Heyas,
My poor ol' Lesabre destroyed itself a month ago (think the main bearing siezed, maybe spun a rod bearing... sob...) and got myself a 99 Dodge Caravan 2.4L 4 cylinder - 3 speed tranny with 67K on the odometer. It was a fleet vehicle for the local giant university, doesnt seem to have been abused too bad and has had at least some minimal maintainence. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with the goofy thing in terms of maintainence and know if there is anything I should watch out for with this model.
So far I have run a bottle of Gumout Regane through the gas tank and been feeding it Fuel Power FP60. The engine is running smoother than when I got it. I plan on changing the PCV Valve and possibly running some SeaFoam or the like through the vacuum hose to clean it out well (any suggestions?). I'm not sure how sludgy this engine can be, but will run at least one bottle of Auto-Rx through the engine and see what turn up in the filter. Heard some rumors about the Dodge DOHC engines being abit dirty. From the service records the tranny pan appears to have come off for gasket replacement about 10-15K ago but have no idea if the filter was replace. Was thinking of putting a little Auto-RX in the tranny and having a filter change to be sure. I don't think the radiator fluid has ever been change so prolly overdue for flush. Anything obvious I am missing?
Regards
My poor ol' Lesabre destroyed itself a month ago (think the main bearing siezed, maybe spun a rod bearing... sob...) and got myself a 99 Dodge Caravan 2.4L 4 cylinder - 3 speed tranny with 67K on the odometer. It was a fleet vehicle for the local giant university, doesnt seem to have been abused too bad and has had at least some minimal maintainence. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with the goofy thing in terms of maintainence and know if there is anything I should watch out for with this model.
So far I have run a bottle of Gumout Regane through the gas tank and been feeding it Fuel Power FP60. The engine is running smoother than when I got it. I plan on changing the PCV Valve and possibly running some SeaFoam or the like through the vacuum hose to clean it out well (any suggestions?). I'm not sure how sludgy this engine can be, but will run at least one bottle of Auto-Rx through the engine and see what turn up in the filter. Heard some rumors about the Dodge DOHC engines being abit dirty. From the service records the tranny pan appears to have come off for gasket replacement about 10-15K ago but have no idea if the filter was replace. Was thinking of putting a little Auto-RX in the tranny and having a filter change to be sure. I don't think the radiator fluid has ever been change so prolly overdue for flush. Anything obvious I am missing?
Regards