Just picked up my 2001 Dakota 4x4 sit club cab today and the plastics on the engine say magnum but not how many L and when I used the Dakota Vin decoder its says I have a 4.7l which would be a powertech not magnum?

 

if your throttle body is facing up then you have a magnum, 3.9, 5.2 or 5.9 if the TB is facing the front then you have the 4.7.

if your manifolds plastic then its 4.7 and if its metal keg looking its a magnum.

why would you by a vehicle w.o knowing what engine it has?

 

It's a 4.7. The plastics says magnum, but it's still a 4.7. I know it was called a powetech but nobody ever really knew that lol.

Should look like this.
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God I wish my engine bay still looked like it did 3 years ago

 

Yup thats it, dumb a power tech says magnum.... So mine maybe has the better 46rhe or whatever?

 

454rfe if it is an automatic trans

 

It was pretty...?

 

Might seem obvious to us, but do you know how many people buy their car/truck with out knowing which engine it has?... A LOT. Most people don't have a clue what engine their vehicle has.

 

That is very true. So many people don't even know. I could never buy a car/truck not knowing the engine. Just like if you try talking about cars with people who don't really know much and they say they have like a 6.4 liter gas engine in their f150. There are 2 things wrong with that: 1. Ford doesn't make a 6.4 Liter gas engine. 2. The 6.4 Liter engine they have is a diesel. Lol I explained that to the person who said that and the guy got so confused. I don't even know much about Fords and I knew that.

 

Guys its not that I didn't know, when I checked under the hood and saw magnum on the plastics I figured 5.9l magnum and when I checked the vin and seen 4.7l I was just confused and didn't know they had magnum plastered on a power tech engine thats all.

 

Dodge calls it a Magnum. Jeep calls it a PowerTech.

That's why you see Magnum plastered all over it.