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From : brent d
Q: a thought crossed my mind - it happens every full moon. the check ball roll-over valve might be jammed up literally in the up position. this check ball is necessary in the vent tube system to prevent fuel spill in a roll-over event. brent .
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From : beekeep
might be the engine speed sensor in the distributer going. does it have a tach is it acting funny grouperdigger wrote curious if anyone could tell me where to start. this truck is being driven to me and it has cut out twice. driver pulled over restarted engine and continued on. any ideas as to the possible problem thanks for anyones help! .
From : frank
on mon 07 feb 2005 174647 gmt tom lawrence tnloaswpraemnmcien5g@earthlink.net wrote just curious what are the symptoms of bad injector/s several possibilities. sometimes the injector hold-down bolts just loosen up and this produces a knocking sound. knocking sound on a diesel engine theres an oxymoron if i ever saw one!!! ;- .
From : beekeep
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From : hodad
maxpower damnnickname@yahoo.com wrote okay heres your shot; post the methodology and calculations for determining fuel pump rpm. im sorry i just had to laugh at that one please glenn share the joke with us. or are you going to claim that there is no useful diagnostic purpose in knowing the rpm of an electric fuel pump careful now fords use variable speed electric fuel pumps just in case you think it doesnt matter. montana back to the selling dealer to have the leaking intake manifold gaskets replaced i even called the service manager and made sure that it would be covered and that they would only have to pay the $100 deductible honestly now you didnt have the right tools or were you trying to fix it with your methodology cocka wana stimulations of the calibration theory lmao this is great saves me on going to the movies to get a good laugh i love reading your posts little boy. are you under the impression that it takes anything more than normal common hand tools to replace the intake gaskets on a gm 3.4 liter engine have you ever even seen a gm 3.4 or if you were in my shoes would you have dummied up and taken their money i suppose honesty is a foreign concept to you. not surprising you being the king of booking hours with your pencil and all. ya know the mere fact that you find fault with me passing on a covered repair to a dealership shows how absolutely desperate you are. thanks for taking the bait. you dont have to be threatened by the dealer. obviously im not thats why i had no problem sending a customer back to the pontiac dealer so that they wouldnt be charged full price for a defect inherent in that particular engine of course i knew full well that the dealer would screw something up and as usual they didnt disappoint. i told you that many times. we will give you your tsbs so you can fix em and like i said we are trying to make it easy for you to fix em just bare with us. bare with you do you realize that there are children in the second grade who have a better command of the english language then you im in and out of numerous dealerships every week ive known most of the mechanics for years trying to find the right technician to answer the questions to help you fix a car because theres no tsb out yet no you fucking jibbering moron picking up parts; as in their parts delivery truck doesnt have a credit card machine so purchasing parts with a company credit card necessitates that i present myself in person in front of the dealerships cashier to sign the credit card receipt. sheesh what a desperate moron .
From : roy
while im at it how about the 03 04s any inherent problems what transmissions are used in those years nope - in fact they typically get better mileage than the 04.5s and above the 600 or now the 610 engines. for standard transmissions it was the nv5600 or the nv4500 used behind the standard output 235hp - blech engines. i think youre in one of those ca-emissions-type states right if so you probably wont see many 305hp the high output version engines around. theres nothing wrong with the so engines per se - its just that almost 100hp compared to the latest engine kinda hurts. in the automatic realm the sos came with the 47re up until the mid-year of 03 possibly not until 04. at that point the 48re was the only transmission available whether so or ho. talked to a dealer who says now the ho is emission compliant. gotta check further. .
From : jim m jim
tom just wanted to say thanks again for your detailed post on how to remove the dash and related panels in the previous thread of satellite radio - mounting antenna in an 04 ram. the tear down and re-assembly was a lot easier than i expected. i installed the delphi sa10112 fm modulator adapter without a problem and agree that the sound quality is certainly better than what i was previoussly experiencing. should also say that crutchfield processed the order very quickly and without any problems. david .
From : frank
if you think the hemi is the cats meow dont try a cummins. itll ruin your whole day! think of a freightliner on steroids! steve i brought my 03 dakota in for ball joints and walked out with a 04 1500 slt quad cab with the hemi! wow! all i can say is this is where i should have been to begin with. the thing really has some nads im going to be doing some towing of our recently acquired 3700lbs proline this summer so this truck will be a big improvement over straining the crap out of my v6 dakota. one problem however the dealer only put in 1/2 of a tank of gas. now i see why i just cant get it to take any fuel. i spent about 20 minutes fighting with the thing to fill the tank. it just keeps kicking off the pump. i thought maybe i just found a crappy pump so i tried another one at the same station and then another one at a different station. same deal. it takes about 2 seconds worth of gas and then kicks off. even at the slowest speed i could set the pump to. tried all the way in part way in hardly in at all pump handle at 9 oclock at 3 oclock and every other oclock still no go. anyone else have this problem seems pretty minor but i know 2 other 1500 owners that have never seen this problem. clogged air vent defective feeder tube looks to me like the vent comes right out of the fuel pump assembly. everything looks okay but i guess it could be blocked up with something. other than the gas thing i think we will really be enjoying this truck and so far the damn thing is getting about the same mileage as my dakota! go figure. apparently that v6 dak was so underpowered that the engine was working overtime just to move the truck. average of 13-15 on the dak and if the mpg display on the ram is correct after about 200 miles of a combination of around town and hyway the horse is getting about 14mpg. unreal. great deals out there now on leftover 04s if you can find em. 25k out the door maybe less if you find something with less options. this beast has the tow group power seats split rear seats 7 speakers bed liner steering wheel audio controls front center seat storage and a sliding rear window. plus serious nads as i said before. only thing i would have liked but wasnt there was limited slip and something more than 245/70 tires. i can live without both i tires will be upgraded after about 30k miles. .
From : frank
knock on wood it really did something to it. it seems to start quicker idle better sounds better and doesnt stink or smoke on start up. i could get a big surprise at any time but as for now. it seems to be working. on the can though it does say to add a new can with every oil change. i will try that if it continues to work. john why would that surprise you. that gunk can and does get into everything. if it gets on the valve stems it will also get on the seals and fill in the gaps at least for a little while. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving isnt anyone else kind of surprised that restore would cure an engine from smoking on start-up which is almost always valve seals or guides i thought the stuff was supposed to fill tiny scratches and etc. in cylinder walls and thats how it provided increased compression and oil control via the rings --nothing to do with the guides which was the problem with this engine. .
From : tom lawrence
drgn1400@webtv.net brent d wrote here we go again with cuda. an independent that wants every one to believe their repairs are automatically cheaper than a dealers. again he provided no proof or example of this. just assumed. and your proof is where i havent seen any just a whole lot of ego stroking from you. perhaps a dealers equivalent repair may cost more because they provide things you can not. when our dealership services a transmission for x number of dollars we also update the controller with the latest software at no added cost our extra cost is from the use of oem parts that come with a nationwide warranty at any dealer to improve shift quality if any updates are available. a few posts back you admitted that you get paid extra for a re-flash so the extra cost is in there somewhere. ooops - you cant do that. you talk stupid you have no idea what i can and can not do. software updates are not reserved for the dealership only. this is one example try using an example to substantiate a claim next time instead of talking out your ass of how a dealer can offer more bang for the buck when it comes to quality. sorry brent your example falls flat on its face. times have changed since you last worked in a dealership yeah the labor times are more ridiculous and as your buddy glenn is so proud to point out the money is made with a pencil not by effecting a repair. if you ever have. yes i ever have. big whoop! youre sounding more and more like a prima donna with every post. if you havent done it in the last five years you are behind the times. you base that statement on your own narrow view which is painted by a somewhat secluded vantage point. dealer techs do provide a vast portion of feedback to dc before they release it in a tsb. you have no right to argue against this point. i wasnt arguing against it i was pointing out that not all tsbs are authored by dealership technicians some are most arent. besides you would have no way of knowing who authors a tsb since youre at the bottom rung of the ladder to begin with. i have seen dozens of times when my or other techs repairs have later resulted in tsbs and/or recalls. you might pay for tsbs - we make them happen. who is the real technician now listen up genius i have authored my share of tsbs so nothing youre crowing about here impresses me one little bit. you claim to be a technician okay heres your shot; post the methodology and calculations for determining fuel pump rpm. there is one problem with being an independent; win or lose - the dealer gets automatic first shot at the customer you get the left overs. yup you get first shot because the repair is supposed to cost the customer nothing. once the vehicle is out of warranty few customers return because of the way theyre treated and because they can easily find better value elsewhere. i spend an extraordinary amount of time convincing some of my customers to contact the dealership because the repair they need is covered under warranty and going there should save them hundreds of dollars very few want to go back because of how they are treated and because their previous experiences lend them to believe that the job will be done half-assed and that -is- usually the case. last week i convinced a customer to take their 2003 pontiac montana back to the selling dealer to have the leaking intake manifold gaskets replaced i even called the service manager and made sure that it would be covered and that they would only have to pay the $100 deductible the customer was treated rudely when she dropped her van off two day after it was done the ses light came on she brought it to me po440 code set purge solenoid hose left off. nice job guys that customer has real confidence in your capabilities not. one can only imagine that the mechanic who worked on that van was distracted because he was busy primping his feathers and stroking his ego because hes a big shot dealership star just like youre doing here... with warranties increasing you get to do the repair at a 33% discount in pay. sounds good to me not. and enticing customers to purchase new vehicles yup real smart the front end is competing with the back end. we have another thing you do not guaranteed work during slow times. it may not pay the best but it sure beats plopping my ass on the tool box drinking a soda - like im sure you have had to. who the hell do you think youre kidding im in and out of numerous dealerships every week ive known most of the mechanics for years worked side by side with them i hear first hand how slow things are how they run out of work by noon how their profit sharing hasnt had been contributed to by the dealer principal in years how theyre stuck doing oil changes to eek out a few tenths how the service writers blow the up-sell how the parts department dropped the ball and now the car wont