79,975 Miles My 4.7 Is Toast
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ORIGINAL: dieseldoc1
traded my 4.7 at 52000 running fine but a friend had a 02 4.7 locked up at 80000.is there a problem here? anyone else? want to start a poll?
traded my 4.7 at 52000 running fine but a friend had a 02 4.7 locked up at 80000.is there a problem here? anyone else? want to start a poll?
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RE: 79,975 Miles My 4.7 Is Toast
ORIGINAL: superdak05
with any luck they will drop in the newer 4.7 rated at 302 hrspwr instead of the original factory one
with any luck they will drop in the newer 4.7 rated at 302 hrspwr instead of the original factory one
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RE: 79,975 Miles My 4.7 Is Toast
ORIGINAL: kregier
I was hoping for that when they swapped mine out, but apparently they keep older model blocks somewhere for this kind of thing. I wonder what it would cost to do a swap to a new 4.7?
ORIGINAL: superdak05
with any luck they will drop in the newer 4.7 rated at 302 hrspwr instead of the original factory one
with any luck they will drop in the newer 4.7 rated at 302 hrspwr instead of the original factory one
Here's more info: http://www.allpar.com/mopar/47.html
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RE: 79,975 Miles My 4.7 Is Toast
4.7L is an awesome engine. I bought a 2000 Dakota with a 4.7L and drove it for about 4-5 thousand miles with no head gasket. One of the head gasketshad beenleft off at the factory I never lost a drop off coolant until a few months after i bought it, I was giving it hell going up the mountain and it blew coolant everywhere and started overheating. We towed it back to our shop, put a new head and gasket on it and it's has been fine ever since. That is some great machine work.
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Collapsed lifters is the root cause. The Dealer is a small town Chrysler/Ford Dealer. They don't stock many vehicles. they have 1 ram and it's a new 06 mega lol. The service department is awesome. They usually get it right and always give me a loaner. I didn't buy this (Used) ram there but when I buy a new one it will come from there.
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RE: 79,975 Miles My 4.7 Is Toast
We bought our Ram as a lease vehicle back in Aug 05 with 21,000 on it. It was a great deal and I asked about the 7/70 warrenty plan but the dealer said because of it being a lease there was no warrenty for it. But if I could get a warrenty now at 50,000+ miles I may be interested. Is there a program out there, I really do not want to go back to the dealer I got it from.
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