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@ MNSH... AWESOME ride there! Glad to hear it won't see SNOW! My rides do, but other than our plain jane Neon,they also do FINE in the crap we get here. Even our now retired 98 Avenger (coupe) did fine with no ABS and all season tires! I drive an 04 T&C, and that thing is like a tank in even the wor...

I think you and Neon will be much happier with performance once all parts come in and are installed. Looks like good progress being made, I know that even with the SOHC 2.0 that I'm not thrilled about working on the firewall side of the motor! BUT I've had to work on worse applications than that in ...

As far as the teflon tape...I'd go with a liquid thread sealer from Loctite, it's in a HIGH heat area, and you can see the seepage from the original fitting. Test fit before install is the name of the game with anything that connects to something else! BUT that manifold crack is not going to get any...

MY AIN"T THAT PURTTY LOOKING!!!

You really gonna DRIVE this BEAUTY once all back together????

Hello there and welcome to the forum! Our 04 base model sits low enough for our poor roadways, so I've had no interest in such a change to be of help. BUT I'm sure that that topic is well covered in the suspension heading page for you to look thru.

Well my son has just 2 more days of work requiring 100 mile round trips, and then it drops to 70 miles a day for commuting to local college. Which he's already been doing for the past week and then the summer job on the weekend. The little car is doing very well now that I laid the law down on how m...

Great commercial..I must have missed it too! But that's from a time in my life when I was working 80 hrs/ week including driving time!

Haha came back to this thread to check the equivalent of Mopar engine gen 2 rtv. Doing oil pan gasket and have to put that stuff in two corners. Have ultra black rtv When I replaced the cast pan on our 2.0, which uses a metal center "sandwich" (thin rubber) gasket. I applied a THIN coat to both sid...

OK, I found one thread about this subject by just scrolling thru this forum page ... and posted there on it also. Seems no real conclusion was made, but I tend to think the "oil wicking" in the harness connector and thru the wires core may be the source of trouble. That or relaxed pin connection in ...

Dormant thread...but yes our 04 2.0 SOHC will set a code that will disappear on the next start and the light turns off once motor is running. But has never turned on the CEL for it.

OK, I've said it and it is not just this site that forum search really annoyed...Can't find anything for a subject I'm looking for info on. So here goes the question. Our 04 2.0 SOHC has always seemed to every so often leave the oil warning lamp lit at start up. No noise, and yes has plenty of oil i...

Just to let you know .. Some of us folks ARE checking in to see whats happening on a fairly regular basis. :) Glad to hear things are "holding together" on your ride, and you giving thanks for others help! :) :) My son has been using his Neon with much more care since his last "escapade"...But has t...

My son is taking much better care of the little Neon, no "episodes" yet, and at 2500 miles I just topped the motor oil up to full with 1/3 of a quart of conv. 10-30 that's running in it this oil change. He's been putting on at least 700 miles a week on the little car!

Midnight_Rider wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 15, 2019 12:03 am

occasional demons wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 14, 2019 10:03 am

But sometimes stuff just fails, no matter how well you try to take care of it.

My biggest fear.

YUP, I think we all have that with anything we have!

Turbos have LONG had their longevity troubles ...all the way back to WW11 aircraft engines! Heat "coking" on shutdown of the oil feed/return on a HOT turbo is the most common cause. That"s why a number of years ago they came out with add on electric oil pumps to keep oil flowing on shut down and als...

Well I wish you great luck in finding a proper replacement turbo...they don't come cheap! But your ride definitely looks worth the expense.

If not for the fact that our 98 Avenger is on the sale block at this moment, last Mopar vehicle I'd have to come with would be my 04 T&C van...The Avenger was replaced by an 08 Pontiac G6 gt a week ago! Son has the Neon and the way this summer has gone, I'm not sure it will survive till next year wi...

LOL...try doing work after 5 back surgeries like I've had, and been maintaining 6 different vehicles! You've got something well worth putting the effort into...and I can see that A LOT has been put into it already! Yeah NY RUST is the PITS(gotta say things nicely),They even rust away when garaged fr...

Thanks for posting! Saved me the cost of going there to see it all! BUT also now makes me WISH that I had a MOPAR WORTHY enough to take there!

Maybe a couple thousandths but not what your video shows. I had an 85 600 2.2 turbo 2dr hardtop long ago, looks like seals and bearings for the turbo if you can get it apart. In my NY RUST area even the waste gate links corroded apart, didn't even bother trying to split the turbo itself from all the...

That's one heck of a great looking ride there! Too bad, but it looks like time to do a serious turbo rebuild or replacement there should be NO play in the turbo shaft in any direction! that lets pressure past the turbo seals and beck into the motor, what kind of oil consumption are you getting?

Well, so far so good for the little Neon. Have not done anything more with it for A/C, but do check tires and fluids(son still won't do that). Son's driving habits have improved tremendously since he found out that getting out of the speeding ticket is going to cost him in the area of $300.00 that H...

Not a bad looking ride...looks just like a face lifted version of our 98 Avenger with the 2.5 motor...and just as "packed in" looking on the pass. side and firewall! Enjoy it for what it is!

Well, I had a very "frank" talk with my son the other day and we talked about just what has been happening with him and the fears both my wife and I have about the roadway accidents that could involve him and the Neon. He agreed that his attitude needed improvement and that he did need to take heed ...

That is true Brr...BUT the INSURANCE is a KILLER and WHO would drive a Viper in our 7 months of WINTER????

occasional demons wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 29, 2019 10:50 am

Got over 300 miles on it, so far so good! As long as it lasts a few more years, I'll be happy...

That's great news!
I rechecked my records about having used Gates products for daughters Spectra...YES. The Neon got a Continental belt in the Auto Zone kit we bought. Both doing fine so far!

I know, I actually can still remember MY youth and doing similar to his stunts...just never hit a Deer or continually ditched my cars. We've had a series of deadly car wrecks ON HIS ROUTE to and from work and now the police are patrolling and ticketing much more closely. My point is that my son need...

Well my son was truthful about the deer hitting him(the car), a slight pressure dent to the lower right rear door...no real damage! IF he would have just come home directly from work IN daylight, this may not have happened at all. but he decided to "socialize" with fellow co workers after their shif...

Who cares about the A/C on this car anymore...Last Thursday night a speeding ticket on the way home from work and ONE WEEK later he calls and says a DEER HIT HIM...said all is ok (even the car)...We shall see in the mornings light IF he makes it home! Poor car has had more troubles since the end of ...

Be glad it was RAIN and not SNOW! Been from the Buffalo, NY area all my life and swear that it feels like we could get that "white stuff" at ANY time of year!