Air bag light stays on
From : jon rose
Q: changed the starter it was taking like 40 - 50 tries to get it to turn over. the contacts can be replaced if you dont mind tearing your starter apart. new starters are not cheap. if you can find a rebuild shop itd be much cheaper to have them fix it. good luck. weve had some frigid cold temperatures in eastern pennsylvania lately im really starting to hate winter and my 98 grand caravan has been getting a bit balky lately. the engine doesnt start with the first turn of the key in the morning it doesnt do anything at all. usually the engine turns on the second or third try and starts right up. also the air bag light is staying on for 8-10 seconds. it usually is only on for a second or two. is this likely a problem with the ignition switch battery tia jon . 222 275949 coinb.1600$f97.124@fe3.columbus.rr.com if you want to believe k&n are lying thats your prerogative. you have given no proof to that effect. show me independent proof that it does work. yes i do own a k&n filter. bingo! at least ya have the balls to admit you are one of the many that have fallen into the marketing hype. doesnt it strike you odd that over the past couple of years they have dropped the 20 more horsepower at the rear wheels claim that was advertised in every ad. why do you think that was perhaps truth in advertising regs aw shit!! rabbit you were supposed to slap me if i got into one of these mindless endless k&n threads again. roy winding waaay back.......here it comes........ bitch slap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ill be gone for a couple o days. save your whining till i get back. bg denny .
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From : jon rose
tom lawrence wrote aw shit!! rabbit you were supposed to slap me if i got into one of these mindless endless k&n threads again. it could be worse roy... im waiting for the remedial math arguments to rear their ugly heads again. revalations was wrong. the number of the beast is not 666. its 50% 2% 3% ^ but if k&n made torque wrenches.......... .
From : clem
i have a short story to share. i just bought a 98 dodge ram 1500. i really like it alot. i have a jeep too and was a bit surprised to see how few posts are here. the jeep group gets hundreds of posts a day this one gets a few a week. anyway onto my story. there was a thing on the end of my antenna - like a jack in the box thing. anyway i took a long trip and the wind and the drag of the thing bent my antenna. when i tried to straighten it up it snapped of course. so i call my local dodge and order the parts - mast and wire. took about 2 weeks. so i start to make an appt. they are quoting me like an hour and a half labor - wheel well has to come off blah blah blah. around 150.00. hmmmm........not feeling the warm fuzzies i told them id take care of it myself over the weekend. ive done many antenna in the past but that was with older vehicles that you could at least get your arm under the dash. needless to say i was not looking forward to taking the thing apart. so sat i pop open the hood and take a look. was i seeing right i could see the tap i took off the nut from the outside and reached in and pulled out the assembly in my hand. how cool was that half done so i go into the cab and look around the glove box where the wire appeared to go in. i see this wire same size as my antenna but much softer right there wrapped nicely and tucked cleanly into that kick plate. i unwrap the plastic and low and behold it the antenna. so i disconnect it tie a piece of string to it go back out under the hood pull it out tie the string to my new wire go back in the cab and pull my new wire through the firewall. connect it wrap it and tuck it away. done 15 minutes. brilliant engineering. did i mention i love my new dodge truck. .
From : clem
aw shit!! rabbit you were supposed to slap me if i got into one of these mindless endless k&n threads again. it could be worse roy... im waiting for the remedial math arguments to rear their ugly heads again. revalations was wrong. the number of the beast is not 666. its 50% 2% 3% ^ i forgot all about those. 2 is half of 4 my 90% is less than your 90%. hell im confused already.bg roy .
From : ed hartley
i am not going to get into an argument over something like this. that would be a refreshing change. removing the ignition switch is much more difficult then testing it the way i suggested and if you try to open it you will probably destroy it. agreed but.... you have to address the question. in many cases that feeling is an illusion. you get used to hearing and feeling the starter kick when the ignition is turned to the start position usually before it hits the stop and when that doesnt happen it feels like the switch is stopping too soon. again agreed but.... neither of us knows specifically what he is feeling. so you have to address the issue. well yea since that is the whole primary side of the starter circuit. all shorting it out proves that the starter and its solenoid are functioning. yup. but if it starts then it also proves that the ign. sw. is likely functioning. as for the multi-meter you can get an inexpensive digital one from home depot for around 20 bucks. terrific now does the average joe know how to read one and which scale to use perhaps not. but the average joe can use a jumper wire. i prefer my analog simpson but i have a few cheap hd specials as well and they will do the job and are fairly indestructible. if you are going to mess with the electrical system of the truck it is a needed tool. agreed however assuming that the person posing the question has or can operate a multimeter can make an answer totally irrelevant if you are wrong in your assumption. it may even be the fuse but....when a fuse goes bad you have other problems. while true in many cases its not in this one. that fuse 40a is dedicated to the starter solenoid and does nothing else. when a fuse blows it means something made that happen even if there is only one thing on that circuit. why do you say that the ignition switch is responsible for that not the starter relay. at best that may indicate that the ignition switch is not the problem. correct and if the ign. sw. is ok its probably pulling in that relay. if things are going normally hell also see headlights dim etc. some starter relays also cut out accessories and send extra voltage into the ignition circuits. if that were the case then shorting the solenoid would not work either although there could be corosion on the solenoid terminal. i didnt think of that good call max. corrosion sucks and its the first thing i look for since itll stop diagnostics as easy as itll stop a vehicle. its always the little things that bite you in the ass lol. bingo and its those things that will frustrate the hell out of the amateur and expert alike. max anvils dont kill cartoon characters cartoon characters kill cartoon characters. .
From : jon rose
pcv valve maybe check you compression - if low then you got head / ring prob... check your vacuum - if low then ring prob... - if varying then head / valve prob... this is the way i would look for a oil burn prob... im not saying this is it but a starting point to look at... i have a dakota 5.2 v8 that normally doesnt use oil. but if you get in a lot of stop and go traffic it will start smoking real bad. can anyone tell me what is wrong .
From : jon rose
mike in mystic wrote that sounds like a manual transmission to me. this issue only applies to automatics. i have a automatic. ditto for a 94 ram i previously had. as long as the ignition switch was/is in the run position the lever can be moved. jerry .