New on Forum, with a 1995 Ram 5.2 and a Lil Red Express

[Robeffy]

Hi All,

I have a 95 Ram 1500 4x4, rust free ( go figure ), original paint, 318 with automatic. I bought it off a farmer type old timer who oil sprayed it every year and hardly drove it. His son decided to overload it and messed up the tranny a bit, overheated it. It has about 100,000 miles on it. It had the keg manifold blown gasket that I fixed with the Hughes Engine kit.

I have drained and replaced the tranny filter, and installed a drain plug on the pan. Put in a bottle of Lucas stop slip stuff and it is almost perfect, just slips on the 2-3 shift if there is no load / super low throttle.
Seem to me that as soon as there is some throttle / load, the revs are up enough that it shifts perfectly.

I wonder if there is low tranny oil pressure?

Also, taking the Lil Red intake manifold off. Whenever you drive it and shut it off, there is a coolant leak from the back of the motor, on the drivers side. This motor has never been touched, a 1979 360 E58 Police Interceptor motor.

Any thoughts on since I have the intake off, what else should I look at while I am that far into it?

Thanks in advance.
Rob

 

[Harley Harrold]

Nice rig.View media item 25918

 

[Joe w.]

Welcome always loved the lil red express trucks

 

[Robeffy]

Yup, the Lil Red's are nice. I had a chance to buy 1 as a trade in at the dealers, it was 1 year old... my wife and I picked this one up and restored it, mostly anyways. Its totally original, down to the hardware. Replaced the wood with red oak, cause the factory prototypes used that ( production ones used pine ).
I like those Super Bee model pickups. Grew up with them running around town..

Thanks for the welcomes!

 

[MikeG71]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Booms]

Love the Lil' Red Express.....