I finally completed my project today, well 99.99 % complete, and everything still seems to be holding. I ran the engine with distilled water first for a while ( about 30 minutes), gonna drain it tomorow and fill it with coolant, and runn it a while longer, hopefully I wont see any leaks! Water pump runs fine it seems, New belt tensioner works as expected. This weekend I plan to switch the spark plugs then do an oil change, and check the bolts on the torque converter, then next week service the rear diff. Good times.. :-) Not too bad for my first time working on a car lol, I couldnt have done it without the help of every1 on here that helped me.

-tim

 

congrats man!

 

Always a much better feeling for accomplishing something yourself than just paying somebody to do it for you. Congrats.

 

congratulations. hopefully you enjoyed it, and think about all the money you saved.
take your time and work your way through it one project at a time.

 

Thanks everyone, yes, I did enjoy it, although that fan clutch made me curse quite a bit ;-) gotta love these cuts and bruises on my hands as well ;-) Kinda get a "high" off of an accomplishment,,, I see how this can be addictive... ;-)

-tim

 

Addictions = Money

and in the case of our Rams, that means lots of money.

 

It starts with a Water Pump....

Keep reading these forums, soon enough you will be modding everything under the hood...haha. And I definitely agree on the feeling you get doing it yourself.. Nice Job!