Check your local for sale ads long enough and you'll see a trend. Plenty of Dodges for sale with blown 4.7's, none or very few with pooched 5.2 or 5.9's.

Originally Posted By ccarson
93-96 5.2 magnum with the 518 overdrive auto


I think you mean 92-95. 96+ was the electronic transmission.

Originally Posted By northcoastmopar
Either one would be paired to an automatic. The vehicle would be occasionally used by my son in college or the wife and neither can nor want to drive a stick.


Sounds like the best reason to hunt one down with a stick! If they don't want to learn they don't have to drive it. Sounds like a win-win to me.