Re: Maintenance Questions

From: Skipjack (skipjack@radix.net)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2001 - 21:34:10 EDT


Can you post your detailed maintenance schedule to the list?
Thanks

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> From: Will Coughlin <willcoughlin@hotmail.com>
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: Maintenance Questions
> Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 12:43 AM
>
> Travis, I have a 4.7L, but I will give you my thoughts on the things you
> asked about even though some don't apply to my Dakota. Plugs- I change
'em
> at every service(2500 miles). Plugs are cheap, why not? I would replace
the
> wires,cap & rotor at every 10,000 miles just because that would make sure

> that you didn't go too long on any of them, and it would be easy to
remember
> when to change them. Anything else you need to know about? I have a
> maintenance schedule that is pretty detailed, and can let you know more
of
> it if you need info on anything else. I've found with all the previous
> vehicles that a good plan for maintenance is to take the "severe service"

> schedule and cut everything in half. That will give you a REALLY good
> maintenance schedule, and it'd be hard to let anything go too long like
> that! HTH,
>
> Will Coughlin willcoughlin@hotmail.com
> '00 reg.cab,2wd,4.7L/NV-3500HD5-spd/3.92sg(9.25")
> http://www.geocities.com/willcoughlin/index.html
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Travis Gensch" <wtgensch@execpc.com>
>
> What kind of maintenace schedules you guys keep? I know there are some
> schedules contained in the manual, but I think more should be/could be
done.
> I am not worried about oil changes, since I have timeframe that I do that
> in. I would like to know things like how often spark plugs, plug wires,
cap
> and rotor, etc should be changed? What about cleaning things like the
TB?
> What do you guru's recommend?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Travis
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