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The Ram Saga long, long ago in a auto plant far, far away a red and white Dodge Ram charger was assembled and ran to the end of the line. There it was loaded onto a transport and shipped to a dealership somewhere in Pflugerville TX. There it sat until Ruth Dziesinski strolled in with a dream and good credit and for the low sale price of $18,398.00 purchased that charger. She drove it far and wide and five years later he wrote the final check and paid off that loan and actually owned the truck. Here it gets a little sketchy ...She probably drove it a few more years hauling around kids or whatever until her son came of age and begged mommy and daddy for a vehicle. After a long family meeting, the keys were passed on to junior and off he went in his first car. Somehow it ended up belonging to someone who was in the military and stationed at Carswell Joint Reserve Base in Ft. Worth TX wher before he/she shipped out they dropped it at the base consignment lot. There is was bought by Charles Browder after he had a bad accident in a small truck, and he felt it was big enough thet it might save him in the case of another bad wreck....he bought it and drove it around for almost a year while the court battle over his injurys and settlement was going on. When he finally got the check from the insurance company and paid his medical bills and gave his bitchy ex-wife a good chunk, he went and bought himself a new 2000 Tahoe and he sold me the "good old charger"
Here is where the real story begins I needed a car because i traded in my 1998 S-10 ex-tended cab to buy my wife an Explorer. When Charles asked if I wanted I said yes and immiadiatly my brain started working...."new paint a 6'' body lift, some 36'' tires, a big bumper guard, light bar on top, mmmmmm monster truck" Tamara had not yet sold her car and so I figured I'd have what I could sell her mustang for, less the cost of what I paid Charles for the truck, gave me about $1400 to make the truck "COOL" several weeks later I listed the mustang in the paper and sure enough it sold and i had money....here is where trouble starts.... I took some money and bought new tires and shocks, about $600.00, that stopped the shaking and the hard bumps, then I noticed the oil light was flickering on, and a few of my friends convinced me that my oil pump was going bad and that it was easy and cheap for me to fix myself, and they would even help me do it. So 4th of july weekend I went out and bought an oil pump a gasket and a Chilton manual and off I went to try and fix my truck. I soon learned tha "help me do it" meant sit on the porch and drink beer and come over every 15 min or so and say "how's it going...you need a beer" needless to say the "simple" operation took almost 6 hours and involved unscrewing the motor mounts jacking up the engine to slide out the oil pan replacing the pump (it really was easy once you got to it - 3 bolts) then putting the whole thing back together. However the store gave me the wrong oil pan gasket so I had to go back and exchange theat while I was covered in grease (never fun). I eventually got it back togther, then they convinced me to change the oil filter while I had the truck up on ramps. So I went back to the store (they knew me by name by now) and got a filter and some new oil. Oil change went smoothly and when I got done and cleaned up tho old charger actually started right up!! -more to come-
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