power steering line, crank case vent, and one of the teflon tensoiners on the timing chain. and forgot a bunch of lil crap like tighening the engine mount bolts and stuff like that..

well i drove it today on last nites clean out. ran about 30 mins
took pan off again cleaned out screen, and this time less oil bluild up is in oil pan
and i think i have drove 40 miles today and its still going

i bet i will have to clean out screen again tomorow but i wont do it till it plugs up

what kind of pressure do yall have (4.7 v8) when idleing and driving?
mine idle's right under 40 and when im driving it's 75% of guage when engine is warm

 

thats about what mine is too as far as pressures and maybe you'd wanna look into this to http://www.auto-rx.com/

 

playmaker do you use that auto rx?

well i drove the dakota 60 miles today. and its doing great oil screen has not plugged back up yet.

 

no i haven't i thought about it but figured its only something i'd do if i needed to

 

well i cleaned it out again today wasnt 2 bad
then i went to replace the tapit cover gaskets that the dogde place left leaking when they put in the new old pump

omg when i took the vaule covers off it was sluged city.really bad
well my brother was helping me. and he came up with the bright idea to car wash the engine. i really dont know if this was a good idea but it sure got alot of gunk out

well i did it..the car wash thing and all. felt like a dumbass doing it. but now the cams and every thing look alot cleaner. then put pan back on. put every thing back togather and started it up. started up 1st try and ran good. I did blow out every thing the best i could with air before i put it back togather

at the car wash one of my brother's freinds came over asked what the hell was he doing.. my brother with out missing a beat went and changed the car wash from high pressure soap to engine cleaner and told his buddie it was ok he was using the engine cleaner....lmfao
most red neck thing i have done in years