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Bill55AZ
Dodge Dakota
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3/02/2002
22:40:52
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Mine has never gone, yet, but my sons did, a 96 5.2L. Now I can fully appreciate what you guys are talking about. Chrysler engineering is hitting a new low. Took us most of a day to fix, and it seems that Mopar takes joy in putting plastic crap all over the place under the hood. I broke the throttle cable plastic piece on the end. Had to jury rig a new connector. I am not paying $50 for a new cable just because they want to put plastic on the ends. And some of the connectors in the wiring harness are like puzzles to get apart. I have been restoring a 79 Volare 318V8 4BBL sport wagon, it is much easier to work on, and no plastic clips!
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kota on 20s
GenIII
3/03/2002
12:32:49
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what plastic crap are you talking about? i just replaced my manifold with the M-1, and it was a snap
i unhooked all of the vacume lines and sensor connectors, AND the fuel rails in about 1 min. (seriously)
i thought the 96-99 were the same 5.2's, but maby they changed somethings on the gen 3's (97>)
Eric
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Bill55AZ
Dodge Dakota
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3/03/2002
13:08:30
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96 is the last of the Gen II, and the end of the throttle cable is a plastic snap on connector with the cable going thru it. It and several other small plastic pieces on other connectors broke while being disconnected. You would think that if it breaks off that easily, the rest of the plastic would be easy to get off. Not so. If the manifold on my 95 ever craps out, I am going with the M1 manifold also. Just scraping the old gasket off the valley pan was a chore. Used a power wire brush and it was still tuff stuff.
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kota on 20s
GenIII
3/03/2002
22:26:19
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man that sucks, i just unbolted my throttle body, and just moved it out of the way. attatched to the bracket and all.
i guess i got off easy on the gasket, it came off in one pice and then i just cleaned the little pices left behind with a scotch bright pad. took about 10min tops.
unfortunatly on mine, the last bolt on the passenger side was broke, (dont know how that happened ) so i had to go to the store and get 2 "jam nuts" to take out the stud
Eric
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