In this video, I want to talk to you about the most common, overcharged repairs that
you can do as a DIYer at home.
Now, in this '02 to '08 Dodge 4.7-liter, you actually have 16 spark plugs.
So, you have coil wires and you have coils.
Then, you also have spark plugs.
So, to do this to save money because it's a big-ticket job, but you can do it for several
hundred instead of $1,000 or $2,000.
One at a time, pull each plug wire right off, just like that.
Then, you're gonna have a spark plug down there, and one underneath the coil there.
You can get to all four coils on this side and all four on that side.
Same with the plug wires.
Another one to talk about it is your serpentine or your drive belt.
Real simple to do.
The belts are rather expensive.
They can range anywhere from...I've seen them from $60 to $120, and they're gonna charge
you a half-hour to an hour labor.
It really only takes about 10 to 15 minutes.
Get yourself a good pair of long wrench, or you can get an actual serpentine belt tool,
which is just extra length.
You're gonna pull on that tensioner right there.
Loosen it up.
It's gonna spring-load either way, and you can slip the belt off.
Now, you can use your own phone, take a nice rooting picture of it so you know how the
belt roots, or you can always go online.
Those images are very regularly available for you.
So, another quick repair that you can do at home, especially on this '02 to '08 Ram with
a 4.7-liter in it, is the radiator.
It's real easy because it has its own training cooler, so there's no training lines going
into the actual radiator like an internal cooler, and that can be kinda messy sometimes.
And if you cross-thread that, it can leave a mess.
But, if you're a first-timer and you really wanna tackle this, you can save several hundred
dollars and do it yourself.
Get a good catch pan, large enough to catch all the coolant.
Don't make a mess.
Take your hoses off, pull the radiator out, put your one in, and run it.
Another money-saving job that a DIYer can do that doesn't take a lift to use a jack,
jack stands, are brakes.
Nowadays, even four-wheel-drive trucks have what we call knockoff rotors, so you don't
need to take greasy bearings, no seals.
They just pop right off.
Calipers are always mounted by two mounting bolts, and you have your two sliders bolts
pins, and you can do a job.
And we have a great library to show you how to do all that.
Sway bar links.
Here's another item.
You can save two hours on labor that you can do yourself.
Strut assemblies, instead of the whole strut.
This is what we call a spring shock.
So, this is even easier than a strut where it's a whole assembly.
You bind it under the bottom bolt and undo the top three bolts.
Pop the control arm out.
It comes right out.
We have all libraries full of videos to show you how to make these easy repairs and save
yourselves hundreds of dollars.
So, in addition to front shock assemblies with spring-loaded, fully-assembled, rear
shocks.
They're real easy on this truck.
This is a great way to save a few bucks.
Do it yourself.
The rear brakes on this, we have disc, not drum.
No complication about springs or where the pin goes.
The rotors pop right off.
Caliper, two mount bolts.
If you've gotta replace it, gravity bleed them.
But what can you do to save money?
So, hopefully, this video helped you out, you learned how to do a few things and to
save hundreds of dollars.
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