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Heck yeah!! Good job. That will make a good truck for her.
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Looks like it's going to be more of a spare vehicle for us. My daughter is really liking the Ram 1500 she is running currently and I don't think that she will want to switch.
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Man I would drive the wheels off that thing. Looks like a really nice truck to me.
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Thanks. It is sitting in the driveway as our spare for now. Definitely worth the little bit of money I have in it.
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Lol, I used to have a few customers that had those trucks. They quite literally drove the wheels off of them due to bad ball joints.
I agree though, it's a nice truck and I'd DD the crap out of it, if given the opportunity.
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I have a couple of minor things to work on when I get the chance. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, there is an issue with the oil pressure gauge that I need to diagnose. I also noticed a little noise in one of the rear door speakers. It has that Infinity sound system that Dodge offered as an option. It could be an amp issue developing or just a simple speaker problem. A good project for over the winter. Finally, the headliner is starting to sag in a couple of spots. Not bad, but I'd like to get it back up before it tears.
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Using the little truck to haul a small load of scrap wood today. I'm convinced that this is probably the first time that this truck has been used to haul anything other than a gas can.
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That thing is super clean for sure
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Nice work @Midnightmoon !
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Got the oil pressure gauge working today. Simple pressure sensor replacement. You could say that the old one was used up.
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So, my daily driver Ram decided that today would be a great day to start puking antifreeze out of the upper tank area of the radiator. Starting tomorrow, the Dakota is going to get commuter duty until I get the Ram fixed. I actually took the Dakota to Pittsburgh last week for it's first highway run. Other than desperately needing an alignment, it did well.
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I'll look forward to seeing how you like daily driving it for a bit. I'm also curious what kind of gas mileage you'll get. My biggest complaint about my dakota is the the mileage isn't much better than the square.
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I'll be interested to see what it does also. My bet is no better than around 14 or so with my mixed commute. But, seeing how regular unleaded is $2.05/gallon cheaper than Diesel right now here, I may actually save a little money this week. As I type this, gas is $3.95 and diesel is $5.99.
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Ya, my Dakota does about 13 on my commute, and 16 on the highway. My square does about 12 on my commute and 14 on the highway, with the 305 / 700R4 combination if I hold 55 on the highway I can touch 16, but have only done that one time as 55 is not a reasonable speed to drive on 70MPH highways.
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hows the blower motor resistor LOL
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