Should I disable the Overdrive?
From : dennis
Q: beekeep wrote speedo is still working but both the trip meter and the odometer have stopped on my 92 dodge b250 van. anybody have any ideas beekeep probably the cable i think the speedo is electric but the meters are cable .
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From : idaspode
whenever the speedo stops working i can hit the reset knob and all at once the speedo works fine. leads me to thinking something wrong in the speedo head. trent wrote i dont know if yours is electronic speedo or not but the speedo gead is plastic and if it is chewed up it wont work .mine was half chewed up and worked sometimes. on oct 24 1255 pm brian bria...@skybest.com wrote got a 92 ram 150 5.2lauto 4x4. last week the speedometer started not reading. guys at auto zone said it was speed sensor on the tranny so i replaced it and still having trouble. its works half the time. this past week it works every morning but in the afternoon coming home it dont work but somtimes i can restart the truck and it will work. any help would be good. thanks i had a 99 and it was located on the rear axle upper side if i remember correctly .
From : chris thompson
kickbo@gmail.com says... ill have to keep an eye out for that when im test driving it. i read in another forum some guy who was like 64 and said that he found it more comfortable than some other mid-sizes though he did not list his shoe size! ; on dec 6 1145 pm carolina watercraft works coolt...@bellsouth.net wrote you do know you should take your skis off before you hop in the drivers seat right -- ------------------------------------------ laszlo almasi ----cool toys formerly carolina watercraft works ----mack daddy trailers ----ice angels i sat in one a few hours ago while my truck was being serviced. i couldnt stand one myself my size 13.5 shoes made me very uncomfortable in it. i had about 1 room between my left shoe and the brake pedal and my foot kept hitting the brake pedal when i was working the throttle. i couldnt really move my feet around and after a few minutes i was done. i kind of liked it other than that. seems like the footwell is very very small. try it out it might not bother you if youre on the smaller side. i kind of liked it except for the footwell problem. i was just looking while i waited on my truck being checked out its sucking a qt of oil every 600 miles all of a sudden. running fine no pings or check engine light or blue smoke. they checked it over and found no leaks as expected since the only thing that ever leaked out of it was power steering fluid due to the hose getting cut somehow. looked like a rock hit it to me. so now they are monitoring my oil consumption. i think its going to be a major deal rings or something. i dont know where its going its got to be burning it somewhere since the coolant is clear. the tailpipe is clean rubbing my fingers in it produces hardly anything at all. my garage floor is totally dry. i moved over to the charger srt-8 and that was more like it but damn its so ugly wtf was dc thinking when they designed it. they could have hit a home run if they made it look ok. ive heard the next charger will look a lot better but i have to see it first. a charger would be more comfortable and somewhat more practical but unless its a killer i plan on getting a challenger during the second or third year they make them. bdk my boss was thinking about one for his wife but when i told him how tight it was he crossed that one off his list. he wears size 16 shoes! i would like to see him get in one just for the laugh. bdk .
From : dennis
would you recommend running an engine flush kerosene through to clean out the sludge cleaning out the sludge might cause some oil leaks. sometimes when gaskets get old and cracked sludge creeps in there to fill the voids. when you clean the sludge out the gaskets start leaking. id leave it alone. -- ken .
From : dennis
on sat 9 dec 2006 085659 -0700 azwiley1 azwiley1@cox.net wrote what do you think that gw will do regarding the recommendations contained in the study i think he will puss out and do what ever he can at this point to make sure he does not look like a failure. he could care less about what really needs to be done he does not have the ability to do it right and he is going to fail. cy my prediction is that hell do mostly ineffective things that will continue to irritate them over there. probably right............however the american people have to take their share of the blame for this. the media coverage in this country is very liberal. not trying to sound like budd.......just sayin. the enemy knows that they can beat us in the press. look at the coverage. our us losses have been statistically very low but every single casualty appears on the front page of every paper. the president whoever it is.......repub or demo.........has to run his agenda for the papers.........not for what it right. the will of americans in general is very low. cy i see a lot of support for the troops. its the leadership whos doing ineffective nonsense. bonus question do you feel that iraq has fallen into a civil war with the exception of saddam it always has been a civil war and will be that way long after we pull out and move on. iraq will end up being just like bosnia/yugo and vietnam if we dont lobby our congressmen and senators to do what is right. how many more us service members need to die for something that we really have no reason to be involved in the war on terror ha we will not catch osama because they will not let us and even if we did the war on terror is a farse and will not end because there will always be terrorist. cy im in agreement that there will always be terrorists. however there are a few things that can be done to help. you could not be more wrong. the war on terror is very real and as i said before............americans need to realize this and develop the will to win the war on terror. yugo bosnia iraq........they are all our neighbors now. this is a very global world america is very affected by what happens in those countries. having said that......i probably agree with you that our strategy of fighting this war is pretty poorly laid out. im not sure that iraq was the head of the terrorist movement as much as bush wanted to make it an example to the others of the military ability of the us. bad move. i think iran saudi and pakistan may be where the real issues develop. im not sure that force is right way to win this war either.........certainly not as a sole strategy. but if you dont think that terrorism is a threat to the us........you are very wrong. the world has slowly been turning more extremist and terrorism is the tool of the extremists. there will always be terrorists but that is not a reason to condone it or to allow it to continue. there will always be murders too. there will always be death too. we dont just dont accept that without raising any effort to stem the tide. cy would be nice to do a few more sensible things. like do away with a lot of the gun laws in the us and do away with the patriot acts which remove freedom from the us citizens. i think that we agree that the strategy of the bush admin hasnt been good or effective and we are all skeptics when tying to hold out hope that there is a president out there somewhere who will form a solid intellignet and well prepared strategy............but that doesnt mean you throw in the towell. you just sound bitter to me larry. cy wish we could bring ronald reagan back to life. .
From : paul johnson
as the son of a photographer im not sure youre making any sense. may we have a little more detail please supposing the license plate is black letters on white plate. and so the negative is white numbers on a black plate. would that be any harder to read -- christopher a. young you cant shout down a troll. you have to starve them. .. it does work but the company only needs to reverse the negative to see the numbers on the plate. .
From : 9dodgefan
ok. after i reinstalled the plug wires with the proper convolute and routing 98% of the knock is gone. i had previously rerouted the wires per all data but i didnt have the convolute at the time. the previous owner had the wires routed all wrong. hopefully there wasnt much engine damage from premature crossfire. the oil pressure goes to the lower end of the range but within the operating range. one more thing would you recommend running an engine flush kerosene through to clean out the sludge the 5.9l has 100000 on it now and there is a littler lifter noise at higher rpms. i bought the truck with 97000 on it and when i changed the oil the first time the gauge dropped to 0 psi and the check gauges light went on and wouldnt work at idle until i replaced the oil sending unit.. it must have been a coincidence that the oil pressure sensor was bad but functioning until the new filter put increased pressure on the oil sending unit. i have read in several other forums that the dodge dakota has been known to have oil pressure problems. however it didnt really indicate which engines had the problem. it seemed the 3.9l was mentioned more than the others. i have the materials for the oil change but wanted your opinion on the flush first. thanks for making me go back and finish the wire routing with convolute. after many years working on engines i couldnt believe the wire routing would cause that much knock. it definately sounded like mechanical damage! thanks again ken! dj dj wrote from dj spirithorsenospam@adelphia.net subject 97 dodge dakota oil pressure drop when warm date wednesday december 06 2006 1230 pm 97 dodge dakota 4x4 5.2l i have been chasing this oil pressure problem around and decided to see what this group thinks. the op is 40+ when started and remains until normal operating temperature is achieved. it then drops down to 20psi or the low range on the gauge but not below the lower limit indicator. when under acceleration or load it sounds like lifter rattle. i replaced the sending unit because the old one wouldnt read the low signal and dropped the gauge to 0psi. new filter and oil 20w-50 florida and still not maintaining the pressure when normal operating temp. i read a post on a web site that explained the thrust bearing was bad which allowed a 1/8 shift in the crank position and after replacing the thrust bearing and i would expect the rest of the mains the oil pressure drop when warm disappeared. i would think that if the thrust bearing was bad that it would have the pressure problem even when the engine was cold or just warming up. i can drive it 45 55 and the pressure still remains at 40+ until it reaches n.o.t. and then drops to the lower range of the gauge 20psi. that makes me think along the lines of a viscosity problem or a pump that has worn impellers. ie. the oil remains thick enough for the pump to work at lower temperatures but as soon as the oil is hot and the viscosity drops the problem surfaces. any comments on your experiences with fixing this problem would be appreciated. remove no spam to email dj that oil pressure drop sounds normal to me. if it were mine id put 10w-30 back in it and check the pressure again. if i still had 20 psi at idle hot id be happy. the lifter rattle noise may be caused by the spark plug wire routing. try this http//autorepair.about.com/library/a/1h/bl654h.htm -- ken .
From : bob
roy wrote i think that the product is bs. but the law you reference i believe has to do with the dark plastic plate covers. the body part is probably the boot over the plate on the bike. in arizona the law simply states that no device covering the license can be used. it has exceptions for when the license is legally displayed through the back window. photo radar tickets in arizona can be beaten...sorta. the state has 120 days to serve a notice. if you ignore the letter mailed and you can avoid the server tracking you down then the ticket will be dismissed. .
From : wayne geek
speedo is still working but both the trip meter and the odometer have stopped on my 92 dodge b250 van. anybody have any ideas beekeep you need an odometer gear. try here http//www.odometergears.com/subpages/chrydod.html or http//www.odometergear.com/ -- while my e-mail address is not munged | t.postel@ieee.org i probably wont read anything sent there. | .