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Quote: Originally Posted by TheWiseFlea Great tips guys. Repped! Cap Morgan - thanks for the howto on the column. I basically cut off that stupid screw because I was so pissed off at it (for about an hour). I didn't know that dropping the column was that easy. I've also read that I should replace the drier and expansion valve, though I'm not quite sure where they are or what they do. Any thoughts? Will look for a howto on ATC....

Yep. The chassis is in great condition with only 75k miles and I love driving this car. Not to mention the crash ratings which is why I picked it in the first place for my daughter to drive. She calls it the USS Intrepid. I hope to get 110k miles out of this car after I get all this done. I did have another question. Should I loctite (blue) any of the bolts like the water pump, chain guides or just torque them to spec?

Quote: Originally Posted by NHogan When dropping the steering wheel make sure it doesnt turn otherwise it may mess up your clock springs. Quote: Originally Posted by CaptainMorgan As long as you leave the steering wheel on the column I thought you did't have to worry about that. The key is not to uncouple the column shaft from the intermediate shaft (near the firewall - see photo below). The steering wheel is not what limits the spinning...

Quote: Originally Posted by Respectyourtrep penzoil sucks! Go with do an engin flush and use rp or castrol edge with a mobil1 oil filter Engine flushes can do more harm than good. I'll pass. Quote: Originally Posted by furyman67 I get a tick every now and then, this morning was very apparent, I did not check the oil level which I should have will have to do that tomorrow, it is around the mileage I add a quart. I use 2 quarts of Royal...

The FSM doesn't call for it so I didn't put any on mine. Hopefully it should be ok and not come apart.

Today I bought a IAT sensor. I had to cut a hole in the intake elbow to install the sensor since the current elbow is from a 98-2001. The old sensor was indeed bad and I had it installed on the K&N intake where the valve cover line use to plug into before I switched to a breather filter.

From talking to a guy at work who used to work at chrysler (R/D I think), he says people he talked to at chrysler said (though mostly they wanted to avoid this subject) they have found some problems and fixed them... But because these people obviously didnt want to announce this to the world, it is not clear exactly what they fixed, other than various speculations on the internet. My guess is the 04 2.7 has some unseen improvements. I...

[quote=rgssr;1590516]I would check with the White House.....after all they are the owners of the car companies now. [quote] ROFLMAO!!!! eh?

Quote: Originally Posted by jasonJ1969 I run about 40 up front and 35 out back. Yeah, it seems a little high, but I am not getting bad wear issues so that is what I will run on the current tires I have. Different tires require different pressures, it depends on the tire, not the placard in the car. Sometimes it takes work to figure it out. Wet the tread, roll it on concrete, add or subtract air to get an even tread pattern. Doesn't...

Quote: Originally Posted by MarkTN Does anyone have the 2000 Intrepid FSM on PDF? and if so could you please post a link to it,or is the difference between the 2000 and 2002-2004 FSM not enough to worry about? its the same car,some things are changed like electronicts but aspart from that the 02-04 fsm has been very usefull on my 99 what are you looking into?