Refugee from Allpar

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scrounge

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Deep in the heart of Texas
Ram Year
1999
Engine
318
Greetings, or if you're from Texas, Howdy, how y'all doin'? I bought a 1999 Dodge Ram 1500 Laramie SLT 318 with roughly 285K miles about 2.5 years ago for $1200. It needed work, most of which I've done: it has a current problem that I've yet to diagnose, which I'll try to post somewhere in the 2-gen section, but it's generally been reliable, and I've put about 97K on it. It replaced a 1992 Dakota, which consistently needed work. The Dakota replaced a 1984 Ram D100, which I liked, but after gas was spiked with ethanol, its gas mileage was horrible, and it often stalled at intersections in hot weather.

I'd been posting to Allpar, but they were bought by VerticalScope, which insisted on making the site more complicated and less responsive to its users. They also removed the news content from the home page, and replaced with the generic forum that they use on all of their sites. And their sponsored links aren't Mopar-related. So please, don't sell this site to VerticalScope.
 

Graygoose

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Convert, for now.
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small
welcome!!
 
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scrounge

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Thank you for the welcomes. I should have added that the truck is a white quad cab with a regular bed. It has a sprayed-on bed liner, which I don't like; I bought a bed pad from a junkyard, and a cheap, ugly camper shell through a craigslist ad. I'll junk the shell if I find a better one, but I'll keep the clamps.

Agreed, I used to really like Allpar, but I rarely look at it any more. Only when someone links an article or thread that might be interesting, and I wish said links were posted elsewhere.
 
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scrounge

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Here's the thread on the stalling problem:

 

Harley Harrold

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:biggun: :party36::welcome::party36:I grew up in Houston, Texas, l live in Mississippi now.
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