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Agree whole heartily about letting the maker judge. What I struggle with is the fuzzy line between allowing people to have the freedom to do what they wish and my personal beliefs..... Do I vote to expand rights? or do I vote to try and get the government to do what I believe is socially right? I wish I could vote to not make laws, and get rid of laws that take our rights....but that doesn't happen. Good example, Do I vote to allow for *** marriage, even though I don't agree with it personally? I don't believe it is my place to keep people from doing things.....yet.... that whole thing. If only people didn't do bad things, we wouldn't need laws.

The link I posted are sealed, non grease-able OEM spicer numbers. Only thing I can't link is the OEM dodge number to the Spicer number, but those are what dana/spicer installs into the Dana 60. I am going to cut apart the spicers in my truck now and see what they look like. I am guessing that only the one upper is bad. I cannot stress how hard I hit the pothole and how big it was. I was honestly surprised it didn't break something major.

Did I miss something about bathroom laws?

You can't put a 98-99 steering upgrade on a newer truck without recutting the knuckles to match the taper of the 98-99 setup. I would suggest you do a 3rd gen swap. as for how hard, it is really simple. Just unbolt and rebolt.

And to Spicers defense, before the joint started to show signs of being loose, I hit a pot hole that was just a few days away from being classified as a caynon or crater.

10/15k..... One of the 4 is bad , sowho knows what happened.

all the houses in the area have attached garage on the side of the house....well except me, not garage ugh. I am guessing the path is just to a back gate. The back fence is not original to the house. In other news, I think I might have a pack rat living on my desk and using my tools........

Nope I haven't However the neighbors have the same type of thing leading to their back gate. I am assuming it was a "feature" when the house was built.

haha I was thinking the same thing. Every goose I have ever been chased by was mean.

Very cool.

I dunno if there was ever anything back there. There is no evidence of a garage, It is kinda strange but ya.

Glad you are going to dive in. I doubt there is anything in there you can't handle. You know what caused this right? Your 2500 was jealous of the new dynamic trans in the 1500.

Best mpg comes on the highest setting with a light foot

Why not try Mike? I never did an auto and here I am 20k later still going strong.

yea I just dont use cruise haha.

The curse of the nv4500's this week. I think we should put a site notice out....any member with a 5 speed needs to park their trucks and knock n wood.

humm..... I don't know, I think the needle valve or similar would work best for higher HP trucks. If you would numb the reaction time by %50 I think it would work pretty well. Interestingly enough I have found that if I am on boost with the cruise set it actually works pretty ok. I have to be at 10+psi. I don't like using cruising control in that situation though.

driven by the PCM via 2 wires........ might be PWM I dunno. Maybe worth messing with. :edit looks like the ECM also plays a role, yuck haha.

because your truck thinks it needs X% TPS to accelerate from 55 to 60. BUT that TPS % is based upon stock power levels. If you bump your power by %25 then in theory you need less TPS to increase speed. So if you set your cruise to hold 55 mph your truck holds TPS at that position until the truck slows down. It will then increase throttle position to make up for the loss in speed. However it will increase throttle more than needed as the truck now makes more power than stock and thus needs less tps input to accelerate in the manner as before. Your truck isn't smart enough to see the bump in power, all the programming is based upon stock power levels. and the programming is basic, if speed is 3 mph slower than needed increase tps by %5 if it is 6mph slower than need increase TPS by %10. So it will increase by that amount but the truck will accelerate faster than stock, because it had more power, and thus it will overshoot the target speed. So the truck will then pull TPS input because it is going faster than the required speed. It will then pull too much throttle because it overshot the target speed by a good bit. And then you end up slower than the target speed. Now if you were to put a needle valve in place it would effectively slow down the response of the cruise control.

I figure I should add to the thread in a good way. They say it will be 80 on Friday.

I can only imagine putting that up yourself. Did you mount a scope on it so you could line it up?

It gets hot you say? I can almost hear the music from The Full Monty in the background Don't firepoles and "hot" go together like white and rice?? sorry couldn't help it. Man it is hard to find a semi "risky" image of a fireman. You wouldn't believe what google gives you hahahahah....dont search.

Man I think you should convert that furnace exhaust to be dual purpose........ Fire pole and furnace exhaust.... I wanna slide down it.

And it works fine. How many 200k stock trucks do we still see on the road? When Ed tore my trans apart for his build he said it looked perfect inside. Never replaced / rebuild and pulled at 200,xxx miles. Can't blame engineers for not designing the trans to hold that much power over stock.....

Might be worth trying. Another Mopar1973man product? actually it is the work of trying to get the system to work in the easiest/cheapest/and most reliable method haha. It is significantly easier to program pedals position vs speed then add + or - for hill increases, vs trying to program a predictive system to adapt pedal input based upon acceleration. Cruise control works fine on a stock truck, can't blame an engineer for designing a working system haha. That's like saying the engineers that built the 47re are lazy. The 47re is fine when the truck is pushing 235 hp. We can't be mad if it fails when we bump power levels. Even a smarty / edge ez etc bump power by~ %25 over stock.