Recent content by v8440

I'm surprised you got a dealer to actually try to fix that, like others said, it's likely operating as designed.

It's probably normal. My guess is the fan is run fast on a hot start to get the heat out of the heat soaked intercooler quickly before the engine can get heavily loaded.

Bring a regular cab short bed back. Ford is the only one making that with a v8, and they don't much want to make those. They only offer them in the lowest trim level. I ended up going to Atlanta (from Iowa) to get mine, the replacement for my lemon ram.

Being somewhat sarcastic here, but that might bankrupt them in days or weeks!

You have arrived at the correct answer, at least as far as warranty is concerned. The engineer is also very likely correct.

Good point. Surely no dealer, or ram itself, would dispute the Edmunds article should a decision arise concerning warranty coverage of an HO truck run on 87 octane.

My advice would be to think hard about the concept of slapping down the price of a small home for a pickup truck...

Mine with 3.55's did it, along with check engine light flashing, misfires, stalling...

If you had gotten my '25 laramie with a S.O. it would not be hard to get you back into a hemi. You got lucky and apparently got one of the good ones.

It's getting lemon lawed.

I'm sure it makes more power on higher octane. This truck can't reliably be driven across town. That is not because I'm only running the minimum recommended octane. Blaming 87 octane gas for the problems my truck has is akin to blaming an oil change with semi-synthetic oil in an engine...

I got less than two tanks worth of driving from the truck. I don't know what the dealer put in for the first tank, probably 87. Second wad 88 octane 15% ethanol. That fuel is probably still in it, unless they refilled it. Truck has 1069 miles or so. I've owned it 9 months or so.

Not seeing a check engine light is no guarantee it's not misfiring like hell. In the unsuccessful attempts to fix my '25 laramie, one pcm update greatly raised the threshold for turning the check engine light on during misfires. The talk at the time was that because the misfire problem was so...

Torque management probably steps in and lowers output if you stay on the brakes at heavy throttle so that it won't cook the transmission. Every bit of power the engine is delivering to the torque converter when holding the truck still is turned directly into heat in the transmission fluid. So...

While we're dreaming, I'd like the rcsb to come back, with the current interior, with the 6.4 hemi available at a semi-reasonable price. After a year or two of them proving it isn't unreliable because of electrical problems like my '25 laramie is, I'd consider trading in my rcsb v8 f150 on one.