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Old Sep 8, 2019 | 09:55 AM
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Yeah I know there are risks to lowering it but I wouldn’t lower it a bunch. I would just lower it maybe 2-3 inches. As for the subs yeah I know I just wanted a set before I get married and start having kids cause my girlfriend already said that once we are married and have kids they are gone. Lol
I've heard that before. When women talk like that, you're already married. (In their mind.) You just haven't eaten the cake yet. When I was in school, if you had a radio, the reverb radio set up was the big thing. Unless you went with a 6 instead of a 4 inch speaker. As in one speaker. My first car didn't have a radio. The only option it had was a heater. I knew a couple of guys who even had FM on their radios.

Reverb was not stereo but on music, it sounded like you were in a concert hall. Singing and speech sounded like they were in a barrel, but the music for the time was fantastic. It had a speaker in front and rear and when you turned it on, it delayed the signal to the rear speaker by a fraction of a second. Turn it off and you just had two speakers.

I know what wrapping is but I've never done anything with it. I have been known to paint a truck though. The last time cost me $40 but I still had a half gallon of Rust-O-Leum left when I was done.
 
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Old Sep 8, 2019 | 10:16 AM
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I've heard that before. When women talk like that, you're already married. (In their mind.) You just haven't eaten the cake yet. When I was in school, if you had a radio, the reverb radio set up was the big thing. Unless you went with a 6 instead of a 4 inch speaker. As in one speaker. My first car didn't have a radio. The only option it had was a heater. I knew a couple of guys who even had FM on their radios.

Reverb was not stereo but on music, it sounded like you were in a concert hall. Singing and speech sounded like they were in a barrel, but the music for the time was fantastic. It had a speaker in front and rear and when you turned it on, it delayed the signal to the rear speaker by a fraction of a second. Turn it off and you just had two speakers.

I know what wrapping is but I've never done anything with it. I have been known to paint a truck though. The last time cost me $40 but I still had a half gallon of Rust-O-Leum left when I was done.
There has been times I’ve thought about selling the subs and amp but idk if I really want to or not. As for the painting or wrapping I can’t paint my truck. Don’t know how, don’t know anywhere to do it, and I don’t want to pay a bunch of money to just get it painted. I know with wrapping I will have to fix all the dents and dings and put a coat of primer then wrap it. I don’t know if it would be cheaper to do that and then wrap it or cheaper to do that then paint it too. The smart thing would just have it get painted when it gets a primer but they maybe a lot more money.
 
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Old Sep 8, 2019 | 07:16 PM
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I keep saying...your best bet will be to score a set of 16x8 10-spoke wheels from an SLT dak/dur, and springs from an R/T dak/dur. The factory R/T springs are 1" shorter and use the factory upper and lower control arms and don't goof up your geometry. That's about a $400 project right there if you are good at negotiating at the junkyard ($60 per wheel and $40 per spring, plus taxes/yard fees). But you'll have to get your hands dirty to pull the springs, or pay the yard to do it for you. Or see if somebody in the facebook classifieds has a set that they took off. Otherwise, you might see if Hotchkiss still makes a set of RT or -1 springs.

If you want to spend another $400, find a set of 03/04 brakes and do the full conversion. I think I paid 200 or 250 for the loaded spindles. Re-use your old hubs to save a nickel and get a new brake caliper and rotor.

The hubs are the same from 97-04. The spindles split 97-02 and 03/04. The rotors and caliper split 97-00, 01/02, and 03/04 dakota and 03/04 durango.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2019 | 09:14 AM
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I keep saying...your best bet will be to score a set of 16x8 10-spoke wheels from an SLT dak/dur
Too bad you're not closer to Georgia. I've got a perfect set of wheels from my SLT sitting in the garage. Nothing wrong with them... the tires were wearing down and I decided to change the look of the truck to black wheels. I could have driven on them for a probably another few years.


 

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Old Sep 9, 2019 | 09:39 AM
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Too bad you're not closer to Georgia. I've got a perfect set of wheels from my SLT sitting in the garage. Nothing wrong with them... the tires were wearing down and I decided to change the look of the truck to black wheels. I could have driven on them for a probably another few years.

I would love to have those but if I do anything I’d save the extra money and get some black wheels too.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2019 | 12:50 PM
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I would love to have those but if I do anything I’d save the extra money and get some black wheels too.

When my '93 Dakota Sport was about 2 years old, I glommed onto 4 plain steel spare tire wheels. I painted them red to match the truck and got a set of police dog dish hub caps. It remined me of back in the day when the muscle cars came from the factory with either bloack or color matched wheels since most buyers bought different wheels on day two of ownership. It looked sharp and if I hit a pot hole, the wheels are easy to straighten.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2019 | 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by ol' grouch
When my '93 Dakota Sport was about 2 years old, I glommed onto 4 plain steel spare tire wheels. I painted them red to match the truck and got a set of police dog dish hub caps. It remined me of back in the day when the muscle cars came from the factory with either bloack or color matched wheels since most buyers bought different wheels on day two of ownership. It looked sharp and if I hit a pot hole, the wheels are easy to straighten.
I’m kinda on the fence on doing any work at all now.
 
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Old Nov 19, 2019 | 01:04 PM
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Friends, I'm new on the site. I am writing a scientific paper on automotive topics and I need professional advice. Please tell me, do I need to start a new topic for this, or maybe there is already one? I would be very grateful for the advice and help.

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