Warning........Dakota ball joints
From : justme
Q: billy wrote the ac on my 96 dakota sport stopped working due to a leaking core about 2 years ago. i bought some sealer to try but the instructions call for the compressor to be running on full when i put the stuff in. how can i do this when the compressor wont run due to no pressure in the lines also is there anything else i need to do being its been out of service for so long please respond to email address also. thanks for any help/advice. bill that fact that the system has been dead for a while and has a bad seal too i woul have the seal repaired and the system evacuated and recharged. it need to be vacumed down anyway becuae it has been open for so long it may have air and moisture in it too. no quick fix here sorry. -- posted using the http//www.autoforumz.com interface at authors request articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards topic url http//www.autoforumz.com/dodge-dakota-heat-ac-ftopict128239.html visit topic url to contact author reg. reqd. report abuse http//www.autoforumz.com/eform.phpp=625366 .
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From : tom lawrence
tbone wrote no the dealer fixed it dc screwed it up. dc 0 dealer 1 no dc fixed the problem. dealer only supplies the labor and was authorized and paid by dc. dc also caused the problem so in that case it would be dc -1 then dc +1 which = dc 0 random failures are usually caused by reduced quality controls that were corrected by the dealer. dc 0 dealer 2 dc fixed the problem. see above. ditto and the point is not what dc fixes but the level of quality that caused it to begin with. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
From : justme
cmon maxy.........lets play some more.........im just getting warmed up. hehehehe maybe ill track you down and run your ass over with my big bad dodge........if it can make that far. yeah.......thats right im gonna track you down you wuss. good luck to you. when you hear the breach of a 30-.06 close youll probably have gotten too close for your comfort. -- 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. cmon maxy.........lets play some more.........im just getting warmed up. hehehehe maybe ill track you down and run your ass over with my big bad dodge........if it can make that far. yeah.......thats right im gonna track you down you wuss. .
From : langerhans
lemoncoke wrote not sure how it is hooked up had it done at a tranny shop. kind easy to figure out. when car is warm. feel the two lines from tranny near radiator carefully one will be a lot hotter than the other. the hottest one should be hooked to raditor cooler and the coolest one should be hooked to return from aux cooler. if it is not yor are losing cooling performance. not enough to cure your problem but enough to help it some. .
From : max dodge
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From : johnny thunder johnny
when you hear the breach of a 30-.06 close youll probably have gotten too or a .30-06 - but whos being picky .
From : justme
justme wrote im not trying to tell you anything im sure you know it all. im trying to save some poor sucker from the nightmare ive been through with this dodge junk that you seem to be in love with. inbred moron. i got $200 from daimler chrysler for the ball joint replacement on my 2002 dodge dakota lemon. jam .
From : max dodge
just a quickie but check the check the combination flasher in the junction block. left end of dash. probably need to open the drivers door and it is behind a panel that has a corner that is 45 degrees. or the fuse 10 10 amp above and to the right. bob az .
From : roy
or a .30-06 - but whos being picky yeah goes boom either way lol -- 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. when you hear the breach of a 30-.06 close youll probably have gotten too or a .30-06 - but whos being picky .
From : denny
hemidude03 @webtv.net says... well it looks like geekboy doesnt now what he is taking about and doesnt know much about trucks in general. he uses big words that he must have read in a dodge owners magazine and now all of the sudden he thinks hes a mechanical genious. i have owned trucks from the big 3 dodge ford and chevy.... my opinion the chevy trucks are the best all around yes i admit that the styling is getting a littledated but i still think they have the other two beat. ford i have nothing aginst but my opinion if you are gonna buy a big truck look a like just buy the f-250 and have it over with i like the new ford body style better than the last feminine looking 1997 to 2004 trucks. but thats not saying much. but as far as fuel economy goes the bulky ford is nick n tuck with the dodge. chevy= better performance fuel economy and bang for your buck in my opinion. i have a hemi and its claim of 345 hp....is a joke.....i bet if you put it on a dyno it wouldnt hit 150 hp. poor fuel economy with sucky performance.. i think the dodge designers need to go back to school. html body bgcolor=blacktext=white p align=center embed img src=http//www.angelfire.com/rock/cooper/skyline.gif /body /html well my supposedly weak hemi stomps all over my last truck a 295 hp sierra z71 ext cab with 3.73 gears. the ram weighs about 400 pounds more and beats it by at least .25 seconds in a drag race. launching it is very difficult as the rear bounces around or it smokes the hell out of the tires. the gm trucks have the trans and computer set up so that wheelspin is pretty difficult. just punch it and go.. its much stronger than the gm 5.3 and they arent bad. i would take a 5.3 over the 5.9 dodge any day and i owned three vehicles with them. you must not have driven an f150 yet now thats on the weak side. wait a second. i had a f-150 and it was damn quick. it did say lightning on the front fenders though.g well now thats a little different. a neighbor bought a new 04 f150 almost the day they came out and its slow. the 5.4 is not all that great. we traded trucks one morning and he really liked mine. i liked his too it was just..slow. they are a little anemic. but they seem to last. unless they blow a spark plug out of the head. i dont really understand whats going on to make it do that. that was a problem that was corrected in the 03-04 truck. as i understand it the added more threads to the head it must have been a very weak thread to pop on a non turbo/sc engine. but having seen the dreaded pinto pointy bolts facing the fuel tank setup myself nothing ford does should shock me much. . most hemis dyno at about 260-275 at the rear wheels and that means 345 hp is about right. if the hemi had the nissan titans trans set up you would be amazed.. so the hemi has 20 more hp that the 05 cummins 610 hp yeah but a lot less torque and torque is what makes the wheels go round... i had a 79 trans am with the olds 403 in it. stock it was weak but after a cam kit headers intake heads ported 455 ones and a recurved distributor it was a torque junkies dream car. it had throttle response unlike anything i have ever had before or since. another insane thing was the gears it had stock it had a 2.41 posi! after the engine work i could smoke the tires as long as i wanted to and after i found a disc braked rear from another car with 3.23 it was amazing as long as you were very light footed or the tires spun. mileage wasnt bad 14 around town and almost 20 on the highway. it was a very scary car to drive when it was raining i got it out of shape a couple of times just by getting on the gas a touch too much. some of it was the 70 sized tires but the speed it ran on the top end of the drag strip showed it was doing fine in the power department. but that throttle hit...my mother drove it once and it scared the crap out of her! that was the point i was trying to make further down in this thread. that the torque prduced by my 05 610 with 410s requires a light touch of go pedal on dry roads and in the wet a very very light touch. i havent driven one since 00 or maybe 99 and there was enough turbo lag that spinning them accidentally wasnt much of a risk. i stupidly sold it and still miss it. it was totally reliable except for a mysterious case of vapor lock hot weather surging and popping that turned out to be a corked up fuel line. when they started putting injector cleaner in the gas it solved it after a year + of trying to cure it and a lot of $$$$. i know the feeling the cars we never should have sold. i guess for me it would be a toss up. many many years ago a 69 camaro with a 427 in it. had 433s in it the torque was about unmanageble. made for a hell of a street racer though. recently a vette z06. i guess the z06 was more practical in that you could do more with it but for pure rush id have
From : mike simmons
tbone wrote no the dealer fixed it dc screwed it up. dc 0 dealer 1 no dc fixed the problem. dealer only supplies the labor and was authorized and paid by dc. random failures are usually caused by reduced quality controls that were corrected by the dealer. dc 0 dealer 2 dc fixed the problem. see above. .
From : justme
now you are posting well known info which dc has addressed as of december 2004. what exactly are you hoping to achieve by telling us what we already know -- max leave him be max. if no one responds to his childishness he will soon tire of this and go elsewhere for entertainment. mike or you could call him into your office....... please..... vbg denny .
From : max dodge
now you are posting well known info which dc has addressed as of december 2004. what exactly are you hoping to achieve by telling us what we already know -- max leave him be max. if no one responds to his childishness he will soon tire of this and go elsewhere for entertainment. mike 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. http//www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/complain/results.cfm .
From : justme
im not trying to tell you anything im sure you know it all. im trying to save some poor sucker from the nightmare ive been through with this dodge junk that you seem to be in love with. inbred moron. .
From : justme
now you are posting well known info which dc has addressed as of december 2004. what exactly are you hoping to achieve by telling us what we already know -- 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. http//www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/complain/results.cfm .
From : max dodge
i supposed you figure the fucking twit service manager should have had his secretary blow you while you waited for the truck i kinda like this idea. takes customer service to a whole new level. hell it may even get more work in the shop. denny yeah and if she is outta practice she could practice on the sm..... yeah! thats what i need... a middle aged about 18 secretary! ^ you could also use it to spif the techs. like when one of them has a really sticky problem they spend 5 hrs to fix warrenty pays 3ths so instead of helping the tech out with some training time you could just invite him into your office..... mike ps hope she likes heated leather seats! real women dont need heated leather seats....... bg denny .
From : max dodge
a tbi spacer is not like putting a taranula intake on your engine with a open phlenum under all bores which by the whay does well above 3500 rpm or so with the correct carb because i have used them. the tbi spacer allows a little more precharge room under the tbi for better flow resposce to flow requests and the two planes of the manifold are still seperated too for good throttle responce ok ill repeat myself. tb systems do not depend on vacuum signal like carbed engines do since the fuel is introduced by a different means. furthermore more airmass does not allow a quicker response since the maf is not inside the intake but is upstream considerably. thus it does not register the flow as quickly when put further from the vacuum source. -- 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. max dodge wrote which is where you go into the woods. a larger airmass below the tb or carb kills the sharpness of signal in reality its the accuracy of the vacuum drop. if its muted as it would be wih a large airmass the carb is slow to respond in allowing more fuel into the stream a throttle body system doesnt have this sensitivity because you are no longer depending on vacuum alone to induce fuel flow. a tbi spacer is not like putting a taranula intake on your engine with a open phlenum under all bores which by the whay does well above 3500 rpm or so with the correct carb because i have used them. the tbi spacer allows a little more precharge room under the tbi for better flow resposce to flow requests and the two planes of the manifold are still seperated too for good throttle responce max dodge wrote and you are completely wrong here. better flow depends on two things 1 smooth passageways and 2 larger pressure/vacuum differential between orifice tb and container cylinder. if you drop the difference to nil no flow is the result and the engine will stall. hint vacuum leaks are a bad thing smooth passageways can be a bust for low end to mid range responce with a carb or tbi because some roughness and turbulance is needed for good mixing and atomization of fuel for a better burn. porting can help top end but it can murder it too if not done properly. and again the larger phlenum allow for less pressure drop because of more precharge volume that is avaible under the tbi unit. flow through a tbi of carb is not constant it is a series of pulses that increase in frequency as rpm increases and the phlenum smooths thes pulses out a bit because it allows the velocity and mass of the air to continue flow into eare under tbi/carb a few milliseconds longer at impluse minimum precharge the enlarger phlenum while waiting for the next intake pulse cycle from a cylinder. as rpm increase the mass of the air and its velocity can because a factor in ramming the mixture into phlenum for next cycle. -- posted using the http//www.autoforumz.com interface at authors request articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards topic url http//www.autoforumz.com/dodge-tb-tb-spacer-ftopict128035.html visit topic url to contact author reg. reqd. report abuse http//www.autoforumz.com/eform.phpp=625511 .