Jason! good to hear from You Erik and Charlie are pretty good! Things get
behind when they do quality work. Knowing the GTAA, I'm With You on the
Rental - Gardner-QEW.! I Best Speak French as to not to offend some!
BON CHANCE MON AMI! La Dakota est L'etoile
A' Demain, Savois, Savois
Jim Knox , 91 Dak,
Canuck
---- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Bleazard" <dml@bleazard.net>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 6:15 PM
Subject: DML: Nonsense (was:Dakota engine)
>
> At 06:30 PM 12/10/2003, Jim wrote:
>
> >Hey Jason! Did you get the power problem and the diff noise solved
>
> Not yet. I took the 2001 over to Redline Firestone this morning. They
> didn't call today, so either they didn't look at it, or they didn't call
> after looking at it like I was hoping. They took it for a quick road test
> last Saturday and they thought it was definitely an abnormal rear end
> noise, but didn't have time to look at it further until today.
>
> As for the '95, Bob hooked his scanner up to it and noticed a couple of
> interesting things:
>
> The O2 sensor appears to be toast. I'm planning on replacing it ASAP.
>
> The 180 deg thermostat might be stuck partially open. The coolant temp
> isn't going above 167. Planning on replacing that with a 195, as the
> original reason for the 180 was trying to cure some pinging that ended up
> being the belly pan gasket.
>
> And to add insult to injury, the only car available at the rental place
> next to Redline was a dumpy little Focus hatchback. Bleah.
>
> --
> Jason Bleazard http://www.bleazard.net Burlington, Ontario
> his: '95 Dakota Sport 4x4, 3.9 V6, 5spd, Reg. Cab, white
> hers: '01 Dakota Sport 4x4, 4.7 V8, Auto, Quad Cab, black
>
>
>
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