What did you do to/with your second gen today?

wingnut said:

Hardly anything. A little goes a long way in brakes. It was a spurt and a dribble.

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dodge dude94 said:

Sure they aren't 3924?
Make sure you tighten your bands up a bit, might help the shift quality.


Didn't do anything thing to it today, just looked at the bird crap on the roof and the fact that I need to wash it again.

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Johnn123 said:

Nope, they were the 5224's. They run hotter then the 3924's IIRC. Running oem (dealer replaced) plugs now with no pinging so I'll stay with the hotter ones. Hehe we'll see if i'm adventurous enough to try that, I've never done anything with transmissions before. I gotta clean the IAC too, it hasn't been done since I bought it lol, and I'm sure 8 months of sittin didn't help lol.

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Johnn123 said:

Ahh I was under the impression they ran cooler for some reason, I must have it mixed up with something. Damn now I'll be racking my brains trying to figure out what I've mixed it up with lol.

Tip noted, thank you good sir! I'll be sure to post pics when I do my tune-up.

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dodge dude94 said:

Yep, the cooler heat for the extended tip plugs is 5223, and it's the same with the 3924, so it's 3923.

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wingnut said:

Hey Dodgedude and Johnn! Thanks for the tip on the tranny pan. Last time I did that I had one corner lowered and draining, and then tried to loosen the other bolts with an air-ratchet. Long story short, the exhaust of the ratchet was pointing at the fluid stream! Big mess! I'll be doing a fluid and filter change on the Ram next week. While I have the pan off, I will be taking it to work and having my toolmaker buddy drill a hole, weld a nut to the outside, and install a tapered plug in it so that partial fluid changes will be easier in the future.
Ghetto-Garage tip of the day, DON'T google "tranny"! You WON'T like what pops up!
As far as fluid goes, I have used Wall-Mart Super-Tech ATF+4 for many miles with no issues. Under $5 qt compared to $8+ at the chain stores.
Plug wise, I've always used the Champion RJ12yc's as spec'd. Same plug for my Harley! I've had no issues, but it sounds like you like to use other heat-ranges for better mileage/performance? You have any more info?

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wingnut said:

Hey Dodgedude and Johnn! Thanks for the tip on the tranny pan. Last time I did that I had one corner lowered and draining, and then tried to loosen the other bolts with an air-ratchet. Long story short, the exhaust of the ratchet was pointing at the fluid stream! Big mess! I'll be doing a fluid and filter change on the Ram next week. While I have the pan off, I will be taking it to work and having my toolmaker buddy drill a hole, weld a nut to the outside, and install a tapered plug in it so that partial fluid changes will be easier in the future.
Ghetto-Garage tip of the day, DON'T google "tranny"! You WON'T like what pops up!
As far as fluid goes, I have used Wall-Mart Super-Tech ATF+4 for many miles with no issues. Under $5 qt compared to $8+ at the chain stores.
Plug wise, I've always used the Champion RJ12yc's as spec'd. Same plug for my Harley! I've had no issues, but it sounds like you like to use other heat-ranges for better mileage/performance? You have any more info?

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Johnn123 said:

Ahhhhh thats the ones I was thinking of! Yea that makes sense then haha.



I have an sct tuner with tunes from Sean, which requires running a lower range thermostat (180*) to prevent the motor from pinging. I just had it mixed up with the plugs, and there different lengths haha. Dodge Dude would probably be able to explain the plugs alot better than I could lol so I'll let him explain.

Ughh what a freaking night. First wheel bearing thats bad started squeeling and getting it changed has been delayed. Then I lost a cab light lens.... Ya I didn't think that possible, must of lost it to a tree branch or something. Then to top my night off, front driver speaker no longer works, completely blown. Thank you Truck, you're just so nice! -_-

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dodge dude94 said:

Heh, I had a bolt come out of mine when I was tipping it down and I got dunked in ATF. And mind you, those pans are heavy when full of fluid.
+1 for Wallyworld ATF4, got two changes of it in mine.

The cooler heat range spark plugs, aka Autolite 3923 or Champ. RJ09YC or LC4 had supposedly shown 5 more HP on a chassis dyno compared to stock emissions plugs. However, I wouldn't mess with it unless you're pinging or tow a lot.

Read your own damn signature, foo!



Thinking about pulling my fog lights and sanding them tomorrow to make them match my headlights better.

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Johnn123 said:

Hopefully I don't dunk myself in ATF lol. I ended up picking up a 5 liter jug of ATF+4 Mobil One and a 5L+1L of Pennzoil 10w-30. Hey I read my own signature everytime I log on!

I think you should too

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dodge dude94 said:

You're gonna need 7 qts.
Mine took 6.5. My truck flipped a ***** when I only put 5 in it....



Why should I read your sig? I'm the one that said that.

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Johnn123 said:

Are you kidding? F'ing partsource.... Told me I'd need 3.8L -_- thought that seemed a little low... Guess Ill grab another 2 quarts at Napa at some point.

No I meant I think you should sand your fogs I know you said that quote lmao.

Anyways I don't think I posted a pic of my tailgate after I put the black stripe on it so here it is now

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