Finally pulled my tranny yesterday, and well... I found the problem pretty quick. Pretty obvious why I had a bad vibration. I believe the picture speaks for itself.




Think it can still be used for a core?? Hahaha

 

Wow! Broken in 2. That is crazy.

I wonder how it broke that way...

 

That would def cause a vibration.

 

Just the O/D housing let go, didn't it?

 

Wait for it...











You want a Mega Viper!

 

Seconded.

 

Awesome!

 

Aboslutley. I'd love a Mega Viper!!!

Unfortunately I'm in the process of getting my own place and just simply cannot afford it. Hell, I had to ponder long and hard whether or not I wanted to even mess with this 16 year old piece of poop, if it was even worth fixing.. Almost everyone else has seemed to give up on these trucks. I remember 2 years ago the first 3 pages of threads on this section of the site all had responses daily.

Now, this place is lucky if the last response on the first page is less than a month old. It seems like people are just giving up on these trucks.

When I bought my truck in 09 I thought a 1st gen ram was too old to even consider. Now here I am, in 2015 throwing more money at my truck than I even bought it for, and it's older than some 1st gens were at the time I bought it.

It's not financially wise for me, or anyone else who still has these, to even fix this truck, with the amount that's wrong with it in the first place. The only reason why I'm doing it is pure sentimental value, and the dying desire to keep another 2nd gen on the road.

If anything else goes wrong after it's fixed though, no turning back, this truck is done. I would rather have a 7 year payment on a 4th gen with a HEMI and floorboard coolers than a 2nd gen with a straight axel needing major repairs.

 

All very valid points, BUT you can't legitimately say that "anyone else who still has these" is in the same boat you are. Every vehicle model with any kind of staying power at all will go through the phase that second generation Rams are going through now, the transition from kiddie kar to either future classic or crusher bait. Most that are still on the road have spent their most recent history on kiddie kar duty. The same thing happened with the '57 Nomad, the '64 Impala, the '68 Charger, the '69 Z/28, the Hemi Cudas, the Super Bees and Superbirds...

These trucks are old enough now that many are learning the hard way what classic car enthusiasts have known all along: The three owner-controllable factors that determine a vehicle's longevity and how much it costs to get it are (a) how and where the vehicle is driven, (b) whether or not it's routinely garaged, and (c) quality of maintenance, and the vehicle's entire history matters. If I had reason to drive from Colorado to the Atlantic, then to the Pacific, and back to Colorado again, I'd not have the slightest worry about a breakdown. I'd want to change the oil before turning back to the west and again right after returning home, but that'd be the full extent of my concern about the truck.

Maintenance matters. Especially when it's neglected.

 

If you were closer I'd come take it off your hands and spend the next 3 years fixin it so when my daughter turns 16 she'd have a truck to drive.