diff between a 518 and 618 trans?
From : Annonymous
Q: tom is a general i would follow into the depths on any dodge. oops. i misread in general for is a general because he thought it should have been replaced your comment below would focus on whether or not you think the mechanic ripped you off by replacing a perfectly good hose with a new one! bullshit. no mechanic in his right mind would replace a water pump and re-use a $2 hose. to do so is complete incompetence given the cost of the replacement hose vs. the amount of labor required to get to it. tom in general is suspect! bg .
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From : johnb
this thing is weird tho it says 10/94 on the date of build but has the 96 color code on the firewall tag and is obdii .
From : tom lawrence
your heating up everything that has electrical resistance. if you dim your dashboard lights you may notice that the dimmer switch gets warmer. same phenomenon. ask nosey. read sterns page about relays. no need to ask me anything. i think azwiley1 knows more about electricity than the both of us. -- ken .
From : Annonymous
its 2wd .
From : tom lawrence
does a by-pass hose really cost $2.00 or is that hyperbole there-by making the rest of your statement suspect awww.... ya done caught me in a fib... gates part # 22038 sells for $2.70 at rock auto. yep - my whole post is complete bullshit because i missed the price by 70 cents. .
From : johnb
for you its not much of a problem. a four year life rather than 6 or perhaps 8 is still very reasonable. and you like the whiteness more than you want a few more years of bulb life. i probably would have remained happy with mine too in the original higher-resistance circuit. but see here you are comparing the high resistance dodge lighting circuit to your own dodge low resistance modified circuit and then trying to make a direct comparision to my silvys lighting circuit. have you measured the resistance levels on the silvys lighting circuit do you know what the resistance levels are on each of the four bulbs i know i dont off the top of my head as i have never had a reason to measure it. ok you had a bad experience with the silverstars. in your set up they dont seem to last long no problem. however there is no way that one can reasonably say that the other bulbs would infact last the 6 or 8 years you state. are they classed as a longer life bulb sure but this is subjective to the vehicles the amount they are used and other enviormental factors like mikes deer hunting truck bg also if you were to read his site a little closer he is using that h1 bulb as a reference which is a bulb that is not on my silvy but even if it were a long life bulb per the site is rated at 1200 life hours. you dont think that in a four year period 1200hr life hours is not exceeded again how long in years should it last four years is enough. silver stars arent going to live 4 years in a good circuit. again do you have specific knowledge of the lighting circuit in the silvy another thing that i dont see any reference to on his site is where you get the notion that i am heating up wires your heating up everything that has electrical resistance. true to a point. if you dim your dashboard lights you may notice that the dimmer switch gets warmer. same phenomenon. never have i had such a problem. as an fyi i do most of my driving in the dark to and from work daily 1.5 hrs each way which sucks and have made three or four cross country trips from az to ny and back for which the lights were always on. not at one time did i have anything even get remotely warm from anything other then the heater. not saying that it cant happen but that it has never happen in my truck. ask nosey. read sterns page about relays. http//www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/relays/relays.html all that it states is that the sylvania silverstar bulbs have a very short lifetime because the filament is overdriven to get a legal amount of light despite the blue glass. i believe you are making an assumption here based off the upgrades you made to your vehicle and trying to compare them in retrospect to mine. sorry but the light circuitry on our vehicles are vastly different and just because something is one way on yours does not mean the same for me. it means exactly the same for both of us. power watts is dissipated across a voltage drop. your silver stars last acceptably long because resistance in the rest of the circuit is reducing voltage at the bulbs. again do you have specific knowledge of the lighting circuit in the silvy .
From : bigironram
on wed 24 jan 2007 205555 -0700 azwiley1 azwiley1@cox.net wrote because he thought it should have been replaced your comment below would focus on whether or not you think the mechanic ripped you off by replacing a perfectly good hose with a new one! bullshit. no mechanic in his right mind would replace a water pump and re-use a $2 hose. to do so is complete incompetence given the cost of the replacement hose vs. the amount of labor required to get to it. tom in general is suspect! bg toms a general beekeep .