2500 conversion

Kind of a stupid question her, but has anyone done or seen a 250 or a 2500 converted to a 350 or a 3500? The dodges everything is the same except a spring in the rear. Why couldn't you add 2 tires and asset of extended fenders for the rear instead of buying a 3500? Just curious.

Hi Gas20,

When you say "add 2 tires" and "extended fenders" you're really describing a conversion from single rear wheel to dually, not just 2500 to 3500.

Dodge in prior years on the single rear wheel models has almost no difference between 2500 and 3500 as you can tell if you compare payload specs. This is in line with your observation that all they did was add 1 leaf to the spring pack. But payload increases dramatically when you go dually 3500. They are no doubt beefing up other components to get that higher spec.

There was a post recently that Dodge has changed this in the new models shipping soon.

Not to start a truck religious war, but if you buy a GM or Ford 3500 SRW, you'll get the payload spec you were expecting without having to buy a dually. Or you can wait for the new Dodge and see if they really changed.

Get on the cummins forum and post up that you want to trade parts with somebody to go from a SRW to DRW. It's pretty common swap and can bee done in a day if you know what you are doing.


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danemayer said:

Not to start a truck religious war, but if you buy a GM or Ford 3500 SRW, you'll get the payload spec you were expecting without having to buy a dually. Or you can wait for the new Dodge and see if they really changed.

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The new 3500 dodges have a fair bit different suspension then its 2500 brother. They are no longer the same in that aspect like they were for the past 20 or so years.

With the new setup from the 3500 Dodge, Ford and GM have alot of work ahead of them to catch up.


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