Rebuilt my 1998 Dodge Ram 1500 Transmission.......Having Problems !

From : wesley r via carkb com

Q: open up one of the doors and see if the wiring is there if so find a control switch and a pair of pwoer mirrors and plug em in they told me that they do not make one. they said that i may be able to find an aftermarket kit or find a company that has/does it. they mentioned jc whitney but i could not find anything there... thank you .....----===*chris... .

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From : max dodge

the op stated he had a 90 3.9l engine. iirc this motor used the barrel shaped intake manifold. if you take this manifold off and take the bottom plate off youll see that as the air comes thru the t/b it enters a chamber roughly the size of a gallon milk jug. the intake runners start at the bottom of this cavern and go up and over the top of the manifold to the opposite bank of cyls. i fail to see how adding a half inch spacer at the top of this cavern would make didly squat difference in the airflow thru the manifold. i could see how a spacer could work on a single or double plane manifold but this bingo. -- max give a man a match and he is warm for a short while. light him on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life. no they are not the same thing. the tb or throttle body controls the amount of air entering the intake manifold. yup. a tb spacer fits between the throttle body and the manifold with the idea of smoothing out the airflow perhaps but more likely its to add length to the intake tract in an effort to get more low end torque. not that it always works thta way. smoothing air flow by adding a second mating point seems a bit odd. better idea is to use something that will produce laminar air flow which could be added with the spacer but usually is not. into the intake for better fuel atomization and allowing more air to get into the cylinders. atomization perhaps yes. more air into the cylinders nope. as you just said the tb regulates that not the spacer. while the tb regulates air flow that flow is ultimately limited by the efficiency of the intake system as well. the spacer as you said increases the length which should but not always increase air speed and reduce turbulence which should get more air into the cylinders. why do you think that they are said to increase lower end torque debatable or not the op stated he had a 90 3.9l engine. iirc this motor used the barrel shaped intake manifold. if you take this manifold off and take the bottom plate off youll see that as the air comes thru the t/b it enters a chamber roughly the size of a gallon milk jug. the intake runners start at the bottom of this cavern and go up and over the top of the manifold to the opposite bank of cyls. i fail to see how adding a half inch spacer at the top of this cavern would make didly squat difference in the airflow thru the manifold. i could see how a spacer could work on a single or double plane manifold but this take a look at hughesengines.com and read how they modify the manifold for higher flow. notice they dont sell spacers but they do sell other performance enhancing items. this tells me they probably know more about these engines than j.c. whitney. denny .

From : tbone

on sat 09 jul 2005 014038 gmt tbone t-bonenospam@nc.rr.com wrote it sounds exactly like a bad connection causing your problems. thank you tbone. i -- .

From : sillysam

i am soooooo glad that i got the 5 speed. too bad that even there they used an underrated transmission. anything to save a buck i guess. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving my 2000 dodge ram 1500 has a similar problem.shifts from 1st to 2nd ok. bangs into 3rd wont shift into 4th until 55 mph. shottenkirh dodge in quincy il. worked on it for 3 months and gave it back and said they couldnt fix the problem. little jess dodge in edina had it for 6 weeks and gave it back in the same condition. good luck on yours. i just live with it. when it shifts out of 2nd it quits pulling...like its in neutral.....but if you hold the gas to the floor then itll shift ..but when you let up it wont kick into overdrive.......when you first put it in gear ..it pulls but it dont shift until you hit a high rpm........has anyone else had a problem like this................id appreciate any advice ...ive been working on this for 2 days............thanks and god bless.. .