What Did You Do To Your 2ND GEN RAM Today?
#3881
1. Broke my alternator because i did not tighten down the connection, I just capped it and forgot to "get back to it."
2. Put my spark plug wires on the OPPOSITE way. Forgot that the even side was the passenger side, and the odd side was the drivers side when putting mt spark plug wires back on the distributor.
3. Ran the battery dead (refer to #1)
4. Broke my coolant temp sensor when putting the hose clamp around the heater hose that it is next to. (The ones you need some channel locks to squeeze open, not the screw type)
While working hard to make sure that I was breaking things and needing to buy more things, i managed to put on a plenum plate and 1.7RRs.
I have come to the point where my build budget is masked by many, many trips to autozone & NAPA buying odds and ends.
2. Put my spark plug wires on the OPPOSITE way. Forgot that the even side was the passenger side, and the odd side was the drivers side when putting mt spark plug wires back on the distributor.
3. Ran the battery dead (refer to #1)
4. Broke my coolant temp sensor when putting the hose clamp around the heater hose that it is next to. (The ones you need some channel locks to squeeze open, not the screw type)
While working hard to make sure that I was breaking things and needing to buy more things, i managed to put on a plenum plate and 1.7RRs.
I have come to the point where my build budget is masked by many, many trips to autozone & NAPA buying odds and ends.
#3882
1. Broke my alternator because i did not tighten down the connection, I just capped it and forgot to "get back to it."
2. Put my spark plug wires on the OPPOSITE way. Forgot that the even side was the passenger side, and the odd side was the drivers side when putting mt spark plug wires back on the distributor.
3. Ran the battery dead (refer to #1)
4. Broke my coolant temp sensor when putting the hose clamp around the heater hose that it is next to. (The ones you need some channel locks to squeeze open, not the screw type)
While working hard to make sure that I was breaking things and needing to buy more things, i managed to put on a plenum plate and 1.7RRs.
I have come to the point where my build budget is masked by many, many trips to autozone & NAPA buying odds and ends.
2. Put my spark plug wires on the OPPOSITE way. Forgot that the even side was the passenger side, and the odd side was the drivers side when putting mt spark plug wires back on the distributor.
3. Ran the battery dead (refer to #1)
4. Broke my coolant temp sensor when putting the hose clamp around the heater hose that it is next to. (The ones you need some channel locks to squeeze open, not the screw type)
While working hard to make sure that I was breaking things and needing to buy more things, i managed to put on a plenum plate and 1.7RRs.
I have come to the point where my build budget is masked by many, many trips to autozone & NAPA buying odds and ends.
#3884
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2. Put my spark plug wires on the OPPOSITE way. Forgot that the even side was the passenger side, and the odd side was the drivers side when putting mt spark plug wires back on the distributor.
4. Broke my coolant temp sensor when putting the hose clamp around the heater hose that it is next to. (The ones you need some channel locks to squeeze open, not the screw type)
4. Broke my coolant temp sensor when putting the hose clamp around the heater hose that it is next to. (The ones you need some channel locks to squeeze open, not the screw type)
And I hate those clamps, but my Irwin channel locks made it easier. You should get a set of those at lowes if you don't have some that have the bolt shaped groove in them, they just seem to work better than regular channel locks.
#3885
#3886
I did not orient myself to the arrow that said "Front of engine."
I knew something was wrong when the plug wire connections looked all jacked up! I even told myself "You are doing this wrong!"
--Dan
P.S. I am working on getting a gauge pillar to have a tranny temp sensor, AF ratio, and temp sensor. Just waiting on that one. My wife gets pissed whenever I work on my truck. I always break things. But the AF gauge would not be worth it until I get longtubes and the federal tune (I have the california tune because it is a cali truck). The difference in tunes is basically that the cali tune o2 sensor knows that there are 2 cats before the "main" cat (3 total) so it is not the same reading as a federal tune when the truck only has one cat. When i do longtubes, I will do the gauges. Probably another year or so.
#3887
#3888
Sad thing....I had the haynes manual in front of me when i was doing it.
I did not orient myself to the arrow that said "Front of engine."
I knew something was wrong when the plug wire connections looked all jacked up! I even told myself "You are doing this wrong!"
--Dan
P.S. I am working on getting a gauge pillar to have a tranny temp sensor, AF ratio, and temp sensor. Just waiting on that one. My wife gets pissed whenever I work on my truck. I always break things. But the AF gauge would not be worth it until I get longtubes and the federal tune (I have the california tune because it is a cali truck). The difference in tunes is basically that the cali tune o2 sensor knows that there are 2 cats before the "main" cat (3 total) so it is not the same reading as a federal tune when the truck only has one cat. When i do longtubes, I will do the gauges. Probably another year or so.
I did not orient myself to the arrow that said "Front of engine."
I knew something was wrong when the plug wire connections looked all jacked up! I even told myself "You are doing this wrong!"
--Dan
P.S. I am working on getting a gauge pillar to have a tranny temp sensor, AF ratio, and temp sensor. Just waiting on that one. My wife gets pissed whenever I work on my truck. I always break things. But the AF gauge would not be worth it until I get longtubes and the federal tune (I have the california tune because it is a cali truck). The difference in tunes is basically that the cali tune o2 sensor knows that there are 2 cats before the "main" cat (3 total) so it is not the same reading as a federal tune when the truck only has one cat. When i do longtubes, I will do the gauges. Probably another year or so.
#3889
Didnt do it today but friend found a video of him and me racing at the track from a couple weekends ago, the second one is when he broke the rear end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqBjiGg9BGA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqBjiGg9BGA