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From : jdl
Q: does anyone know if the hemi or diesel will be an option on the dakota next year .
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From : tom lawrence
i have a 97 dodge ram 1500 - 318 motor. i rebuilt the engine last summer and i am loosing oil. i just pulled the spark plugs and none of them are black or seem to have any oil in it. i can see no oil leaks and no oil on the ground when parked. if the oil was going out the exhaust pipe wouldnt i see evidence on the plugs anyone got any suggestions .
From : peter
tbone wrote you claimed that you only drive 15000 or so a year and so what makes you thing there should be so many with these vehicles that drive them more. what the heck does how much i drive have to do with other cars on the road try to make some sense here tbone. spinning again dude the only one not making sence here is you. the fact is the national average was 12000 a few years ago and hasnt gone up all that much since then. you are the one saying that the only people that buy them are tree huggers anyway and most tree huggers dont put high mileage in their cars to begin with as that would be wasteful. what a load of crap. you think only conservative republicans buy economy cars or hybrids geez. too funny. many buy econo cars because they commute long distances. hahahahahahaha how many conservative republican tree huggers do you know sorry miles but the type of person that would buy a hybrid vehicle when they were still very new and untested were probably not driving them 25000 miles a year. at 10000 miles a year it will take 10 years to reach that level and even at 15.000 you are still looking at around 7. then lets add in that they have really only gotten popular in the last 2 to 3 years so sorry miles it is still to soon to drop the hammer yet. tbone there are cars out there now that are only 3 years old with 100000 miles on them. yea how many excluding rental cars lets see some actual facts from you for a change. youre attempting to shoot for below or at averages. why there are some well above average mileage. you sure squirm alot even though youll deny it. once again that would be you dude. to have any significant number of these vehicles above 100000 would require many of them to be driven 30000 miles a year or more and this is simply unrealistic. do you have the exact mileage for every car for the past 3 years and their exact condition and service record my truck as just barely gotten above 100000 and it is a 97. oh boo hoo miles. it is not that the ones you call liberals dont care its that they know that you conservatives will just stay on the same course unless forced to change and you are a perfect example of it. why do you insist on spinning your own words you stated we need to keep our own oil. for what purpose because the time is going to come and sooner than you think where we the world are going to start running out and i would rather have the majority of the available supply under our control because that is the only time when it is really going to matter. we will use alot of oil for decades to come. hahahahaha at out current usage and rate of increasing consumption you are dreaming if you really think that we have decades of it left. cars arent the only thing to use oil. new technologies across all sectors arent going to drastically reduce oil consumption anytime soon hybrids or not high gas prices or not. you are correct cars are not the only things that use oil but that is where this country is wasting the most of it. i would rather us be forced to do it now while we still have oil to fall back on if things dont work unlike you who will use oil blindly until we are out and then complain that nothing was done about it. remember miles unless it is economically feasible costs you less you and those like you will do nothing. being dependent on foreign oil has nothing to do with that though. oil prices wont come down if we use our own. you say we should use others first. why are you really this dumb when the oil supply begins to run out the countries that have it are going to begin hording it for themselves and if we are not one of them then we will be screwed. i have asked this a few times and have yet to get an answer but i will ask again. what is the purpose of using all of our oil now how will doing this in any way eliminate our dependence on foreign anything http//www.ran.org/oilreport/ oh geez. you point to a biased tree hugger website for your evidence. is this the best you can do just show biased propaganda any actual reports from traditional media outlets didnt think so. i have yet to see you back up even a single thing that you have said so far even with an extreme right wing group. hell you have been backpedaling on just about everything or claiming the ridiculous to be the norm. where are your normal media reports disproving what they said. and even if i did post links to normal media you would just claim it to be the typical liberal media crap and deny its validity as you do with anything that doesnt fit within your short sighted right wing views. lol must you constantly resort to spinning. the fact is that there is tons of exploration going on already where in the usa is tons of exploratory drilling going on why does it have to be in the us because you cant find it without drilling
From : jdl
they are not pre wired but http//www.a1electric.com/ has everything you need and the job is quite easy. add the power door locks while you at it if you dont have them. i put these in mine and the work like a dream. just bolt right in to existing brackets and bolt hole locations. on wed 24 nov 2004 204330 gmt johncworden@verizon.net wrote anyone here ever tried this i am wondering if the doors are already equipped with the applicable harnesses to do this. if so it should be a farly simple job of installing the motor assemblies i assume different regulators too and the switches. and of course probably attaching some disconnected wire at the fuse box or something. i am going on the assumption that dodge like most other manufacturers finds it cheaper and easier in the end putting the same wire harness in all the dakotas rather than having multiple harnesses. any thoughts on this thanks john .
From : tbone
i had a 05 hemi durango rental for a week last month. i didnt notice any transmission noises. .
From : tom lawrence
my point was that you wouldnt say 3 cents is 50 cents more than 2 cents. you would say 3 cents is 50% more than 2 cents that is what i have been saying all along. the cents are parts of a dollar but they are presented as whole numbers and compared as a percentage of each other. i have no problem with that. when you try to compare percentages of something the % symbol expresses a portion of the whole where it is first used for the entire statment. 3 is 50% more than 2. 3% is 1% more than 2%. no saying that 3 is 50% more than 2 is imprecise instead say that 3 is fifty percent larger than 2 and yes 3 % is 1 % more than 2 % more than indicates that all numbers in a statement are in the same units; subtraction in other words larger than indicates that a comparison has been made; usually by way of a ratio .
From : tom lawrence
hd in ny wrote has anyone had a problem with the automatic used with the hemi engine by that i mean a failure of any sort. mine has a sound i can best describe as sounding like a valve opening and closing rapidly. happens when the transmission is close to a downshift but not quite ready to do so. ive been assured by the service department its common and not a cause for worry. it happens in 3rd 4th and 5th. hd in ny judging by the lack of responses i guess no one has had any failures. has anyone else experienced the same noise from this transmission then hd in ny ive got an 04 hemi automatic and i havent heard any tranny noises. sorry i couldnt be more help. ron w. .
From : tbone
my point was that you wouldnt say 3 cents is 50 cents more than 2 cents. you would say 3 cents is 50% more than 2 cents that is what i have been saying all along. the cents are parts of a dollar but they are presented as whole numbers and compared as a percentage of each other. i have no problem with that. when you try to compare percentages of something the % symbol expresses a portion of the whole where it is first used for the entire statment. 3 is 50% more than 2. 3% is 1% more than 2%. .
From : nosey
tbone wrote damn close to the paper filter only 1% less effective wrong einstein nope. paper filter at 2% k&n at 3%. 3 - 2 still equals 1 the last time i checked it out. 3-2 = 1 like i said. 3 % - 2 % = 1 % exactly!!! which means that the k&n is 1% less effective than the oem like i repeatedly said. learn to handle percentages before you make an even larger ass of yourself if thats possible lol sorry gary but it is you that needs to learn how to accurately use percentages rather that the distorted fuzzy math way you currently do. it passes 50% more dirt than an oem 0.03 / 0.02 = 1.50 so what it still only passes 1% more dirt in total volume than the oem any way that you try to spin it. who mentioned total volume the numbers you are basing your distorted calculations on are based on total volume. what you are comming up with is meaningless bs. i was talking about relative filtering ability i understand that but when you are talking about high effeciency the number that you come up with is a distorted value that really means nothing. but thats probably beyond your comprehension no i have a full comprehension on how you are trying to distort the actual capabilities of the k&n with your fuzzy math. perhaps you need to comprehend the definition of fuzzy math although i believe that you are fully aware of its meaning. and still within factory spec.. btw now you are saying 50% more when befor it was 150% more. make up your mind or at least get your english correct. you know when i have to re-phrase it so even you can understand it then its time for you to admit youre in over your head it is not a matter of re-phrasing it it is more of a matter of stating it correctly. there really is a big difference between 50% more and 150% more like a 100% difference. it really seems like with so many other times the one over his head happens to be you. btw where exactly is that clockspring it depends on the vehicle therefore a k&n passes 150 % as much as or 50 % more dirt than an oem while true it is still meaningless unless you know exactly how much the oem passes thru and once you realize that an oem lets just about nothing thru 150% of just about nothing is still just about nothing. jesus f christ taking the lords name in vain is a sin you know. must i repeat yet again the numbers that this is based upon the numbers that it is based upon are already percentages that at least have some valid nmeaning. what you are calculating has no real value. reduced to semantic flames are you perhaps ypu should look up the definition of semantics before you fire up your accusations. this is not a matter of semantics becuaes what you said is simply wrong. face up to it for a change. tell me what is incorrect about 3 % / 2 % = 150 % go ahead fermat have at it that is not what is incorrect. what was incorrect was that you said the k&n allowed 150% more dirt into the engine which is completely incorrect. while this was fun for a while now it is getting tiresome so feel free to believe what you will. while the k&n is slightly less efficient at capturing dirt than an oem filter it does have less restriction to airflow and provided that both filters are within factory specs it is up to the owner of the vehicle to determine which property is more desirable. t bone think of it in simpler terms disregard the percentages lets say for argument sake that a k&n filter lets in 3 pieces of dirt lets say the regular air filter lets in 2 the difference between the amount each lets in is 1.5 pieces of dirt 2 x 1.5 = 3 1.5 pieces of dirt = 50% of the total dirt allowed by the k&n more than the paper filter so the k&n filter does not allow 1% more dirt but 50% more...does this make sense now you are arguing apples and oranges. it lets in 50% more than the other filter and 1% more in total volume. i really dont give a damn what it lets in compared to the other filter unless the other filter is compatible with it in all other properties.and i know what the other filter is letting in my only real concern is what it passes in total volume and if that amount is within the engines filter specifications. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
From : joe brophy
fsm on cd here http//www.wyckoff-mopar-parts.com/facserman.html on wed 13 apr 2005 065320 +0200 franny fkok@nohome.nl wrote i am looking for a digitalpdf or something haynes manual for a 98 doge ram pickup 1500 i have several of them digital but only for european cars. does somone knows a place wher i can dowloaded or get it greetings from the netherlands erik. .