What Did You Do To Your 2ND GEN RAM Today?
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Removed my interior door panels and cleaned the dirt and debris out of the bottom of the door's. Blew the seam out with compressed air and a vacuum cleaner, then sprayed the inside with Fluid Film to keep them from rusting. You can also use motor oil. 
Once a year and your door's will never rot. Of course the doors are the only part of my truck that is not rusted! lol
Once a year and your door's will never rot. Of course the doors are the only part of my truck that is not rusted! lol
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2001 1500 Dodge Ram Shifting slow
I am new to this so forgive me if I did this wrong, but I need help... In the last 5 days my dodge has started weird things. First the blinker went crazy then the next day the ABS and Brake lights came on the the day after that she started shifting slow from 1st to 2nd, then the next day the speedometer stopped working. So far I have replaced the speed sensor and found and replaced an oring. Oh yea and fixed the blinker.... bbut it is still not shifting right. I am a girl and am going by a book I have for my truck.. can someone pls help
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From: Clayton MI
I am new to this so forgive me if I did this wrong, but I need help... In the last 5 days my dodge has started weird things. First the blinker went crazy then the next day the ABS and Brake lights came on the the day after that she started shifting slow from 1st to 2nd, then the next day the speedometer stopped working. So far I have replaced the speed sensor and found and replaced an oring. Oh yea and fixed the blinker.... bbut it is still not shifting right. I am a girl and am going by a book I have for my truck.. can someone pls help
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From: Austin, TX
....... Last thing is slip yoke is extended a bit more. It's roughly 3", so about half the full length assuming it is 6". I've only judged based on length of the tail shaft. I have not tested the articulation...yet. I'm hoping tomorrow.
I do get a very slow drip of tcase fluid at that seal.
Feel free to throw down and cautionary comments or things I should look at. This tcase is not staying on much longer anyways. Runs great, but this pushes timetable forward on swap.
I do get a very slow drip of tcase fluid at that seal.
Feel free to throw down and cautionary comments or things I should look at. This tcase is not staying on much longer anyways. Runs great, but this pushes timetable forward on swap.
Just glancing, it appears that yoke is too far out.
Removed my interior door panels and cleaned the dirt and debris out of the bottom of the door's. Blew the seam out with compressed air and a vacuum cleaner, then sprayed the inside with Fluid Film to keep them from rusting. You can also use motor oil. Once a year and your door's will never rot. Of course the doors are the only part of my truck that is not rusted! lol
Once a year and your door's will never rot. Of course the doors are the only part of my truck that is not rusted! lol...or live in a drier climate with no salt on the roads....
Drove Ram to Ballinger in west Texas yesterday, to score this from BIL (the one got the Ram from):
Ram ran great! Hadn't been driven in a week as I have been driving Yota to work. Calculated just over 14 mpg. That and a tool box full of sockets, ratchets, and various other hand tools for $200. Dang tool box was heavy - had to remove drawers to get it light enough to take out of truck....
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Joined: Aug 2011
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From: Southern Massachusetts
Did some spring cleaning on this inside of the truck and the dirty windshield. Also finished up the final touches on my new sound system. Pulled the middle seat/console and put the amp and sub right there. I don't like people sitting in the middle seat anyway because their legs would always get in the way of the shifter, so no loss there. Its a 400W 12" pioneer and a 450W Jensen amp. It doesn't hit as hard as I'd like for rap songs, but it's more than enough bass for rock, country, etc. so I'm happy with it. The whole system only cost about $200. Here's some pics.
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From: Southern Massachusetts
I figured someone would catch that lol. The PO must've misplaced the original (I don't understand why you'd take it off anyway...) and he put a tiny little **** that didn't even thread on correctly. So I switched it with the tcase ****. That way it'll leave car thieves very confused when they go steal it. They'll think it's simply a 4x4 shifter and then try to pull on the directional/washer stick to try and put it in drive 