code numbers for ordering

[bad rammer 44]

Went to my friendly neighborhood Dodge dealer to order a 3500 srw swb. and after spending a couple hours with the salesman and also the ordering manager going thru there books i was told Dodge doesnt offer a short wheel base in the 3500 only the 2500 Well instead of debating any longer i returned home and decided to ask you guy's that have ordered if you have the code so i can take it back in and let them go from there.

thanks for any help in advance ..... im new to this site and it has been a godsend for information on the dodge cummins diesels

 

[kwoods]

DR8H41 is the code for 3500 SLT Quad cab SRW Short Bed 4x4

DR3H41 is the same truck as above but 2wd;



You can't get a Short Wheel Base 2500 or 3500 in a regular cab, it has to be a quad cab.

 

[DBVZ]

You CAN get a 3500 regular cab short wheel base. Mine is about to be delivered. The short wheel base is the 140. 5" WB, and with the regular cab it comes with the 8' bed.

 

[DIESELMAN]

SWB/LWB also used to mean Short Wide Bed and Long Wide Bed, with the style side, flare side, fleet side, blah blah sides coming later to the name game, but thats ancient history.



The 3500 Standard Cab is only available in LWB, thats an 8' bed, but since it is the shorter wheelbase truck, it is also the SWB.



The idea was to produce only 2 Frame Lengths, the 140"/140. 5" SWB frame, for the QC SWB(6'3") and the Standard Cab LWB (8' bed), and 160" LWB frame for the QC LWB(8' bed). The old standard 6' bed on a Standard cab Short Bed 120 something inch truck, or true SWB Ram Truck is history.



So in fact the only Regular cab Ram is on the Shorter of the two frames making it the SWB, but its got a long bed so its an LWB.



Dodges sales, order and promotional literature seems to use the terms SWB/LWB interchangeably when its used at all. See why those salesman get so confused



Mine is an LMF, or Long Mother *, but it is also a SFF, or Shorther than the F* Ford.

 

[DBVZ]

On another thread I suggested Dodge ought to offer the regular cab on the 160" WB as a cab and chassis. It should be simple to do, and would permit some 12' beds to be used since it is 20" longer cab-axel. That would mean a 40" bed increase would be balanced - and 8" more (total of +48") should still put the axel under the rear half of the load.

 

[DIESELMAN]

Or a great place to put 140 Gallons of fuel below the bed rails