2002 Dodge Dakota rough idle

From : john smith jones

Q: this is a double question where is the starter located on a 96 caravan how truly difficult is it to replace for your average backyard mechanic any helpful ideas are always appreciated!! gerry .

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From : bob m

@webtv.net says... well it looks like geekboy doesnt now what he is taking about and doesnt know much about trucks in general. he uses big words that he must have read in a dodge owners magazine and now all of the sudden he thinks hes a mechanical genious. i have owned trucks from the big 3 dodge ford and chevy.... my opinion the chevy trucks are the best all around yes i admit that the styling is getting a littledated but i still think they have the other two beat. ford i have nothing aginst but my opinion if you are gonna buy a big truck look a like just buy the f-250 and have it over with i like the new ford body style better than the last feminine looking 1997 to 2004 trucks. but thats not saying much. but as far as fuel economy goes the bulky ford is nick n tuck with the dodge. chevy= better performance fuel economy and bang for your buck in my opinion. i have a hemi and its claim of 345 hp....is a joke.....i bet if you put it on a dyno it wouldnt hit 150 hp. poor fuel economy with sucky performance.. i think the dodge designers need to go back to school. html body bgcolor=blacktext=white p align=center embed img src=http//www.angelfire.com/rock/cooper/skyline.gif /body /html well my supposedly weak hemi stomps all over my last truck a 295 hp sierra z71 ext cab with 3.73 gears. the ram weighs about 400 pounds more and beats it by at least .25 seconds in a drag race. launching it is very difficult as the rear bounces around or it smokes the hell out of the tires. the gm trucks have the trans and computer set up so that wheelspin is pretty difficult. just punch it and go.. its much stronger than the gm 5.3 and they arent bad. i would take a 5.3 over the 5.9 dodge any day and i owned three vehicles with them. you must not have driven an f150 yet now thats on the weak side. wait a second. i had a f-150 and it was damn quick. it did say lightning on the front fenders though.g well now thats a little different. a neighbor bought a new 04 f150 almost the day they came out and its slow. the 5.4 is not all that great. we traded trucks one morning and he really liked mine. i liked his too it was just..slow. they are a little anemic. but they seem to last. unless they blow a spark plug out of the head. i dont really understand whats going on to make it do that. most hemis dyno at about 260-275 at the rear wheels and that means 345 hp is about right. if the hemi had the nissan titans trans set up you would be amazed.. so the hemi has 20 more hp that the 05 cummins 610 hp yeah but a lot less torque and torque is what makes the wheels go round... i had a 79 trans am with the olds 403 in it. stock it was weak but after a cam kit headers intake heads ported 455 ones and a recurved distributor it was a torque junkies dream car. it had throttle response unlike anything i have ever had before or since. another insane thing was the gears it had stock it had a 2.41 posi! after the engine work i could smoke the tires as long as i wanted to and after i found a disc braked rear from another car with 3.23 it was amazing as long as you were very light footed or the tires spun. mileage wasnt bad 14 around town and almost 20 on the highway. it was a very scary car to drive when it was raining i got it out of shape a couple of times just by getting on the gas a touch too much. some of it was the 70 sized tires but the speed it ran on the top end of the drag strip showed it was doing fine in the power department. but that throttle hit...my mother drove it once and it scared the crap out of her! that was the point i was trying to make further down in this thread. that the torque prduced by my 05 610 with 410s requires a light touch of go pedal on dry roads and in the wet a very very light touch. i havent driven one since 00 or maybe 99 and there was enough turbo lag that spinning them accidentally wasnt much of a risk. i stupidly sold it and still miss it. it was totally reliable except for a mysterious case of vapor lock hot weather surging and popping that turned out to be a corked up fuel line. when they started putting injector cleaner in the gas it solved it after a year + of trying to cure it and a lot of $$$$. i know the feeling the cars we never should have sold. i guess for me it would be a toss up. many many years ago a 69 camaro with a 427 in it. had 433s in it the torque was about unmanageble. made for a hell of a street racer though. recently a vette z06. i guess the z06 was more practical in that you could do more with it but for pure rush id have to go with the camaro. the first car i ever drove at 14 around the block was a 69 or 70 hurst olds. my moms car was being worked on and they gave it to us as a loner for a week. my dad told me to move it out of the driveway and park it along the curb but i went around the block in it and then down to the end of the street and back to the ho

From : miles

thank you tom for your extremely useful information i would however like to know if the engine icon will go out once the problem is corrected tom lawrence wrote i own a 2001 dodge ram 1500 with a 360 cu. in. motor and the off road package thanks to this web site i was able to generate the engine diagnostic code p1281 but i dont know what it means please help anaybody p1281 indicates the ect engine coolant temperature sensor didnt register a warm-enough reading. there are two causes here - either a bad ect sensor or a stuck-open thermostat. both are pretty simple to change but youll need to do a little diagnostic work to determine which ones really bad. measuring the voltage from the ect with a dvm and comparing to a chart of known voltage-to-temperature mappings or using an obd-ii scan tool that can read the ect output directly will help you determine if the sensor is bad. -- message posted via carkb.com http//www.carkb.com/uwe/forums.aspx/dodge-truck/200507/1 .

From : kar klean

today was the first day that i towed heavy with my 05 big horn i definately bought the right truck!. when i switched into tow/haul mode it stayed in drive a little longer but it still shifted into overdrive. is this normal or is tow/haul just a setting to keep the torque converter unlocked or something thanks -- nathan w. collier http//inlinediesel.com http//7slotgrille.com http//utilityoffroad.com .

From : twix

on sun 03 jul 2005 143754 gmt denny wddodge@woh.rr.com wrote my holiday list... in no particular order.. mow the grass and trim. feed the cows fill the tank and check the wire wash the truck. keep various edible stuff going into the smoker and hoping its still edible when it comes out. play with grandcritter hold down the hammock happy 4th !! denny lets see the 4th is for summer cleaning and re-arranging of the apartment. i got a new puppy at home rhodesian ridgeback/african lion hound. he needs a little more room to romp in my 500sqft allotment. the focker is hopping up an down like an add hell-child at the moment... .

From : jay

if you want your ram to scream click here http//www.kennebell.net/index.htm i see a whole bunch of them at www.autoanything.com. the specific list is here i shortened the url http//tinyurl.com/7sjou not sure if they are worth it or if they are which one to get. has anyone had any experience with these chips any other ways to get some more punch out of a 5.7 hemi in a 2005 dodge quad 1500 with a 3.92 rear thanks ace x-posted to alt.autos.dodge.truck .

From : bob

after i correct the problem causing the engine icon to be lit will the icon go out automatically or is there something that i need to do -- message posted via carkb.com http//www.carkb.com/uwe/forums.aspx/dodge-truck/200507/1 .