Ping: DENNY... abs sensor
From : mac davis
Q: got it changed at last! first they gave me the wrong one the transmission one... then they didnt have the right one... got a refund after 2 days.. checked every place around most places listed the rear sensor but couldnt get it... no longer in stock.. unavailable etc.. broke down and had a friend in a tire store buy it from the dealer for $40... the only gave him 20% off... he was going to put it on the rack and change it but got busy so i decided to do it myself.... got the printouts of your emails and jacked the back end up etc... what a bitch! i couldnt get the thing very high with my lil floor jack and stands but enough to get under the truck and play with it... couldnt get the nut to break loose and the whole brake cable assembly or whatever kept trying to turn... sucker was really rusted on.. i knew from looking at the new part that the nut had to be on a bolt running through the sheet metal knuckle buster around the thing but couldnt get a line of sight and couldnt even find the sucker by touch.. gave up after about an hour and put the tools away... im too old and fat for this shit... i knew that if i kept messing with it id break or bend something and be buying more parts.. got the one gas station in the area that actually has a mechanic there to put it on the rack... he looked at it and asked how the hell i even got to the bolt without a lift/rack... it took him 15 min. a lot of penetrating oil and 2 skinned knuckles to break the sucker loose.... about 30 seconds to put the new part on... he didnt want to charge me so i gave him $20 and told him to have a good lunch.. my gut feeling is that cryco hired a consulting team to determine the worst possible place and direction to mount the sensor in... the gas station guy agreed.. lol thanks again wabbit... i appreciate the help part number etc... mac https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/woodstuff.htm .
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From : denny
think about it roy. because there is some resistance in the stock exhaust manifold along with the cc and factory exhaust the exhaust valve timing has been set up to not only deal with it but to try and take advantage of it. take advantage of exhaust back pressure um ok.... exactly how would you go about that i mean you claim i dont know so go ahead and explain why something trying to stifle the exhaust stroke is a good idea. if you then radically change those flow characteristics do you not think that the valve timing will now be incorrect. no i dont. on the 99-01 magnums the exhaust valve is open longer because of the need to wait for back pressure to dissapate but headers wont make that any worse... in fact the longer event duration would be even more of an advantage. these are not engines from the late 70s and 80s. no they arent but lets see.... 2000 360 int./exh. duration 249/269 1973 360 int./exh. duration 252/256 http//www.dodgeram.org/tech/gas/specs/valve-59.htm 2000 specs from link 1973 specs from fsm would you like a jpg of the specs page remarkably the same maybe a bit more duration for the new motor but... 1973 340 int./exh. duration 268/276 not all that much more than a factory performance cam from 1973. http//www.dodgeram.org/tech/gas/specs/59v8.htm 2000 360 lift .410 1973 360 lift .410 wow the same. so your theory of huge differences in camshafts from one era to the next is shot to hell. these engines are now computer designed to operate at peak efficiency within a given rpm range with the emission controls and components that they are now using unlike engines of the past that were set up by manual flow tests and trial and error from race engines to run with minimum back pressure that were then buried under restrictive emission controls virtually unchanged due to the big three sitting on their hands to the last possible minute hoping the epa would back down. more rubbish. see the new exhaust systems have less back pressure so this worry you have about headers on a new vehicle in comparison to an old one is pure crap. the headers on the new truck would do less to alter the overall backpressure than the same headers on an old truck which would see a significant improvement. you have yet to mention the primary effect of headers and why they work so well compared to manifolds. no surprise there since you seem to be obsessed with backpressure. now in a perfect world such as maxworld there would be no such things effecting exhaust and intake flow such as mass inertia compression expansion and resistance but we do not live in that world. i would say that they open the exhaust valve a little sooner you would say that since you have no clue. fact is the new cam opens the exhaust valve four degrees later not sooner. it closes the exahust valve a whopping 17 degrees later. in this case headers would create a suction effect that you have yet to discuss but that is why headers are so much better and the later exhaust valve closing on the new engine would be a great way to take advantage of headers. to allow more time for the exhaust gasses to escape while using the existing back pressure and resistance of the stock manifold to prevent thermal expansion loss. more bullshit. thermal expansion loss great in theory except that with the before bottom dead center opening of the exhaust valve a loss of thermal expansion already happens on 99% of engines desgined for automotive use. now why would they do that well its because of the backpressure..... its to counter act it. that thermal expansion creates a pressure wave that helps to suck the cylinder out. high pressure wave followed by low pressure zone scavenges the cylinder. headers take advantage of that too. how well if you knew about tri y and equal length tubes youd know already. ill explain it after you make an ass of yourself again the guys that know about it are already laughing at you. suffice to say that less backpressure is a good thing because it fights less with the thermal expansion and scavenging. if you then remove a significant amount of that back pressure you would have that valve opening to soon and blowing some of what should be developing power right out of the exhaust. yeah except that most of the old cams opened sooner than the new ones and you are ok with headers on an old engine. if your theory were really true youd be claiming headers on an old engine were a worse idea than a new one. last i suggest you read anything by david vizard a noted expert on engine building. i point to him because his books are numerous his writing easy to follow and his facts succinct. his comments on why headers or any mod on a computer controlled engine is something to do with some care have nothing to do with camshaft and everything to do with ecm ability. headers may lean out an eng
From : fmb
my god!!! its been how long since we talked about that months maybe even a year i forgot all about it.. but..... glad it worked.. my bill is in the mail.. got it changed at last! snip ... im too old and fat now if only a few other select group members would admit this....... vbg denny gotta be there to admit it. im fighting it. im wining by a couple pounds at a time. there is about 15# less of me than when mac saw me last year but still a year older... and you fmb .
From : denny
my god!!! its been how long since we talked about that months maybe even a year i forgot all about it.. but..... glad it worked.. my bill is in the mail.. got it changed at last! snip ... im too old and fat now if only a few other select group members would admit this....... vbg denny gotta be there to admit it. im fighting it. im wining by a couple pounds at a time. there is about 15# less of me than when mac saw me last year but still a year older... and you fmb last christmas i was about 225 this am i tipped the scales at 196 but next month i turn the big 5-0. getting old sucks... denny .
From : fmb
my god!!! its been how long since we talked about that months maybe even a year i forgot all about it.. but..... glad it worked.. my bill is in the mail.. got it changed at last! snip ... im too old and fat now if only a few other select group members would admit this....... vbg denny gotta be there to admit it. im fighting it. im wining by a couple pounds at a time. there is about 15# less of me than when mac saw me last year but still a year older... and you fmb last christmas i was about 225 this am i tipped the scales at 196 but next month i turn the big 5-0. getting old sucks... denny what really sucks is some of you old fat guys are younger and smaller than me. at least i dont wear a pink bunny suit though. fmb .
From : roy
my god!!! its been how long since we talked about that months maybe even a year i forgot all about it.. but..... glad it worked.. my bill is in the mail.. got it changed at last! snip ... im too old and fat now if only a few other select group members would admit this....... vbg denny gotta be there to admit it. im fighting it. im wining by a couple pounds at a time. there is about 15# less of me than when mac saw me last year but still a year older... and you fmb last christmas i was about 225 this am i tipped the scales at 196 hey wide ride! next time ya weigh yourself put both feet on the scale!!bfg but next month i turn the big 5-0. getting old sucks... the big 50 is the new belt size vbg i had to ya know the rules. roy denny .
From : roy
my god!!! its been how long since we talked about that months maybe even a year i forgot all about it.. but..... glad it worked.. my bill is in the mail.. got it changed at last! snip ... im too old and fat now if only a few other select group members would admit this....... vbg denny gotta be there to admit it. im fighting it. im wining by a couple pounds at a time. there is about 15# less of me than when mac saw me last year but still a year older... and you fmb last christmas i was about 225 this am i tipped the scales at 196 but next month i turn the big 5-0. getting old sucks... denny what really sucks is some of you old fat guys are younger thats good to hear. and smaller than me. at least i dont wear a pink bunny suit though. so you say.g roy fmb .
From : mac davis
on mon 17 jul 2006 223953 gmt denny wddodge@woh.rr.com wrote my god!!! its been how long since we talked about that months maybe even a year i forgot all about it.. but..... glad it worked.. my bill is in the mail.. yep.. been about 5 months.... it took 2 months for the back ordered part to get shipped to me and it was the wrong sensor..... then the procrastination factor since the brake and abs light were on but everything speedo/cruise/etc worked fine... mac https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/woodstuff.htm .
From : mac davis
on tue 18 jul 2006 100600 gmt denny wddodge@woh.rr.com wrote last christmas i was about 225 this am i tipped the scales at 196 but next month i turn the big 5-0. getting old sucks... denny yeah... and gravity is not our friend.... mac https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/woodstuff.htm .
From : mac davis
on tue 18 jul 2006 130351 gmt fmb fmbb@sbcglobal.net wrote what really sucks is some of you old fat guys are younger and smaller than me. at least i dont wear a pink bunny suit though. fmb ok ... what color is your bunny suit mac https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/woodstuff.htm .
From : denny
i had to ya know the rules. roy yeh i know........ i kinda left the door open for that..... denny .
From : mac davis
on tue 18 jul 2006 024715 gmt fmb fmbb@sbcglobal.net wrote gotta be there to admit it. im fighting it. im wining by a couple pounds at a time. there is about 15# less of me than when mac saw me last year but still a year older... and you fmb wow i didnt realize that its been a year but youre right! you wouldnt recognize nan now.. shes about 95 pounds lighter.. started weight watchers in april of 05.. she lost a lot i found a little... it all balances out.. *g* mac https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/woodstuff.htm .
From : mac davis
on tue 18 jul 2006 090708 -0400 roy roy@home.net wrote hey wide ride! next time ya weigh yourself put both feet on the scale!!bfg hmm... i have this visual of a pink bunny weighing himself with all feet on the scale but his cotton tail propped against the wall for leverage... more coffee quick!! mac https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/woodstuff.htm .
From : fmb
on tue 18 jul 2006 024715 gmt fmb fmbb@sbcglobal.net wrote gotta be there to admit it. im fighting it. im wining by a couple pounds at a time. there is about 15# less of me than when mac saw me last year but still a year older... and you fmb wow i didnt realize that its been a year but youre right! you wouldnt recognize nan now.. shes about 95 pounds lighter.. started weight watchers in april of 05.. she lost a lot i found a little... it all balances out.. *g* mac you better watch out she is gonna disappear on ya. i could stand to loose another 40# or so see how that feels and decide from there. im 242 now and that is in my birthday suit. that is the only suit i wear no bunny suits. ill leave that for visually challanged. fmb vbg .
From : denny
on tue 18 jul 2006 090708 -0400 roy roy@home.net wrote hey wide ride! next time ya weigh yourself put both feet on the scale!!bfg hmm... i have this visual of a pink bunny weighing himself with all feet on the scale but his cotton tail propped against the wall for leverage... more coffee quick!! mac wait till you fall to sleep tonight and the dreams start......... denny .
From : mac davis
on tue 18 jul 2006 143440 gmt fmb fmbb@sbcglobal.net wrote you wouldnt recognize nan now.. shes about 95 pounds lighter.. started weight watchers in april of 05.. she lost a lot i found a little... it all balances out.. *g* mac you better watch out she is gonna disappear on ya. i could stand to loose another 40# or so see how that feels and decide from there. im 242 now and that is in my birthday suit. that is the only suit i wear no bunny suits. ill leave that for visually challanged. fmb vbg im almost afraid of losing weight now... nan had to have her gall bladder out on june 30th and her recovery has been tough.. the hospital said that the major cause of gall stones is weight loss and it seems that most of the folks that weve talked to that lost a lot of weight had to have theirs taken out.. good reason not to diet.. *g* mac https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/woodstuff.htm .
From : fmb
on tue 18 jul 2006 143440 gmt fmb fmbb@sbcglobal.net wrote you wouldnt recognize nan now.. shes about 95 pounds lighter.. started weight watchers in april of 05.. she lost a lot i found a little... it all balances out.. *g* mac you better watch out she is gonna disappear on ya. i could stand to loose another 40# or so see how that feels and decide from there. im 242 now and that is in my birthday suit. that is the only suit i wear no bunny suits. ill leave that for visually challanged. fmb vbg im almost afraid of losing weight now... nan had to have her gall bladder out on june 30th and her recovery has been tough.. the hospital said that the major cause of gall stones is weight loss and it seems that most of the folks that weve talked to that lost a lot of weight had to have theirs taken out.. good reason not to diet.. *g* mac https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis https//home.comcast.net/mac.davis/woodstuff.htm pass the taters and gravy please fmb .