hey, i have 1979 dodge power wagon w150, and earlier today i checked the information sticker on the drivers side door and it said that the style was a W10. The doors are origional so im not quite sure what it means. can you help me? :help:
fal308
02-19-2005, 10:56 PM
I had one of these also. As I recall , back then Dodge had two different half tons, a regular half ton and a heavy duty half ton. The regular was actually a 100 while the heavy duty was a 150. The emblems usually only carried the 150 emblems though. IIRC this started in the late 70's.
79PowerWagon150
02-21-2005, 07:17 PM
Yeah its a pretty reliable truck, very powerful though i try not to abuse its power. but its been off the road since '93, and I have just begun to do the restoration on it. they get alot of body rot, on the floor pans, the rocker panels, and the back corners of the cab. if you dont mind me asking why did you get rid of yours? oh, and one more thing, if they both came with the 150 emblems, how can you tell the heavy duty from the regular? Was the size of the engines different? Thanks- Keith
Catawba Scott
02-21-2005, 10:01 PM
What made a 150 a 150 was the GVW Rating. In 1977 Dodge brought the 150 with a GVW rating of 6,100 lbs. This was done so someone could buy a half ton pickup without a catalytic converter and other pollution equipment. And without the catalytic converter, you could burn regular leaded gasoline which carried a cheaper price than any grade of unleaded at the time. Any truck which carried a lower than 6,100 GVW was called a 100. Beginning with the 1979 model year, the federal government raised the GVW rating from 6,100 lbs to 8,800 lbs for vehicles that would be exempt from the pollution equipment requirements.
fal308
02-21-2005, 11:33 PM
I got rid of the '79 quite a few years ago. It finally died on me one too many times so I got it running and traded in on a new truck, getting $1K tradein. Found it on a used car lot and bought it back for $500. Stripped it down and saved the parts that were worth saving.
