how much can this slant six pull?

Not a technical answer I guess but everything I ever drove with a slant 6 could p*** anything else up to the 50 mark.

 

I have never had one but i have a 71 dodge pickup with a 318 and everyone says they would rather have the slant 6 and say it will out pull the 318. The 318 is faster, mine is anyway since it has had a little head work. Their suspention is really not built for speed and I don't go over 70 in mine anyway. it runs well about 45 to 55. I have seen alot of them in salvage yards and most have the slant 6 and manual trans. most of them are in rough shape and have hauled alot in their lives. The machanical part of these trucks outlast the bodies most of the time so i would leave it in it. This sounds like a rare truck.

 

In 1970-72 we used a '65 Dodge van to tow our "70 Duster race car all over the country . Did pretty fair job and got nearly 20 mpg.
Gemini EFI

 

On a semi-unrelated note, Cory came out of his coma around 6AM today. We couldn't be more excited. He's incredibly groggy from having missed over a month of his life and on a ventilator so he can't speak. He's also restrained so that he can't feel or see his injuries right now. He's literally open from his chest to his pelvis because they had to open up his stomach so many times that they finally just left it open for constant irrigation and access. He's got a big road to travel and doesn't know that his best friend has p***ed yet. I'm gonna keep this post alive in a few weeks and maybe months to show the truck and share more good news. I'll include pix of the crewcab and Cory's truck (that one is a little O/T but I don't care).

 

A Slant will do a little better than that, but not much... A buddy had an early '70s Dodge pickup with the Leaning Tower of Power and a 4 speed. We hooked up to his trailer and headed for the auto auction at Sanford FLA to buy his wife a car. We ended up with a '73 Charger, so the combined weight of the car and trailer was about 5500 lbs. On flat land we were golden, but the moment we hit the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it was 80 mph downhill, 25-30 at the top of the next with a lot of shifter rowing in between....

The Slant 6 is a great mill....I never sold any from junkers because you can't wear 'em out, but a torque monster it's not.

Jan

 

When I was in High School, my buddy and I bought a 4 door Valiant with a slant 6. We paid $40 for to make it our Hunt'n Car. Welded the rear rims on, ran the front on flat tires till the tires tore off and the rims rounded off enough to go about 40mph down the dirt roads. We started to make the roof hatch (to pop out of and shoot whatever we deemed needed shooting at) eventually made it a full convertable with a axe and splitting maul when the torch ran out of Oxygen. We ended up selling rides on the roof section dragging behind it and made our $40 back easily. When we ran outta gas, we put paint thinner in it to get to the convience store to put more gas in it.

It never seen any hunting, but ran like hell, and sure was fun! We pulled and sold the engine for $75 after the summer was about over.

Moral of the story, that thing ran like hell nad never quit!

 

I would expect it has 4:56, or as someone mentioned, 4:88 gears. It wouldn't be too bad.
The government didn't order the slant six because of its brute strength, it was a cost thing. In the fifties and 60s, for non-tactical roles, the gov't (armed forces, forest service, etc) needed basic, no frills pickups and trucks. Bids went out, and Chrysler (Dodge) responded with the cheapest of the cheap. My father bought a late 50s Dodge surplus forest service pickup. I think it had a seat and heater for creature comforts.

 

This reminded me of a '69 Dodge 3/4 ton with a Slant, 4 speed and 4:56 gears an ex neighbor bought. It'd been used exclusively in one of Ohio's prisons and had never been on the highway til he bought it in the early '80s. We did take one of my trailers and make a trek to a town near the Indiana border (200 miles) to pick up a '69 F-100 shortbed he'd had stolen. Running the two lanes at 45-50 mph, she pulled the load just fine. So I'll revise my answer. If all you're going to do is haul cars to the crusher, bedloads of stuff and such locally, the Slant should be fine. But if you're planning on traveling the Interstates to pick up cars, I'd consider swapping in the 413 and putting a higher gear in the rear end.

Jan

 

Keith, your **** meter is indicating brown. Chrysler developed it to retain a long stroke and to lower the carburetor and long runner intake for the 1960 models especially the new Plymouth Valiant.