10 most worthless things on your CTD

[Inline6]

Here is my list for the useless items on my CTD.



1-Backup lights

2-blow by bottle(now bombed)

3-square slot in dash

4-useless storage under radio in 5 sp(map pocket?)

5-horn pad

6-short heater plug(planning on bombing this)

7-sideways trailer plug on hitch(how hard can it be?)

8-5" fuel drain hose (now bombed)

9-paint(wish I could have bought truck without paint and done myself)

10-tie downs in bed (sorry as H@LL!)



OK one more: having to turn the key foward to roll down the windows!!



Boy, I just put myself in the wrong mood for a monday morning LOL It is still the best truck that I have ever owned and I am slowly bombing the things that are useless and making them useFull. It's just a shame that you pay the money for the truck and have to spend more to make it a practical TRUCK to use everyday> oh well the fat lady has sang now>I will shut up.

 

[duaneparks]

Originally posted by Inline6

Here is my list for the useless items on my CTD.



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8-5" fuel drain hose (now bombed)



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I will shut up.

Inline6, don't shut up yet! What is the fix for this? How did you Bomb it?



Thanks!!

 

[Inline6]

duane, I just simply cut the shorty line off and went to Home Depot and got 4ft of the same line and ran in down beside the frame and secured it with zip ties(or cable ties) and it hangs about 6-8" off the ground now. I have a 2 liter bottle that I use to collect the water runoff by sitting it under the truck,putting the hose in it and reaching up and drain. No more trying to get a Mt. Dew bottle down beside the engine with the dinky hose and flipping fuel all over me when removing. Kinda simple but a LOT less pain to drain. Just be sure to leave some slack at the suspension area for front end travel so it doesn't pull off. I have had mine done this way for a year now and it works great!



I see you have a CJ also. Do you ever look at the CJ restoration message board on the web?



See my sig for my CJ so far.

 

[SmokinJoe]

1. A Warranty from Diamler

2. Thin paint, cheap labor

3. Crummy rear suspension, a 4x4 with LOTS of axle wrap???

4. The Junk Pusher pump.

5. void stickers on the engine and other areas

6. Front Axle with NO option for lockers

7. Limited slip joke kit

8. Vanity Mirrors with no lights, for the Mrs

9. Useless factory gauges

10. Breather Bottle mess



My next truck will be a ford. Unless I can get a Dodge with NO warranty($6,600 saved), NO paint($500 saved), Lockers from the factory, a suspension with ladderbars as standard equipment, a fuel system that can be used/abused for 100,000 miles with NO failures, Real gauges and some of the things my wife has in a normal car(vanity mirrors with lights at least on the SLT+ model)



Then when I get the truck all I will have to do is have it painted and start bombing.

 

[Texas Diesel]

Re: Re: 10 most worthless things on your CTD

Originally posted by Smokin Joe

a fuel system that can be used/abused for 100,000 miles with NO failures,

Good luck! My bro has three, 2001,2000, 1995. The 1995 has had mucho injection stuff and dont forget the F**D "replace-a-matic" that is STILL giving bad shifts.



My bro inlaw just bought a 2002 PSD but he married my sister too





He quit telling me about it's problems because I was rubbing it in too badly.

 

[Briar Hopper]

1) track bar(parts on order)

2)steering gear(new one from AGR awaiting installation AFTER fixing track bar, not before)

3) ball joints (ordering soon)

4)lift pump (on my fourth one)

5)cupholder

6)Earl Scheib paint job, or maybe MAACO of Mexico

7)CD player (not working)

8)fuel tank float, or sending unit(made me run out of fuel)

9)universal joints (went bad at 50K)

10)rubber trim at top of firewall that keeps falling off



I have these visions of coming out of the house one day, and seeing a Cummins just sitting there, with all of these exploded Dodge pieces just laying around it, then I tell myself to stop watching so many cartoons, and start wrenching. Can't wait for warm weather, so I can get caught up on repairs.

Don't need the CD player. Never was loud enough for me anyway.

By the way, it's a fairly new 2001 dually, babied and washed frequently. No off-roading.

 

[azcummins]

Briar-

The rubber seal is easily fixed by crimping it w/pliars. Just crush it down where it comes in contact with the firewall and you've fixed it.



are you bringing your ride this weekend?

 

[Briar Hopper]

Thanks for the tip, Mark, I was all set to glue it on with 3M weatherstrip adhesive. I wish I was bringing my baby with me, Eric and I talked about trailering his on a gooseneck behind mine, but feel we can travel faster/cheaper/easier/funner with just his, switching off driving duties. The only reason to bring mine would be to get some goodies put on it while at ATS, but if I want any, I can haul them home in his truck, do it myself later. We prefer to concentrate on his truck this trip. He'll help me with mine after we get home.

 

[bighammer]

... and if you remove that seal between the firewall and hood, you will see the underhood light flash when off-roading (or Michigan pavement) because of the mercury switch.



Looks like LIGHTNING under there

 

[jsimpson]

1. the bed

2. the tailgate

3. the bed floor

4. the tailgate sides

5. the bed frame

6. the tailgate construction

7. the bed metal quality

8. the tailgate metal quality

9. the bed metal thickness

10 the tailgate metal thickness

bonus: the fifth gear nut.

 

[SmokinJoe]

Re: Re: Re: 10 most worthless things on your CTD

Originally posted by Texas Diesel

The 1995 has had mucho injection stuff and dont forget the F**D "replace-a-matic" that is STILL giving bad shifts.

I do think that the K. I. S. S principal works well, but the EPA says we need to reduce x and x and x, so we have fly by wire... Any automatic trans is really a replace-a-matic. I got the 5 speed in my 2001 because I did not want to be stranded when it failed. Road side assistance should be called/used as Stupid assistance. Stupid assistance is for when your brain gets stupid and you run out of fuel, not when your transmission gives it up.



The first car I bought was a 5 speed and once or twice I had to push start it. It was those times I was VERY glad I wanted/ordered a manual transmission!

 

[NVR FNSH]

Damn - I think I got a lemon from DC. They seem to left off all the problem parts from truck except the 6spd with a grind.



What the heck are you doing with your truck to determine that the bed is such a POS?



Brian

 

[DarrellB]

I agree

Brain, I agree with ya this post is really depressing.



Big D

 

[jsimpson]

NVR; After reinforcing it with some eighth inch angle iron up front, I'm hauling my camper (3500 pound Lance) or an occasional two pallets of grass. The bed on my 89 is still in excellent shape and MUCH stronger than the one in my 94. The tailgate weighs easily twice as much as the 94 tailgate. The 94 tailgate is cracked and broken on both ends! The bed in the 94 is TOTALLY rusted out because of the bedliner it came with. Bedliners trap moisture and DESTROY beds. But nevertheless, ALL the materials in the 94 bed are thinner than the materials in the 89 bed.

 

[CWeidenkeller]

I have a '96, and aside from the cup launcher and the annual track bar replacement, I'm surprised nobody mentioned the one thing that serves NO purpose on these trucks - THE SILENCER RING!!



It does make a nice X-mas tree ornament... ...

 

[azcummins]

check my original post. It is in there!

 

[THerman]

Originally posted by Mr. Brewski





Garage door opener holder/cubby/thing in the overhead - these dern trucks wont fit in a garage!

Yeah, What he said!!!! I haven't come up with anything I can put in this stupid thing..... Maybe I should take up drugs?! That way I have my sunglasses I need to hide my stoned eyes right next to my stash?!



Ashtray makes a good cell phone cubby while charging.



And I agree with everyone else on the extra 2" of lift blocks on the 4x4 rear axle... Did they do this just so they could sell us a front end leveling kit for a small fortune??



Oh I know what it's for!!! Just figured it out!!!! It is to be used in conjunction with the rearview mirror for a Tailgater alert! When the Ford behind you disappears below your tailgate, it's a signal to use your right foot. Pedal down, head back, Ford GONE!! I especially love doing this on a hill!! It's amazing how few vehicles out there can accelerate on a decent hill!! Sure glad I'm not one of them!!!!!Oo.

 

[jsimpson]

I installed a lowered seat pan and a power seat from an 82 in my wife's 78; now we can both drive it! She's five even and I'm six even.

 

[CWeidenkeller]

Friends don't let friends ride Arabs - I'm glad to see you gelded the Paso Finos. I'd hate to see 'em impregnate that arab... .



Hey, there's something useless!!! A trailer with an arab in it behind a Dodge



Buy American!!! (Q-horse that is)