What Did You Do To Your 2ND GEN RAM Today?
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From: Clayton MI
You still have your cat yet?
Record Breaker
Joined: Mar 2013
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From: Somewhere in Kentucky
Did my plenum fix, double roller timing chain, new idler, belt, water pump. Now just to put the fan/fan clutch on with the fan shroud.
I'll have to get my old fan clutch/fan off the old water pump. Couldn't get it loose, so I had to take the water pump and fan out as 1 piece. Fun!
I'll have to get my old fan clutch/fan off the old water pump. Couldn't get it loose, so I had to take the water pump and fan out as 1 piece. Fun!
Captain
Joined: Nov 2013
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From: Bluegrass State
I've kept quiet on this one, but I've had my first glitch in a couple of years. I have been running it between neighbors and farms at low speed. My old 98 farm truck speedo began acting up and now does not exceed 35 mph, tach works but is well off the mark. I can live without the speedo but the tach I have to have, and I assume on a 98 the sensor moved to the rear differential linked with ABS (or so I've read). It's off for a replacement on Monday. K.
Captain
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From: Virginia, Florida
I do still have my cat, but i am unsure of what brand and such it is. We had the entire exhaust system redone a while back and not sure what was put in.
Captain
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From: Virginia, Florida
Im sure if i were to take out the cat it would really roar! But this summer i will be working in fairfax county and those cops loveeeeeee to give out tickets. So i need to keep her down a bit, sadly..
Legend
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From: Fredericksburg, Virginia
Today I washed the truck, bypassed the heater core so I'll have AC, filled up the power steering fluid (have a leak), and painted the lid of my air cleaner white....
And tomorrow the passenger rear tire gets a new valve stem, tired of putting air in the tire every other day...
And tomorrow the passenger rear tire gets a new valve stem, tired of putting air in the tire every other day...
Went on a first gen hunt today (have yet to find a 12v that it hadn't been played with). Black smoke, how stupid...........K.
Edit: That's what I'm still looking for Ham Bone (Barn Find). I can live with some rust and Cow S***, if the motors good (I assume tranny work would be necessary, and 4wd is a must). On a higher note, after discussions on here with aoferrell2, I just hand calced 14.2 mpg on the last tank of fuel on the 97. I just filled with 87 octane on the 97. This means I can choose the gasser or diesel on long no load trips (diesel is 16.3 mpg).
Edit: That's what I'm still looking for Ham Bone (Barn Find). I can live with some rust and Cow S***, if the motors good (I assume tranny work would be necessary, and 4wd is a must). On a higher note, after discussions on here with aoferrell2, I just hand calced 14.2 mpg on the last tank of fuel on the 97. I just filled with 87 octane on the 97. This means I can choose the gasser or diesel on long no load trips (diesel is 16.3 mpg).
Man I just bought my '90 after never being messed with for $1500 in early march. It has been messed with now, but not for black smoke. Needed injection pump rebuilt, which lead to an expensive mistake and another pump plus new injectors. It wasn't going to stay stock anyway.
I have a line on a '92 that has terrible surface rust but no holes that I know of, it is a W250 5spd with 109k on it, original owner. He is gonna retire and move to panama within the next year and guess who will be the first one in line to buy his old rusty dodge.
Keep looking and do not be afraid to knock on doors. I got my '90 that way, and if I get this '92 it will be the same story.
