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Man i'd never own a red dodge....Gross.
24401 is the zip
Mines red too. I like it. To each their own I guess
Red's not my first choice either but if the deal is right.....
If I had to I'd drive a pink Dodge before I drove anything else.
Thats why I painted the under carriage on the Jeep red. To match the truck.
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My jeep is white, my tahoe is white, the wife's car is white, so red seems awesome to me!
Just found out the truck has a dana 80 in the rear. A little research let me know this is a full floater usually in DRW trucks, but dodge put them in their 2500s with a manual and the v10. Anyone know anything more about this axle?
Yea nice score on the truck It looks like it was treated well
My truck has the dana 80 rear, with the cummins.
You pretty much got the same truck but without the diesel. Def a good find
Well a little update for searching posterity. I have towed with the Dodge a few times now, I have driven it around town and straight highway driving.
So far on the highway with a small load in the bed I averaged 11.5 mpg.
Towing I averaged 7.5
Mixed city driving and some quick high way driving I averaged 9.5
I do have to say the 7.5 towing was me in a real hurry and lots of hills. The highway driving was also lots of hills, and I was not babying the skinny pedal. I will try to get some highway numbers where I am easy on the skinny pedal.
Overall I love this truck. The V10 will light up the tires if you are not careful. I also have found that 1st gear in the NV4500 is only needed when I am towing, without a load I start off in 2nd.
Same issue here with 1st gear, even with my oversized tires. Stock are 245s, Im running 305s
Also for MPG comparison, since we both have almost identical trucks just gas verses diesel. Empty I run mid 20s on the highway with cruise set empty. Last trip on flat istate I got 25-26 mpg
Towing a 30 foot gooseneck (8800# empty) with two Xjs (~4000# each) bed full of tools, spare parts, camping gear and coolers, and the truck with 4 people total. I averaged 11mpg towing to big dogs and back.
I have 3.55 gears, with my oversized tires Im sure my mileage would be a little better towing if I had the 4.10s, but since it is my DD and I do not tow the big gooseneck often, I get my mileage back from the highway driving with the bigger tires
Hope that helps anyone curious about gas verses diesel
You've gotta look at the tranny if the fluid is burnt orange red the tranny most like needs replaced.m
and that he has a manual...
Not saying they are immune to old nasty fluid but a lot more tolerant when it comes to fluid
No no just replace the trans that is what burnt fluid means..
I get my trannies flushed every 100k miles. But it uses the special machine which gets around 95% and takes an hour (it heats and runs the tranny during the flush). Never replaced a tranny yet (not even every had to work on mine) and the fluid comes out red/brown on the dipstick before and bright clear red after. Around $100 it is alot cheaper than a tranny. I will probably start every 50k miles above 100k miles now on. The ZJ has 175k miles and shifts better than Tom's at 90k after some guy worked on his.
That's an awesome setup you got there. Nice choice on the short fifth wheel trailer to stick on there!
The V10 is in the magnum family like the 5.2's n 5.9's. Here's what wikipedia has to say on them..
"Originally conceived in the 1980s[citation needed] as a truck engine for the larger Rams[citation needed], the Magnum V10 was re-engineered as the engine of the Dodge Viper[citation needed] in 1990 by Chrysler Engineering, and used in the Ram 2500 starting in the 1994 redesign of the Ram line. When the 8 L 488ci V10 Magnum debuted for the Dodge Ram 2500 & 3500 in 1994, it was the most powerful gasoline engine available for consumer pick-ups. It provided far less power than the V10 in the Viper and used a cast-iron cylinder block. Output was 310 hp (230 kW) and 450 lb·ft (610 N·m). It was discontinued after the 2003 model year."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_LA_engine
Why the fuck are you bumping old dead thread for no reason!
to piss you off.
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