In that case, I think that truck looks like crap and I wish you did sell it, because I'm sick of looking at it.

 

ROFL!

 

I want to know who he was calling "boys"?

 

^Your mom.


Hope your valve problem isn't a 4.7 thing...cause my dad's Ram has the 4.7 in it and it has 118,xxx mi. Then again, it's not an HO, so that likely has something to do with it.

 

Aren't the 4.7's the ones they had problems with the rocker arm stud pulling out of the head? May be worth a look.

 

They were only pulling them from the heads due to the SHEER AMOUNT OF MANLY POWER the engine produced.

 

They also had a problem with sludge before 100k mi too, yet my dad's hasn't had that issue.
YOU KNOW IT!!!

 

SHEER AMOUNT OF MANLY POWER

I knew I missed something.

 

Well I pulled it down to a buddy's shop this morning, I can't really work on it at my mom's. One of those restricted retirement sub-division type places. I break the rules as it is doing fluid changes and stuff in her driveway. Besides, most of my specialized tools are up in Georgia at my place.

I was happy with how the truck pulled it. 87* day here and my temp never got above 185* (180* thermostat, Flex-a-Lite efan) and the tranny temp never got more than about 10* warmer than when I run in those temps pulling nothing. Had to pull a couple of pretty steep grades over two causeways.

Gonna see exactly what the problem is next week, but I'm 99% sure it dropped a valve and I'm finding quite a few guys on the Jeep sites with 4.7s with a dropped valve ONLY on cylinder #2 (which is the cylinder that took a sh*t on me). I'm the ONLY HO so far though AND I'd be the earliest at 102k miles. Next earliest one I can find did it at 144k miles.
A couple have gotten away with just a valve/valve seat/seal, etc. but some have had to have the head machined or have replaced the head. We shall soon see.

What kinda pisses me off is I got a neighbor with a '99 Laredo 4x2, regular 4.7 lives across the street and he doesn't believe in maintenance. 138k miles STILL original tranny fluid STILL original diff fluid. I'm **** about maintenance and mine blows up at 102k. His Jeep is lucky if he pulls into a Jiffy Lube at 10k miles for an oil change and always gets the cheapy $19.95 deal. I've run full synthetic in mine since the day I bought it and never go more than 5k between changes. I guess that's just how the cookie crumbles...