What did you do to your Ram today???

[toadsch]

Not my day for ice fishing. Vermont is in blizzard conditions and the wind chill right now is insane.

That’s a pretty sick photo.

 

[WHealy]

Got rid of some chrome that seemed out of place to me with Night Edition option.

 

[toadsch]

Got rid of some chrome that seemed out of place to me with Night Edition option.

Paint? Or new black lugnuts?

 

[WHealy]

Paint? Or new black lugnuts?

New black lug nuts.

 

[toadsch]

New black lug nuts.

Got a link? I want some. Thanks

 

[WHealy]

Got a link? I want some. Thanks

Here's what I got.

American Trucks

 

[The New Guy]

These Threads always seem to be fun and keep us all spending money so chime in and lets get the ball rolling....

Added a Tazer DT to my 2022 Ram 1500 Limited.

 

[Dogpatch]

I went down to the garage to get a tool. Stared longingly at the Limited for what seemed like too much time, smiled and went back upstairs.

 

[toadsch]

I went down to the garage to get a tool. Stared longingly at the Limited for what seemed like too much time, smiled and went back upstairs.

You caressed its tailgate, too? Didn’t ya?

 

[1923bob]

Added a Tazer DT to my 2022 Ram 1500 Limited.

So how do you like the Tazer so far ? I love my Tazer.

 

[Biga]

Got rid of some chrome that seemed out of place to me with Night Edition option.

Looks good, looks like you are missing a valve stem cover though.

 

[HSKR R/T]

Engine oil/filter change using the WIX filter equivalent to the SRT filter

For those running the SRT filter like me, the WIX 57063 appears to be identical, minus the SRT/Mopar branding. It's only a $1 cheaper, so not a huge savings, but there have been times when I have found the SRT filter out of stock on Amazon, which is cheapest place to buy. New WIX filter vs old SRT filter. Both made in Poland. The only place the wix filter even has WIX branding is in the box. The filter itself is just labeled Mann+Hummel as shown. Which is who actually makes it. See pics below


Did transmission fluid change and installed the PPE pan. If you are planning on doing this, few tips based on my experience today. I remove the three nuts from transmission mount into cross member and jacked the rear of transmission up by the transfer case vs trying to drop exhaust. You will need to do this in order to get the 10mm Allen wrench on the factory drain plug(if you have one). Unless your factory gasket is hard and brittle there is no reason to replace it. Mine was still very pliable, and the PPE pan is designed to use the factory o-ring style gasket. Just be careful removing it from the factory pan. And it will push right into the PPE pan.

For the factory bushings/flange collars in the bolt holes. The instructions clearly state to use them in the PPE pan. And they should be used as it will prevent you from over torquing the pan and crushing the gasket and damaging it. I used a 5/16" deep socket and they easily tapped out of the stock pan with light taps from a hammer. They pushed right into the PPE pan. Didn't need to use a hammer. They also help center the gasket in the holes. The instructions say to install the collars the same time as putting the bolts in, but they will push into the pan holes and stay. Will make it easier to get the bolts in doing it first as well. After tightening the pan, lowered the jack and the transmission mount bolts dropped right back into the cross member.

Going to start adding fluid now. Will report back with difficulty of that later.

 

[HSKR R/T]

Pics of trans fluid change. Factory fluid didn't look that bad at 60k miles. Could still see light through it

 

[HSKR R/T]

Fluid filled. Might be a little low because I was stupid and shut the truck off before getting fill plug installed, but it was rear high with the way I had rear axle jacked up. Not sure about other bottles of fluid, but I went with Liqui Moly 1800 which meets ZF specs for the 8hp70. These bottles come with tubes built in that you can pull out after you take lid off. Still make s little mess trying to get bottle positions and tube shover into the fill hole, but not too bad. You start by putting bottle in top first facing the rear of the truck over the exhaust. Once you get the back of bottle clear of cat, you push the back up and forward over top of the oxygen sensor. Then the fun part is getting the tube into the fill hole while fluid tries to run out. Initial 5 bottles before I started the truck wasn't too bad as exhaust was cold and I was able to use my finger to plug end of tube until I got it right to the fill hole. Once I put the gloves in, that didn't work too well, so lost some fluid. Probably only an ounce total out of all 7 bottles. And for working around the hot exhaust, I just put in my welding gloves. Took about 6.5 liters of fluid. I ordered 8 to be safe.

 

[Bt10]

Installed a cheap tonneau cover, I guess a little too cheap. They got the front clamps at the back end of the trifold front section, not the front corners of the section. So, the front is sprung up. Oh well hopefully keeps the luggage dry.

 

[Dogpatch]

You caressed its tailgate, too? Didn’t ya?

No room between the garage door and the tailgate.
Had to settle for the front fender.

 

[MboyRam]

Vacuumed the cab out, and power washed the Matt’s.

 

[HSKR R/T]

Vacuumed the cab out, and power washed the Matt’s.

Did the Matt's agree to the power wash? How many Matt's do you know?

 

[Montana_]

You caressed its tailgate, too? Didn’t ya?

I always caress the backup camera lens in a gentle swiping motion. Just a quick wipe while nobody is watching.

 

[JamRam]

My baby is desperately in need of some TLC. It's actually gotten to be quite embarrassing.

I hope to have some time once I submit my dissertation at the end of this month.