RE: Busted Truck WAS: DML Online

From: knox.james@sympatico.ca
Date: Thu Jun 12 2008 - 15:35:42 EDT


Hey Tom. It's time for a couple of your Pointe beers.

Jim, 91 Dak

>
>Dustin Williams wrote: > It's working....I'm guessing from the silence that
>everybody's truck > is working good. >
>
>Or that some of us are just fed up with stuff breaking and don't even
>bother to post it anymore...
>
>Decided to take teh Ram to work today... check engine light came on, on the
>way in. Got to work and key on-offed to get the codes...
>
>P0442 - EVAP leak (again!!!)
>
>and one I wasnt able to identify right away...
>
>P1746
>
>so I started driving home tonight and the transmission wouldnt 2-3 shift.
>Checked the fluid... it was a little low but its still normal...Drove back
>to work... identified the code as "Trans TQ converter or Overdrive solenoid
>manfunction" yay...
>
>I've known I've needed a fluid change.. but have not got around to it. I'm
>about 34K on the fluid... the same fluid that towed christine to Jons in
>2005 and drove the entire colorado trip. Its smelling burnt. Not good.
>
>So I let it idle and warm up a bit and then try it again. Drive home was
>ok - it was shifting gears but I kept the speed down... also could feel it
>either slipping or something... hard to tell if it was a slip or a solenoid
>having convuslions.
>
>Couple that with a very obvious driveline vibration and deep thrumming
>sound while in motion (I'm guessing driveshaft Ujoints - I hope its not a
>bloody front hub unit bearing ...)
>
>A punctured steering dampner...
>
>"What was the bullshit with you and the standpipe!?" - Steven McCaffrey
>
>(I'm guessing no one will understand the above reference)
>
>Add in a blown intake manifold pan gasket, possible plugged CAT..
>
>*sighs* its only four months away from being paid off too...
>
>That truck aint going anywhere any time soon... its mothballed... along
>with the rest of the broken non-functional fleet.
>
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