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I was trying to sell the local Dodge dealership on some beverage dispensing equipment, when I asked him if there were any good deals on 4X4 pickups. These guys will do anything to sell a pickup... I didn't get out of the dealership without a new Dodge Bighorn edition, 4X4, 3/4 ton, quad cab, Cummins Turbo Diesel. Call me stupid, I'm still in shock, I never would have guessed I would own a Dodge 4X4, but for $29,000 Brand New, I am eating crow for supper! ![[Linked Image]](http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee202/bridgershooters/Dodge.jpg)
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Nice truck, and you got a helluva deal on it to.
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I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave....
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can't go wrong with a Cummins mill.
A shootin iron is a tool used for shootin
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DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR
I LOVE MY COUNTRY IT'S THE GOV'T I FEAR
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Congrats on your new truck!  I have a '07 1500 QC SLT, 4x4, Hemi, auto tranny, 3:92 gears, limited slip rear end. My truck has 100% rock solid. It came with 20 inch wheels and tires. I switched them with 17 inch wheels and tires. I like the truck a lot better now!
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Congrats!
Nothing like a new rig to keep you smilin' while you're drivin'.
If it were me, I'd drive her easy for 500, drop the oil at 1000, and get a secondary fuel filter put in ASAP. I'd also swap out anything dino to synthetic along the entire drivetrain.
I like doing all that PM stuff early so that you have a lot of truck left over when the last payment is made. That rig should go for a looong time!
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Theres no doubt that if a guy needs a new truck, this is the time to buy one!
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Theres no doubt that if a guy needs a new truck, this is the time to buy one! Agree....but things will probably get better for us, before they get better for them. Congrats shrapnel!
220 Swift still king.
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I'd rather have that pontiac!!!
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so, did ya sell em any vending machines?
Something clever here.
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You didn't buy from them Lithia boys did ya  Nice job and you got a great deal! Hemi
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Great price ... that's at least $6k cheaper than their best price on a 06 of the same configuration when I bought my MegaCab.
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Nice truck at a good buy and a heck of a nice GTO sitting beside it, WOW!!!
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"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants - it is the creed of slaves" William Pitt
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in the world of auto sales DON"T OFFER..we will take you up on it!!!!
Dodge is the best American Truck on the road....
my dream job.....life guard of the gene pool!!!!!
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Put a pressure gauge between the lift pump and the high pressure fuel pump. Unless dodge has changed their design in the last few years, the low pressure pump can fail, forcing the high pressure pump to suck fuel. The truck will run fine like that for a while before starting to give you problems. If you know someone that will get you a rebuilt high pressure pump at cost, and you do the work yourself, it will cost you over 1,500 to fix what never needed to be fixed in the first place. If the dealership fixes it, it will nail you over 4k. Very common failure, and the lift pump is cheap and easy to replace. With a pressure guage added, your out 150 dollars and very little time replacing the lift pump when/if it fails without damaging your gawd awful expensive high pressure pump. Spend a couple dollars and put a pressure guage in your cab reading the lift pump pressure.
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Put a pressure gauge between the lift pump and the high pressure fuel pump. Unless dodge has changed their design in the last few years, the low pressure pump can fail, forcing the high pressure pump to suck fuel. That hasn't been a problem for years. It applied to the 98.5-2002 models with the VP-44 injection pumps. The common rail diesels aren't bothered if the lift pump fails, and dodge moved the pump from the block to the fuel tank in 2005. Good advice if you have a 98.5-2002 truck, but doesn't apply to his truck.
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I think I'm most jealous that you can fit it into you garage! Good score, good luck with her!
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