96 Dodge 2500 Van electrical?

From : callmeal

Q: how many 4x4s have you owned in winter time how many or how many years i have owned two of them for a total of 12 years in winter time. and yes we can get heavy snow in nj in the winter time. and i lived in central indiana with lots of good old lake effect snow for half my life and never owned a 4x4 in civilian life and only got stuck twice . . . both times in deep mud with new snow tires. if thats the case then why are you involved in this discussion good question . . it appears you should have been left in coventry a little longer. since you never owned one you have zero experience with them. now lets see zero to 12 years... while 12 years doesnt make me the all knowing expert by a long shot it gives me much more experience than it does you. hello what part of driving instructor dont you comprehend military vehicles are 4x4 6x6 and etc. i have far more experience than you since i often drove the jeeps land cruisers etc. belonging to friends as well over that period of 38 years. tom when i trained drivers for the indiana national guard i emphasized that even the 5 ton 6x6 dump trucks we drove did better with a couple tons of stuff in the bed. im sure that they did but we are not talking about military vehicles in extreme situations. actually tom we are talking all wheel drive capable vehicles not just 4x4s and 6x6 info applies much better than you know. btw empty an m35a1 5 ton dump weighs about 5 times what your 4x4 weighs and it still needed a load in the back to handle slick conditions. darn tactical tires!!!! well now it seems that the problem there was the bad tires not the drive train. yeah right tom . . like i could just go out and order a set of whatever tires i wanted for the vehicles . . . the point was the drivers needed to be trained much better to enable them to operate safely which means the instructor me had to know what was needed to train them and that required experience. a 4x4 with nothing in the bed will outperform any 2 wheel drive vehicle of the same type in a given situation and in just about all cases the extra weight in not needed. a given situation lol i can think of more than once ive out performed a 4x4 with an old valiant or dart that ive owned. talk about someone who just likes to argue. notice that the key word there was you out performed not the vehicle. perhaps it was a combination of your driving skills and the light weight and skinny tires that your dart / valiant had which also proves my point that added weight does not always help. lol no the fact is there are circumstances like high speed cornering where 4x4 by design is not as good. a situation you claimed did not exist. of course the diffierence might be that i knew a bit more about how to handle those situations at the time than the other drivers. or it was a fast corner taken in a four wheel drift or . . . like i said you are now attributing your outhandling of the 4x4 to your driving skill not the ability of the vehicle. btw i guess that you just missed the part about similar vehicles that i mentioned. no i missed nothing you said the same type . . .all are technically automobiles. your lack of accuracy strikes again thats all. sorry tom but youre dead wrong to make such a claim if not totally ignorant about it. sorry budd but you had better learn how to read and then comprehend what i said before saying that i am wrong. the only one acting ignorantly more like childishly in this discussion here is you. yeah sure and all you want to do as jerry has said is start more arguments. will added weight in the rear help possibly in some situations but in others like ice it will actually make it worse. horse hooey! sorry again budd but the laws of physics back me up here. the coefficient of friction of ice is very low so adding weight will have little effect on the force of friction traction but will still increase the mass inertia of the object just the same. go look it up. the engineering of a vehicle can compensate for your touted physics. according to you rear wheel abs does nothing to help you stop safely. according to you weight transfer on braking is total 100% shift to the front on all surfaces including snow / ice. a bit of advice if i may . . . drop the belief that having 4x4 means you can go thru anything youll stay out of more ditches and stay upright much longer. i never said that a 4x4 can go through anything but it can go thru far more than a 4x2 with 500 lbs of crap in the bed. really and your proof is my proof is in the distribution of weight over the drive axles. rotflmbo!!! once again you show you have no usable automotive knowledge. i mentioned putting snow in a truck bed but i also used to pile the snow on the back of my cars on the trunk lid to add weight. it worked on them too. perh

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From : david

i have a 87 truck that i bought recently. well i have seen that when the motor gets hotter the oil pressure drops but i can sit still rev it and the pressure will come up alil ..i am not in a position to install a new pump and no funds to...could someone give me some alternativesto what it could be... thank you .

From : tbone

tbone wrote lol you guys really crack me up. i simply said that putting weight in the back was not necessary in a 4x4 for his needs and not a single one of you has been able to prove that wrong. you make stupid baseless statements void of any facts or proof. then you want us to provide you with some sort of test that you feel provides some basis of proof against your baseless statements void of any facts or proof. good grief. .