Recent Content by Gasmasher

the 94, 95 and possibly 96 model trucks [can't remeber]had L,1,2,3,od on shifter. 97 up had 1,2,3,4,5 on shifter. you have a nv4500 trans in your truck with a overdrive 5th gear. Your local Dodge store must not work on many trucks.

My Dodge hard at work in the Oklahomha hay fields

I agree with cerberusiam sounds like your torque converter clutch has locked up on you

My truck did the same thing. Replaced thermostat and fixed problem

Dodge service manual says to use axle lube. I have always used axle lube on the ones I have done.

The KDP is killer dowl pin. Located on front gear housing. dowl pin lines up font gear cover for alignment. Pin WILL vibrate out fall and jam on cam gear has no where to go but out aluminum front gear cover. After this happens you will leak oil bad. In order to fix problem front end of truck has...

If you have radio steering wheel controls they may stop working and air bag light may come on. Did a ton of clocksprings when I worked in the dealer common problem on many Dodge vehicles

Pull relay or fuse where your engine won't start. You may not ever be able to see oil pressure on gauge on your dash I think there is a delay on it. You can screw a manual gauge on top of oil filter housing to see if you are building oil pressure.

Never had good luck with cooper tires. Cooper discovers came stock on my gooseneck didnt get 10k out of them and center of tires ballooned out and soon after they would blow out. i do have a bad habit of overloading trailer especially during hay season:D so that could be self inflicted. A lot of...

Yea thier WPW and up serial numbers. Cat comes out and sets them up on start up. Most failures have been under warranty. Our emmisons are checked every quarter.

Well wether or not any of this is true I do know that in the last 2 years the turbos on 3500 series caterpillars engines have gone down hill. I have had turbo bearings go out with brand new packages with less than 1500hrs on them. These enginges are a constant speed with generally a constant...

Well got head off today. Gasket blown on cyl#3 and #4 on fire ring heading toward push rod holes. Got some pretty deep grooves where the fire rings sealed on head. Is this a common problem?

220k on truck no lift pump or p-pump problems all factory original. using ULSD no additives get 18 -21 empty. 10-15 depending on how heavy load is.

Noticed bad oil leak on truck and engine making funny noise while idling. Limped truck home and found head gasket on #4 cyl. leaking compression. My finacial advisor :rolleyes: said we could swing ARP suds. Wondering if they are a plug and play or if anything special like machine work needs to...