PING T Bone
From : redneck tookover hell
Q: at 10am still more than 7 hours before kickoff the lines are already beginning to grow. however the stadium is open and ticket holders are being allowed in. i imagine the guy from san diego who has managed crash every superbowl game with out a ticket is already inside politics the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich. .
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From : roydenny
i will try that. shearer331@earthlink.net posted here is the situation i have a 98 4 cylinder dakota. actually my wife does. well i go to check the oil the other day and find oil on the underside of the hood and all over the passenger side of the engine. i check the oil and find nothing but a chocolate milkshake substance all the way up to the dipstick opening. first thought was blown headgasket but i have no clue how that would happen. the truck has never overheated no detrimental running issues no smoking the coolant is perfect. someone told me to watch out for a cracked head but they dont just crack for no reason. any clues. i dont have the time to tear this motor apart 2 car-2 job family. any one hear of this happening or care to shed some light here thanks ken it *might* not be as grim as youre imagining. i had the same thing happen to a older camaro. changed oil and would turn to a tan froth pdq. first thought i had was plugged pcv valve but no such luck. hose connected and blew clear. compression and rad. pressure test ok. eventually found the underside of the pcv hose had become gooey-soft and was collapsing like a letter c under the slightest vacuum. new hose one more oil change and everything was back to normal. .
From : tbone
on sat 31 jan 2004 192320 gmt denny wddodge@woh.rr.com wrote im going to acquire a laptop shut up roy in the near future to keep at my box to read the service cds. i was looking at some of the factory reconditioned ones at www.overstock.com. am i doing something really stupid by getting one from there the prices seem good and most have a two year warranty. pro/cons anybody. thanks and to the group smart-asses they do not give discounts to people wearing bunny suits. denny denny... i took a quick look at their systems... i think you could do as well or better on a new but stripped down entry level laptop or note book at gateway.com just dont look at the latest & fastest you dont need it for what youll be using it for... mac im not sure what i really need to do this. im not planning to use it for anything other that reading the service cds. 2004 is the last year that dc is offering paper manuals so i might as well get something to keep at my box. brand name is not important as long as it works maybe something in the 800-900 mhz and a 20 g hard drive just to look at the cd would work. i may hook a printer up at a later date if needed. do you guys think this would work or do i need something else denny .
From : redneck tookover hell
go pats !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! roy .
From : mike simmons
got one for my 01. best $100 ive spent on the truck yet. yonzie wrote today in the mail i got my 03 dodge truck service manual. theres a lot of good info in there. well worth the $100. dale .
From : beekeep
tbone fatchance@noway.now wrote in bryan swadener wrote also both are ...the american people are now conditioned to front-wheel drive and its superior handling in snow and ice... fwd gained popularity with automobile manufacturers due to ease of cheaper design and manufacturing; madison avenue sold it to america. it isnt better -- its just a *different* can of worms. just my observation and experience. a fwd vehicle certainly isnt easier to design or cheaper to build is it stuffing transmission and engine together then somehow bending drivetrain to the front wheels as well as addition of cv joints doesnt seem cheaper to me. i think he meant that it was easier to meet design criteria that stipulated in the late 70s that newer cars would have similar interior dimensions w/ much smaller exterior dimensions. with fwd packaging this was accomplished by removing the transmission hump and differential which was exemplified in the hatchbacks that were common then. the cars were also much lighter w/ smaller driveshafts and smaller differential. and fwd vehicles *do* have better winter traction. at least better than what the vehicle would have if the drive wheels were astern. whether that traction is good enough or not is another issue. i used to have a rwd car w/ posi and studded snow tires not all-season. id put that car up against any common fwd car in snowy/icy conditions. ;- and if the driver of the fwd car had any skill at all you would lose. nonsense. when fwd slips you lose both traction and steering. not so with rwd. with two equal drivers the rwd car with a bit of extra weight in the rear will be better in snow. joe black 03 dakota 5.9 r/t cc calypso green 93 mustang 5.0 lx hatch with a few goodies .
From : redneck tookover hell
chris oc indicates an open circuit either in the wiring or the sensor itself. check the wiring and sensor with an ohmmeter to find the source of the problem. hope this helps! chryco service manager member sae greetings yall ive got a 1998 durango with the digital readout for temp gas mileage etc over the rear-view mirror. recently the weather has been sub- freezing for the last few weeks and when i turned on the truck one morning the compass was accurate but the temp part showed oc in the leds. not zero celcuis oc in the digits nothing in the c/f degrees area. the rest of the computer works fine. any ideas what to do or what caused it ive tried holding both buttons and resetting it to no avail. any help would be great. -- chris http//www.choxnpinz.com remove caps from e-mail address to reply .
From : mike simmons
bryan swadener wrote also both are ...the american people are now conditioned to front-wheel drive and its superior handling in snow and ice... fwd gained popularity with automobile manufacturers due to ease of cheaper design and manufacturing; madison avenue sold it to america. it isnt better -- its just a *different* can of worms. just my observation and experience. a fwd vehicle certainly isnt easier to design or cheaper to build is it stuffing transmission and engine together then somehow bending drivetrain to the front wheels as well as addition of cv joints doesnt seem cheaper to me. and fwd vehicles *do* have better winter traction. at least better than what the vehicle would have if the drive wheels were astern. whether that traction is good enough or not is another issue. smh fwd cars have fewer components to design/manufature -- transaxle vs transmission + differential assemblies. that makes it cheaper & easier to design and assemble. gm tried fwd w/ the cadillac eldorado buick riviera and olds toronado -- but from what ive heard they hadnt figured out the torque-steer and the public didnt flock to the dealers to buy them. my ski-mobile is a 76 arrow 5 speed rwd and two sets of tires/wheels. for winter driving im throw the studded tires on chain up a pair of the regular tires/wheels & toss em under the rear hatch. the chained tires/wheels add ballast making it just a tad heavier in the rear. ill typically drive 300 miles roundtrip per ski day... over 4061 stevens pass thru wenatchee and up to the ski area at mission ridge 4570... and back. i do this an average of 8 times/year for the last dozen years. i *rarely* have traction problems and even rarer -- need to chain up which takes only a few minutes and no kneeling-down in the snow. ;- with rwd and a stickshift *if* it gets loose i just back out of the throttle and the car straightens out. with fwd if you get loose typically your only option is to *accelerate* out of the slide assuming the front end isnt sliding. if driving a fwd car youd think you can use the parking brake to straighten out of a slide but all the ones ive seen have the parking brake on the front wheels - making that useless. yes fwd cars have the potential to go up slick hills better. but at some time youll need to go down the hill -- and i wouldnt feel as safe in a fwd car as in a rwd car. my $.02 worth. bryan .
From : mac davis
they are on there roofs because they can take off so easily in the snow. a rwd car lets you know real quick when you are pushing it too hard in the snow and usually long before you reach speeds that you cannot possibly regain control. fwd cars tend to hide how slippery the roads are and allow you to regain control by pressing harder on the gas until you push them to speeds beyond what they can handle and then........ f l i p. i see a lot of 4x4 suvs in the ditch and not always on their wheels in the snow for the same reason and they have better traction than either fwd or rwd. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving tbone wrote bullshit. when a fwd slips a light touch of the gass usually gets it right back. when a rwd loses traction in the front your sol and better pray that nothing else is around. when they lose traction in the rear at best nothing happens but usually the front and rear of the car exchange positions and again you better pray that nothing else is around. then there is the fun of deep snow where the front wheels plow in and get a rwd hopelessly stuck. while a rwd car can be made better in the snow with the help of studded tires and more weight in the rear a fwd is still better and doesnt require modification or pre-planning. i have owned nothing but rwd cars all of my life but when my furnace failed at the end of a blizzard and i needed to get parts for it my wifes little fwd honda civic got me there where my rwd trans-am couldnt even get out of my drive way and i knew better than to even try. think im going to have to add my voice to the chorus of agreement with you on this. actually the best rwd snow car i ever owned was a vw beetle. the larger sized wheels rear engine with fairly low cg over drive wheels and rear engine weight adding to rw traction when climbing moderate vehicle height and a mostly sealed underside made for a much more competent off road/snow vehicle than one would have thought. there is the argument about fwd torque induced sliding but i really think its minimal compared with what you gain. weight over the drive wheels that a rwd simply cant match. im assuming tire type and tread is constant in any comparison; tires will have profound effect on traction probably above and beyond fwd/rwd config. people like rwd for dry road traction during acceleration but im not talking about that context. fwd is better for snow traction in my experience and in most everything ive read. well will one of you folks please explain to me why it is that these supposedly super traction fwd cars are on their roof as regularly as they are roy .