2000 durango problem
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Yeah, if you can do the work yourself, then it's a whole different ballgame.
Honestly, I don't know if I'd bother with turning the engine by hand. It seems so incredibly likely that it's just a dead battery I think I'd go straight for the jumper cables. If it starts, you know it's not seized.
Honestly, I don't know if I'd bother with turning the engine by hand. It seems so incredibly likely that it's just a dead battery I think I'd go straight for the jumper cables. If it starts, you know it's not seized.
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Oh good lord....
This poor guy is describing the symptoms of a dead battery, and he's being told to basically do a complete tear down and overhaul of the engine on a vehicle that's not even his.
When he goes to look at it he should bring two things; jumper cables and some channel lock pliers. Give the battery connectors a good squeeze and a few twists to make sure there's good contact, throw the jumper cables on, and I'd bet you five bucks it starts right up.
If it doesn't, walk away. Don't drop $500 diagnosing a $700 truck. Let them advertise it a little longer and sell it to someone who knows what they're getting into.
This poor guy is describing the symptoms of a dead battery, and he's being told to basically do a complete tear down and overhaul of the engine on a vehicle that's not even his.
When he goes to look at it he should bring two things; jumper cables and some channel lock pliers. Give the battery connectors a good squeeze and a few twists to make sure there's good contact, throw the jumper cables on, and I'd bet you five bucks it starts right up.
If it doesn't, walk away. Don't drop $500 diagnosing a $700 truck. Let them advertise it a little longer and sell it to someone who knows what they're getting into.
Ok im going to be doing all the work on the vehicle myself i know how to do pretty much everything myself and I am going to school for automotive and my dad is a master mechanic I just wanted to get advice from others that know more about dodges because I don't know a great deal about them. But the first thing i am going to do is try to turn the engine over by hand to make sure that is not seized if the engine is not seized I will buy it because if it is just a battery since he said it was junk to begin with and there is minor surface rust and the engine turns over I don't see the point in not getting it I just need to figure out what size socket to use on the 4.7 to hand turn the engine. The truck so far has been sitting for 6 months and was sitting for a month before the truck just stopped working so I just want advice to try to make it easy for me to figure it out cause this is my first dodge ever if I buy it I had always owned Ford and after seeing my friends rams and my brothers durango the love them. So I thank you for the advice and would appreciate it if there is any other things to look into the problem before I go there tomorrow. Thank-you all
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I'll take your $5 bet and raise you a 6 pack of Beck's the sellers are not cutting their loses on a $2,000-4,500 truck over a dead battery. OP said it broke down a month then really broke down and sat for 6. Dead batteries don't prompt that type of disinterest, major motor work does likely from an overheat.
I got the clue you have a spelling deficiency. And little intuition tells me you need your fork and knife, crow will be served shortly when OP reports back.
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Swiss, I'm not going to bother typing the long reply I have in my head. You're just not worth it.
I'm simply going to leave it at this. You're an idiot. Shut the **** up.
I will, however, offer a quick response to this....
I think you'd be amazed at how many perfectly good vehicles end up getting traded in, and sometimes even sold to the salvage yard because the 12 year old battery finally gave out after performing well for 3 times its expected lifespan. (or some other similarly simple, normal bit of routine maintenance that they had neglected.) Average people know NOTHING about cars. If it won't start, they don't blame the battery, or the relay, the starter, the loose cable, or whatever was causing the problem. They blame the whole car. One problem, even a normal, expected problem, and they deem it a piece of crap, lose faith in its reliability, and bail out. Happens all the time.
I'm simply going to leave it at this. You're an idiot. Shut the **** up.
I will, however, offer a quick response to this....
I'll take your $5 bet and raise you a 6 pack of Beck's the sellers are not cutting their loses on a $2,000-4,500 truck over a dead battery. OP said it broke down a month then really broke down and sat for 6. Dead batteries don't prompt that type of disinterest, major motor work does likely from an overheat.
Last edited by coreybv; Jan 8, 2011 at 03:45 PM.
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Ok I looked at the truck it has a rot hole threw the front bumper bubbled paint over both rear wheel wells, rust under the back window. The interior looked real good if he still has it im going back this weekend to see if I can get any power to the truck to do a code read on it.
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if the D`s at a good price ..$700,,bumpers can be replaces ,,,pull that baby motor out use it for boat anchor,,,find a 01-04 5.9 L and build a strong worthy motor ,,,,which of course depends on how deep your bank account is ...........do a stock refresh of the motor, .bearings, rings, valve guides etc, etc ,,,and yu have fresh new motor that`ll last yu a long time with proper care...or go big ........... BIGGER is better , trust me 
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in order for him to put a 5.9 in there he would need to change out 90% of the drivetrain to go with it, the 4.7 uses a different transmission(which i THINK is a different length than the 46 which comes w/ the 5.9) so it would be a VERY big, in depth project
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Not to mention expensive. By the time he rounds up all the parts it would take, he'd have enough money wrapped up in it that with a little patience he could have just found a D with the 5.9 already in it.
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OOOOPS forgot bout them lil motors have differrent trans/transfer case behind them. sorry.Well yu can shop around for a D with a 5.9L,,, i`m guessing 4.7L are useful for something , just not sure what yet lol .I,m just bugging the 4.7L owners. too small for me but some may like them