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Quote from: crazzywolfie on June 10, 2013, 05:37:44 PM
so did you get to test the gas gauge/sending unit when you had the tank down?

Is this an "Advance Auto" sort of available item?  Because I'm pretty sure the float is stuck in MY tank.  Dropped it, replaced the fuel pump, and ALL the fuel line (went with stainless from Inline in MI), but my needle stuck just UNDER a half a tank, even after I'd filled it up completely.

We're not dropping the tank again until it's MUCH closer to empty, but it's something we're gonna HAFTA do for the long run. 

408 in the Ramcharger?!?!  AWESOME!!! 

 Four (4) 16" axle limit straps and mounting hardware, NiB! Bought this from East Coast Gear last month - turns out it's not needed. My mistake is your gain.




Cost me $130.95 - $110 now to you!



K&N panel filter for factory airbox - Jeep Commander XK and Grand Cherokee WK (may fit some Dodges, too) - NiB



$20 FTF



Factory spare from my '92 Dodge Ramcharger - standard Dodge 5x5.5 15" wheel (fits some Jeeps and Fords also). ALWAYS stored in the rear of the truck until 2012 - now stored indoors. NEVER seen pavement!




$40 - FTF ONLY!




Actron code scanner & instruction manual - works on pre-'96 V-8 Ford/Lincoln/Mercury products - Crown Vic/Grand Marquis/Thunderbird/Cougar/MK VII/MKVIII/Town Car and possibly some full-size trucks.



$20 FTF



NO reasonable offer refused - TRADES considered - I need THIS stuff outta here!!! PM or e-mail - it's ALL good! 

They HAVE...




... truck steps... http://www.carid.com/1993-dodge-ram-accessories/

A Hemi-powered horn/siren!!!

Presenting the historic
CHRYSLER AIR RAID SIREN
The Most Powerful Siren Ever Built



http://www.victorysiren.com/x/index.htm

QuoteWhat you see pictured above is a Chrysler Air Raid Siren, the most powerful siren in the world. It's the size of a car, measuring near 12-feet in length and standing more than 6-feet tall. It also weighs twice as much as today's typical car. This gigantic siren is powered by an 180-HP Chrysler Industrial V-8 HEMI® gasoline engine. The super-duty engine directly drives a three-stage compressor that blows 2,610 cubic feet of air a minute, at nearly 7 PSI, into a giant siren rotor. The compressed air screams through the chopper and out through six giant horns with an exit velocity of 400 miles per hour. The result is an incredibly loud 138 dB sound (measured 100 feet from the siren). The loudness of this siren is unmatched by any other warning device ever sold, ever. It's also considerably louder than the largest steam whistle or horn. As if that were not dramatic enough, the whole unit, engine and all, slowly rotates one and one-half times a minute on its iron turntable base.

QuoteA few hundred of these monstrous Cold War sirens were produced and sold during the 1950's. Many remained in service for twenty plus years, sounding only for routine tests. Most people who lived in major metropolitan areas during the 1950's and 60's will remember the siren tests. Those particularly, who lived in or near Los Angeles, Seattle, Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, New York and even Miami could hear the haunting siren wail of a Chrysler Air Raid Siren.

Listen here - http://www.victorysiren.com/x/wav/sound.htm

Here's the story on the Pittsburgh sirens - and dang - I'm only a couple miles from the Carrick one. Just 50 years too LATE to go nab it!

QuotePittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh had ten Chrysler Air Raid Sirens that were installed in 1953 at a cost of $100,000. The location of only two of these sirens has been discovered. Both of these sirens are now owned by collectors. During the late 1950's and early 1960's Pittsburgh's sirens were tested every Monday morning.
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TEN sirens, eh?  HMMMMMM... I think we have a basis for a SCAVENGER hunt - at least here in Pittsburgh! 

Anyone doing a RETRO restoration?

I have the rear speakers (the front ones were un-salvageable) & grilles, and the factory AM/FM/Cassette player out of my '92 RC - all of which worked fine when removed.  The speaker cones are complete and NOT blown.

If you're going RETRO, than these are for you! 

Leaks SUCK!

I've got some bad insulation around my doors right now - heavy rain and/or snow melt leaves a little puddle on the door sill, so I'm gonna cheap-azz caulk it with silicone here this summer (just leave the doors open to let it dry all day - probably the day I try to install & set up the cb radio!), until I can order some replacement foam rubber from one of the aftermarket places.

That's annoying enough as it is - can't imagine what a PITA a roof leak would be! 

So here's the LATEST batch of pics, for the latest foray to the shop!

It's at Gibbs Automotive here in Pittsburgh now - these guys are probably the closest 4WD shop to the city proper - about 4 miles from downtown - and they're GOOD!  They don't even advertize, or have a listing in the phone book, but it took me 6 weeks to get a spot in their garage, from the time I told 'em I was ready to go!  They're ALWAYS busy.

Here was the passenger seat, LOADED with goodies for the trip over!




Leavin' 'er out back!




Took me over a week to get back - DMG was working on the front axle when I came in today.





That's DMG!

The new carrier & ring & pinion are now in up front, as well as my SOLID diff cover.





#3 son is in the background - he had the day off, since his school is a polling place.

Turns out, DMG has a better plan for shocks - looks like Bilstein 5125's at all four corners, since shock technology has come quite a ways, since I bought this lift kit 6 years ago!  We can ditch the dual shock setup, and make sure they're not bottomed out - as they are with the current setup!!!   




Don't know if I EVER showed THESE off or not - JEGS Hi-Po cats!




And here's ANOTHER real PITA - the spare tire mount. 



Dodge 15" 5 lug 5.5 x 5 wheel - should be a simple enough pattern to make a mount for, right?  Wrong. 

Kennesaw Mountain Products mounted the studs at a 6 x 5 inch pattern in reality, so EZaccessories is gonna custom build me a billett aluminum adaptor.  I thought about heating it up with a torch and re-positioning it... or just hammering the shiite out of it... but both will leave an extraordinarily HEAVY wheel and tire, dangling precariously back there - most likely working loose eventually, and creating havoc on the road, sooooo... custom adaptor it is.

More pictures to come - DMG is doing it RIGHT, so I'll try to limit myself to picture snapping, and staying OUT of the way of the working people!

Harbor Freight?!?! 

Isn't that, the English translation for "CRAP-O-LA" from Chinese?

I can tell you live in the desert SW - that's what rust LEFT of a new Ramcharger back in the day... after the second winter HERE. 

A two ton RC... now THAT'S a worthy project!!! 

Quote from: MT_84Ram on May 14, 2013, 10:09:48 PM
You keep washing it and you'll have rust again.

Oh noooo... you GOTTA towel dry 'em... wonder if the wife is missing the king-size bed comforter yet... 

Pittsburgh WINTERS make vehicles RUST.  I'll drive the Commander in the snow.  This one can just SIT winter out...

Just imagine how much fun this'll be, when you convert it to 4wd next!   

Quote from: crazzywolfie on May 14, 2013, 04:24:56 AM
that thing has come a long way. looks mean compared to the jeep.

Sounds pretty mean too - click on this. 

http://s212.photobucket.com/user/The_War_Wagon/media/Ramcharger/100_8648_zpsfe1e2fa3.mp4.html

I'm feelin' ya on the floorpans.  My bodywork man just knocked away the rust & welded new steel in mine!

Would love to see some more of that roof console.  I've half a mind to put one of the DE-luxe models out of a Caravan in mine.  My wife has an '08 SXT, and the console in it would make a lotta sense in an RC.  Would give me someplace to mount a CB up & out of the way, too...

Looked like a shiny new penny after all the bodywork, but it was a big PAPERWEIGHT at that point - ALL the fuel and brake lines had rotted away, and it needed a MAJOR overhaul to pass inspection, much less, BE roadworthy (did I mention that I had a custom multicarrier rear bumper made for it in '07?  That sat in an empty Sunday school room - still shrink-wrapped to the pallet is shipped on - at my church for 5 years, awaiting installation!).

So off it went to my buddy Chris, at Monro Muffler in Castle Shannon, where it spent January to early April, being RE-done!  Here's sort of a photo-retrospective highlight reel. 


















It's passed inspection and is streetable, but I still have a few more goodies piled in my office, awaiting installation.  It just went over to Gibbs TODAY, finally, after waiting another 6 weeks since it was done at Monro, to have all THIS installed!






Incluidng my Warn/Magnum 9,000lb rated winch. 



I did do a couple things to it for the 6 weeks it's been home.  Installed the dual stabilizer, for one!




Washed and waxed for the first time in YEARS.  Might be a DECADE or more, since the last wax! 





Yeah, I KNOW - it should be getting DIRTIER, NOT cleaner.    I gotta snap the CLEAN pics while I can, though.

Finally, here it is (before the wash 'n' wax) beside my itty, bitty, DD - my '07 Jeep Commander...