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

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dapepper9

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Looks pretty good! What size of tires are you using?

For me, the ole girl's been seeing a lot more action over the last couple months. The Honda's exhaust went to hell and finally got her through the exhaust shop to get it all sorted. Then, a week later, the alternator decided to give up the ghost, so I'll have the "pleasure" of sorting that out this weekend.

Made two trips to the local Menard's for roofing shingles, carrying ~1,000 pounds per trip. Not particularly noteworthy, but my rear shocks are T-O-A-S-T. Truck still rode surprisingly nice and the ole 360 didn't hardly notice they were back there to begin with, even going up the hills.

I learned that weekend that roofing really, REALLY sucks.

Also, this guy arrived in the mail the other day...

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Hell yeah, Airgap/M1 is a great upgrade. You'd have to kill me to get mine off me and even then you'd have to pry it out of my cold dead hands lol

Finally fixed my cracked transfercase that’s had the truck parked for awhile now. Then immediately put about 300 miles on it. Re-motivated on the truck and remembering why I still have it. When it’s parked for awhile it’s hard to stay motivated on it
 

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Yeret

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Having made a few trips up north, I've found that my truck really seems to run better on BP gas vs Conoco or Quik Star. Used to be two BP stations in my town, but one got bought out by Quik Star and the other closed it's doors. Keftxo!

I'm hoping to get the Air Gap bolted on before the summer's over, but it's hard to say as I've got a huge backlog of vehicle repairs and general chore stuff that's gotta come first. Of course, I'll be purchasing a canned tune from Ryan.driver.gif

In addition to the Air Gap, I've got a pair of Pacesetter long tubes ready to go, which comes at a good time as the driver-side shorty has developed a leak and the cat-back is pretty much rust chow. I'm thinking of going with a 3-inch single pipe and then split into two tail-pipes with rectangular tips for the "cool" factor. I do need to remember to order a pair of O2 sensor harness extensions as the cat's gonna have to move back several inches to fit the long tubes and accompanying y-pipe.

And of course, there's my Hi-Po-Tek 52mm, which should be quite happier.
 

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Went from a single 3" exhaust to a dual 3" with a different muffler. Not sure exactly what sound I'm looking for but I gotta say the duals aren't bad. Used a FlowMonster muffler from Holley. Dual in, dual out but they DO NOT crossover inside. Most DI/DO mufflers have some version of an x-pipe or a mixing chamber but this one is individual pipes with packing material wrapped around each. Gotta say, I like the sound a lot. Sounds pretty old school and, while deep and burbly, pretty tame around town but you get on it and it makes some noise. Problem is duals are heavy and I like the simplicity of a single. If I can mimic this sound with a single that would be perfect
 

Yeret

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New stereo (sorely needed!) and replaced standard mirrors with flip up towing mirrors.
What'd you put in for a stereo? I REALLY need to replace mine (display doesn't work, so finding a desired radio station is a total roll of the dice, you have to spin the volume knob a hundred times before it goes up, inserting a CD requires you to smack the face with your fist to get it to seat, it randomly won't turn on AT ALL). But, at least the tape deck works!
 

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I installed an Alpine UTE-73BT single din without a CD player and Pioneer TS-G690 6x9speakers in the door. The rears were still good so I left them alone, I also got the install kit for both. The install kit was necessary in my opinion making it plug and play and all for $200.
 

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Blue took me out hunting. This is the tamest part of the trail. pine trail mud 2.jpgBlue on pine trail.jpgPine trail mud.jpgBlue at the pines.jpg
 

Matt Bell

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Flipped my tensioner, added a ribbed pulley, went to a shorter belt.
 

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Yeret

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Did a fair bit of Black Friday shopping this weekend. I think it's best to just not look at my credit card balance for a week or two, LOL.

A good portion of said shopping did regard my truck however, even if there weren't any actual sales on said parts. Grabbed a Detroit Truetrac 9.25 carrier from Hi-PoTek (fantastic price!) and a set of 4.56 gears for it and the 44 up front.

Still got the Air Gap in the box. With the gear swap and a fresh tune from Ryan, I'm hoping for general goodliness. My local mechanic's gonna be busy for a spell once I got everything gathered up.

I'll be respectful however, and wait until I'm off his street before doing a burnout. :p
 

dodge dude94

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Ahhh yes. This place is musty as usual. Been a while, y'all.

Anyway, got 2 weeks off for Holiday/Shutdown from work so I'm going to do a couple things in the mean time. Finally going to get around to replacing my air bag clock spring that I've been sitting on for months as well as some axle shaft u-joints that have been going bad for a couple years.
 

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Hughes intake to fix plenum leak for good, new water pump, fan clutch, platinum spark plugs, wires, distributor cap. Serviced differential and 4 wheel drive components. Good for another 40K.
 

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Changed the clock spring only to find out its a 98 specific part and that no one makes it anymore. They're all 99+. So I had to run to the junk yard and buy a new air bag.

Put it all back together to find my scraping noise still present, lessened, but there nonetheless.

I don't know what to do. I shot some grease into the column but that barely did anything.
Ugh.
 

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Added steps from CarId…mislabeled “driver’s and passenger” side, so a one hour install turned into four hours of reinterpreting Chinese installation instructions.
 

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2,600 in gravel + 500 lbs in tools hmm carry the 3 and. That's exactly 3/4 of a ton . Ten ply tires don't even squat .wish the leaf springs would keep me off the bump stops.im just hope this doesn't void my warranty
 

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Yeret

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Installed an Edelbrock Pro-Flow air cleaner. I always said I'd never go back to an open-element air cleaner, but...eh, fuggit! This one's powder-coated black and looks pretty slick, plus it has a **** for the crankcase breather hose, unlike my last one, so that system gets to function same as OEM.

Seems a tad peppier, and I'm sure the fiddy-two millimeter throttle body likes it, and the intake noises are cool. It's gonna totally look the part once I get my Air Gap installed (c'mooon Spring!).

Also, my "noBus" issue suddenly came back. Yay, woohoo, *happy clown noises*. Took me months to figure it out last time, and I only resolved it by a lucky guess (windshield wiper timer module). Truck's still driveable, just no instrumentation, LOL. If I'm reeeal lucky, I might be able to dig up a second timer module I had acquired and swap it in just to see if lightning strikes twice. *fingers crossed*

EDIT: Well, I found the problem. The new air cleaner stud was poking through the harness convolute and pressing into the wires, something that I apparently completely failed to notice when I installed it. I stuck the rubber cowl cover in between the two and TADA, cluster works again. Ran out of time to look at the wires, but I'm suspecting the insulation got eroded and the wire shorted through the stud. Gonna be a fun time trying to pry it away from the cluster to seal it back up, but at least the problem was pretty obvious this time.
 
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I just improvised a glovebox fix on my newly acquired 2001 Ram. The center tab was broken off the door, and the end slots were broken off the box. The prior owner used all manner of tape and glue in previously failed attempts. I fabbed up some brackets and slots using scrap sheetmetal and attached them using pop rivets. It works like new now. The rivets should allow some flex and vibration without cracking.


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Added steps from CarId…mislabeled “driver’s and passenger” side, so a one hour install turned into four hours of reinterpreting Chinese installation instructions.
Some time round eye think we got a good einggrish .we make parts for cheap and no drive ram trucks in Hong Kng
 

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