First off how has everybody been? The 94 is still parked and I haven't done any work on the 514. The 99 is running great. I lost my job last week they turned my plant into a warehouse and only 7 people got to stay there.
Background info on why I started doing all this
The ongoing mis-fire the Ram was having started getting really bad. Over the 4th of July my truck started running really bad. I lost my gauges and had to put it in the shop. They messed around with the cluster and got it to start working and told me either the cluster or PCM could be going bad. I had planed beforehand that after we returned from doing our firework shows over the 4th I was gonna tear into the engine.
Dodges have a few known issues that could cause a mis-fire.
Leaking plenum gasket (basically a intake gasket. 2nd gen Dodge trucks and a few of the early year 3rd gens have what they call kegger intakes. It looks like a beer keg cut in half. On the under side of it they have a plate that covers the bottom. The plate is thin and has a crappy gasket stock. The tend to leak and let oil in there and causes issues. I'm still not sure why yet though.
Cracked head is another issue. The stock castings are pretty ****ty. Another member on Dodgeforum.com found just a small hair line crack and was causing his mis-fire. Not totally sure if mine are cracked or not but they are getting replaced. I took a look at them yesterday and its qite possible theres a hairline crack in the bowl going from one valve to the other.
A while back I ordered a plenum pan reinforcment kit. Its basically and really think aliumnum plate that replaces the stock pan. At that time I also got a 180* t stat.
As I have been tearing the engine down a new friend of mine that I gained from dodgeforum did you usual gear head type encoragement. He kept saying "ya know your in this far"
That being said we get into the good stuff
last night I placed my orders for
Comp cam 20-604-9
Comp double roller timing chain
Mopar roller lifters
New water pump (seems these like to go bad on rams too)
New head gaskets
New connectors for my fuel inj wire harness (mine were all broke and the one had to be zip-tied on the inj)
I still need to order
Heads (I'm going with HD EQ Iron heads. The have a 62 cc chamber with 1.920 intake valve and 1.625 exhaust valve)
Harland Sharp 1.6 roller rockers
possibily new push rods
some other gaskets
and Probably an SCT tuner with custom tune
Background info on why I started doing all this
The ongoing mis-fire the Ram was having started getting really bad. Over the 4th of July my truck started running really bad. I lost my gauges and had to put it in the shop. They messed around with the cluster and got it to start working and told me either the cluster or PCM could be going bad. I had planed beforehand that after we returned from doing our firework shows over the 4th I was gonna tear into the engine.
Dodges have a few known issues that could cause a mis-fire.
Leaking plenum gasket (basically a intake gasket. 2nd gen Dodge trucks and a few of the early year 3rd gens have what they call kegger intakes. It looks like a beer keg cut in half. On the under side of it they have a plate that covers the bottom. The plate is thin and has a crappy gasket stock. The tend to leak and let oil in there and causes issues. I'm still not sure why yet though.
Cracked head is another issue. The stock castings are pretty ****ty. Another member on Dodgeforum.com found just a small hair line crack and was causing his mis-fire. Not totally sure if mine are cracked or not but they are getting replaced. I took a look at them yesterday and its qite possible theres a hairline crack in the bowl going from one valve to the other.
A while back I ordered a plenum pan reinforcment kit. Its basically and really think aliumnum plate that replaces the stock pan. At that time I also got a 180* t stat.
As I have been tearing the engine down a new friend of mine that I gained from dodgeforum did you usual gear head type encoragement. He kept saying "ya know your in this far"
That being said we get into the good stuff
last night I placed my orders for
Comp cam 20-604-9
Comp double roller timing chain
Mopar roller lifters
New water pump (seems these like to go bad on rams too)
New head gaskets
New connectors for my fuel inj wire harness (mine were all broke and the one had to be zip-tied on the inj)
I still need to order
Heads (I'm going with HD EQ Iron heads. The have a 62 cc chamber with 1.920 intake valve and 1.625 exhaust valve)
Harland Sharp 1.6 roller rockers
possibily new push rods
some other gaskets
and Probably an SCT tuner with custom tune
The guy found that my pistons and bores were off size. After that was found out he suggested I have it bored. It will be bored .030 over making it a 365. I'm having him build the short block which is why I'm still waiting. He seems to keep putting my stuff to the side to work on other ****.
