Mopar1973Man

Yeap... Those are really simple things to rebuild... I remember all those years of buying a starter for my old Charger... Now what I know about starters I'd rather rebuild them myself...

After driving to McCall, ID to take care a few things I relized the transmission shifts much more milder and hold the gear much longer before kicking down ro gear changing. Really a pleasure to drive now and I wonder if the MPG's are rising a bit from it...

At about 150K miles I changed my hoses and replaced them I kept the old ones because they look just fine. So as for part store hose are fine...

Here is a few tidbit passed down form Rogan... Find your terminal program and get to know it... ls -lh (Directory list of the current folder) pwd (Current folder) cd (change directory) sudo (super user or root) Then how to deal with folder is easy using TAB key. so it would be cd hom{tab}/mic{tab} which would spell out cd /home/michael/ for on my machine. If you hit tab twice it given the folder listing for where your at in the command. More on BASH commands... http://ss64.com/bash/ As you made a comment of want to try others... CentOS RedHat Ubuntu Here is a another site full of links... http://distrowatch.com/

Been down that road before long time ago in Cally... I suggest you find a different way home...

Actually that is since I booted up in Linux so next time I flip flop back and forth between Windows / Linux that Up Time will be reset... I'm hoping eventually dump windows out of my life... --- Update to the previous post... I'm going to leave the Linux up and running tonight so for those of you want to snoop on the other server go for it...

Right on... You made it to the other side... We have cookies!

Between Rogan and myself I cand guide you to getting setup with Ubuntu Linux... I highly suggest you get x64 workstation not the x64 Server. As a noob you'll want to use the graphical interface a bit more till you get you feet wet with the terminal screen. Most everything is done a terminal windows kind of like a DOS box. But with lots more power. The other fact is in Linux you are not setup as a Admin (root). Your setup as a user so all the high power functions as disable like installing software etc. Now Ubuntu is good about software because you can search there software database and it will install it for you. If you have call me I'll guide you in Linux... (Posted with Ubuntu / Firefox)

:lmao2:I'm not that good... Ummm... It been about 2 weeks getting this put together.

Just for the learning experience I'm building a web server here on this computer I normally use... It currently setup as a dual boot Ubuntu Linux 11.10 x64 and Windows Vista x64. So I went through and install LAMP server on Ubuntu and then installed Webmin WHM (Web Hosting Manager). Started thinking well it would be kind of fun to let some of you test drive the server and play with it. So I hooked up no-ip.com and installed it software to give me a free domain name with a dynamic IP. Now mind you if my computer goes down or I'm booted in Windows Vista the site will be gone... But here is a sneak peak at the site so far... http://mopar1973man.no-ip.org <- Part of the home page from the actual site... http://mopar1973man.no-ip.org/phpsysinfo/index.php?disp=dynamic <- A look at the server stats.

Just learned something new on the 1996 Dodge Ram 1500 (5.9L V8 Gasser). I've always had a weird shift pattern where the trans would kick out of 4th and into 3rd hold for a long time and then shift up if you let the throttle out to near idle. Finally got off my rear and desided to look into this weird issue. So I started with the kickdown linkage. When I read up on the linkage adjustment it sohlud move together. I figure I better check the lever on the transmission. Guess what I found a spring hanging in the hole of the arm and the lever wasn't returning all the way back because said spring wasn't hooked up. :duh:So Hooked up the spring and re-adjusted the cable and shift issues are gone. It shifts really good... Not to hard and not to mushy...

From what I know its the rail pressure spikes high and it takes time at idle rate to consume the rail pressure so each injector is shooting a bit hot of a spray till the rail pressure comes down. You'd see this better if you had a rail pressure gauge.(Educated guess...)

Welcome to the Family... Make sure you ask lots of question and maybe find a few friends...

Say for instance I rig up my boost gauge to check drive pressure... So how could I adjust a Jacobs brake? Hmm.. Thinking I've got a 0 - 100 PSI water pressure gauge I could rig up in the pyrometer hole for testing purpose... So how would I???

Ok... I can say no I don't monitor drive pressure... So how do I adjust it then?

I do notice there is a change of note on the exhaust brake at high RPM's. Sounds almost like a valve tick but only at high R's. :shrug:Has bothered performance of the exhaust brake, towing,etc... Truck still keeps going!

Ummm... As soon as the high country snow is gone... All bets are off. I'll be back to hauling firewood. The screaming beaver will be operational...

Staying home is cheaper yet...

Still 195K almost 196K... But the 96 is getting more miles now...

Enjoy your trip down under...

All FSM books are here... http://forum.mopar1973man.com/downloads.php?do=cat&id=19

Starter solenoid contacts? Starter brushes?

I will... It will only clear codes after 40 warm up cycles. So the engine must start below 140*F and rise above 165*F to be counted as a warm up cycle. Then it must not throw that same code again or it will reset the count to zero.

Or the field lead (green in the 2nd gens) on the alternator is shorted to ground. This would cause a wild runaway alternator. Or a possible voltage regulator problem (inbedded in the PCM 2nd Gen)AH64ID is the best man to answer this...

Cetane Low Cetane <---------------------------------------------------> High Cetane Octane High Octane <----------------------------------------------------> Low Octane Low cetane diesel burn slowly and difficult to ignite but contains the most BTU's simular to high octane gasoline. High cetane fuel burns very rapidly and easy to ignite but contains lower amount of BTU's simular to low octane gasoline.