The fun begins

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71dusterman

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Well last week I decided to clean the throttle body on my 5.2 2000 Ram 1500. While I had it off I decide to look inside the keg and much to my dismay was a small pool of oil in the rear passenger side. Time for a kegger rebuild, so I ordered up the Hughe's Engines rebuild kit as I did not want to do this twice. Kit comes with 1/4" aluminum plate, gasket, intake gasket set, thermostat, bypass hose, and new bolts for the plate and the intake. Probably start this on Tuesday weather permitting. And the fun begins.
 
It's not a big deal. I've done a ton of them. It's a 3 hr job. 4 tops, If you take your time. It's a good time to do a tune up. Cap and rotor are a ton easyer to get at with the intake out of the way. If you have access to a scanner, reset the adaptives when your done.
 
Well it took me a bit more than 3 hours as I had to take and move the altenator and ac pump out of the way and figure my way around the newer keg style intake and disconnecting the fuel line from the fuel rail without the use of a proper tool for it. I also found that I had a missing bolt head on the drivers rear of the intake. The cap and rotor got changed out when I bought the truck and haven't put 20 k km's on since. Due to weather and working outdoors I had the battery disconnected for a couple days so most of the addaptive reset do they not. I only have access to a code reader and my Superchips controller. The truck is up and running. It weighs in at 5200# with half a tank and runs 3.55 gears and will not break the 245r 75's loose but I still like it overall as a second vehicle and as a tow for my 16.5 foot aluminum bowrider. It only has 130k kms on it.
 
Drivers rear intake bolt and Passanger front almost always brake. Easy job though.
 
To get mine out I had to use the dremel 90* and cut off wheel to shave enough off that I could get 2 nuts on and lock them together and then remove it. Nothing else would work. I'm amased that they would break as they are only 240"#s. I am used to the old intakes that I believe were 45'#s. It took me a few minutes to catch on to my "# torque wrench being it is so different from my other torque wrench. I am just glad to have it done but there is a 3.9 in my son's Dakota that is wanting it to be done as well. It is just nice to know that with the Hughs kit I should never have to look at it again.
 
I always clamp vice grips on them. I have never had to fight one yet.
 
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