Texas to NC area

From : carolina watercraft works inc

Q: on sun 21 nov 2004 154605 -0600 mike simmons mikesim@fidnet.com wrote snip most of the stations here in this neck of the woods automatically switch to a winter blend around december 1st and keep it til around march. as a precaution though i use stanadyne performance formula just in case. in fact i run it year round for the extra lubricity and the water mitigation. i have done this since new and have yet to get a drop of water from the separator in 33k miles so either i buy good fuel or the stuff works! mike or both.... .

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From : nosey

james evans wrote i just picke up a new 05 quad cab 4x4 dakota on 11/15. so far i love the truck with only a couple of bugs noticed so far. several times so far the center instrument cluster indicaters have gone haywire. the speedometer quits moving the odometer quits going up and the abs and brake lights come on. i can come to a stop and my speedometer stays at some spot like 45 mph. i can turn the truck off and the needle goes to 0. when i turn it back on it jumps back up to 45 and stays there. at some point later i will look down and it will be working properly. very strange. the other thing is i cant figure out the dash light dimmer switch control. if i put the headlights on auto the dash and radio lights get very dark unless i turn the control up almost to the point where the dome light comes on and then the controls jump to the brightest setting. this dial works the way i would expect if the lights are not on auto. also very strange. i was just wondering if anyone else has noticed either of these issues. i plan on getting my first oil change at 1000 miles and will have the dealer go over it then. thanks james the abs and speedometer problems are probably due to a speed sensor problem. it might just be a loose wire. the sensor is located at the top of the rear differential. check it for a bad electrical connection. .

From : nosey

another point not mentioned in the other replies is the fact that when the pt pump injection was replaced with the common rail is when the noise really went down and i believe that was the 2002 year. steve looking at 1 ton dodge trucks to pull a 5th wheel 1.- what years were the 12 valve diesel produced. 2.- other than the engine noise what are the good and or bad of the 12 valve verses the 24 valve 3.- were they all turbo thank you for your time. -= mike =- .

From : carolina watercraft works inc

check this website to figure out wind chill http//www.msc.ec.gc.ca/education/windchill/windchillcalculatore.cfm kamod.8447$pk6.4753@read2..atl.earthlink.net tom lawrence tnloaswpraemnmcien5g@earthlink.net wrote wind chill pertains to anything exposed to the elements since steal cast iron and most any other metal you care to mention will conduct cold just as well as heat. no... wind chill is a term used to describe how cold it will feel to a human because of the moisture in our skin. the wind causes the moisture to evaporate more quickly thus extracting more heat from the skin thus making it feel colder. in essence the wind chill factor is an attempt to express the amount of heat loss a person will experience. +20f with 10kt winds resulting in a wind chill of -2f will cause roughly the same amount of heat loss as a calm day at -2f. of course the relative humidity also plays into this since air with less humidity can accept evaporated moisture more readily than air with a higher relative humidity. the same concept applies to heat indexes in the summer time... humid air is less accepting of evaporative moisture than dry air so the more humid the air is the hotter it feels... because the amount of heat given up by a human on a 95f day with 80%rh will be less than on a 100f day with 60%rh. steel cast iron or just about any other metal aside from radioactive materials generate no heat themselves and have no moisture content - therefore no evaporation can occur thereby making their temperature unaffected by wind and humidity. however - if heated beyond ambient temperature they will cool off quicker when exposed to wind than they would in stagnant air... simply because you are removing the warmer air from around them introducing cooler air which can absorb more heat... but the temperature of the steel will never drop below the ambient temperature of the air. .