Installing an alarm in my 2001 1500
From : ace
Q: lance lafrinier wrote buy yourself a the club to lock your steering wheel...they are about $40. surely you jest. .
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From : john
im thinking the poster with the three relays had the best solution. you could just throw them in your pocket they arent heavy like the battery no thief is going to have a spare set much less even know they are missing. what thief is going to break into a second vehicle looking for relays to start your vehicle. if you remove the battery youll reset the ecu and the van may run rough for a few days. id also use the club as a visual deterent. might save the cost of a window. im down for the relays. as for the club waste of money even for a deterent. id opt for a alarm decal of some sort at least the thief wont know what he has to defeat imho. roy why no just pull the ignition fuse beekeep on 19 oct 2005 230135 -0700 timw spiderweb-books@earthlink.net wrote im about to head out on a 10 week trip round the usa in my conversion van and as it will be my home for most of that time i wanted to ensure that it will be as secure as possible from thieves. i dont really have much confidence in regular alarm systems - when was the last time you saw an alarm go off and heard someone say quick call the police as i have a padlocked strong box under the bed inside i figured i might be able to quicky detach a key component from the engine and stash it in the locked box while im away from the vehicle but i dont know what would be most suitable. in the old days i could have simply removed the distributer cap but with computer managed fuel systems now that isnt an option. any ideas i saw an interesting suggestion elsewhere about putting a switch on the line to the fuel pump and hiding it somewhere under the dash but i dont know how easy that would be to do or whether it would cost me a couple of hundred dollars to get an auto electrician to put it in for me. is there a key and unique fuse somewhere on board that i could take out one last point. when i say a strong box i mean just that. its similar to the tool boxes on the back of many pickup trucks and its actually bolted to the floor from the inside so that the only way you could take it out of the vehicle is to break open the lid or padlocks. any advice on the matter would be much appreciated. thanks .
From : mac davis
on sat 22 oct 2005 115306 gmt tom lawrence tnloaswpraemnmcien5g@earthlink.net wrote cummins and redesigned the tranny yet again on 2005 models. re-designed the only change to the transmission that im aware of is an upgraded thrust washer under the front planetary to handle an exhaust brake.... that and some re-programming of the tcm for an ehanced tow/haul mode. my understanding too. the real redesign was in the middle of the 03 model year when they went to the 48re. there have been some minor upgrades since then the most major one being for the 06 model year where they changed the electronics by adding a larger computer so they they could add the programming necessary to allow a exhaust brake to be used on the 48re. the other have been the thrust washer i think they upgraded a couple of those adn the tow/haul mode as mentioned. the 48re as i have been told anyway is good for up to around 400 hp but when you chip it or bomb it above that level the tranny is not going to handle it. even then chipping it below 400 means that you have to use common sense when you drive it or the tranny is going to slip. that isnt a flaw the tranny is designed to handle the hp and torque that comes out of the factory. if you bomb it you need to have a manual tranny or upgrade the auto. i dont understand how this thing about a pos tranny keeps coming on the dodge. the 48re is a very good tranny. i have towed a lot with mine. cruising tdr i hear of very very few people with the 48re that have tranny problems with a stock truck. .
From : john
i expected a little more balls from you people. good lord! sell it and get what you want. huge project not likely. every part needed is available in some form or another. no fabrication necessary. with a donor truck available i could have it done in a day. it is a huge project and while an experienced mechanic might be able to do it in a day most cannot. also every part is made and available somewhere but.. .where donor truck well gee if he had a friggin 5spd truck hed be driving it not swapping its trans into another truck. i hate to say it but ill agree with tbone this project verges on the insane given that there are trucks already built with 5spds. thanks for the info on the 1500 ram. it sounds like dodge never offered anything smaller than the nv4500 with the 360. i might have to brave the nv3500 or look into something from another manufacturer which will greatly increase the complexity of the project. since the nv3500 was not rated at a torque capacity that would handle the 360 it was never bolted to a 360 from the factory. however and this is the subject of much debate its likely that a 360 flywheel for the nv4500 will handle the nv3500. since the 360 and 318 share castings the nv3500 can be bolted to the 360. -- max give a man a match and he is warm for a short while. light him on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life. i expected a little more balls from you people. good lord! sell it and get what you want. huge project not likely. every part needed is available in some form or another. no fabrication necessary. with a donor truck available i could have it done in a day. thanks for the info on the 1500 ram. it sounds like dodge never offered anything smaller than the nv4500 with the 360. i might have to brave the nv3500 or look into something from another manufacturer which will greatly increase the complexity of the project. -rev .