OT: Memorial Day

From : azwiley1

Q: azwiley1 wrote tomorrow while you your loved ones and your friends are bbqing partying and enjoying life take a moment to remember all those that are out there sacrificing all they are and all they have for us. tip a hat raise a toast say a silent prayer but do not forget them. amen. i always try to spend a few minutes reading a poem or two by michael marks. i seldom manage to get through one dry-eyed. if you arent familiar with his works read one or two at http//iwvpa.net/marksm/index.php . happy memorial day to all. .

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From : langerhans

on sun 27 may 2007 193631 -0400 denny wddodge@woh.rr.com wrote azwiley1 wrote tomorrow while you your loved ones and your friends are bbqing partying and enjoying life take a moment to remember all those that are out there sacrificing all they are and all they have for us. tip a hat raise a toast say a silent prayer but do not forget them. amen. +1 denny amen .

From : Annonymous

i have had three dodge trucks so far a 92 dakota a 02 ram and a 04 ram none with diesel. loved them all but now we went a bought a bigger trailer so my wife and i just bought a new 07 ram slt quad cab 2500 with the 5.9 cummins diesel tonight and will pick it up on tuesday. now before i get flamed silly i have read searched and hunted a pile of groups goolge etc and cannot find consistant answers to the simplist questions for a new diesel owner. no manual yet either. so this is why i am asking the group. 1 what is a break in period before i can tow the trailer. it is a 7200 lb travel trailer.i was told right away by the dealer and after 5000 kilometers by my neighbour who has an 05 mega cab 3500. 2 when should i change the original oil 3 i have been told three answers to this question how many miles kilometers between regular oil changes should i expect one guy said 12000 kilomters 7000 miles another said 10000 kilomters 6000 miles and another said every 5000 kilomters.3000 miles. i am used to changing the 04 hemi every 5000 kilometers. 4 can you really run any of the diesel fuels in the 07 5.9 cummins or must i only use the ultra low sulphur fuel. any other special things to watch out for i promise i will read the manual when i get it but i just want some real world opinions. i know these sound pretty simple to most of you but .................... thanks wayne update thanks everyone. i have read the manual front to back and took in to account what everyone said. we drove it 800km before we dropped the tt on it. we then stuck to 80 kph or 50 mph the whole way to banff and back this weekend. what a blast ! this is the first time in 30 years of driving that road that i never noticed the hills or steep grades. this thing just ran up the grades and never even changed gears. we also used 1/2 the fuel of the 04 hemi. dealer said that 7500 to 8000 km will be when to change the first oil. turns out we only have ulsd in the calgary area. selling for .80 / litre at the local flying j. that is somewhwere around 3.03 / gallon us. unleaded is going for 4.58 / gallon. wayne .

From : denny

my question is this. i have a 2006 dodge ram 2500 diesel i am towing a 28 ft tt about 7900 lbs i use the tow/haul button when towing should i also take it out of overdrive. this would require me to push the button in twice if i do that will the tow feature to disabled. hope this question mades some sense. that feature is the whole reason i bought a new 07 2500 ram. from what i was told by a lot of friends the first push to tow / haul is an automatic version of od off. i was told that the truck would take over and if it actually could go to overdrive if it felt it was safe otherwise it would go to od off if it felt too much resistance. the second push was if you wanted to lock out the automatic feature and just leave it in od off. i just came back from banff with my 8200 lb tt. last week the 04 hemi cost me 3/4 tank of gas return. as well it dragged back to 90 kph on scott lake hill outside calgary. this week the new cummins came back with 3/4 of a tank of gas and never slowed down at all on the same hill. it was in th mode the whole way. i still cant get the grin off of my face. wayne .