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My 02 would have a slight intermittent stumble/miss at no load hot idle in neutral or park, turn the ac on and it was smooth as could be or put it in gear and it would smooth out as well once it had a light load on it. I just dismissed it as a nonissue and never worried about it.

For me on my 1500 Hemi I air mine up after its loaded and set them by suspension height, usually the same or about an inch higher at the rear ball than where it sits empty then air them back down after I unhook the load, at 20 psi empty mine sits way too high and I get driveline vibration at that point. Like I say I never check pressure just go by ride height. Mine are from this company. http://www.totalloadcontrolsuspensions.com/

I would add the 2um system regardless.

Need to do a rolling diameter measurement, measuring height is worthless in this case, different tires have different radius and different rates of squat so to speak but having the same on the front is way more critical than the rear even with a ls diff.

Most any will work on the pto cover of a tranny as long as the surface is clean, dry and oil free and specific for the proper temp range.

The right stuff is as good as it gets for a sealant and the best filter would be to slap a simple magnet on the pto cover and do your regular maintenance.

It will affect the steering in all sorts of screwy ways but it should not "hurt" anything other than your mind trying to figure out your issues when it is out of the closet now so to speak. Heck looked at your town of Watertown NY, I have a brother in law who lives just outside of Buffalo NY, He works at Praxair headquarters there and just recently bought an 05 Cummins and is hitting me up for advice all the time now lol.

Hellyah!!!!!! Big time. lol

, If you are truly serious in that I would say you spent a ton of time and money chasing Kasper the Ghost for nothing. , If you are truly serious in that I would say you spent a ton of time and money chasing Kasper the Ghost for nothing. For what you spent on trying to fix the steering you could have had a new matching set of tires and had a good steering rig there alone. Heck on both my rigs just a 5 psi difference in tire pressure alone can make a huge difference in steering quality.

From my experience tires play a huge role in the overall picture too. I think you are trying to make it perform like a new 100K Beemer. Be happy and watch the road rather than the wheel there bud.

Its been a while since doing one but like stated above once the cam bolt moves it is easy to see what direction one needs to go with it. Pretty sure the hash mark or the marker hole looks like you have already replaced one needs to go to the forward most point as that is the high side of the cam as you can see how it is offset.

On the second gens I have never seen a stock caster cam get to much over 5* positive caster maxed out. Best thing is to just max them both out.....................if you can get them to move at all. Most alignment shops will never touch them if it is within spec which unless you have a bent axle or something major will pretty much always be within the wide range of "Spec".

Having a log splitter is like having a car trailer, once folks find out you have one they all come to borrow. Mine is usually only at my house about half the year. Neighbors who heat their shops use it more than me for my 3-4 cord a year needs mostly for my mother in law. Mine is a 20 something ton Husky from TSC too it was a model that was weathered and faded pretty bad that sat outside the store for a couple years, I talked the manager into selling it for cheap as it looked like hell for a new unit, he called his district manager and I got it for almost half of what it was listed at.

Some other stuff released a couple days ago as well.

Wasn't me, never had an HX35, mine was an 02 auto so was an HY35 for me. I went with 90HP BD injectors the same time I installed the BD Super B turbo, ran this for a short period and then made the jump to 155 hp BD injectors and the II silver 62 turbo.

On an empty rig it would be of little difference than up shifting but trying this on a loaded rig is very damaging to the center damper portion of the clutch hub itself not the lining. I have split dozens of trannies where the center clutch hub was pretty much dynamited by using the engine as a brake and shock loading the clutch with 20-30K loads pushing it. Twists the rivets and dampening springs right out of the center of the clutch plate.

Try 12-16 mpg over best ever figured of 39 when stock. She never figures her mileage as DDER but does it on long road trips because its my habit of doing it. The 2014 Jetta was the last year before SCR so no horse piss was ever needed on this one. This one got the Cat, DPF and EGR cooler deleted and the egr port blocked off but can't remember if it was the high or low pressure egr. the egr system is still mostly in tact yet that is a whole other bag of beans to do on these things with a whole other set of parts to replace eliminate and modify.

Wife took a road trip to Salt lake city Utah last month and she finally figured her mileage for the trip and it was awesome, I couldn't hardly believe it especially knowing how heavy my wifes foot is. She was on her way west and filled up in miles city Montana where she reset and began checking, she made it all the way to salt lake city drove around there for a few days and then back filled up somewhere in Idaho. That tank did 51 mpg and that was through Yellowstone on the way down as well. Made it all the way home and then some on the second tank which figured out to be 56 mpg.

Myself personally would never mess with worn rotors in an automotive application and drums only if the price for new was outrageous. Rotors once turned or ground have lost that much in thickness and are more prone to warping and the extra stroke on the brake caliper pistons is not worth the chance to me. Here in ND we are the #1 honey producing state in the nation and there are hives along the roadways all over the place. Can't go more than about 10 miles in any direction without seeing more hives.

Funny stuff right there.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The above two quotes are one of the biggest problems with the world we live in now and more so with this generation, we want everything to be instant service and if we have to wait its the end of the world. Gotta have it right now. My mom used to have a plaque hanging in her kitchen as a kid I remember it well it stated "I want it now, if I wanted it tomorrow I would have asked for it tomorrow." If only we would have known how true those words from the early 70's would become main stream living now days. Clint Eastwood puts it bluntly in a recent interview that can be read below. http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a46893/double-trouble-clint-and-scott-eastwood/ Interesting article here too. http://www.infowars.com/scientists-humanity-faces-great-filter-as-early-species-in-universe/

Critical thinking is not politically correct anymore, one is never ever to question another for any reason anymore, if you do you are racist, bigot, nazi or something else the left leaning crazies seem to hone into their vocabulary. As far as grinding or cutting drums and rotors they are so cheap anymore that the labor cost of doing this is not feasible anymore, we have been led into living the throwaway society mentality. In the not so distant future any skilled worker will be the highest wage earning folks around due to the lack of willing workers and knowledge as stated above, I have read and heard numerous reports and studies that confirm this gong forward as well. We are seeing this in the my field the last few years as well. Used to be hundreds of applicants for our jobs at the coal mines and power plants ect now we barely get any in comparison and few with any sort of experience. Pretty sad when folks do not want to work @ an $80-100K+ job and if they do we have had lots just up and quit for no real good reason, some don't want to work shift work a lot don't want to work OT anymore and have to be forced ect.

I have always been in the habit of throwing mine into neutral for a few seconds to get the lube flowing and pressure built up a bit and then put into gear from there. A lot of the newer vehicles I have driven rev to about 1500 rpms at start up for a good period of time and then slowly ramp down and even when one puts them into gear at the higher rpms they take a couple seconds to engage fully. I love the CVT in my Nissan Murano, thing iis smooth as silk and you rarely notice the shifts. I wonder how long it is before we see this technology in rigs bigger than an suv?

125K on my 05 regular maintenance and band adjustments all OEM original parts in the trans yet with no issues and it has had a Smarty on it most of its life and has seen "HEAVY LOADS" to say the least and still going strong. In comparison to my 02 with the 47RE which slipped the lockup clutch with nothing but an edge EZ when I first got it this 48 RE has been a total animal.

Yep this is exactly what was going on.