starting problems '01 Ram 2500

From : bill allemann

Q: begin with cleaning all battery cables and terminals including the ground cables. often this cures a sporadic starting problem. new batteries cannot always bust thru a high resistance connection every time and it only takes one bad connection to cause trouble. ground cablesespecially at the engine / frame ends are the most often forgotten missed or ignored. -- budd cochran john 316-17 ephesians 28-9 romans 323 623 our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. it is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. john adams ive been having adventures in starting with this truck and i was wondering if any fault code data is retrievable that would help in diagnostics. i dont want to take it to a shop just for them to be changing parts to find out whats wrong. batteries are new. i thought maybe it was the ignition switch but now im not too sure. sometimes in starting i just hear clicks a few times and then it starts. many variations but very sporadic. may not do it for a week or so. a couple times i think its towtruck time ten minutes later it starts totally normal wtf. thanks bill -- posted via a free usenet account from http//www.tera.com .

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From : roy

your close but im afraid you have the position wrong....its fortieth on race day -- ---------------------------- -chris 05 ctd 06 liberty crd real trucks dont need spark plugs. no. it stands for first on race day. al doesnt ford stand for fix or repair daily .

From : bill allemann

ah somebody noticed. made my day! thanks! the computer set up for accessing ngs was out of commission for most of that time. plus i was away for best part of a week a belle paris...lovely journey - large compartment with comfortable table and electricity sockets and a bar nearby rushing through the french countryside at 250 km/h.. mustnt say it too loudly here but it beats a merc or bmw or...even a boeing or airbus anyday... das for direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- ha! well i do too. i have not seen you comment in a while dori. welcome back. dori a schmetterling wrote and i thought you just had an eclectic taste in ngs... das for direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- richard sexton wrote interesting choice of groups to crosspost to. willie is that you richard jacking in from the terrapin station port -- need mercedes parts http//parts.mbz.org richard sexton | mercedes stuff http//mbz.org 1970 280se 72 280se | home pages http//rs79.vrx.net 633csi 250se/c 300sd | http//aquaria.net http//killi.net the crosspost is actually relevent to all the groups - even though it may not seem so initially. the automotive groups are clearly relevent. the gdead group is relevent because the grateful dead fans tended to travel in large yellow commercial vehicles. the cannabis group was an observation in irony. here you have a toxic fuel additive - sulphur - that is so toxic it is implicated in hundreds of thousands of deaths and the government has a rather unhurried approach to getting rid of it - even allowing 20 percent of diesel for the next 4 years to be the highly toxic form. on the other hand you have the cannabis - which the governments own figures show that virtually nobody ever dies from it - and yet it is the cannabis users and sellers who are the public enemies and arrested and incarcerated. i supposed that was not an obviously implicit point. i did not think anybody would notice the crosspost. terrapin station is a nice place. happy ulsd day! . .

From : bigironram

i stole this one from another redneck group. beer vs. vagina 1.beer is always wet. vagina needs a little work. one point to beer 2.warm beer tastes awful. one point to vagina 3.a really cold beer is satisfying. one point to beer 4.if after taking a swig of your favorite beer you find a hair between your teeth you may vomit. one point to vagina 5. if you get home reeking of beer your wife may get mad make a scene kick you out etc. if you get home reeking of vagina your wife may get mad kick you out even leave you. theres definitely a point to be had here depending on your point of view and personal circumstances. ill just call it a draw for the time being. 6. ten beers in one night and you cant drive home. ten vaginas in one night and you dont want to drive anywhere. one point to vagina 7. if you have a lot of beer in a public place your reputation may suffer. if you eat any vagina in public you become a legend. one point to vagina 8. if a cop stops you and you smell of beer you may get arrested. if you smell of vagina he may buy you a beer. one point to vagina 9. you normally dont find old beer. one point to beer 10. too much beer and youll think you see flying saucers. too much vagina and youll think youve seen god. one point to vagina 11. ripping off a beer bottle label is boring. ripping off panties is fun. one point to vagina 12. in most countries theres a tax on beer. one point to vagina 13. if you have another beer the first one never gets pissed off. one point to beer 14. you can always be sure if youre the first one to open a bottle or a can. one point to beer 15. if you shake beer itll get all agitated but eventually it settles down. one point to beer 16. with beer you always have choice clear dark pilsneralelageretc one point to beer 17. you always know how much beer is going to cost one point to beer 18. beer doesnt have a mother one point to beer 19. beer never expects to be hugged for half an hour after you drink it one point to beer final score beer 10 vagina 8 thats it! the matter is settled the clear winner is beer ps if you are a woman and at this point feel angry degraded or discriminated against just remember that beer would experience none of those feelings let alone express them an extra point for beer im sure you guys can add to the list. beekeep .

From : budd cochran mrd150 preciscom spam net

suddenly without warning bigironram exclaimed 26-oct-06 1001 pm a little while back the truck started making a little noise when backing up - like a cricket just a couple of peeps then nothing. then i started noticing the noise occasionally but only when the truck window was open. now i can hear it with the window is closed - it sounds very much like crickets and is coming from the rearend somewheres i think. its not in the suspension or similar since it doesnt react to road bumps. it doesnt seem to be varying according to speed but thats a bit hard to tell cause its buried by road/engine noise fairly quickly as i speed up. truck behaves fine but the crickets are really annoying me. sounds like something needs to be greased or sommat but what jmc if it is related to vehicle speed i bet univeral joints. thanks. part doesnt seem to be terribly expensive but whats the general labor cost for replacement how many do i need doesnt look to be a part a newbie like myself can replace. jmc its hard to say anymore. i think shop labor shouldnt be more than 1.5 hours mike probaby knows the flat rate for this. then factor in whatever the labor rate in your area may be add the parts markup and tax. i have a good drivetrain shop here in town i just pull the driveshaft hand it to them and ten minutes and about $50.00 later im on my way. they say they install for free but their parts are twice the parts store amount. i wont fool with them when they do them so cheap and im so inept with them. .