Anone with a 97,98,99 dakota?
From : mac
Q: thats what i did. the cost of a new tube is small versus spending time getting the old one out plus risking that the old one will fail soon after the waterpump job is done. yep... on said 98 ram when we re-installed the tube it leaked go figure. put a new o-ring on... still leaked. wound up surrounding the whole seam between pump and tube with some radiator patch a putty that hardens to a brass-like material. .
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From : tbone
on wed 04 oct 2006 203334 gmt tbone tbonenospam@nc.rr.com wrote on tue 03 oct 2006 142740 -0500 ray turner rayturner@coastline.org wrote on tue 03 oct 2006 094828 -0700 mac davis wrote movies video games i think this 100% on the money. just about any movie and video game aimed at kids will have lots of explosions gunfights wrecked cars etc. not long ago some kids - in virginia i think - played a video game where the object of the game was shooting at cars. well......these kids got bored so they we to the interstate and started shooting at real cars and trucks with real guns. this is not a free speech issue. allowing these kids to have these ultra violent videos and watch violent movies is equilvalent to letting them sit down with a quart of whiskey. when you take poor impulse-control add booze or visual violence you have a real bad situation....... i dont know what it is. i really dont. if it was just one or two things i would hope that we could have fixed it by now but maybe not. i think this is a really complex thing. i dont think that it is movies and video games though as much as the movies and video games that we see now are a symptom of the real problem. it is something deeper than that. empathy just doesnt seem to exist much. we dont give a shit about other people or other peoples pain. just ourselves. the symptoms appear in all places. we dont care about the plight of people in mexico so what that they cant make a decent living and cant provide for their families they have no business here. we dont care about the poor screw em right they can just go get a job. too bad for their kids. we dont care about the working blue collar workers i mean hell why should we have to support their retirement systems......they just be happy to have a job. we really dont care to solve any problems we just want to cut everyone off at the knees. i dont know what happened the past week is incredibly sick. words can not describe the selfishness and blackness of what happened. but i think that america has changed. the conservative fundamentalist movement has had an effect on the fiber of our feelings. or again maybe that movement is just another sympton of the real problem. whatever it is it is very sad. sometimes i think i am seeing the last bald eagle. very well said and i agree with all of it except for the plight of the people in mexico. i really dont give a rats about them when we have many in this country in the same situation. well...........i think that my point went right over your head tom. .
From : fmb
peterdc100@yahoo.com wrote stock size is 245/75-16 if i go up a size to lets say 245/85-16s will i get better gas mileage in every single case i have ever put larger tires on the result was lower mpg. while the effective ratio should improve it the engine has to work harder to turn the larger tires. ive yet to see a case where it improved mpg. miles makes an excellent case here. some years ago we had a great e-mail list it was called the rtml or ram truck mailing list. some current group members were on it. one of the members ran an experiment with his overdrive. he ran back to back tanks of gas one using overdrive as normal one with it locked out. he got one mpg less with it locked out. overdrive on a dodge is .69 about a 30% reduction in rpm for given road speed and much more than youll get with a larger tire. one of the other caveats is rolling resistance one of the major considerations of the factory selection is rolling resistance and most aftermarket tires dont give this much thought. ive seen people lose two mpg with aggressive off road tread tires. if you use a larger diameter and usually wider tire you may gain some rolling resistance. lastly ive seen discussions of axle ratios and fuel economy too low a ratio and fuel economy suffers too high a ratio and it suffers again. the discussion im referencing took place before automatic overdrives were offered. the synopsis at that time was about a 2.9 final drive was about optimal for fuel economy. this obviously was also well before fuel injection was commonly available. but consider this most half ton trucks today come with 3.42 to 3.55 ratios standard and automatic overdrives offer a 30% reduction of rpms and now were down into the 2.5 range. imho this is mostly for emission control to reduce amounts of pollutants per mile not to increase fuel economy. maybe with the better atomization of fuel with injection this is the new optimal ratio its hard to say i could be wrong. but if were already this high in axle ratios how much could a little taller tire help now if you want taller tires because they look better im with you there. just dont want you to do something expecting one thing and not getting it. .
From : frank boettcher
on tue 03 oct 2006 153808 -0500 jon elson jmelson@artsci.wustl.edu wrote ignoramus16919 wrote just spoke to a friend of my wife who is a car mechanic who makes money by fixing cars. he mentioned that it could well be a tranny problem. he advised me that once shit starts on chryslers that it only gets worse and advised me to not do any repairs and to get rid of this truck as soon as possible. i am inclined to do just that. i we just got rid of a 1998 ram 3500b stretch extended van that may or may not have a similar drive train as your truck. 5.9 l engine auto trans. the transmission croaked at something like 89000 miles and they rebuilt it for only $3100! we did get a lifetime warranty on the rebuild so if it ever blew again wed be covered. having had major transmission problems on our last three american-brand cars in a row ive pretty well sworn them off. meanwhile im still driving my 1989 toyota corolla station wagon with manual transaxle. maintenance on that one has run about $100/year on average. some years it requires zero maintenance whatsoever. 170000 miles on the original wter pump alternator the a/c refrigerant has never been even topped-up etc. it ought to be possible to isolate grinding noises to the transmission or rear axle. any way you can jack the rear wheels off the ground if it is the transmission you are in deep doo-doo and hes definitely right if you can in good conscience dump the thing do so. if it is the axle then i really dont see how some grinding in there is going to take the transmission with it. jon jon it is in the axle. the dealer offered a relatively sensible total price of $1070 that includes the $114 that they charged me to look at it so i decided to just have them do it. i .
From : roy
ignoramus16919 wrote just spoke to a friend of my wife who is a car mechanic who makes money by fixing cars. he mentioned that it could well be a tranny problem. he advised me that once shit starts on chryslers that it only gets worse and advised me to not do any repairs and to get rid of this truck as soon as possible. i am inclined to do just that. i hey - i have no knowledge of car mechanics i have a brilliant mechanic in return for giving him money our cars run perfectly.... - if you dont have a mechanic you know and trust to do a dignosis then why not run it till it dies then you will know which bit is faulty....crude faultfinding but it works. from what you been saying in previous posts its just an annoying noise so why worry about it until the vehicle stops because at the moment its generating endless mental grief for you ........out of all proportion to the severity of the fault... andrew vk3bfa. .
From : chris thompson
on tue 03 oct 2006 030039 gmt tbone tbonenospam@nc.rr.com wrote some choose not to but many cannot afford to. when both parents are working just to make ends meet it gets a little difficult to fit actual parenting in and then you can factor in the guilt of them knowing that they cannot be there when they should be it is not to hard to see why they coddle them more than they should. thats a damn good reason for birth control imho... mac https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/woodstuff.htm .
From : roy
do you know what kind coolant came with truck---regular green or ext-life orange/pink. im getting ready to flush/replace coolant after almost 4 years but not too many miles but the dodge shop doesnt know for sure what they put in last time. mac if memory serves me it should have green in it. i believe thats what they came with. on a side note that my leaving was a short leave wasnt it glad to see ya back! hope all is better. roy somewhat things are looking up but not totally resolved. and thanks roy things take time im sure you will get a handle on it. roy when i said i was leaving i thought i would be gone for a few months at least. as i said i didnt not know when i would be returning and certainly didnt imagine it to be this soon. -- ---------------------------- -chris 05 ctd 06 liberty crd real trucks dont need spark plugs .
From : mac
oooops i meant to say that the mechanic and what ive read on the web say that putting different coolant in there could still ba problem even after you flushed out the previous coolant... .
From : chris thompson
do you know what kind coolant came with truck---regular green or ext-life orange/pink. im getting ready to flush/replace coolant after almost 4 years but not too many miles but the dodge shop doesnt know for sure what they put in last time. bro if you are going to flush it what difference does it make what was in it before roy .
From : roy
on mon 2 oct 2006 171307 -0700 azwiley1 azwiley1@cox.net wrote wtf is going on with this rash of school shootings across the nation this is ridiculous to say the least! sue is a teacher. i asked if she wanted to take here 357 in the morning. seriously here they keep the schools pretty much secure. but no matter how secure you arent going to stop some sick sob. roy here the only hs we have has freaking metal detectors at all entrances and armed security guards. some of the schools up state have damn near prison style fencing around them. what happen to the days of a school yard fist fight with a winner and a loser ok.. im gonna be flamed for this but heres my take... movies video games and shit have changed our kids... heros in movies solve problems by blasting away with an uzi in each hand... they always hit what theyre aiming at and never get hit... or if they do its no big thing they just keep on shooting like nothing happened.. when i was a reserve cop i was always amazed at the kids in the er for gunshot wounds.. they mostly said the same thing i didnt think it would hurt this much... kids today dont get in each others face and punch it out they just drive by shooting... and the worst thing is that they have no friggin idea how to shoot or any practice so they usually hit more bystanders that anything.. we had a dispute between 2 gang members here in a local laundromat... should be easy because its open space and fairly small... one emptied a 45 the other blazed away with a 38... nobody got hit! sadly the world or at least this area would be a better place if they new how to shoot and killed each other... gun control is the ability to hit your target before it hits you mac https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/woodstuff.htm .
From : chris thompson
oooops i meant to say that the mechanic and what ive read on the web say that putting different coolant in there could still ba problem even after you flushed out the previous coolant... my experience was with gms dex something or other in a 94 vette. the story was ya couldnt mix the dexorange stuff with the green or yellow. also the dex stuff was causing problems with the heater/radiator. i think the deal was that it was plugging it. but everybody was dropping the orange flushing it and going to the green or yellow. no problems doing it. given the coolers that a vette has ya have to work to get it out. honestly id flush it good put in my favorite color and move on. roy .
From : mac
on 2 oct 2006 101523 -0700 peterdc100@yahoo.com wrote theoretically it would seem that having a taller tire would change the gearing very slightly and give you better mpg on the highway... our ram had 245/16 on it when we got it... the door sticker called for 255... we went to 265/16 and didnt see a mileage difference but didnt really track it before the new tires.. note changing tire size will throw your speedometer and such off... ours reads 60 when were doing 63 mph... im guessing that it was off by the same amount in the other direction before... if so the odometer would tell you that the mileage was better with smaller tires because it registered 4% faster/further than you actually went stock size is 245/75-16 if i go up a size to lets say 245/85-16s will i get better gas mileage im not looking for much but if i have to change the tires why not move up to a size that might help. i dont tow i just carry tools and sometimes some job site materials concrete gravel etc. i know that increasing the unsprung wheel weight will hurt mpg so i want to go taller not wider i would love to buy lighter wheels but i think that would get too expensive. if you think otherwise please tell me where to get cheap light wheels still load d or e though. from http//www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html diameters stock is 30.5 in with 245/85-16s im running 32.4 in 6.3% increase and with toyo tires i gain 1 pound with 255/85-16s im running 33.1 8.5% increase - limited tire choice. i could also go with 17s they are all over ebay but i think ill gain more unsprung weight. of course im stuck with highway tires but thats fine. this is a work truck so i dont take it off road. i know the saying you bought a truck accept your mpg im not crazy about improving my mileage but when i have to replace a part i always try and upgrade it as best as possible. btw what highway tires do you recommend thanks mac https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/woodstuff.htm .
From : roy
i used to have a 1998 dodge ram 1500 quad cab 4x4. great truck but i traded it because of the infamouse rear end whine. the irony is the whine didnt start untill i changed the rear end oil. i used the dodge factory oil and the additive but the rear end went from quiet to pissing me off real quick. only 60k miles when it started. get on some of the dodge truck forums. you will find the dodge rear ends are prone to develop the rear end whine. most say even a professional rear end rebuild will not make the noise go away! just something about the dodge rear ends. now drivin a powerful made in canton miss. nissan titan! with dana axles! greg .
From : napalmheart
why not have contraceptives by available for cheap or free across the board because the people who should be using them dont have enough sense to use them i can hear that too. you can educate the ignorant but you cant fix stupid. .