A Testimonial to a 318
From : leroy
Q: my 92 318 dakota was approaching 220k miles and oil consumption was becoming a major problem. in fact it was smoking and spark knocking so bad that i was ashamed to drive it. i bought a 2002 rt 360 and parked the 318. the kids in the auto mechanics class at the local high school were looking for somthing to repair. i told them they could put valve stem seals in my dakota. they did it. i changed oil/filter as soon as they were finished and started driving it again. to my amazement the truck has not used a drop of oil since. its been roughly 2000 miles the truck just turned 220000 miles and zero oil consumption so far. to me this is almost beyond belief. the truck has used oil for years and it was 100% valve stem useage the whole time. leroy .
Replies:
From : ed medlin
on sun 23 mar 2008 130154 -0400 roy roy@fhome.net wrote on sat 22 mar 2008 234756 -0700 hayseed nothere@bogus.com wrote anybody know how to disable the damn seatbelt chime/gong im driving around on the ranch in and out of the rig constantly and the chime is driving me nuts. thanks bob my 2004 there is a procedure to do this and it was in the owners manual. ill check the manual tomorrow and see if i can find it. you can also do it with a scan tool the right one probalby not a generic one... but the owners manual method takes only the key and a few minutes. yea drove me nuts too i dont belt in when plowing... hmmmm.... i used the belt when plowing. of course i never got out of the truck. i had problems twisting my older body around while backing up... guess when your older that can be a problem. i just use the mirrors. i do have to jump out too to shovel mail boxes... repeat after me never get out of the truck never get out of the truck i spent my 8 or 20 hours or however long in my truck nice and dry and warm. of course those days are behind me now. i still actually feel for the rabbit as he still has his plows on while i have my skinny ass at the beachvbg i thought he shares his jobs with the icehole eh snohole eh puddle or something like that certainly not a man. it sure has been nice in here since dat wabbit started keeping his neighbor busy. gbmfg now that you mention it neither one of the neighbors have been posting much. i know the friggin rabbit has been real busy fixing the stuff he screws up while plowing. there are probably too many fast food wrappers on the dash and he cant see and runs into things. now hes into reloading ammo in anticipation of another season of being out shot by his daughter. with regard to the idiot i figure he took some of his own advice and really screwed up. roy fmb north mexico -- posted via a free usenet account from http//www.tera.com . 222 343562 47e8c1f5$0$30514$4c368faf@roadrunner.com i have a 2000 1500 extended cab truck with a 318 efi automatic with overdrive. i would like to use my upcoming tax rebate to do some modifications to try to get better gas milage. with $600 in hand what would be the best way to accomplish my goal headers is there an electronic modification i can make i only get about 15 mpg no matter how conservative i drive. phyloe trade it in and use the extra $600 for a down payment on a diesel and get 25 mpg . 222 343561 47e8a7e8$0$1104$4c368faf@roadrunner.com no. what you have is all you will get. save your money and buy a small car. steve i have a 2000 1500 extended cab truck with a 318 efi automatic with overdrive. i would like to use my upcoming tax rebate to do some modifications to try to get better gas milage. with $600 in hand what would be the best way to accomplish my goal headers is there an electronic modification i can make i only get about 15 mpg no matter how conservative i drive. phyloe i was thinking use that $600 for gas. pretty soon.. that will be the price of a fill-up. .
From : leroy
on sat 15 mar 2008 174440 -0700 jeff burke k7kkg@yahoo.com wrote on sat 15 mar 2008 202453 -0400 leroy dodgemanfromhell@aol.com wrote to me this is almost beyond belief. the truck has used oil for years and it was 100% valve stem useage the whole time. maybe. more likely a combination of valve stem seals and leaky intake gasket sucking oil from the valley area. then why did consumption stop completely when the valve stem seals were replaced. the intake gasket was not touched. leroy .
From : ed medlin
* wrote d123e010-6edf-4ad1-8567-ceb5888dded1@q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... i would say if they look good then they are good. and furthur more if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then.... what does a bad spark plug resistor look like sometimes the insulator is quacked. -- one meter to within 0.0125% accuracy off by just under .005 inches three feet three inches three eights of an inch . 222 343564 01c88e7e$16cb39e0$9c95c3d8@race d123e010-6edf-4ad1-8567-ceb5888dded1@q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... i would say if they look good then they are good. and furthur more if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then.... what does a bad spark plug resistor look like .
From : carolina watercraft works
no. what you have is all you will get. save your money and buy a small car. steve i have a 2000 1500 extended cab truck with a 318 efi automatic with overdrive. i would like to use my upcoming tax rebate to do some modifications to try to get better gas milage. with $600 in hand what would be the best way to accomplish my goal headers is there an electronic modification i can make i only get about 15 mpg no matter how conservative i drive. phyloe .
From : carolina watercraft works
wrote no it wouldnt be a lean misfire. lean misfire comes from too much air and not enough fuel. opening the egr does not add more air. it does add gas which displaces air. displaces air -and- fuel. that would mean less air going into the cylinders. less air -and- fuel going into the cylinder. at least that is what would happen in the first fractions of a second. so for a very brief period of time you get a rich condition. the exhaust gasses displace what would have been combustible mixture in the combustion chamber the actual ratio of that combustible mixture doesnt change. how can the mixture not change if you just took away some of the air. what makes you think that egr only takes away air. what makes you think that egr takes away anything egr displaces a volume in a cylinder. of course in about the time it takes you to blink the dynamic system that controls fuel air timing and idle speed is going to react to those changes - so any conclusions you draw from this experiment are more than likely to be completely wrong. none of what ive said are mine nor are they conclusions. iows you assume wrong again they are the physics of the internal combustion engine documented and published but probably not in popular mechanics. dont take my word for it feel free to run simpsons non operating egr valve gas readings and his operating egr valve gas readings thru a lambda calculator. youll find that the air fuel ratio changes by .01 which is well within the expected sampling error of the type of equipment being used for his tests. . 222 343558 fs9vkj$sr1$1@aioe.org rm v2.0 wrote ever heard the old saying a day late a dollar short that describes your situation the air-bag computer saw the airbag go off-line and that triggered a fault. you *must* always disconnect the battery before touching any part of an airbag circuit... but how do i reset it now its a long-shot but if its a quad cab try cycling the key switch in the dashboard. maybe turn it off and then disconnect and re-connect the battery then turn it on again i dunno just guessing at it. -- ken .
From : jeff burke
on sat 15 mar 2008 202453 -0400 leroy dodgemanfromhell@aol.com wrote to me this is almost beyond belief. the truck has used oil for years and it was 100% valve stem useage the whole time. maybe. more likely a combination of valve stem seals and leaky intake gasket sucking oil from the valley area. .
From : jeff burke
on sat 15 mar 2008 225304 -0400 leroy dodgemanfromhell@aol.com wrote on sat 15 mar 2008 174440 -0700 jeff burke k7kkg@yahoo.com wrote on sat 15 mar 2008 202453 -0400 leroy dodgemanfromhell@aol.com wrote to me this is almost beyond belief. the truck has used oil for years and it was 100% valve stem useage the whole time. maybe. more likely a combination of valve stem seals and leaky intake gasket sucking oil from the valley area. then why did consumption stop completely when the valve stem seals were replaced. the intake gasket was not touched. that clears that up. i was thinking they would pull the heads to do the seals and the valves while they were at it. thats what i get for assuming. .
From : leroy
on sun 16 mar 2008 104616 -0700 jeff burke k7kkg@yahoo.com wrote on sat 15 mar 2008 225304 -0400 leroy dodgemanfromhell@aol.com wrote on sat 15 mar 2008 174440 -0700 jeff burke k7kkg@yahoo.com wrote on sat 15 mar 2008 202453 -0400 leroy dodgemanfromhell@aol.com wrote to me this is almost beyond belief. the truck has used oil for years and it was 100% valve stem useage the whole time. maybe. more likely a combination of valve stem seals and leaky intake gasket sucking oil from the valley area. then why did consumption stop completely when the valve stem seals were replaced. the intake gasket was not touched. that clears that up. i was thinking they would pull the heads to do the seals and the valves while they were at it. thats what i get for assuming. nope! just the seals by the old air pressure method. before they started i had given up on the engine and assumed yep .. i do it too that it needed a complete overhaul. but as soon as it had run a few miles to burn the oil off the plugs and out of the cylinders it cleaned up and now runs great. in fact it runs the best it has run in several years. one reason i am so totally surprised is because during the final 100000 i had not taken very good care of it. changed oil & filter every 10k or 15k u
From : ed medlin
i have a 2000 1500 extended cab truck with a 318 efi automatic with overdrive. i would like to use my upcoming tax rebate to do some modifications to try to get better gas milage. with $600 in hand what would be the best way to accomplish my goal headers is there an electronic modification i can make i only get about 15 mpg no matter how conservative i drive. phyloe trade it in and use the extra $600 for a down payment on a diesel and get 25 mpg a diesel is not a money saving vehicle anymore unless you are using it for towing heavy loads almost daily. first you figure in the extra 6k on your purchase price over a gas burner. then you figure in the extra cost to service. 12 quarts of rotella fuel filter and such for every service is much more expensive than the service costs on a gas burner. then add in an extra 50 cents a gallon for fuel this is going to stay that way due to the new low sulphur requirements then the addition of a decent lubricant to the fuel to make up for the lack of sulphur. for daily driving a diesel is just not as good of a deal as it used to be even with the extra fuel mileage. i have been considering a new truck. i did the math to see where the break even point on the diesel over gas burner would become advantagous. after figuring the additional cost of purchase service and fuel compared to the little tad of extra fuel economy the calculator said that the diesel would not save me a dime until somewhere in the 250000 to 300000 mile range. that was compared to a 1500 with a 360. when i did the comparason to a dakota then the diesel was never going to catch up economically. i have a 2500 4x4 diesel and when i filled it up last week it cost 140 dollars. of course it does get 19mpg on average. my wife drives this truck as her daily driver. i have a 1500 4x4 with a 360. at 285000 miles on the clock it gets an average of 12 mpg. it is my personal daily driver. i use it for short to medium length trips. when i have a longer trip i have a 4x4 dakota with a magnum v-6. it gets 19 mpg just like the diesel does. but the gasoline costs much less and the service cost is less than half that of the 2500s. on days where i am just taking myself somewhere i ride a motorcycle. my three harleys average over 40 mpg between them. sunday i had to drive 80 miles round trip to visit my mom for easter. it would have cost me 16 bucks in the diesel 23 bucks in the 1500 or 14 dollars in the dakota. i rode the harley and when i got back home it took 6.50 dollars worth of fuel to fill it up. the proper tool for the job... you dont use a slegde hammer for driving finish nails in trim. you dont necessarily need a cummins powered diesel for a passenger vehicle. michael p.s. remember all this is coming from a guy who likes everything jumbo sized and my wife is worse than i am. she was a long haul trucker for over a decade and then spent about 5 years driving a tandom dump truck. she refuses to drive something small so i dont worry about the cost of keeping her in the cummins. if economy was a primary issue she would be in a v-6 dakota. .
From : griff in fairbanks
on mon 24 mar 2008 104456 gmt honeybs@radix.net beekeep wrote and no bunny jokes beekeep many in mind none posted out of respect for our furry friend... yeah right mac please remove splinters before emailing .
From : griff in fairbanks
on mon 24 mar 2008 094502 -0400 roy roy@fhome.net wrote on sun 23 mar 2008 130154 -0400 roy roy@fhome.net wrote on sat 22 mar 2008 234756 -0700 hayseed nothere@bogus.com wrote anybody know how to disable the damn seatbelt chime/gong im driving around on the ranch in and out of the rig constantly and the chime is driving me nuts. thanks bob my 2004 there is a procedure to do this and it was in the owners manual. ill check the manual tomorrow and see if i can find it. you can also do it with a scan tool the right one probalby not a generic one... but the owners manual method takes only the key and a few minutes. yea drove me nuts too i dont belt in when plowing... hmmmm.... i used the belt when plowing. of course i never got out of the truck. i had problems twisting my older body around while backing up... guess when your older that can be a problem. i just use the mirrors. next door neighbor still wonders what happened to her mail box... g . 222 343542 tknfu39hvin8rvkg16gr8cetldr2rtbsq3@4ax.com on mon 24 mar 2008 145339 gmt rm v2.0 blah@spam.sucks wrote ever heard the old saying a day late a dollar short that describes your situation the air-bag computer saw the airbag go off-line and that triggered a fault. you *must* always disconnect the battery before touching any part of an airbag circuit... but how do i reset it now it is possible that a scan tool can do it but im not sure. varies with vehicles and makers some you have to replace the air-bag controller as a safety measure. .