RE: The dakota's pinging

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (fasstdak@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 07:19:27 EDT


The conduit comes on all of the factory wires and the clips are only
required if the vehicle didn't come with them. I've done the reroute, at
the dealership I work at, quite a few times and have only seen very few that
didn't come with the 1-wire clips...some were broken though. If they billed
you for the clips, then yes...you should have them.

- Bernd

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Eric Huff
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:00 AM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: Re: DML: The dakota's pinging

> > Should those work ok with the stock ignition?

> Yup...got a set in my wife's Jeep as well (stock ignition system).

Cool.

> Kit for a wire reroute?!? You run the wires differently...nothing
> else(conduit is already on them from the factory).

As for conduit, i don't think it ever had it. When i changed the wires at
30k, i don't remember any. If it did, i'm sure i put it back (i'm very
careful about things like that), which would mean the dealer left it off
during this recent trip.

The tsb has yoy run the wires on the throttle body side of the valve cover,
so there are 3 one wire clips.

Here's the tsb that describes it:

http://dodgeram.info/tsb/1998/18-48-98.htm

It would be kind of sloppy (in my 99 at least) to do it w/o the clips. It
would work of course. But, since i paid for the parts, i want them.

This dealer has been good about big repairs (like rebuilding the rear end,
replacing the steering column, etc) but seems to not do well with the easy
jobs. I guess that's better than the other way around. :)

eric

-- 
1974 Valiant 4-door, 318
1999 Dakota Ext Cab, 2WD



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