What Did You Do To Your 2ND GEN RAM Today?
To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from an update, but was very pleasantly surprised by what I got.
There is a noticeable improvement in the low and mid RPM throttle response.
I'm on the 93 Octane tune, but would think there's a comparable change in the lower Octane tunes also.
Thanks to Sean for an unexpected Xmas present.
installed new license plate light assemblies, and made a list for a junk-yard trip tomorrow -- local yard has 5 (count 'em 1-2-3-4-5) 98-01 model 1500s. 2 of them less than a month on the lot.
So i'll go treasure hunting. I'm planning to get a passenger seat cushion, e-fan from a v-8 5.9 jeep grand cherokee (they've got 9 of those), hopefully some factory fog-lights, and the main reason is to get an intake so i can have it ready to do a swap out when i do the plenum repair on my '00 5.2 soon.
So i'll go treasure hunting. I'm planning to get a passenger seat cushion, e-fan from a v-8 5.9 jeep grand cherokee (they've got 9 of those), hopefully some factory fog-lights, and the main reason is to get an intake so i can have it ready to do a swap out when i do the plenum repair on my '00 5.2 soon.
well, the bone-yard trip was well worth it ---
Picked the intake off another '00 5.2, got a perfect condition passenger seat cushion to replace my drivers cushion, new air-hat/filter housing I needed, and a parking brake release lever for @spillage.
Got home and swapped all the parts above, plus replaced a front hub bearing assembly that was howling.
Trip to the bone yard was great -- they had 7 2nd Gens, 1 that just went on the lot yesterday, so it was full of goodies. Unfortunately, of 9 jeep grand cherokees, every single one was a 4.0, so no e-fan this time around.
Picked the intake off another '00 5.2, got a perfect condition passenger seat cushion to replace my drivers cushion, new air-hat/filter housing I needed, and a parking brake release lever for @spillage.
Got home and swapped all the parts above, plus replaced a front hub bearing assembly that was howling.
Trip to the bone yard was great -- they had 7 2nd Gens, 1 that just went on the lot yesterday, so it was full of goodies. Unfortunately, of 9 jeep grand cherokees, every single one was a 4.0, so no e-fan this time around.
Upside to a destroyed dash
It wasn't today, but I finally changed the heater core. After a couple years of window funk and 3 winters dealing with crappy heat seeing Beeker's How To I finally motivated me to dig in. About 2 hours in I was second guessing myself and thinking I could have just worn a hat and gloves for another year. Then at exactly 6 hours when I finally got everything back together to fire it up and leak check it, I had no blower. Now I was angry that after 6 hours of work I just made my problems worse. I walked away, had a beer and thought back over the whole thing to try and save myself the humble pie of coming on here asking for common mistakes. After replaying it in my head I guessed I either didn't reconnect a wire or did a bad job repairing the ground wire I broke behind the right side kick panel. Thankfully with my destroyed dash I could easily see that I didn't reconnect the a wire and was able to wedge my hand in the top, reconnect it and the blower fired right back up. So even though it was a whole day later it was only 5 minutes of work and the blower was back in business. No way I could have done that without having my entire dash top gone. So for once I was glad to have a destroyed dash. The upside is that I don't think there is any way I could have done the job in 6 hours if I had a real dash instead of a Coverlay molded dash cover that I just pick up and remove when ever I want in 30 seconds.
Background details on the job: I went with the Spectra Premium all aluminum core from Amazon for $38. Parts stores all had the same core for $54. I have put this job off for years so I wasn't pressed for time if it showed up damaged. I didn't want to mess with AC since it works so I opted for the risky swivel tubes and not removing the climate box. I can remove the Coverlay dash and check for leaks easily. I don't consider myself all that skilled and have never removed a dash so as crazy as this sounds I wanted to practice it once before I went for it all. I was also seeking to avoid removing PCM and screwing up a good running truck that I still drive to work every day. One day when AC needs works again I will do a full Evap swap, new mopar core and replace the dash top. Today wasn't that day
After doing it I am in no hurry to do it again, but think I was right to do a practice run... I'm a bit of a mess
Also recently, I had the "opportunity" to drive 391 miles round trip in a day for work. I usually drive that in a month so I decided to throw a can of Seafoam into the gas tank to clean the injectors. Some would say dubious value but I went for it. Truck ran great and got 15.1 MPGs by the odometer the next day when I filled it back up so I was pretty pleased with the old girl since roads favored 70-75mph. Best average tank I've ever seen was 16.5ish a LONG time ago on a perfect day where traffic and roads kept me around the 55 MPH mark.
Background details on the job: I went with the Spectra Premium all aluminum core from Amazon for $38. Parts stores all had the same core for $54. I have put this job off for years so I wasn't pressed for time if it showed up damaged. I didn't want to mess with AC since it works so I opted for the risky swivel tubes and not removing the climate box. I can remove the Coverlay dash and check for leaks easily. I don't consider myself all that skilled and have never removed a dash so as crazy as this sounds I wanted to practice it once before I went for it all. I was also seeking to avoid removing PCM and screwing up a good running truck that I still drive to work every day. One day when AC needs works again I will do a full Evap swap, new mopar core and replace the dash top. Today wasn't that day
After doing it I am in no hurry to do it again, but think I was right to do a practice run... I'm a bit of a mess
Also recently, I had the "opportunity" to drive 391 miles round trip in a day for work. I usually drive that in a month so I decided to throw a can of Seafoam into the gas tank to clean the injectors. Some would say dubious value but I went for it. Truck ran great and got 15.1 MPGs by the odometer the next day when I filled it back up so I was pretty pleased with the old girl since roads favored 70-75mph. Best average tank I've ever seen was 16.5ish a LONG time ago on a perfect day where traffic and roads kept me around the 55 MPH mark.