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Well I Bought the first spare truck, Noah got the 2nd.

Carter is kind of a spare but he is running and driving.

Who is buying this one? its not my turn again yet!!

Wanted to wish everyone a happy and safe 4th of July!

you can always send eric after it lol.

its just sitting in my driveway. My next free weekend in July 24th so I was thinking of heading down then.

If needed it can sit down there for a while, Ernest has not paid for it yet.

I will warn you that something happened to the passenger side timing chain and it sounds horrible but it is running good lol.

That added to the "its time to get a new truck" list, I did not want to replace that timing chain even though I have the parts to do it.

yeah I am not worried about fuel pressure. more interested in trans temp and the turbo. As long as those 2 are happy the truck will be happy.

Can't wait to see it all back together with the new hood and number and whole new paint job!!!

then I have to take it to dodge for the air bag recall.

After that its new carpet and getting the front seats fixed, probably the steering wheel finally. then it will be good to go

I thought you decided you did not care about that rear end? lol

well since I have to drag it to Ernest because he won't come get it I can drag it to Austin first. Works out good I wanted to come down and hang out soon anyways.

But you don't get the tires!!!! those are going onto my dakota. Brand freaking new Michelins with maybe 2k miles on them lol.

Not even close! the 5.7 does not really wake up until about 3500-4000 RPM

And add on top of that the durango still has some shift delays because we have not touched the transmission yet.

Now the can tune did net me prob 15-25 RW HP... but hard to dyno a AWD truck.

Besides, I am about to upgrade the cam in the Mexico Ramcharger  :-)

inspectable condition is not that hard to do really. its old enough you don't have to worry about emissions... my 93 ... hmm I might barely be out of the emissions requirements I think its 23 years!!!

But mainly its lights, brakes, and parking brake. I need to tweak my parking brake a bit more otherwise I won't have an issue.

Y'all might think I am crazy, but anytime I go off roading I put liability only insurance on the 93 for a month. Just in case I have issues and damage something besides my truck. Better safe than sorry. It will certainly have it for the whole time we are on the trip.

as soon as we figure out the exact dates and where we want to stay I will be sure to call and book a cabin

So a few of you know I have an old 2003 Durango I have owned since new. Its had some ups and owns but has always been a good truck.

Recently I rebuilt the engine 2.5 times (long story).

Then about 3 weeks ago the heater core blew. I was driving to my folks but was able to bypass it and keep going. Then about 2 weeks ago the transmission started acting up. It was still doing fine unless you floored it to pass someone and it would just not find the right gear when it downshifted.

That was it! I am done!! I tried my best to avoid another car payment for as long as I could but I just can't do it anymore.

So I now have a 2012 Durango  AWD 5.7 hemi with 60k miles. It was not a bad price and its nicely equipped. Ernest for some reason wanted the old durango so it will be making its way down there once I have the cummins back.

Not sure how many of y'all have played with the new Dodge's... specifically the durango's, But dodge handicapped them a lot with throttle lag and bad response times. Its not impressive at all. Well my tuner friend was in town Tuesday so we met up for a few hours and I now have a "can tune" on my new truck that disables MSD tweaks some fuel settings and fixed the throttle response.

It is a night and day difference!! Its very interesting that you can disable the cylinder shut off technology and with the other tweaks it ends up getting close to the same MPG!

And for all you thinking it... NO this durango is not going off roading. It certainly does not have the clearance or tires for it.

oh heck yeah, getting a full gauge setup... pyro, trans, and probably a 3rd just not sure which one I want yet. But then again I might go digital so I can get it to go into the data logger. Not sure yet.

you can't find sport grills period!!!

and yeah thats a good price but it needs a lot of work.

some of us don't really have the option to drive from camp to the trail. unless its not far away... my 35-40 mph limit would not allow me to get there very fast.

turbo's show up when someone else helps pay for them lol

tuner is already in the works.

um no thanks lol

have we decided when in may we are attempting this?

that is nice, but its going to be hard to get what he is asking for out of it.