we bought our 99 Ram brand new with the 5.2 V8 4x4, and have been using it to pull a horse trailer since. It now has 105,000 on it.

Within the last 4 months, we have replaced....

New cat
new plenum gasket
new air conditioner unit
rebuilt transmission
new tires

What should we do next. and now that we are repairing it, what can I get to enhance the performance. I was looking at this intake...is this worth it or should I just fork out the money for a K&N?

http://www.autopartswarehouse.com/sk...%26+Drivetrain

Any other ideas? Everything else on the truck is stock.

We also need a new dashboard, and I was looking at the dashboard cover in the LMC truck catalog. Is that soemthing thats worth the $130?


And finally, i have major rust under both driver and passenger doors, front and back, and above both rear wheelwells (has not broken through, just bubbling)

What should I do to combat that? Thanks!

 

don't waste your money on that intake, get a 14x3, i tow a lot with the truck, and it helped quite a bit

as far as the rust goes, i would sand down your rocker panels, and do bedliner, and bring it up along the fenders, thats what im gonna do to mine this winter

 

i would look to see if you have the dealth flash,,,, look at your pcm/computer and see if it has a tag that sayd up dated softwair... its sum thing like that sum one else like chip in

 

IIRC, it says authorized software update on it
i checked, and i don't have it yay

 

Sorry to sound stupid....sorry been working on a ford truck for the last 8 months...

k&n 14x3? And anything else I need to do with the 14x3...doesnt require scoop or anything?

And what do you mean by check the pcm for updated software? dealth flash?

 

as far as the 14x3 goes, im gonna say do a search, using the advanced feature, same for the death flash