Opinions?
From : k vandehei
Q: on sun 24 oct 2004 152157 gmt tbone t-bonenospam@nc.rr.com wrote lol yes you did pervert. no i didnt. i said i would vote for the candidate of my choice nad it isnt your candidate. thats all i said and youre just making your syupid assumptions troll-baby. sorry budd but you did say two different things in two posts on the same thread. you told greg that you were probably not voting for bush and then in the last post said that you were liar. geez. bfd tom. at least argue about some with some substance. i think that both budd and you will vote for who you want to vote for. i think that you each may even change your mind a couple times. especially you since you are so wrong with your current candidate . i also dont think that anyone budd or you has any reason to disclose to anyone else whe you are actually voting for. lol. i would love to be able to argue or discuss something with substance but we both know that with some of the people in this group that isnt gonna happen. i dont expect anyone to disclose who they are going to vote for but some in here are obvious and what is the secret in it anyway. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
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From : tom lawrence
on fri 22 oct 2004 063805 gmt t @nyc.rr.com wrote would like to know what others are getting. thanks tony i just got back from a fairly long trip with my new 3500. since it was the first trip on the new truck. i kept fairly detailed records to see how it compared with my old 93 250 4 x 2. the truck is an 05 3500 quad cab long bed 4 x 4 with 6 speed manual everything is as it came from the factory with no changes. i drove from northern california through eastern oregon parts of western idaho eastern washington over to the seattle area then back to central washington and back home through central oregon. we were not towing the box was empty there was just myself and my wife with the back seat filled with an ice chest and the usual pile of clothing and other assorted stuff that seems to be essential. the total trip mileage was around 3800 miles. driving included a lot of highway miles a significant amount of mountain highways quite a bit of side roads both paved and graveled a small amount of easy 4 x 4 work and some stop and go in spokane seattle and some smaller cities. i calculated the mileage at each fill up and compared it to the console display. i had just under 500 miles on it when i started so i took it a little easy until i got past 1000 miles; that is i drove no faster than the speed limit. after 1000 miles i gradually increased the speed until i pretty much drove at the speed of the faster 25% of traffic. the worst mileage was 17.8 for the stretch which included the most stop and go in seattle the best was 19.5 for the for the stretch which included some gravel roads and easy 4 x 4 driving. overall mileage for the complete trip was 18.6 there was a definite improvement from the beginning to the end as the engine became more broken in. i found the console mileage reading was usually within +/- 2% or about 0.38 mpg of the actual calculated mileage with one exception when it was off by 4%. usually the console was optimistic but it read 1.5% low for one tank. i was not able to spot anything in the type of driving the speed or the terrain that related to the errors in the console readings but 2% dosent seem too bad to me. hope this helps waynej .
From : k vandehei
the load range e is more for a 1 ton 3500 than a 2500... i have an 04 ram 1500... the factory put the wrong tires on.. mine is a 2- wheel and they put on the 4-wheel drive tires... so you may have gotten the wrong tires also racerx@tomatoweb.com says... says... ken racerx@tomatoweb.com wrote i just purchased an 03 3/4 ton with the hemi in it. of the three trucks i have owned over the years this one handles the worst around corners and over wet pavement. heck its so bad that i dont dare go over 60 around a certain broad sweeping freeway curve i used to take at 80 with the ford i used to have. i know its not a sportscar but this thing feels like a roller skate. it needs help in a bad way. does anyone have any ideas they have tried which work thanks! heres another fan of the michelin ltx m/s tires. also consider upgrading the shocks. the stock shocks on my dakota were pathetic and the replacment kybs make it handle much better. also look into rear anti-sway bars which will reduce understeer. having recently owned/driven both a ram mine has 17 tires off road package and a late model gm 4x4 i have to say the gm did handle better especially on rough pavement. i think shocks are the main cause as the ride on smooth pavement is actually better on the ram. both of these are half tons but i occasionally drive my friends 2004 ram 2500 and while its a bit bouncier it is roughly equal to my truck in cornering. its tires blow on wet pavement touchy as hell. they are not the oem tires though they got sliced up at a motel parking lot and he bought new tires at the sears practically next door to not screw up the trip they were on at the time. see if the dealer will let you drive another truck to see if you notice any big difference between it and your truck. b so the deal here is to replace the ltx a/s tires i have now with either the ltx m/s or ltx a/t both from michelin now about the load range. i found that curious because mine are load range e and ive never seen that on a 3/4 ton before. im wondering if that isnt a problem. ive seen a truck with d tires carry 4000 lbs. mines a shortbed and i dont plan to abuse it that much. are the tires too hard my brother runs dunlops in load range d i think and hes happy as a clam. also its interesting that you mention shocks. ive been eyeing edelbrocks ias series. any thoughts ken what do you have them inflated to the ltxs i put on my sierra would toss you out of the seat if put anywhere near the maximum pressure listed on the sidewall. i ran them at 30 rear/33 fronts and they were fine with it for three years. 30/33 was the most i could run them and still get a good patch pattern on them drive through water and see if the tread is making a full contact patch. any more and the centers were the only place they were really rolling on. i think they were load range d. i took it to the dealer for an oil change and when i left it was like the truck was converted into a 3500. they had maxed out the pressure on them after i told them not to mess with them when i brought it in. i didnt bring my tire guage with me and so i turned around and went back and had them drop it back with them protesting the whole time to 30/33. apparently the max load on the sidewall was unimportant. it was something like 2000 pounds than what the front load was empty but the dealer kept insisting that i wanted to run them maxed out. i flat out told him he was nuts.. i wrote to michellin and they said 30/30 was ok nothing less on my truck. bdk well... i started out with 42 all around and have been steadily dropping pressure. im running 35 in the back right now and 40 up front. im gonna run out right now with my gauge and let out some more air. ken .
From : tom lawrence
possibly the voltage limiter behind the dash is faulty assuming the charging system is not going into an over charge state the voltage limiter maintains 5 volts to the gauges glenn beasley chrysler tech i have noticed here lately that the gauges temp oil and fuel are sometimes reading higher than normal. i have seen them sometimes jump to the high side of the gauge then come back down to normal. the usual readings are temp 3 marks from c oil 2-3 marks from h while cruising. but lately the temp has been 3 marks from h and oil is almost full scale right. my first thought is something is wrong with the motor but i have seen them all come down at the same time at the same rate which leads me to believe there is something wrong with the gauge cluster. the fuel gauge also jumps about 3 marks when the other 2 are moving. can anyone point me in the right direction as to where to start looking thanks for your help!!! -- nick remove number one if replying by electronic mail .
From : k vandehei
i have noticed here lately that the gauges temp oil and fuel are sometimes reading higher than normal. i have seen them sometimes jump to the high side of the gauge then come back down to normal. the usual readings are temp 3 marks from c oil 2-3 marks from h while cruising. but lately the temp has been 3 marks from h and oil is almost full scale right. my first thought is something is wrong with the motor but i have seen them all come down at the same time at the same rate which leads me to believe there is something wrong with the gauge cluster. the fuel gauge also jumps about 3 marks when the other 2 are moving. can anyone point me in the right direction as to where to start looking thanks for your help!!! -- nick remove number one if replying by electronic mail .
From : steve lusardi
cold snap causing heating outages central hell headquarters chh upi. reports are streaming in to the offices from concerned slaves of his satanic evilness that a sudden unforcasted weather front is the reason for an unprecedented drop in the temperature of hell from a normal balmy 6000 degrees to 31.5 degrees. it has been also reported that there is water in the form of ice beginning to cover the surfaces that just yesterday would blister your skin if not incinerate it. fear of a total stoppage of the coal shovelers will happen when all areas of hell are icebound. this reporter sought out his evilness to seek answers and try to find hope for the freezing slaves an a prediction for warmer weather to come but was refused admission for an interview with his evilness satan. however there was overheard some cursing and screaming from behind the office doors. it sounded to this reporter that satan blamed not only god for the weather changes but someone called the boston red sox. film at 2600 -- budd if it wasnt important enough for you to take time to vote then its not important to me to listen to you whine about who won or lost. .
From : k vandehei
subject re 1997 dodge caravan gauge cluster problem fixed from mirse@aol.com mirse date 10/22/2004 615 pm eastern daylight time message-id 20041022181506.18151.00005086@mb-m03.aol.com subject re 1997 dodge caravan gauge cluster problem fixed from nitpik bubba@mindspring.com date 10/20/2004 911 am eastern daylight time message-id xstdd.1$kh2.1233@.uswest.net loose wiring harness connection or broken wire. when the cluster quits working does it go dark or does everything just indicate minimums or maximums what exactly in the cluster indicates correctly or not ***** in an earlier message i said that when the gauge cluster stopped working again i would report back to you as to what happened. the cluster is still working. in the meantime i tried to recall what happened when the gauge cluster stopped working the last time. this is what i remember 1. the abs brake light came on and stayed on. 2. the service engine light came on and stayed on. 3. the p-r-d-3-l light went out and stayed out that is when we drove the car at night we could not see the prd3l. 4. the electronic trip odometer went out and stayed out. 5. all the gauges were pegged at zero. 6. that is all i remember for now. 7. wish us luck. it has now been about 12 days since the gauge cluster stopped working. they are still working. ****** update. oct. 2704. gauges stopped working but came back on while we were driving on a main street today. the service engine came on and stayed on even when the gauges started working again. this is what happened we were driving on a main road when the gauges suddenly stopped working and the service engine light came on. we then tapped the top of the clusters slightly and the lights came back on but the service light stayed on. we stopped for a while and went into a store. when we came out and started the car the service light did not stay on. it has been 17 days since the gauges last stopped working. ill let you know when the gauges stop working again. one recent sunday i was working on our 1997 dodge caravan se that was bought new. the gauges had suddenly stopped working off and on for the past few months and now they had stopped working again. the service engine came on. we checked the code and we would always get code 66. it had something to do with either the body control module and the transmission control module not giving out a signal according to our haynes book. what seems to have worked for us we ran through the automatic gears while the car was running in the driveway and then we lightly hit the top of the cluster a few times. the gauge cluster started working. it has been a little over a week and the clusters are still working. we took a 6 hour trip in the caravan this past weekend and the clusters are still working for your information before we decided to run through all the automatic gears we tried steps that had workded for us in the past when the gauges stopped working but these steps did not seem to work for us this time 1. we disconnected the battery for about 15 minutes. 2. we took out that little red fuse in the fuse box under the hood for a .
From : michael marton
on tue 26 oct 2004 143620 gmt budd cochran mr-d150@citlinkspam.net wrote snipity snip maybe budd is just hard up for the machine that i keep reading about in this ng hmmm.. budd and a session with the machine nah im not going to touch that.vbg i am pretty sure that the machine is out west. i sorta hope it finds its way to denny soon. maybe red or mac can help out how about it bro bfg roy .
From : k vandehei
mopaman wrote are you sure you werent snipe hunting instead. i went snipe hunting once. turns out that after decades of wreckless uncontrolled snipe hunting there werent any left. after that i used the hunting bag as a pillow case instead. weve got millions left in texas our snipes are allot bigger and prolly require more of a 55 gallon drum rather than a pillow case. them bastards can eat thru cotton like john holmes thru a pair of panty hose. -- moparman---remove clothes to reply! --scud coordinates 32.61204 north 96.92993 west-- .
From : tom lawrence
thanks for the quick response. what is the fix if this is the prob not real mechanically inclined! on sun 24 oct 2004 170843 -0400 maxpower gjbeasley@comcast.net wrote the most common problem for this vehicle was the jumper harness that connects the rear senors its about a 2 foot long wire......normally high resisitance or open circuit hey gang we have a 89 dodge dakota pu with ati-lock brakes. released the parking brake yesterday and the brake and anti-lock warning lights stayed on. plenty of fluid and rear brake were just install about 4 mo. ago shade tree mech. no brake noise or failers as of yet. the parking brake is set everytime its not being used. are there some command causes of this can i drive it some .