F/S 85 RAMCHARGER 4X4

From : midget tosser

Q: thats not quite so easy anymore. while it is obvious that they do own the white house our high speed communications makes it much more difficult to pull that off. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving tbone wrote snip how exactly are the oil companies going to stop it with money connections and political pressure in the right places. like the white house. in other words business as usual. ap .

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From : midget tosser

on thu 14 apr 2005 214746 -0400 steve sahd@hotmail.com wrote thanks for the input. mine is also a slt but just reg cab. a friend gets 21 mpg in the city and he has a big motor vette. go figer. price is 2.07 a gallon here in massachusetts usa. i will be using my harley more this summer. steve =========================== why go figure.... completely different animals.. even with the optional preformace rear axel in a vette with an automatic..boo hiss...shame i would expect it to get better milege then almost any truck... i own 64 72 76 79 & 95 corvettes...but drive a 2001 dakota 3.9 5 sp daily.... we will not talk about gas milege in the any of the carborated vettes...but will comopare the 95 ...which now has 65000 miles on it and the total average mpg as of last saturday when i filled it up comes in at 24.3 ....for the entire 65000 miles... my little underpowered 3.9 dakota with a 5 speed tranny now has 39000 miles on her clock...total average mpg is 19.2 ... truck is completely underpowered...geared completely wrong 5th gear is useless on any grade exceeding 2 degrees . you get the idea... oh to sixty mph....equals all day... the newer vettes are not geared to haul anything except ass.. they can cruise up a good grade in 6th gear at 1100 rpms without any sign of lugging... hell on a trip i once got 34 mpg on a level 400 mile jaunt down 81 with the crusie set at 82 mph...and the wife bitching all the way i may add.. wish i had the reflexes to ride a bike again... but since i am in my 60s i am too slow to react fast enough anymore... to avoid the idiots on the roads today...none have eyes good enough to even see a bike. good luck to ya... and i wish i had the reflexes and the place to ride a bike again... bob griffiths .

From : nosey

im at my wits end and im hoping someone here can point the way. i bought a quadcab dakota in 2000. havent had much problem with it other than the pcm module having to be replaced in 2002. been very dependable. but my heater core sprung a leak two winters ago and i finally got around to replacing it last fall. note that everything was fine except for the heater. so i spend a weekend tearing the whole $*#! truck dash out to get to the $100 heater core that could have easily been desined to slip out through the engine compartment. but ill leave that rant for another thread as i have another whole list of headaches. when i got everything back together the abs and brake lights stayed on constantly. i assumed something was unplugged but i couldnt find any problems. brakes worked so i drove it. now the engine would die at stoplights. if i hit the gas as it dropped through 600rpm it would keep running with no problem. if i slowed very gradually with it in gear so that it tried to lug up to the stoplight it would keep running. but if i just pushed the clutch in at 1000rpm and let it drop off the engine would die every time. whats more as i passed through about 2400rpm there was a loud roar coming from the engine compartment that would disappear at around 2800. to top it all off the spedometer wouldnt register speed until i hit about 35mph. further investigation revealed that a small vacuum line coming from that dongle hanging off the front of brake booster to the interior was pinched. i had also twisted that dongle while trying to remove the vacuum line going to the manifold. aha! i found the culprit i says to myself. either the pinched hose or me twisting the dongle must have broken some sort of diaphram in the brake booster which let excess air into the intake manifold causing an overlean condition at the stoplight. this also sucked air through the broken diaphram at a resonant frequency at 2400rpm causing the roar. didnt explain the spedometer problem but baby steps i say. i spend $100 and an afternoon replacing the brake booster. the roar is still there and the engine still dies at stops. so i turn to google and search for a problem. turns out there is a problem with a $30 sensor on the rear end that will cause the spedometer/brake light problem. there is also a known problem with the fan clutch that will cause this roaring problem. i would go out and buy all the parts needed but i find it hard to believe that all these things went bad at the exact same time. can anyone here suggest a set of troubleshooting steps or test that i can work through to determine if the fan or abs sender is bad could i have gotten a bad replacement brake booster -- this is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. it goes against instinct and morality to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. we want to help them which means control them and their decisions but in doing so we actually hurt them and ourselves. .