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1st Gen. Ram - All TopicsDiscussion for all Dodge Rams prior to 1994. This includes engine, drivetrain and non-drivetrain discussions. Anything prior to 1994 should go in here.
Edwin,
I had an Eico VTVM wasn't very portable though.
Did you have to watch all of those boring black and white electronics theory 16mm movies with Harvey White?
I don't remember Harvey White but I found nothing at all boring in electronics class. It was 3 hours per day and I had 2 years of it. I loved it. We had a wonderful instructor who was also a HAM radio enthusiast.
I also took a 1 year 3 hour machine shop class at the same trade school. I love those machines.
The Eico VTVM was standard as well as Eico Oscilloscopes and Simpson VOM's. We had good stuff for those days.
Edwin your battery wouldn't last long in our cold weather up here, it's a bit small or maybe you have two of them?
I have no doubt about that. If the previous one wasn't under warranty I would have used it as an excuse to get a bigger one. When I bought it previously I was pressed for time and I didn't press too hard when the idiot salesman told me it was the recommended battery for my truck though I did question him. I previously had a nice 1000 cca battery which had been stolen along with a bunch of other stuff.
No I only have the one battery. If I move to colder area I may consider doubling up but my engine has excellent compression and fires on the first cylinder that rolls over hot or cold even down below freezing.
Was doing a delivery the other night and heard a 1st gen driving behind me....turned around and saw a short wheel base truck and thought..."Cool a Ramcharger conversion". Then took a second look and realized it was an extended cab, short box with a canopy. Truck was red with a white/silver stripe, looked like at least a 4" lift, and a white canopy, may have had 3rd Gen rims? I have never seen that truck around town before.....so maybe it was passing through, but cool none the less.
Was doing a delivery the other night and heard a 1st gen driving behind me....turned around and saw a short wheel base truck and thought..."Cool a Ramcharger conversion". Then took a second look and realized it was an extended cab, short box with a canopy. Truck was red with a white/silver stripe, looked like at least a 4" lift, and a white canopy, may have had 3rd Gen rims? I have never seen that truck around town before.....so maybe it was passing through, but cool none the less.
And he didn't flag you down ? What's wrong with people ? Just because it's -100C doesn't mean you can't stand around and look at people's engines on the side of the road, eh ?
Loaded up and headed to the job site...had my “dead guy” in the back too! Manuel couldn’t handle the manual labor this morning...he passed out 30 seconds after leaving the shop. Poor little guy
Today I adjusted the idle. Used a friend's tach that hooks to the #1 injector line to set the rpm. It was at 72x in park and 62x in gear before. I read somewhere on here that it should be about 750 in gear with the a/c on. So I used a screw driver and a hammer and knocked the lock-nut loose and then adjusted it some. Once the lock-nut was loose I was able to just pull the throttle back and turn the screw from the front of the pump. I tried getting a screwdriver in the back, but couldn't. The idle is now at 73x in gear and 83x in park or neutral. Sounds much healthier when stopped with it in gear. Sounds a little high when in park or neutral, but I know there have been others say that theirs was about the same. I am going to order a Diamond Eye 4" turbo back exhaust today. Was hoping to spend the money on Autometer Z-Series pyro and trans temp gauges, but the stock exhaust bounced and got smashed where it goes over the axel. That is probably a result of the previous owner putting a glass pack in place of the stock muffler and not putting any of the rear hangers back on. The only hanger is the one at the end of the down pipe now. There is a piece of wire holding the very end of the tail pipe up right now though. Still lets it bounce though. I'll have to pick up some hangers to put the new exhaust on when it gets here.
After reading a week or two ago regarding idle speed, I confirmed my "missed" assumption that my truck runs at 950rpm in gear. It indeed does run at 750rpm while in gear, defrost / a/c on.
Runs very well, indeed.
If you're creative, you can buy a cheapo 10mm combination open / box end wrench, heat and bend it to work on the low idle nut. A little bending and grinding, and you can make a standard 10mm wrench fit.
It's a winter, it's snowing, and there is WIND !!! Oh, my god ! Wind during a snow storm !!!!!
The only hanger is the one at the end of the down pipe now. 
There is a piece of wire holding the very end of the tail pipe up right now though. Still lets it bounce though. I'll have to pick up some hangers to put the new exhaust on when it gets here.
