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  1. K

    A little help please, 2000 RT/10....

    Oh I see it is an RT/10. You should be hearing those fine then.
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    A little help please, 2000 RT/10....

    Be sure you roll down your windows if it is a hardtop. The sound insulation qualities in the hard top model are so good that you might not hear the sound with your windows up. BTW the hood speakers were designed for the RT folks to have a better audio experience back in the early days.
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    Hmmm.......What is YOUR story with your username?????

    "Vanishing Point" is the best damn Mopar movie ever. Kowalski was the best damn Mopar driver in any movie ever. It is my favorite movie ever. Every time I see a cop, for just the tiniest fraction of a second, I think about Kowalski driving that Challenger and think maybe, just maybe, I should...
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    Cancelled My Membership to "Idle Hang" Club

    Re: Cancelled My Membership to Don't cheer too early. If you disconnect the old PCM (unhook the battery) and reconnect it, often the Idle Hang goes away for a few hundred miles until the computer "relearns" its old bad ways. I'd say if after 300 miles or so it stays gone then you are in the...
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    MUSTANGS VS VIPERS?

    As DChan415 said, the solid rear axle is a superior setup for racing 1/4 mile at a time. Also Vipers do not have automatic transmissions, which once again are a superior device (to manual transmissions) for 1/4 drag racing. So a Mustang starts out cheaper and more aptly set up for drag racing...
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    Help Disconnecting the Fuel Line

    It's a little involved but I had a similar problem trying to disconnect the fuel filter. Just couldn't get the plastic disconnect to snap dowm. What I did was go to the harware store. There I bought an adjustable pair of "Vise Grip" pliers and two large flat washers. One washer had an inside...
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    Idle Hang Revisited

    My care still hangs at idle about 50% of the time. I haven't had time to work on it much but I've gotten some ideas. 1. I've had the "Check Engine" light go on a few times and the DTC code indicates bad O2 sensor. I've bought new sensors but had not had time to install them. The warning light...
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    Racing Jack

    I kind of went a different route. I wanted the most applicable jack for working on a Viper so I bought the DK13HLQ http://www.asedeals.com/hydraulicjacks2.html Pros: 3.1" at low point and lifts to 29.2" (works well under low cars like the viper and if you are burly like I am it is hard...
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    Idle Hang Revisited

    I did notice something recently. A few years ago when I changed the intake manifold gaskets I noticed motor oil in the intake runners. Not much but it was there. No real explanation for it. Recently I noted that the car was not "Idle Hanging" as much. I checked the oil and it was towards low...
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    WTF do I have to buy now

    '97's had problems with intake manifold gasket leaks I'm not sure about 96's. When mine was bad it would idle at 3000 rpm. Not a hard job to replace both sides.
  11. K

    "Engine Oil" light came on...

    Re: Your oil pressure sender unit to the warning light will start leaking in the next few hundred miles. Change it now.
  12. K

    What Do You Think??????

    Just get a roof rack. Works on my H1.
  13. K

    Please tell me how to turn when driving on the street.

    Stay off the trottle in sharp corners.
  14. K

    Jealous Sons a Guns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Twice I've had problems with what I assume were dumb young males in cars trying to cause trouble while I was out driving. Each time I managed to get ahead of them and then let them catch up to me. I'd pull off the main road onto a smaller side road to ascertain that they were in fact following...
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    Street Racing Poll

    1. Every household and business in each city pays $5 per year. 2. Money used to build drag strips. Bigger city more strips. 3. Dragstrips built have no rules. No equipment rules; no racing rules; participants decide. 4. All strips open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 5. Legislature passes law...
  16. K

    Idle Hang Observation, Anyone else?

    I've tried that to no avail but that does not mean your suggestion for adjusting the throttle cable won't work and I'll still try it this weekend.
  17. K

    Idle Hang Revisited

    Thanks for the info. Will check it out this weekend.
  18. K

    *** My Idle Hang... FIXED!!****

    Will try it this weekend. Thanks.
  19. K

    Idle Hang Revisited

    I haven't had time to rehook my diagnostics program to the car, reading the one other thread though yielded a value of 20 mmhg for the idle vacuum which I recall mine idling at 12 mmhg. Vacuum leak? Still one would figure that if this was the case a DTC code should be set. Also someone mentioned...
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    Idle Hang Revisited

    Seems like finding the answer to this would be the "Holy Grail" of '97 Viperdom. Everyones "Idle Hang" is similar and yet different. Let's see what happens with EdmuntonGTS' new PCM. Beware though that for the first 300 miles or so after the battery has been disconnected the computer will be...
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    Idle Hang Revisited

    I've replaced the TPS and the IAC motor to no avail. Seems like if it was the IAC motor then that should have set off a DTC code i.e. the computer should note that the O2 sensors aren't cycling appropriately. The TPS: what are the odds I replaced a bad one with another bad one? The computer...
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    Idle Hang Revisited

    Hey, I'm back with the same problem. '97 GTS that has "Idle Hang" the condition wherein the car spontaneously makes up its mind to idle at 1500 RPM for a while defying all attempts to bring the idle down then after 5-20 minutes it spontaneously drops back down to a normal idle of around 660 RPM...
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    Help with Idle

    Use the "Search" feature and type in "idle hang" and you'll find all permutations of this maddening problem. My Viper almost did not pass Smog here in Cali because the idle stayed up at 1200 rpm. Fortunately it dropped down to a more normal idle just as the tech was about to fail it. The only...
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    insipid questions

    Being nice to people when they ask questions about your car spreads good feelings about Viper owners in general and might keep your car from getting keyed in particular. Is it that hard to spend a few minutes answering questions about your car? Any politely asked question, no matter how foolish...
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    overheat/service engine soon!

    Check your oil and check your coolant level. Just insurance. The last time my Viper's temp went up inexplicably the inexplicable became quite explicable when I found most of the coolant mingling with the oil courtesy of a defective timing chain cover gasket. Not to say this is your problem but...

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