nice lookin truck whiteram! welcome to dodgeforum!

 

Crawled under and checked u-joints, ended up finding a nice size dent in the drive line. Freeway vibration mystery = solved.

 

ordered some cats, somehow they got smarter at the emissions this year

 

Got a front end alignment and tightened up the steering.

 

working on pulling off the plastic thats glued to the tail gate...mine was faded and such and i think once i get everything all cleaned up it will look good

for those who are unsure what im rambling about..heres a pic to remind you what im talking about

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Pulled off the timing cover and checked for the kdp. Luckily it was well seated but I put a longer bolt, couple washers and a piece of bar stock over it for piece of mind. Next on the list.. my FASS pump, and gauges.

 

Drove 240 miles to Illinois and realized I forgot to tighten one of the rear diff cover bolts. What a mess.

 

Had some one loosen my driverside front lug nuts and my tire almost fell off.

 

AHHHAAA....found the loud whining sound. Thought it was my water pump and fan clutch. But its my idle pulley. i can woobble it back and forth while belt is on. i took it off, and when i spin it, it hardly moves, the bearings are toast.


Makes me feel better that its just the idler pulley though.

 

I bet that smelled lovely.
WTF


As for me, I looked under my truck when I got home to see if any oil had dripped on the cardboard that I put under it and sure enough it did. at least I think it did, I noticed a drop of coolant on one of the transmission support brackets. I have to work tonight so I'm not going to mess with it today. I guess I screwed something up when I did the rear main and timing chain.