diagnostic tips if you cant get your classic muscle car era Dodge Plymouth or Dodge truck to crank. This information applies to the A-body such as the Dodge Dart and Plymouth Valiant; B-body such as the Dodge Charger and Plymouth Belvedere; C-body such as the Chrysler Newport and Dodge Monaco; E-body meaning"
YouTube Link 2022-01-07T18:34Z 60.2K followers, 128.8K engagements
"Can I Drive This Terrifyingly Sketchy [----] Dodge D350 "Ramp Truck" Home (Towing My New Project Car) See Tom's video on the truck here: https://youtu.be/UywGl0N8D_Usi=DeC3EcqC_qWH9CKx Tom with @rocketresto has a habit of dragging home junk that I really want. The latest example of that is this [----] Dodge D350. With an intercooled Cummins [---] under the hood this truck should be reliable and a willing performer for hundreds of thousands of miles to come - in theory anyway. Unfortunately this thing sat in a field for a lot of years while the brakes rusted over and the tires literally rotted to"
YouTube Link 2024-04-13T18:34Z 31.6K followers, 10.2K engagements
"DDG Live The Slightly Warm Almost Summer Evening Edition You're lucky I'm not shirtless in the pool just saying"
YouTube Link 2025-06-09T01:07Z 67.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Will This Amazing Survivor [----] Chrysler LeBaron GTS Run After [--] Years (The Best Revival Ever) I know what you're thinking. You're thinking you've seen some great revivals in your time and you're wondering how this one could be different. Well. did you look at it This [----] Chrysler LeBaron has somehow survived to the present day in incredibly good condition and with only [-----] miles on the clock. This video has everything you've come to expect from Dead Dodge Garage but like.more. Misery. Smells. Broken parts. More misery. More smells. More survivor Mopar flavor. More learning (against my"
YouTube Link 2024-08-16T19:00Z 38.5K followers, 23.7K engagements
"What's A [---] Swapped [----] Dodge Challenger Drive Like A Red '71 Project Update Wow. The [---] Hemi and T56 Magnum drivetrain setup in Austin's Challenger do absolutely ridiculous things. This build is a cut or five above the usual projects I've got going on. In fact it doesn't really have a Dead Dodge Garage-y air to it at all. But it's something special - and a project I'm very proud of. I'm extremely impressed by the "finished" product and seeing it head down the road will definitely be bittersweet. @rocketresto"
YouTube Link 2023-09-09T17:59Z 18.6K followers, 19.3K engagements
"Marking Its Territory - Let's Fix My [----] Dodge Charger's Leaking Radiator This is my [----] Dodge Charger which is affectionately known as Corndog after a silly off-road excursion involving a cop car and a hot case lunch. I've owned the Charger for over two years now and bit by bit I've brought it up to snuff in various videos on the channel. The biggest issue for the last year has been a leaking radiator that I installed (with full knowledge that it leaked.) So today I'm finally going to fix that - just in time to park the car for the rainy season. Typical"
YouTube Link 2024-10-02T18:00Z 44.9K followers, 13.6K engagements
"DDG Live The Friggin' Ford Funday Fest I for one am shocked. SHOCKED I tell you. at the largely positive response to today's video"
YouTube Link 2024-09-16T03:11Z 44.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Broken Banana - [----] Dodge A100 Wheelstander Project Update Build Plans And More (Bonus Burnouts) This is the Flying Banana. Everybody loves the Flying Banana - especially me. On today's episode my entire plan was to explain that the transmission is totally dead and the entire rear half of the truck needs a major rethink. It turns out only one of those things is true. Either way I'm going to take a close look at the Little Red Wagon which the Banana is loosely based on then sketch up a suspension system that will hopefully make this thing a contender. Also glorious exhaust noise and some"
YouTube Link 2025-06-07T17:45Z 67.5K followers, 25.5K engagements
"Will This [----] Plymouth Trail Duster [---] Big Block Run After [--] Years Get your DDG merch at https://shop.deaddodgegarage.com Are we really still wondering if these classic Mopars will run Don't they always run Well almost. anyway let's do big block Trail Duster things. And if it does the running the driving and the stopping I suppose we'll have to go bury it in a mud hole or something. And then go check out Tom's video telling the crazy story of buying this truck over at @rocketresto"
YouTube Link 2023-12-09T16:15Z 60.8K followers, 56.2K engagements
"DDG Live With Tom Hergert - The Let's Buy All The Junk Sunday Stream Yep it's really him. @RocketResto"
YouTube Link 2025-07-28T01:18Z 71.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Where's The Boost This [----] Dodge Daytona Shelby Turbo Needs Help (Diagnosis Tuning Tech And More) I teased this Daytona in a previous video and more than a few people in the comments were excited to see it. This front wheel drive whip from the early 90s just might be the ultimate K-car derivative. It's got a relatively fancy jet fighter interior sporty lines and accouterment and a turbo [---] under the hood. It bares Carroll Shelby's name on the doors and carries other special equipment to match. Unfortunately it also has 187k miles on the clock and from the general look of the car those miles"
YouTube Link 2024-12-27T21:40Z 52.4K followers, 51.9K engagements
"What Is A Rebody When Clones Go From Fun To Fraud. Fender Tags Vin Swapping And More Explained This video has been on my to-do list for quite a while. I got to thinking about it again recently as my friend Dave was window shopping [----] Plymouth Duster 340s - which for some reason are now a highly valuable commodity. So on today's episode we talk about about some of the different ways that a less desirable classic Mopar magically turns into a more desirable and collectible car - ranging from harmless and fun to downright illegal. As usual there's a whole lot more that I could say on this"
YouTube Link 2023-08-26T19:51Z 45.2K followers, 15.9K engagements
"Top End Teardown - [----] Chrysler Cordoba [---] Performance Plans Cylinder Head Removal And Much More Surprise It's Dead Dodge Garage Arkansas Edition - with many thanks to @JustMoparJoe for the loan of a bay in his shop as well as some help on this project. Check out Joe's channel at: http://www.youtube.com/@JustMoparJoe No this [----] Chrysler Cordoba isn't my [----] Chrysler [---] - but you'd be easily forgiven for thinking it was because the two cars are practically identical. Incidentally before I got the [---] it belonged to the same gentleman who owns this car. Apparently he has a type. Anyway"
YouTube Link 2025-09-17T19:00Z 75K followers, 29.6K engagements
"392 Hemi Swap First Fire Up And Exhaust Sound Red '71 Dodge Challenger Build Update NOTICE I said the Sunbust Mopar show is Saturday (August 19th) but it's actually Sunday (August 20th.) That's my bad. Is it done No. Is it almost done Ehhhhh. In any case let's take a look at this awesome [---] Hemi swap in a [----] Dodge Challenger that finally actually runs This project has been pretty nuts. Every little bit has required attention thought and hours of work. Bit by bit it has shaped up into what you see now. It's very exciting for me as I've never gotten to build a car like this before. My"
YouTube Link 2023-08-11T15:41Z 45.2K followers, 14K engagements
"Some Assembly Required - [----] Dodge Dart GT [---] Carb Tech Home Headliner Tips And Much More On this episode we've got something special. It's a mostly original paint black on black 273/push button powered [----] Dodge Dart GT. I just got this car from Chris the third generation owner in a family that has owned this sweet machine since [----]. The interior was removed from this car for a small rust repair in the floor and some refinishing well over a decade ago and it has unfortunately sat unfinished ever since. Today Allan and I are diving in head first on piecing the car back together. We learn"
YouTube Link 2025-04-06T17:00Z 60.5K followers, 42.7K engagements
"DDG Live A Brief Hello From The Road Woooo"
YouTube Link 2025-09-15T01:36Z 74.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Down To Race Weight - Stripping My [----] Plymouth Barracuda To Build The 70s Drag Car Of My Dreams Do you want to become a DDG member to help support projects like this one Click here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUIXuaxSLnF5Jhr6E_fca_A/join This is my Barracuda. There. aren't any others like it actually. Hm. Anyway this car has been around on the channel almost since the beginning. And in previous videos I've discussed my brilliant plans to turn it into the perfect period drag racer that looks like it time traveled from the 1970s. But what I haven't done is actually start building it - so"
YouTube Link 2025-01-12T17:50Z 53.1K followers, 20.3K engagements
"Intake Port Matching - Improving Factory Castings And Finding Hidden Horsepower (A [---] Build Update) There are many small operations you can complete on your factory cast iron cylinder heads to help them shine and make real power for nothing more than the cost of the tools to do it and some of your time. One of the more important operations is matching the ports of your intake manifold to the intake ports on your cylinder heads. This is an important transitional area where messy factory (and aftermarket) castings can disrupt airflow and rob horsepower. So on today's Engine Wednesday"
YouTube Link 2025-01-15T21:00Z 53.3K followers, 17.6K engagements
"Working Through Problems On My [----] Dodge W150 Slant Six 4x4 - Dead Dodge Garage On todays episode I dig into the poor running Iron Goat II and after assuming that all of my problems were caused by a Weber carburetor the previous owner had installed I learn that the points (which this truck shouldnt have) are adjusted so badly the truck shouldnt run at all. Its moving in the right direction but definitely isnt perfect yet"
YouTube Link 2022-03-05T16:36Z 76.4K followers, 22K engagements
"This [----] Dodge Monaco "Blues Brothers" Tribute Has Sat Broken For Years. Can I Make It Run Again Something something it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. This [----] Dodge Monaco C-body has been hiding in the background of many videos shot at Rocket Restorations for the last two years. Many people have asked about it but to this point it has continued to sit there broken and full of bees. But today it's supposed to be picked up by a shipper to finally go to its new home. Before that though I'd really like to hear that cop [---] run again. Let's dive in and see what happens. @rocketresto"
YouTube Link 2024-06-21T23:19Z 45.3K followers, 17.6K engagements
"Soak It Beat It Heat It Repeat It - [----] Perkins Plymouth Taxi Head Gasket Removal Nightmare This is Perky. Perky is a thing of beauty. Truly a bewildering spectacle to the average citizen. One part basic no-frills transportation two parts fantastical Exner beauty and three parts aggressive slowness - thanks in full to the Perkins P4C engine under the hood of this finned wonder. In previous episodes I've detailed my journey with Perky so far including torquing many important suspension fasteners with hopes of keeping my passengers and myself alive making major improvements in the engine room"
YouTube Link 2025-06-21T15:00Z 70.6K followers, 44.9K engagements
"RARE [----] Dodge Dakota [---] R/T Revival And "Restoration" Begins It's like a pickup truck but smaller and less capable. It's like a muscle car except in just about every way. And yet when Dodge slapped the legendary R/T badge on the side of this [----] Dodge Dakota they created something remarkably fun. The [---] Magnum under the hood only makes [---] horsepower but the torque figure is closer to [---] lb/ft. The [----] limited slip differential gives great pickup and creates tire smoke with authority. The small suspension tweaks underneath the regular second generation Dakota body add up to make a"
YouTube Link 2024-03-08T20:35Z 45.1K followers, 22.1K engagements
"DDG Live The Spring Cleaning Sunday Extravaganza Anybody wanna buy five A-bodies"
YouTube Link 2025-05-12T03:16Z 62.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Alive At Last - [----] Chrysler Newport Brake Fix Much Needed Cleanup Triumphant Return To The Road This is Mitchell's [----] Chrysler Newport. I helped him pick this car up from a junkyard two and a half years ago got it running and un-seized the brakes and then - for reasons that aren't worth explaining - left it sitting abandoned in my driveway on four flat tires until about two weeks ago. In the previous video on this car Allan and I got it fired up again and (barely) rolling on four tires that kinda hold air. Today we're going to finish all of the important things we failed to get to in the"
YouTube Link 2025-04-05T16:00Z 60.3K followers, 22.8K engagements
"Seized Brakes And A Little Spinout - [----] Plymouth Valiant Signet Hardtop Comes Back To Life I could spend every day reviving these A-bodies. Especially if it's going to be this easy. Today we get a slant six powered [----] Plymouth Valiant Signet [---] (whatever that means) running again. That's the easy part though. the slightly more challenging part is to get it rolling again. But if we can pull that off well it's probably time for some testing"
YouTube Link 2024-01-12T19:00Z 45.3K followers, 19.4K engagements
"The Vibration Chronicles - Fixing Obnoxious Problems On My [----] Dodge Challenger Mitsubishi Thing Sorry Brady but it hasn't exploded yet. In fact my [----] "Dodge" "Challenger" (which is totally just a badge engineered machine from Mitsubishi) has been 100% reliable and quite fun as a daily driver even during this unseasonably dry cold snap. But a [---] mile highway test drive revealed a couple issues that need to be addressed. The first is that my bodged repair on the driveshaft center support bushing did nothing and under hard acceleration it feels like the shaft wants to come through the floor"
YouTube Link 2025-01-24T20:00Z 54.2K followers, 22K engagements
"Sweet Survivor - This [---] / [--] Speed [----] Plymouth Barracuda Needs Help After [--] Years Off The Road If you follow the channel you know that I am a big fan of first generation "big window" Barracudas. I even own one which I call the Garbage Can 'Cuda for obvious reasons. So imagine my surprise and delight when Dave a DDG Gold Member asked me to work on this beautiful unit. It's a 138k mile [----] Plymouth Barracuda with the original [---] under the hood and a four speed manual transmission. It's been off the road since the mid 90s and clearly needs some tender love and care. Let's dive in and see"
YouTube Link 2024-11-23T20:09Z 47K followers, 42.9K engagements
"Chrysler's Best Axle - [----] "Garbage Can" Plymouth Barracuda Gets An [--] 3/4 Upgrade This is my [----] Plymouth Barracuda called the "Garbage Can Cuda" which is slowly being transformed into a classic-styled drag car. One important step in that process is installing a rear differential that can take the heat. I can all but guarantee that several commenters on this video will say I need to opt for a Dana [--] instead but I'm going to insist on using the A-body's factory performance axle - the [--] 3/4. Basically the Chrysler [--] 3/4 axle is just like a Ford 9" but slightly worse. It's a relatively stout"
YouTube Link 2024-08-03T18:22Z 44.9K followers, 14.6K engagements
"Will This [---] Swapped [----] Plymouth Valiant Run And Drive After Sitting For [--] Years I mean. yeah. It's a big block Mopar. Come on guy you've seen the show"
YouTube Link 2023-10-07T14:00Z 73.2K followers, 126.9K engagements
"Strange Dana [--] Swap - The Ultimate Axle Upgrade For Dylan's [----] Dodge Dart Sport (And Your Mopar) I've been working on Dylan's [----] Dodge Dart Sport project for over a year now. No I don't know how that happened either. In previous videos I explained the formula for this build pulled the original slant six drivetrain (which was in pretty sorry shape) explained how I will convert the car to a V8 and fully overhauled the front suspension with some choice upgrade parts in preparation for the drivetrain swap. Today we're addressing another important part of the chassis improvement equation -"
YouTube Link 2024-10-25T20:00Z 75.5K followers, 21.1K engagements
"Performance Timing Curves For Dummies Like Me (Ignition Basics Distributor Mods And Tuning) In this video I give you some of the basics on ignition timing curves why we need them (usually) and what you need to do to make yours work on a warmed over American V8 utilizing extensive and specific anecdotal knowledge based around the small block Chrysler engine"
YouTube Link 2023-05-13T16:58Z 44K followers, 33K engagements
"No Name Or Bust - "Garbage Can" [----] Plymouth Barracuda Build Plan [--] 3/4 Axle Tech And Much More I've been planning to go to the No Name Nationals since the inception of Dead Dodge Garage. In fact reaching the [---] subscriber requirement to compete was my main goal when I started this channel. Now actually getting there wasn't on the list of possible things in the early days once I fulfilled that requirement but it was a neat idea. My intention for a couple years now has been to piece together the Garbage Can 'Cuda - a flagship drag racer that would be built from scratch on the channel"
YouTube Link 2025-08-17T19:52Z 73K followers, 23.1K engagements
"Budget Rally Car - [----] Dodge Neon Crash Damage Fix Bumper Build Super Swampers And Offroad Glory Here's an easy recipe to make a pretty bad car great. Un-bend all of the parts of said car that have been put through another vehicle a house or another immovable object. 1) Replace any major engine components that have holes in them they aren't supposed to have. 2) Replace any essential suspension components that more closely resemble a pretzel than they are supposed to. 3) Install a set of 29" super swampers using nothing but a pry bar and a sledge hammer. Congratulations You're ready to party"
YouTube Link 2025-03-23T20:04Z 59.2K followers, 22.3K engagements
"This [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon Is An Original Paint Survivor (That Rides Like A Pile Of Bricks) I love Power Wagons. I've had a bunch of them. But I've never done any real seat time in a 60s era Sweptline Power Wagon which is unfortunate because I've always thought they were some of the coolest. I actually own one of these trucks myself but unlike Gary's truck we're seeing here mine is an awful piece of garbage. Anyway this truck has been sitting in Montana for many years and while it's already running and kind of driving it's going to need a lot of help in the near future. Let's take a"
YouTube Link 2024-06-22T18:00Z 45.3K followers, 21.8K engagements
"Chrysler's Unknown Race Weapon - The Ultimate [---] Is This Modified R Block From Mopar Performance Ok it's not unknown to hardcore Mopar racers. But it was certainly unknown to me when I tripped over this weird looking small block in a pile of parts @rocketresto dragged home. Since then I've gotten an education on the evolution of Chrysler's LA series small block long after the original performance variants had left the production line. So on today's episode let's take a close look at this R block and see what there is to learn"
YouTube Link 2025-01-08T21:00Z 73.3K followers, 132.4K engagements
"A Symphony Of Expensive Sounds - This [----] Chrysler Street Hemi Needs Help (A Detailed Autopsy) I don't know why the shop is littered with [---] Hemi engines now but I sure like it. Tom with @rocketresto dragged this one home from the Spring Fling show in Van Nuys CA a few weeks ago. Supposedly it was running in a car within the last couple months but was removed and replaced with a date correct engine. I have a great interest in assembling a working [---] engine so I decided to give this one a close look to see if it was a better candidate than my damaged race Hemi block. All I can say is. are"
YouTube Link 2025-05-21T19:00Z 65.4K followers, 26.8K engagements
"The Big Shunt Wire Guide - Prevent Electrical Meltdown In Your Classic Mopar With This Easy Fix On today's episode I install a charge bypass wire (or "shunt wire") in a [----] Dodge Challenger to help protect the new wiring harness I just installed. I have used the same procedure in my [----] Dodge Charger my [----] Plymouth Valiant and countless other cars. In fact this is a useful technique for just about any classic car with an ammeter or amp gauge - especially in cases where various electrical components have been upgraded or accessories have been added. It's quick it's easy it's cheap and the"
YouTube Link 2025-01-03T19:59Z 52.3K followers, 14.2K engagements
"DDG Live Let's Jump All The Yellow Cars In The Field For A Safe And Legal Thrill The cackling will never get old"
YouTube Link 2025-04-21T03:18Z 61.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Driving A Daytona A Brief History Of The [----] Dodge Charger Daytona Wing Car Dead Dodge Garage merch is available now Check out our latest shirt design "More Bad Than Car." at https://shop.DeadDodgeGarage.com It's just like a normal Charger but extra. OK so people occasionally slam on their brakes in the middle of the road to try and get a picture of it. It was built to go really really fast. But it drives very nicely at normal road speeds. It's also worth a small fortune. Other than that it's just like a normal Charger"
YouTube Link 2023-03-04T19:42Z 53.9K followers, 12.5K engagements
"All About The "Baby Hemi" - Dodge [---] Part ID Size Comparison + Much More (Can I Build This One) Last week I did a video on a DeSoto [---] Hemi V8 going over the general layout of the engine comparing it in size to an A/LA series engine and to the other first generation dual rocker shaft engines and coaxing some life out of what was previously a rusty seized and sad dead player. When I went to buy that engine the seller informed me that he also had a Dodge [---] engine in pieces which had come from the same gentleman (who had unfortunately passed away.) Just like the DeSoto I have no history on"
YouTube Link 2025-03-12T19:00Z 58.9K followers, 34.5K engagements
"What's Wrong With This [----] Mercury Capri Fluid Leaks Bad Noises And More On The Best "Mustang" I think the Fox Mustang/Capri is a neat car at least in theory. Drop some V8 grunt in a small [----] pound or less rear wheel drive car add some crisp straightforward styling and a decent interior. In practice. I'm not sure it's quite so great as it should be. What I do know is that in its time Chrysler had no good answer to the Fox Body. So today I want to take a long hard look at what I personally consider to be the greatest of those cars - the inaugural [----] Mercury Capri - and see what it's all"
YouTube Link 2024-09-15T19:26Z 57.7K followers, 26.1K engagements
"DDG Live The You Probably Cant Hear Me Edition Really tho this might not work at all"
YouTube Link 2025-05-26T01:25Z 65.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Pertronix Problems This Rare [----] Plymouth Roadrunner Needs Help (How To Wire Pertronix Ignition) Chrysler big blocks have always been excellent engines. Even the low compression lower power 70s units generally deliver mounds of torque and sufficiently move trucks RVs and cars like this one down the road without issue. However to get the full effect you really need all [--] cylinders to be at the party - and today's subject doesn't have them anymore. This [----] Plymouth Road Runner has recently had a complete front suspension overhaul and restoration (to delete an inadequate aftermarket"
YouTube Link 2025-02-14T20:00Z 60.7K followers, 26.4K engagements
"DDG Live The Maybe We'll Talk About Cars This Time Sunday Stream Apparently the viewers care more about [----] Rams than [----] Chrysler 300Js. It's official I don't know how anything works"
YouTube Link 2025-10-13T01:23Z 76.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Oops Dale's Demon Is WAY Faster - My Last Drag Runs For [----] And My [----] Dodge Demon 340's Future It's been several months now of waiting patiently for a response from @UncleTonysGarage and Slaghammer. I've still got his timing light which I (unintentionally) stole during the Great Ice Cream Race and which I would be happy to ship back to him. In the interim my home track Bremerton Raceway's very last test and tune of the year came around and I knew there was still a lot of time to shave off of my previous best 1/8th mile time of [----]. So Byron and I loaded the Demon on the ramp truck and hit"
YouTube Link 2024-10-30T19:00Z 75.4K followers, 20.9K engagements
"DDG Live The Where The Heck Am I Sunday Streaming Extravaganza Coming to you live from a hotel room that is way too nice for me in Butte Montana"
YouTube Link 2023-09-18T03:59Z 44.9K followers, [----] engagements
"DDG Live Tom And Jamie Talk About V Codes And Space Ships (The Weekly Sunday Live Thing) There's too much happening. Like officially just too many things"
YouTube Link 2025-03-17T03:18Z 58.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The CHEAPEST [---] Poly Rebuild - Restoring Rusty Parts Block Prep And The Art Of Good Enough In the last episode on my [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon I removed the crusty A-series [---] "Poly" engine with the help of a couple friends and a tractor. We then stripped the block in preparation for the kind of quick and dirty engine overhaul one might have seen on a farm back in the bad old days. In today's video Allan and I rehabilitate many engine components in preparation for an extremely cheap rebuild. Along the way I'll show you some of the techniques I've come up with for saving parts that may"
YouTube Link 2025-01-29T20:00Z 61.5K followers, 35.1K engagements
"Fake Fox Body From Japan - Will This [----] Dodge Challenger Run And Drive After Years Off The Road Alright "rare" is a bit of a relative term. In '81 there were about [-----] of these bad boys produced - meaning more of them existed than '71 [---] Demons for example. And over the second generation Challenger's run there were apparently over [------] of them sold a statistic I find fantastic and somewhat staggering. But they certainly must be rare in the modern age given that I have never seen another one and only had the faintest of ideas that they were even built. Of course rare does not"
YouTube Link 2024-08-30T19:31Z 44.8K followers, 89.9K engagements
"Together At Last - [----] Plymouth Barracuda [---] Engine Detail Install Cam Break-in And Much More This is Mark's [----] Plymouth Barracuda. Way back in October or something it came in for some top end work including a cam change a four barrel conversion and some other small details. When I dug into the original [---] under the hood it quickly became apparent that it needed much more than hotrod parts. Between a mismatched set of cylinder heads (one open chamber one closed chamber) excessive crankshaft thrust and a leaking core plug at the back of the block this poor engine needed a complete"
YouTube Link 2025-07-13T18:30Z 70.8K followers, 30.9K engagements
"DDG Live It's Sunday Again So We'll Do The Stuff My tummy hurts though"
YouTube Link 2025-07-14T03:15Z 70.5K followers, [----] engagements
"SEIZED AND BAD Can I Fix This [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon It's been almost a year since I bought this beat old Dodge 4x4 truck and started this project. Yeah. I know. Let's just say things haven't quite gone to plan. Let's check in on this nightmarish project and see what's what"
YouTube Link 2024-03-16T17:37Z 45.3K followers, 34.4K engagements
"DDG Live From The Middle Of Arkansas Wheelies WHEELIES"
YouTube Link 2025-09-22T01:28Z 75.1K followers, [----] engagements
"DDG Live The I'm-Real-Excited-About-The-Barracuda Sunday Livestream Party Thing Wooooooo"
YouTube Link 2025-09-08T01:18Z 74.5K followers, [----] engagements
"DDG Live The What's New Is Also Broken Sunday Stream Party I'm not late YOU'RE late"
YouTube Link 2025-03-10T03:18Z 58K followers, [----] engagements
"A Rocky Start - [---] Hemi Factory Restoration Build Recipe Component Deep Dive And A Big Problem We didn't know what it was this morning and now we're building two of them. This is Chrysler's legendary [---] Hemi engine. The second generation of their Hemi-headed engines it was originally conceived in [----] specifically to dominate NASCAR and was employed to smoke the competition at local drag strips shortly thereafter. For [----] it would find its way into regular production street cars to homologate it for a return to NASCAR - and it would grow to legendary status as a rare wild undeniably"
YouTube Link 2025-04-30T19:00Z 62.2K followers, 26.5K engagements
"Grandpa Truck - This Long Dead [----] Jeep J10 Needs Help (Column Science Major Gas Leaks And More) One of Tom Hergert's favorite things to do is drag home dead rusty garbage. One of my favorite things to do is revive dead rusty garbage - so this situation tends to work out pretty well. Today Tom has brought a couple treasures back from a junkyard type situation in the mountainous middle of nowhere part of California and it's once again time to grab a gas can and steal a battery from some other project car. The first is this sweet Jeep pickup which turns out to be not so rusty. In fact it's"
YouTube Link 2025-03-29T16:00Z 71K followers, 41.5K engagements
"Operation Snowball - [----] Mopar [---] Roller Cam Setup Head Gasket Tech Quench Notes And Much More A couple months ago I did a video tearing down a [---] that had been making some horrible rattling sounds. Inside a couple chambers I found little chunks of unknown debris and in the oil pan I found a bunch of blasting sand. Needless to say that engine went to the machine shop for some cleaning and a rethink - and today we're finally reassembling it using nice fresh parts. One small problem - none of those parts actually fit right or work together the way they're supposed to. @rocketresto"
YouTube Link 2025-06-11T19:00Z 67.8K followers, 25.5K engagements
"Hot Mess - This [---] Powered [----] Dodge Challenger Needs Help - Electrical Overhaul Tuning And More This whole operation was one big flashback because I've already owned almost exactly the same car and I've already been through all of the same stuff. So on today's remake of Groundhog Day I dig into this [----] Dodge Challenger with [---] power and attempt to fix everything wrong with it. Spoiler alert - it goes exactly how you would expect which is to say. mixed bag"
YouTube Link 2024-12-21T19:08Z 51.1K followers, 27.3K engagements
"DDG Live This Time It's Personal Or Whatever It's way too hot for this I'll tell ya what"
YouTube Link 2024-07-08T03:12Z 45.1K followers, [----] engagements
"What's Wrong With This [----] Dodge Challenger Electrical Gremlins Big Block Tuning Tech And More This [----] Dodge Challenger is the only E-body I've ever owned. I bought it off of the "Mopar Ranch" which you can see in an older video on the channel. After getting it back on the road and enjoying it for a time I sold the car 6-7 years ago and it has been on quite the journey since then (despite not actually traveling very far.) In fact I randomly stumbled across it in a shop some time ago when picking up another Mopar and featured it in a video when it was still in primer. At that time it was"
YouTube Link 2024-09-07T19:38Z 44.8K followers, 35.2K engagements
"Building The Barracuda - Drivetrain Install Drum Brake Tech and MUCH More For My Drag Car Project Buying Dead Dodge Garage merch helps support this project Grab your DDG Scrap Pack shirt and stickers or any of our other awesome designs here: https://shop.deaddodgegarage.com It's everybody's favorite crusty [----] Plymouth Barracuda the Garbage Can 'Cuda Last time we fiddled with a bunch of little things and installed the gear chunk (spoiler alert it leaks and it's coming back out.) On this episode Allan and I make some SERIOUS progress on the car touching nearly every system from front to back"
YouTube Link 2025-08-24T17:00Z 73.4K followers, 34K engagements
"Valvetrain Science - Performance [---] Rocker & Pushrod Fitment Stacking Tolerances And Much More This is the street performance [---] LA I've built for Mark's [----] Plymouth Barracuda over a series of videos. It seems like every single engine I try to put together these days has issues with parts not fitting together and this engine was no exception. Our biggest problem was pushrod fitment - even with a hydraulic lifter setup I generally insist on adjustable rocker arms for any performance build. For this engine Mark opted for the fancy Harland Sharps. After discovering that our new pushrods were"
YouTube Link 2025-06-25T19:15Z 68.9K followers, 24.4K engagements
"EFI And An Overdrive Gear - This [----] Dodge Coronet [---] Convertible Is Finally A Perfect Driver It's been well over a year since we last saw Don's [----] Coronet [---] convertible on the channel. Since we last saw it the bulk of the project has finally been completed with only a few straggling issues left to be sorted. But I never got around to wrapping up the project with a final video because it left Rocket to make it to the last big car show of the season last year before it was completely finished. Since that time I have been asked many times about the Silversport Transmissions A41 overdrive"
YouTube Link 2024-08-02T19:00Z 44.8K followers, 13K engagements
"The Saga Of The Stubborn Cylinder Head - The "Perky" [----] Plymouth Diesel Taxi Update No One Wanted This project is driving me insane. All I wanted to do was replace Perky's terribly leaking head gasket and continue enjoying the car while I overhaul the spare engine. Instead I have been rewarded for my efforts with a really neat looking piece of yard art that turns my hands and clothing inky blank whenever I get near it. Anyway people keep asking about it so I thought today I'd let everyone know how things are going. Spoiler alert - not good"
YouTube Link 2025-08-09T16:22Z 76K followers, 44.6K engagements
"Battery Powered Rocket - A Mopar Guy's Review Of The 450+ HP [----] Dodge Charger Daytona R/T Plus No this isn't your regular Dead Dodge Garage video - because today I have a unique opportunity to be the first regular guy off the street to drive the very first brand new Dodge Charger at my local Dodge dealer Five Star / Harbor Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram. When this new Charger model was announced as a concept car in August [----] I was immediately excited - because look at it. Yeah it's a sleek looking modern car but there is so much second generation Charger in it that it's impossible to ignore. It"
YouTube Link 2025-03-16T17:00Z 58.9K followers, 40.6K engagements
"Trash Or Treasure Mopar [---] LA Garage Sale Find Teardown Inspection Part Identification And More I love the Chrysler LA engine. It's my happy place. I have all of the fastener sizes and torque specifications memorized. I know the ins the outs the oddball quirks and important details of this engine family like the inside of my eyelids. I stack them in my shop like cordwood. When I was a bachelor I had LA heads and performance intakes lined up on the carpet in my living room. (Yes that's a true story.) So when I randomly find one at a garage sale particularly with some aged but desirable speed"
YouTube Link 2025-05-28T19:00Z 67.3K followers, 78.5K engagements
"I'm Drowning In Projects - Every Car In The Dead Dodge Garage Fleet Update It's been a crazy year for me. Many things have happened in [----] and the channel has more than doubled in size. If things go to plan I'll have even crazier builds coming in [----]. You might even see me at some big drag racing and other Mopar events across the country. Today though I'm going to go through all of the cars I've got stacked up around the shop and give you the winter [----] State Of The Fleet. If you're keeping score at home the last State Of The Fleet was exactly a year ago tomorrow. Who knew I could be that"
YouTube Link 2024-12-29T19:20Z 52.1K followers, 23.2K engagements
"A Dart In Plymouth Clothing - [----] Plymouth Scamp History Interior Build Glass Tech And Much More This is my [----] Plymouth Scamp. I bought it from my friend Jeff who owned it for about eight years. In that time he made all sorts of nice modifications including freshening the suspension adding a sway bar spicing up the [---] Slant Six under the hood and more. Unfortunately it had an unscheduled meeting with a deer on the highway one evening and it now needs some various repairs to be brought back up to snuff. Today we'll cover a bunch of that we'll go for a sporting drive and we'll take a close"
YouTube Link 2025-04-13T20:22Z 72.8K followers, 49.5K engagements
"DDG Live The Unexpected Road Trip Sunday Streaming Extravaganza Featuring my other brother"
YouTube Link 2023-10-16T03:23Z 45.3K followers, [----] engagements
"DDG Live The Doomed Buggy Sunday Streamy Party Are you a PT Can't Or a PT Can"
YouTube Link 2025-06-16T03:18Z 68K followers, [----] engagements
"Dale's Demon Returns [----] Dodge Demon [---] 4-Speed Maintenance Street Setup Bang Shifting Action This is my Demon. which is called Dale's Demon. This has confused some people over the years but I'm fine with that. Over the last couple years I've used the Demon to get some seat time going down 1/8th mile tracks starting out in the 9s and ultimately ending up in the high 7s. While there's definitely more on the table there ultimately this car deserves to be retired from drag racing and preserved for future generations. Also I'd like to enjoy it as an actual car. So today we're going to put the"
YouTube Link 2025-05-11T18:15Z 74.7K followers, 31.4K engagements
"End Of The Line - This [----] Studebaker Commander Could Be A Daily Driver (But There's A Problem) Since spending a handful of years with a [----] Studebaker Hawk project in my life I have developed a real appreciation for these orphaned classics. While they don't quite have "honorary Mopar" status (as enthusiasts often allow for AMC products) they are in the same expanded universe - and you've got to love an underdog. So when I had the opportunity to buy this last year [----] Studebaker Champion I jumped on it. Of course bringing a project car home is easy. The immediate question was. what do I do"
YouTube Link 2024-12-01T18:41Z 48.5K followers, 29.2K engagements
"No Name Nationals [----] Banging Gears Bracket Racing And Breaking Stuff In The Garbage Can 'Cuda It's finally here No Name Nationals is a drag racing event specifically created for automotive YouTubers with [---] subscribers or more. The possibility of attending this event was part of the reasoning behind starting my YouTube channel and after several years of wanting to make the journey [----] miles to Sikeston for the party I've finally pulled it off. Of course I brought a car that's been fully together for less than two weeks and surprise surprise there are going to be some teething problems."
YouTube Link 2025-09-28T20:31Z 75.5K followers, 27.7K engagements
"DDG Live The Challengers Appear Sunday Thingy "This is probably one of the worst cars ever built." - Another YouTube channel talking about my [----] Dodge Challenger using my footage"
YouTube Link 2024-12-23T04:26Z 51K followers, [----] engagements
"Tin Grille School Bus - This [---] Powered [----] Dodge D200 Crew Cab Long Bed Needs Help The battery's dead. It won't fire at all without a healthy drink of gas poured down the carb. It's gutless and clouds of fuel vapor occasionally spout from the air horn like old faithful under acceleration. The electric fuel pump bodged under the hood is a strong hint that the fuel supply system leaves something to be desired. There's a strange whistling noise emanating from the carburetor and a horrible dry scraping noise from the water pump. The good news is this [---] big block powered [----] Dodge D200 crew"
YouTube Link 2024-11-16T18:22Z 46.3K followers, 17.4K engagements
"OK The Aces Killshot Classic Finally Runs BUT. (A New Direction For My Turbo Slant Six Build) I gave it one more shot. I probably didn't need to but I did. And it finally kinda runs. Despite my best efforts it absolutely refuses to run well. I tried all of the things that were suggested. I made (almost) all of the changes we all knew needed to be made. I spent hours trying to tune this thing in every conceivable way. And it still just doesn't work. Also it leaks gasoline on my turbine housing from poorly sealed throttle shafts. And as great a video as my [----] Plymouth Valiant erupting into a"
YouTube Link 2025-02-07T20:00Z 55.4K followers, 26.7K engagements
"DDG Live The I'm Running Out Of Places To Hide The A-Bodies Sunday Party Three cars in three days That's just too many"
YouTube Link 2025-03-31T03:11Z 59.8K followers, [----] engagements
"DDG Live Jamie And Tom Talk About Exciting Things NOS parts and Perkins Plymouths oh my"
YouTube Link 2025-05-19T03:12Z 63.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Just One More Thing. Wiring Dylan's [---] Swapped [----] Dart Sport Brake And TKX Tech And Much More This is Dylan's [----] Dodge Dart Sport. In previous videos we removed the original slant six drivetrain overhauled the suspension installed a Magnum-based [---] stroker a TKX five speed manual transmission a Dana [--] axle and much more. In the last episode we heard the engine fire to life. briefly. In the doing we learned that the brand new TKX was jammed in gear. So in this video we start by ripping it back out to fix the shift linkage problem. Then we install an exhaust. Then we plumb the braking"
YouTube Link 2025-06-08T18:45Z 67.7K followers, 32.3K engagements
"DDG Live The Six Cylinders Of Fury (Lancer) Sunday Streamy Thing Hey the Dat-soon has a six too. It's even kinda slanted"
YouTube Link 2025-03-03T03:36Z 57.1K followers, [----] engagements
"273 Transformation - [----] Plymouth Barracuda Four Barrel Swap Rare Commando Parts And More This is Dave's mostly original survivor [----] Plymouth Barracuda. In the first episode on this car I replaced the gas tank got the car running again after years of sitting and took it for a quick test drive up and down the road. I then tore into the engine to replace the valve stem seals the timing chain and much more before throwing in the towel and leaving it in pieces for a month. On today's episode it's finally time to wrap up the refresh on the little [---] V8 under the hood get the car fired up again"
YouTube Link 2025-01-05T19:40Z 52.5K followers, 28.9K engagements
"Dead Car In The Background - [----] Chrysler Newport Ignition Fix Brakes And More (2.5 Years Later) I know why I operate the way I do. I know why I bounce from project to project leaving a mess of unfinished operations lingering in the wings. I have the attention span of a gnat and I'm constantly searching for the happy chemicals. Typically I try to get back to the various projects on the property for another round of fixing in a matter of weeks or months. For some reason it's been two and a half years since this [----] Chrysler Newport was dropped onto a trailer and dragged back to my place for"
YouTube Link 2025-03-22T18:45Z 59.2K followers, 35.1K engagements
"DDG Live Now With More Liveliness (The Normal Sunday Thing) That's a joke if I became any more lively I think we'd have a problem"
YouTube Link 2025-09-01T01:07Z 73.8K followers, [----] engagements
"DDG Live With Tom Hergert @RocketResto I'm sure we'll talk about Fords"
YouTube Link 2024-12-30T04:24Z 52K followers, [----] engagements
"The Bad Sounds - Dana [--] Rebuild Dead Wipers Door Seals And More For This [----] Dodge Crew Cab On the last episode on this [----] Dodge D200 crew cab belong to Mitchell (no not that Mitchell the other Mitchell) I fixed all kinds of weird problems including but not limited to just about every pump attached to the engine an unwillingness to start and a very poor running condition. At the end of that episode I took it for a test drive which went remarkably well - except for the bad noises that seemed to be emanating from the Dana [--] rear axle. There were a handful of other small projects to tackle"
YouTube Link 2024-12-20T20:00Z 50.9K followers, 17.1K engagements
"The Rarest Teardown - [----] Plymouth Sport Fury GT [---] [--] Barrel Autopsy Disassembly (Will It Turn) Tom Hergert with @rocketresto has already done multiple videos on this awesome [----] Plymouth Sport Fury GT so if you want to know more about the car and its history I suggest you hop over to his channel and take a look. Today though we've got something very special and as-yet unseen in the modern age as far as we are aware - we're pulling the seized numbers matching 440-6 out of this long neglected V-code muscle boat and tearing into it with hopes of finding good news and a rebuildable engine."
YouTube Link 2025-04-02T19:00Z 60.5K followers, 47.4K engagements
"Ratty Driver Rehab - [----] Plymouth Fury Front End Fixes Carb Swap And A Crappy '69 Charger Visit"
YouTube Link 2025-07-06T17:30Z 69.9K followers, 24.1K engagements
"Brake Safety Upgrade - Swap The "Pump And Pray" For A Dual Master Cylinder (A [----] Barracuda Update) If you've got a classic Mopar from [----] or earlier then you're likely familiar with the single pot master cylinder colloquially known as the "pump and pray." Because this brake system lacks any redundancy in the event of a hydraulic failure at any of the four wheels you're going to lose your brakes - and that's never a good time. Converting these early cars to the [----] and newer dual master cylinder is by no means a new idea and today we're installing one in Dave's [----] Plymouth Barracuda."
YouTube Link 2025-01-11T17:06Z 53.1K followers, 16.9K engagements
""We've Got A Race Car" [----] Barracuda Fuel System Build Wiring Job Engine Break In And MUCH More No Name is less than two weeks away at this point and we still haven't heard the Barracuda run. It doesn't have an electrical system an ignition system a cooling system a floor. you know little things. So today Allan and I are once again thrashing on the Garbage Can 'Cuda in an effort to get it together and operational. This project has been all consuming. I lay awake at night remembering small things we still haven't done. But it's really starting to look like we may have a race car in time to"
YouTube Link 2025-09-07T19:01Z 74.6K followers, 36.4K engagements
"DDG Live The Sharing Is Caring Sunday Streamaganza I have no idea what I'm talking about"
YouTube Link 2025-07-21T01:09Z 70.9K followers, [----] engagements
"I Built The Ramp Truck Of My Dreams (Mostly) In [--] Days - [----] Dodge D350 Cummins Car Hauler Part [--] My everything hurts. I'm pretty sure I inhaled enough welding fumes grinding dust and wood shavings during the course of this project to take a few years off my life. I worked so hard sweated so much and ate so little for four days that my old pants fit again. I'm not joking - that actually happened. Anyway as I explained over the course of the first two videos on this first gen Cummins truck I have long had a vision for my ideal car hauler. It comfortably fits an A-body Mopar on the back to go"
YouTube Link 2024-05-12T19:28Z 45.2K followers, 27.3K engagements
"So Many Breakdowns - [----] Perkins Plymouth Taxi Injection Pump Tech Highway Test Run And Much More This is Perky. Perky is a silly name because the Perkins P4C under the hood is anything but. This [----] Plymouth was ordered as a taxi and converted to diesel power when new. It's one of very few examples of the breed surviving in the US today. As a matter of fact I don't know that anyone else in America (or even the world) is daily driving one of these cars let alone cruising one on the freeway. If you happen to own one I don't recommend that you attempt the latter - and in today's video I'll"
YouTube Link 2025-06-01T18:00Z 73.3K followers, 75.8K engagements
"Bad News Inside - This [---] For Our [----] Plymouth Barracuda Performance Build Is Worse Than I Thought Building budget performance small block Mopar engines is just about my favorite thing in the world. These engines respond very well to basic hot rod modifications and it's extremely rewarding to floor the loud pedal and burn rubber with an engine you pieced together yourself for almost no capital investment. Unfortunately in the case of Mark's [----] Plymouth Barracuda engine the original goal of staying out of the bottom end of the engine and keeping things affordable is no longer achievable."
YouTube Link 2024-11-15T20:00Z 46.3K followers, 19.2K engagements
"DON'T Send A Down Payment This $10k [----] Dodge Charger Is A Scam And You're The Target So you want to buy a Charger. You aren't alone. I've tried to buy many Chargers over the years and have seen countless examples sold by other parties. If you've got a Charger for sale (and it's priced right) people will line up around the block to buy it. It seems like everybody wants one. And that's what makes scams like the one I'm looking at today so sinister. When you respond to an ad like this you KNOW there will be competition. How do you secure your chance at owning this Charger You send the seller a"
YouTube Link 2024-11-10T17:07Z 46.3K followers, 40.1K engagements
"Truck Bed Teardown - Knocking Mopar [---] LA Engine Autopsy Part ID Damage Assessment And Much More This [---] LA Chrysler engine previously lived in a [----] Dodge B200 van. It ran fairly well but when it got warm it started making a happy little knocking sound. Apparently this sound developed during a timing adjustment session after revving the engine. I have always suspected this to be a damaged piston skirt or a wrist pin issue. But today Allan has removed the engine from the van for possible use in another project. Obviously before that happens we need to go hunting for that knocking sound and"
YouTube Link 2025-06-04T19:00Z 67.3K followers, 34.4K engagements
"First Start Nightmare - Tearing Down A Brand New [---] Big Block In Search Of An Awful Clunking Noise Welcome back to Engine Wednesdays a recurring Dead Dodge Garage series where I dig into the engines that make our beloved classic Chrysler products tick (or knock smoke leak etc.) On today's episode we're looking at a brand new (24 year old) [---] build that made some very unfortunate sounds when it was first fired up in the [----] Dodge Charger it belongs to. It only ran for a few seconds and the hope is that whatever is making the noise has not yet wreaked any terrible havoc on the shiny new"
YouTube Link 2024-12-11T20:00Z 50.1K followers, 37.4K engagements
"A Bunch Of Banana Fixes - Bedside Bashing Wiring Overhaul Bracket Fab And More For My [----] A100 This is my [---] powered [----] Dodge A100 van/truck thing. I have dubbed it.The Flying Banana despite the fact that it is neither of those things. But some day soon I hope to campaign this glorious unit as a drag racer and/or wheel stander and to that end many improvements need to be made. So on today's episode Allan and I dive in and see how much of the list we can knock out"
YouTube Link 2025-02-08T19:00Z 55.4K followers, 23.5K engagements
"Top End Troubles - Tearing Down A [---] Hemi That Never Ran Right (A [----] Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda Update) In a previous video Tom (@rocketresto) and I removed this [---] Hemi from a [----] Plymouth 'Cuda after I found it to run rough despite extensive tuning attempts and discovered a lack of exhaust temperature in the manifold runner from cylinder #1. On today's episode I'm going to dig in and look for obvious issues in this engine - and it won't take me too long to find them"
YouTube Link 2024-12-04T20:00Z 50K followers, 45.1K engagements
"DDG Live The Sunday Night Mopars And Gui-tars Hangout Stream (Or Whatever) There are you happy"
YouTube Link 2025-08-18T03:13Z 72.9K followers, [----] engagements
"DDG Live The Fantasic Smell Of Burning Diesel Oil Sunday Stream Party It could be worse I guess"
YouTube Link 2025-06-23T03:25Z 68.5K followers, [----] engagements
"DDG Live The Tree Bouncing Bonanza Sunday Stream Party Are you impressed I'm impressed"
YouTube Link 2025-01-27T04:12Z 53.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Will This Crusty [----] Jeep J10 Pickup Run And Drive After Sitting [--] Years In A Rainforest Well one outta two aint bad"
YouTube Link 2022-08-08T15:19Z 71K followers, [----] engagements
"Pulling The Poly - Disassembling My [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon's Rusty [---] For A Budget Rebuild Today on Dead Dodge Garage my friend David comes for a visit. This invariably means that it's time to work on my abandoned sad and crusty [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon once again because I'm such a great friend. Anyway this truck has been a dead player in the fleet since I brought it home and although David and I got the engine turning last year it didn't take long to devolve into a quagmire of epic proportions that I have had no interest in dealing with. Today though I've got two great friends a"
YouTube Link 2025-01-18T17:43Z 53.6K followers, 21.2K engagements
"Speedy Big Block Science - [---] Source Head CC Check Compression Calculation And Much More I'm not usually this guy. In my world compression is at most an afterthought. I usually just throw mostly stock stuff together and it just kinda works. However today is a different day - and this is a different engine. In this [---] we've got shiny new flat top KB pistons that protrude from the block slightly and closed chamber cylinder heads with relatively small combustion chambers. So some actual calculations are necessary here to make sure we're in the realm of safety. To that end I've devised a quick"
YouTube Link 2025-07-23T19:00Z 71.2K followers, 20.7K engagements
"How To Design Custom Car Parts Using Cardboard (A [----] Dodge Challenger [---] Hemi Swap Update) I've never claimed to be a master fabricator (or a master of anything really) but I do have a few tricks up my sleeve. One of the best might be using a humble piece of cardboard to create a custom car part. The custom cold air intake box that I build in this video is by far the most complicated piece I have ever made - and it is rooted in this simple idea. Follow along as I demonstrate the process and you too will be able to make just about anything out of sheet metal that you can conceive using CAD"
YouTube Link 2023-10-12T18:00Z 45.3K followers, [----] engagements
"1500 Mile Rescue Towing A Blown Up [----] Dodge Power Wagon With My Home Built Cummins Hauler The ink had hardly dried on the last ramp truck video (in which Allan and I swapped the majority of the body panels) when I got the call informing me that Jorden was parked on the shoulder of an interstate and in need of a rescue. He was on his way from Utah to DDG World Headquarters to help with a couple projects and hopefully do some tuning on his [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon. Well. it needs a bit more than a tune now because over the course of about [---] miles the [---] under the hood of the '79"
YouTube Link 2024-10-26T18:08Z 75.4K followers, 23K engagements
"Ranch Rescue - Crusty [----] Dodge Charger Gets A Bath After [--] Years (Bonus B-Body Juggling And More) On today's episode it's a long-awaited update on Colin's [----] Dodge Charger project. This car has been off the road since a couple years before he was born and it's been sitting at the ranch rotting into the earth for at least a couple decades. So today is a momentous occasion because Colin borrowed the DDG ramp truck to finally haul the Charger home in just about the sketchiest way possible. First we'll have to move a Fury and a '68 Roadrunner that really should've been welded back together"
YouTube Link 2025-07-20T16:00Z 71K followers, 26.7K engagements
"I Broke My [----] Dodge Charger [---] Big Block Doing Dumb Stuff (Or Did I) I swear this isn't click bait. Well alright you caught me. it's not nearly as broken as I thought. But I was absolutely convinced I had done mechanical damage to the top end of the original [---] B engine under the hood of my [----] Dodge Charger. I thought I was being challenged to a stoplight-to-stoplight competition by a modern Dart and I wanted to show him who's boss. Yeah I know a stock [---] and [----] gears isn't exactly a recipe for a streetlight drag machine but it was worth a shot right There's a lesson in here"
YouTube Link 2024-06-29T15:49Z 45.3K followers, 24.9K engagements
"Stud Debacle Solved - LA Mopar Main Fastener Options That Actually Work (A [---] Build Update) In last week's video I made the poor decision to show a dumb idea I had which was dumb. It involved accounting for the overly long shoulder on our Milodon [-----] main studs with a couple extra washers. Don't do that - and if you are going to do that certainly don't film it. Here's a way to get main studs that actually fit in your LA Mopar [---] (or any other [--] bolt LA engine) without having to tap extra threads in your block or drawing the ire of various internet commenters. The fix in this case is ARP"
YouTube Link 2025-03-26T19:00Z 59.3K followers, 20.2K engagements
"DDG Live From A Ramp Truck In The Middle Of Nowhere Who had money on that one"
YouTube Link 2024-05-27T01:18Z 33.9K followers, [----] engagements
"DDG Live Home Sweet Home Edition Yes I bought another project car today. No this shouldn't come as a shock to anyone"
YouTube Link 2025-09-29T01:27Z 75.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Blown Up In Every Way - LA [---] Mopar Small Block Teardown Carnage Inspection And Failure Analysis All I can say is. wow. I knew the inside of the engine from my recently purchased [----] Dodge W200 Power Wagon was going to be bad. But this thing appears to have blown up in just about every way possible all at once. In this Engine Wednesday video we'll sift through the ashes of this previously overhauled [---] small block Chrysler engine and try to find some leftover bits worth using. I'm not holding my breath"
YouTube Link 2025-07-02T19:51Z 74.4K followers, 43K engagements
"A Big Mess - [----] Chrysler Cordoba [---] Top End Swap Cam Change Edelbrock Carb Tech And Much More On last week's episode I tore into this relatively low mile bone stock [---] under the hood of a [----] Chrysler Cordoba to prepare for a cylinder head change cam and lifter replacement and four barrel carb and intake swap with @JustMoparJoe . I wasn't able to get it fully apart before leaving for the No Name Nationals but today we're back and it's time to finish this project. As you probably know I live in Washington state yet I am completing this project in Arkansas. Lots of planning went into"
YouTube Link 2025-09-24T19:00Z 75.5K followers, 37K engagements
"Last Minute Thrash - [----] Barracuda Oil Pressure Problems Front End Fix Making It Legal And More Support this insanity Buy DDG Merch https://shop.deaddodgegarage.com This is the Garbage Can Cuda and it's not done. But it kind of has to be because the No Name Nationals drag racing event is in a week and it's going to be there one way or another. The main pressing issues are super high engine oil pressure an inability to set the ignition timing correctly and a bunch of race safety issues that will almost certainly keep it from passing tech. So today we.fix all of that safety stuff and waste a"
YouTube Link 2025-09-14T17:00Z 74.8K followers, 32.4K engagements
"What Makes A [---] Six Pack Engine Special On today's episode we take a look at a legendary Mopar performance engine from the muscle car era. The [---] Six Pack (or Six Barrel if found under the hood of a Plymouth like the [----] Plymouth Roadrunner seen here) has a reputation for being a little sluggish off the starting line and then coming alive once those outboard carbs finally open. But it seems there is a bit of a misunderstanding as to what parts were actually special to the Six Pack engine given that the legendary "Six Pack connecting rods" were also found in the regular high performance 440"
YouTube Link 2024-03-17T17:12Z 49.7K followers, 29.2K engagements
"Mopar Gauge Problems Solved - Dead Lights Gauge Testing And More For This [----] Plymouth Barracuda If you're a classic Mopar owner it's highly likely that you have encountered these same problems at one time or another. It seems like just about every one of these cars has one or more dead gauges and dash lights that will only work after playing with the headlight switch - or not at all. On today's episode we're going to dig into the gauge cluster on Mark's [----] Plymouth Barracuda Sport Special test the various gauge and light circuits do a bit of detective work and solve all of these classic"
YouTube Link 2024-11-02T16:17Z 45.2K followers, 11.6K engagements
"DDG Live The Perky Plymouth Takes Over The Internet Sunday Special At least I think that's how that's gonna go"
YouTube Link 2025-06-02T03:14Z 66.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Budget Build Gone Bad - This Mopar [---] Scrap Pile Save For My [----] Plymouth Barracuda Is Going Back For quite a while now I've been planning to put together a high performance low buck [---] small block Mopar engine for my [----] Plymouth Barracuda drag car called the Garbage Can Cuda. I have several reasons for thinking this is a great idea - for one thing the [---] was the only V8 available from the factory in those cars. For science I'd like to see what I can do with this small inch engine. And perhaps most importantly because no one (even people well familiar with Chrysler engines) seems to"
YouTube Link 2024-11-06T20:00Z 45.3K followers, 13.4K engagements
"A Brilliant Gas Gauge "Fix" For This [----] Plymouth Fury (And How To Diagnose A Bad Fuel Gauge) This video is going live about twelve hours after Colin left for Plymouth in his [----] Plymouth Fury. I know this will come as a shock but he's already had some minor issues. But that's another story - today I'm going to figure out how to fix his fuel gauge so he'll have at least some vague idea of when he will run out of fuel over the course of his 6000+ mile drive. To do this we'll use a Power Probe to diagnose gauge circuit issues and take another look at how these often-dead gauge circuits"
YouTube Link 2024-03-30T14:47Z 45K followers, 11.7K engagements
"A One Inch Chunk Of Fuel Hose Tried To Set This [----] Dodge Charger On Fire - An Important Lesson Old rubber bad. Ethanol bad. Fire on Charger engine bad. New good fuel hose good New not good fuel hose bad. Plastic fuel filter.fine. Questions"
YouTube Link 2023-10-15T14:32Z 45.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm Building A Cummins Crew Cab Donor Truck Disassembly 12v Cummins Tech Swap Tips And Much More Here's the basic recipe: you take a [----] Dodge D200 crew cab that needs an engine a [----] Dodge D250 with [--] valve Cummins turbo diesel power that needs a new truck and you combine the two. Sure there are countless other ways to jam reliable economic Cummins power into a classic rig. But by installing these engines at the factory in '89-93 trucks Dodge made this tin grille swap very straightforward. On today's episode Allan and I disassemble the donor truck and along the way I cover all kinds of"
YouTube Link 2025-04-26T15:45Z 61.9K followers, 30K engagements
"The 1940s Chrysler Hemi [--] Cylinder Prototype Development Engine You've Never Heard Of This picture has been making the rounds on the internet. Like many similar posts it prompts more questions that it answers - but there is a lot of interesting information to be gleaned from the few photos available. On today's episode I'm going to take a closer look at this interesting tidbit from Chrysler history and see what there is to see"
YouTube Link 2025-05-07T19:00Z 69.8K followers, 42K engagements
"Slick Shift - The Ultimate Mopar Drag Racing [--] Speed - Conversion Tips Shifter Tech And Much More It's my birthday And to celebrate I'm bringing you this video about building myself an old school "slick shift" Mopar four speed A833 manual transmission. This all aluminum racing unit will find its way into my Garbage Can Cuda classic style drag racer project in the near future - with any luck anyway. In today's video I do a deep dive on the whys and hows of the slick shift conversion cover the ideal shift cover assembly for your A833 and set up a vintage Hurst Vertigate shifter for this"
YouTube Link 2025-06-27T19:03Z 69.3K followers, 27.1K engagements
"Washington DC SS United States And More "Plymouth In A Plymouth" Part II In A [----] Plymouth Fury Part two of this 8000+ mile "Plymouth In A Plymouth" family roadtrip takes us from Tennessee to an old family mill several new states Washington D.C. Philadelphia Plymouth MA and finally Maine the opposite Northern corner of the US from home in Washington state"
YouTube Link 2024-07-14T19:17Z 44.9K followers, 10.1K engagements
"How To Rebuild The Carter BBD Carburetor Sure Carter AFBs Thermoquads and Holley four barrels could be found adorning the intake manifolds of fire breathing Mopars large and small during the muscle car era. But what can be found under the hood of any standard cruising model V8 car or pickup truck The venerable Carter BBD. And sure many people will skip right to scrap binning the BBD in favor of a double pumper or similar. But for the rest of us how do we keep these things working Actually thats the easy part"
YouTube Link 2022-09-18T14:27Z 68.4K followers, 18.8K engagements
"DDG Live The 69000.nice.Sunday Stream Hangout Session Chat Happy Fun Time Just [---] more subs to go"
YouTube Link 2025-06-30T03:22Z 69.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Buy Our Wagon Big Block Swapped [----] Dodge Coronet [---] Station Wagon Deep Dive It's time for some spring cleaning around Dead Dodge Garage World Headquarters. We just have too many cars. We had too many cars like five cars ago. And Mrs. Jamie has decided that the right thing to do is sell her wagon instead of allowing it to sit around any longer. So in today's extra bonus video we're going to do a deep dive on the Coronet wagon show off all of the neat upgrades and some small issues take it for one last rip and offer it to the YouTube viewing public for sale. The price is $12000 and it's"
YouTube Link 2025-05-09T19:00Z 62.7K followers, 24.5K engagements
"Epic Pit Thrash - Fixing My Four Speed Grudge Racing And Winning Hardware At The No Name Nationals In the last episode from the #nonamenationals I pulled some wheelies won some races embarrassed myself a couple times lost some critical gears in the four speed transmission and finally threw my hands up at the end of the day with a broken race car. On today's episode it's time to fix that the fun way - by pulling my noisy four speed in the pits at Skelton Raceway and going through it on the deck of my car trailer with some much needed help from @IndirectConnection1 @VintageAdventurerDrives and"
YouTube Link 2025-10-04T15:01Z 75.9K followers, 20.4K engagements
"'66 Coronet Wagon Roadtrip Woodburn Mopar Nationals Prep And Roadtrip (The Inevitable Happens.) DDG Memberships are here Click "Join" to.join. Or hit this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUIXuaxSLnF5Jhr6E_fca_A/join Everybody's favorite [----] Dodge Coronet [---] station wagon is back In a previous episode I revived our neglected wagon yet again then re-abandoned it in the driveway after the throttle stuck open. Today I've got a special job for the wagon (because my [----] Dodge Charger is still slightly broken.) That job is a cruise down to the Mopar Nationals drag race swap meet and car"
YouTube Link 2024-08-18T20:35Z 38.3K followers, 18.6K engagements
"First Fire [----] Dodge Dart Sport MSD Wiring Hydraulic Clutch Setup Brake Swap Tech And Much More This is Dylan's Dart Sport. This build aspires to seamlessly combine the survivor flavor of an aggressively beige [----] Dodge Dart Sport with a [---] horsepower [---] stroker Magnum engine a TKX five speed manual transmission a Dana [--] rear axle four wheel disk brakes and many other small touches to create an incredible car to drive. I've been neglecting this build in favor of whatever shiny thing I'm most excited about at any given moment for way too long now. And racing season in Washington has"
YouTube Link 2025-05-04T18:15Z 62.4K followers, 26.6K engagements
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