What Did You Do To Your 2ND GEN RAM Today?
Rookie
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 55
Likes: 0
From: CT
Fuel Pump. Total time: about 3 hours by myself with lunch. I decided to drop the tank and I used a single floor jack, 2 jack stands and some scrap wood. The drive shaft and frame rail allowed me to use just 2 stands, but I had others on stand by depending on how things went. Overall, I thought it was very easy.
I got a Delphi unit off Rockauto with a 10% discount along with a bunch of stuff for the front end of a Caravan.
TL: DR
Since I bought the truck in 2011 the fuel gauge was semi-broken(1/8 tank read 1/2 tank), and it would occasionally stumble around 3k rpms coming off the freeway when the tank was less than 1/2 full (3/4 on the gauge).
The hardest part (which took longer than the rest of the work) was disconnecting the electrical to pull the tank and reconnecting the fuel line that goes into the frame-rail when putting the tank back in. That red tab on the electrical was stuck in place pretty good. After a good 45 minutes dicking around with it, getting tired of crawling around and frustrated, I smacked it with the handle of a screwdriver and it popped to the side and the connection popped right off
.
Runs better than it ever did. When I swapped in a 5.9 crate motor last fall it ran very nice and has seemed to pick up some power after the first 2-3k miles. Almost everything under the hood is new with the swap, but I've still gone through and checked everything and figured there was probably a chaffed wire shorting out somewhere that I'd find eventually. The fuel injectors are in spec, but are at the extremes of being in spec according to the repair manual, those are on the list to get replaced. Fuel pressure wasn't a solid 50psi, but it was pretty steady between 44 and 48 (which should have set off a red flag to replace it), but the truck was running smooth over 99% of the time and I was getting around 12 MPG letting the truck warm up before driving, around town empty or with weight and around 11 plowing). The truck ran stronger than my other Ram (99 1500 5.9 2WD w/ 55k miles that was garaged and almost never driven till i got it in 2007 or 2008), but something was always off till I did this fuel pump. Wished, and should have done it when I did the motor swap.
I got a Delphi unit off Rockauto with a 10% discount along with a bunch of stuff for the front end of a Caravan.
TL: DR
Since I bought the truck in 2011 the fuel gauge was semi-broken(1/8 tank read 1/2 tank), and it would occasionally stumble around 3k rpms coming off the freeway when the tank was less than 1/2 full (3/4 on the gauge).
The hardest part (which took longer than the rest of the work) was disconnecting the electrical to pull the tank and reconnecting the fuel line that goes into the frame-rail when putting the tank back in. That red tab on the electrical was stuck in place pretty good. After a good 45 minutes dicking around with it, getting tired of crawling around and frustrated, I smacked it with the handle of a screwdriver and it popped to the side and the connection popped right off
. Runs better than it ever did. When I swapped in a 5.9 crate motor last fall it ran very nice and has seemed to pick up some power after the first 2-3k miles. Almost everything under the hood is new with the swap, but I've still gone through and checked everything and figured there was probably a chaffed wire shorting out somewhere that I'd find eventually. The fuel injectors are in spec, but are at the extremes of being in spec according to the repair manual, those are on the list to get replaced. Fuel pressure wasn't a solid 50psi, but it was pretty steady between 44 and 48 (which should have set off a red flag to replace it), but the truck was running smooth over 99% of the time and I was getting around 12 MPG letting the truck warm up before driving, around town empty or with weight and around 11 plowing). The truck ran stronger than my other Ram (99 1500 5.9 2WD w/ 55k miles that was garaged and almost never driven till i got it in 2007 or 2008), but something was always off till I did this fuel pump. Wished, and should have done it when I did the motor swap.
Rookie
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 55
Likes: 0
From: CT
Search Google. There are some 10%'s out there. The one I used expired a few weeks ago. Dodgeforum regularly has a 5% post in the Vendor Group And Special Buys section.
Legend
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 8,914
Likes: 4
From: Fredericksburg, Virginia
There is a Rock Auto Discount Thread in the General Discussion Section....
