I have my 97 dodge ram 1500 5.9L, I was thinking about putting a throttle body spacer in it. I was wondering if it will help me at all? I have a cold air intake on it already, and I was told that the throttle body will not benefit my on this truck at all due to the way the rails inside being so long on these motors and what not. Is this true? Will it be a waste of money or should I put one on?

 

There not a waste of money, the make a great paper weight or door stop! Seriously, all they do is make a whistle noise.

 

Waste of money. Throttle body spacers do absolutley nothing on fuel injected engines. The principle of them is to allow more space for the air and fuel to mix. But since there is no fuel in the throttle body they are pointless.

If they actually worked the car manufacturers would install them in the factory. Remember, car makers spend millions of dollars to engineer and test cars for power and fuel economy. If these things worked they would install them.

 

Nuthin to add here , told twice should be good

 

Okay that's what I needed to know, thanks for the input guys. Now my next question, the transmission check valve. I've heard to pull this out, it is one of the main causes for the dodge trannys burning up due to them getting clogged and not allowing the fluid to cool. Has anyone removed theirs? Any pointers or info about it? I thought about taking that section out and replacomg the check valve with an in line filter

 

Yes. Please feel free to use the search function:

https://dodgeforum.com/forum/2nd-gen...46rh-46re.html

 

Some remove the check valve and some keep it, if you change the trans fluid regularly there should be no chance of the valve clogging, and if you remove it you will have to wait a moment after putting truck in gear to get rolling as the torque converter fills back up (thats what the check valve is for)

No need to add a inline filter, you already have one in the pan on the suction tube. Just change the trans fluid and filter every 25 to 30k miles.

 

BUT, if you add the inline filter you get a check valve back, so don't have to wait for the converter to fill. Also, with the external filter, you don't have to worry about plugging up the ATF cooler, and you only have to replace the internal filter when it gets so old that it might start falling apart.

 

I really can't say I have ever noticed a delay in engagement from removing the valve . Done it on 4 jeeps , and this truck . Never any trans issues , I still have 3 outta 5 vehicles .

 

Good info, I wasn't aware that the filter restores the check valve. Thanks