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This is from the FSM 2002 and older: Mopar MS 5931 or equivalent 2003 and newer: Mopar ATF+4 type 9602 or equivalent You can suck it out with a turkey baster and run and repeat a few times until clean fluid. OR

I installed a camera in the back window of my 5th wheel and used a 50' roll of cat5 wire from Home Depot. It has 4 pairs of wire so I used 1 pair for the 12v, the 2ed pair for ground, the 3ed pair for video signal, and the last pair for the shielding. On the truck side of things the wire was zip tied to the frame and metal fuel lines then run through the grommet in the firewall. I control the on off with a push button switch installed in the overhead light assembly. I've been using it for 2 years and over 15,000 mi with no problems.

I'd cut and cap it with about a 3" tail left incase you ever need to add a battery ground for something. It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Well I had to do it. My wife and I are spending five days in the Asheville, North Carolina area, and a mire 70 miles away is the Chicken Man in Hickory. Curiosity got the best of me, I had to know, after years of light hearted ribbing, does the Chicken Man have feathers? Late this afternoon my wife and I had dinner with @dripley, his brother, their spouses, and his sweet mother-in-law. Good food, good conversation, and a great time. I'm happy to report not one feather was seen. Dripley and IBMobile

What did you get to fix it with?

Like this charge wire from alternator to right side battery. Install a new grounding cable from the left side of engine gear case to the left battery.

no grease, no problem. What would that grease look like after 5 years? Hard, may be sticky, and definitely dirty.

I used to wax twice a year and even clayed it once. The clear coat still came off. Now I just wash it before I take it out on a trip and try to keep it covered since it's not my daily driver.

@dripley's ornament on his weekend cruiser.

@JAG1 checking the hits with his Henry. JAG1 putting some .223 down range with my AR. JAG1 busting some caps with my Colt 1911

That was a lot of work and your results are first rate. It could not have been done better.

No necesito explicar de que se trata; todo el mundo lo sabe. Es magia. I do not have to splain what it is; everybody knows. It's magic.

You're good! That top pic is the north bound I-15 between the Center City Dr. on ramp and the Deer Springs Rd off ramp just north of Escondido. The bottom pic is climbing the south bound RT 395 just north of the Conway Summit by Mono Lake, CA. pulling my two trailers. This is an ISSPRO MTG CUP, OLD STYLE black 2 1/16". Part number is R7602-OS https://www.issprogauges.com/2-1-16-Mounting-Cup-p/iss-r7602-os.htm or http://www.dieselmanor.com/isspro/R7602-OS.htm Some closeups of how it was installed.

In 1973 I had a Volvo blow an engine in Greenwood, Delaware. I got it over to my grandfathers processing plant's work shop where I was able to install a used engine that I acquired in Seekonk, Massachusetts. When I was done I put the junk engine into the trunk with my tools and headed back that night north to Cumberland, Rhode Island. That morning I watched the sun rise over Scarsdale, New York and headed on to the Connecticut Turnpike. Now it's just after 6 AM and everything had been going fine, 55MPH (the max speed limit) and putting down miles when there's a bang and blue smoke out the back. "Dam" I'm thinking "not another engine". I roll the car on to the brake down lane and get out to take a look. Lift the hood and look around, you could see the engines back then, and heck nothing looks bad. I pull the dip stick and no oil: look under the car and find that someone forgot to tighten the oil drain plug. It's not there. About the time I make this discovery I hear a car pull up be hind me. Looking around the hood I see that it's a Connecticut State Trooper. He gets out and I meet him at the back of my Volvo. The Trooper asks "What's the problem?" I tell him "The drain plug fell out of the oil pan". The Trooper asks "where are you going to find an oil plug for that car this time of day?" With out thinking I said "Oh, don't worry. I've got a spare engine in the trunk". The Trooper says "Now I've heard everything. I've heard of people carrying spare tires, spare belts, spare hoses, but I've never seen anyone carry a spare engine". I ask him where the next gas station was since I only had 2 qts. of oil with me and would need 2 more. He tells me there's one at the next exit about a mile up the road and he left. I rolled the old engine on to it's side, got the drain plug out and installed it in the good engine, put in the 2 qts, drove to the gas station added the rest of the oil and made it home.

Four gauges on the A-post

This might help.

I'm waiting for it to be cold enough here for the final tests on it.

I thought they stuffed chicken in a casket.

That's one way to just test the heaters themselves or one probe on the + side of the heater (firewall side) and the other probe on the - post of the left battery. This will test resistance through the heater and ground up to the battery.

The best way to test a U-joint is to unbolt the drive shaft from the differential's companion flange and move it about on it's two axis. It should move freely in all directions with no binding or play between the bearing cross journal and bearing cup. Unbolting the flanges should only take a few minutes. This inspection will either confirm or rule out a problem with the U-joints. Be sure to set the park brake, if it works, and chock the wheels.

Can we get some ohm readings posted to see if the resistance of the grid heaters increases with just age, mileage or on/off cycles. This would be a good indicator to whether a given ohm reading is pass/fail. Just tested mine and both came in at .1 ohm with 109,000 miles, used mostly in warm So Cal.

There or on eBay from a little store in Quebec for our Canadian friends, eh.

Yes, for a trouble free 4 wheel drive winter experience change out the original vacuum hoses. Be sure to install only Mopar factory winter hoses.

Both my 1/2" and 3/8" pneumatic impact guns are Ingersoll Rand.

Back from 10 days of fishing in the Sierra Nevada mountains and this is what was in the campgrounds, the twins. This is at 7100' and night time lows of 26°-33°F.