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  1. spyder

    Buying 1st truck - advice on bed length

    I don't know that I'd let a truck being dirty keep me from buying it, if it was what I wanted. I can clean it. Or I can have it professionally detailed for a couple hundred bucks. Sounds like a silly reason to pass on it.
  2. spyder

    Buying 1st truck - advice on bed length

    Ideally, they'd build and I'd buy a Megacab with an 8' bed. That I would love.
  3. spyder

    Buying 1st truck - advice on bed length

    If you plan to actually use your truck for truck stuff, the 6'4 bed is barely sufficient and the 5'7 bed is near useless. If you can't park a truck with a 6 foot bed, you need to buy a car anyway.
  4. spyder

    New engine, really?!?!

    I'd be fine with the temporary inconvenience to have free new (reman) engine and warranty. Sucks right now, but long term it'll be better I bet. I'd be pretty curious about what exactly happened too. Bucket of bolts is never good. I spun a rod bearing in a Caddy Northstar engine once and I...
  5. spyder

    New engine, really?!?!

    ...NEW YORK CITY?!?!?!? :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
  6. spyder

    New engine, really?!?!

    This makes me feel like it's an expected repair. "Oh, another one? Yea, just do it we don't need proof we know it happens all the time." o_O :ROFLMAO:
  7. spyder

    Normal engine temperatures?

    Nah, he's got plenty of time since he's one of those guys that likes to let his oil drain for 743 hours before putting the plug in and refilling it, instead of just draining and refilling like a rational person. o_O:whistle:
  8. spyder

    What could cause this damage to the cam???

    My 2014 Ram ate the cam, but we've had lots of others in fleet service that have gone well over 100k without a problem. Stuff happens, mechanical stuff breaks. It's not THAT big of a deal to replace cam and lifters. It sucks and isn't cheap, but it's cheaper than when my Cummins got cylinder...
  9. spyder

    What could cause this damage to the cam???

    If you looked at the photo of the cam, you should know that the oil is obviously going to show cam material in it. Oil analysis likely not worth doing on this one because it's just going to show full of metal. If oil analysis had been done when the tick first started, it would have told good...
  10. spyder

    Base 6 speaker upgrade options?

    I just want better sounding speakers and more volume. I don't want to learn how to do all the stuff talked about with with "270 uf cap for the 3032 is a bass blocker which gives a crossover point of 196 Hz at 6 db per octave." :ROFLMAO: If anyone comes up with a "remove these old ****ty...
  11. spyder

    Towing a car on U-Haul Auto Trailer

    Their trailers DO make your load pretty tongue heavy. Every time I've used one, it's weight forward. Whatever, tows fine. Probably another "engineered against idiots" thing so that it's REALLY hard to have too much weight on the *** end unless you load a rig on there backwards.
  12. spyder

    Towing a car on U-Haul Auto Trailer

    I used one recently to haul a 2011 Impala. To get it to back off the trailer, I had to deadlift the front to clear the lip while someone else backed it off. :ROFLMAO: Just used one to haul the Challenger also and it was great. I've got a car trailer but it's a little rickety and the cars...
  13. spyder

    Normal voltage?

    I drove my new truck across country last fall. I was nervous the entire trip about voltage as it started at 14.something on startup and as the hours and miles went by it would drop and drop and drop. I think it stopped dropping around 12.6 and when I'd shut down and start up again after fuel or...
  14. spyder

    Poor gas mileage

    Wonder how many people will have as much difficulty changing oil in the Hurricane, as they do on the very simple to change oil 5.7? :ROFLMAO:
  15. spyder

    Poor gas mileage

    Hauled the Challenger on a trailer on a ~600 mile trip over the weekend. Got 15.2 mpg hand calculated, with 87 octane and 3.21 gears. Same trip when I had 3.92s was 12mpg. 3.21 for the win. Again.
  16. spyder

    2025 Ram 1500 RHO

    I won't buy a first year, but I'll be watching them closely and considering one. Don't think it comes with the longer bed I need though.
  17. spyder

    Poor gas mileage

    Yea, but at the strip when racing is actually functional. That blue monstrosity is just dumb. But...as with anything, if the person who paid for it earned the money in a legitimate way, I'm all for people spending however much they want on what they want. I blow money on plenty of stuff that...
  18. spyder

    Ram Will Reveal The New 2025 Ram 1500 RHO On April 25th!

    Yea, but I'm thinking about buying one that's more than ten years older than I am. Hahahahha
  19. spyder

    Poor gas mileage

    Gotta flip the air cleaner lid upside down. Runs cooler AND sounds cooler.
  20. spyder

    Poor gas mileage

    Makes sense. I've never used fuelly, was just going by the information given.
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