Toasted Dodge, new truck... done (pic heavy)

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illadvised

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well, first trip of the season took my truck out. The last thing anybody would ever expect from a year old 18,000 mile truck.

As of right now, the ONLY thing I am going to say about this, besides what happened, is that I had it in to the DEALER the week before and they replaced the torque converter. Obviously something was not put back together properly. As of now, I am not saying the dealer. So far I have only contacted my insurance company and a friend of a friend at chrysler tech center took my info, not sure if anything will come of that though.

This left us stranded in Higgins lake on snowmobile trip, fortunately only 4 miles from the cabin with no trailer attached. We towed up to Lake arrow head MI on friday, rode saturday and sunday, 2 guys left and we went to higgins lake MI for the monday riding. Sunday night is when this happened.

I noticed the tach @ 3k RPM, we got to the top of the incline we were on and it wasn't up shifting... let off the throttle and got back in and it still went to 3k RPM. Thought great trans is smoked... so we pulled over and the cab has smoke in it and something smelled like it was burning... got out, looked under and saw a small orange glow. We grabbed what we could and got out. By the time the FD showed up, the thing was a huge fire ball.

4 Guys in the truck, everybody was OK. Had to call a buddy to pick us and the trailer up the next day. Its about a 3.5hr drive from home.

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BlackedOutHemi

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Oh. Wow. Glad you guys are okay. Thats terrible.
 

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wow, glad your OK
 

sullivan

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Man glad your ok and it didn't catch fire while your driving it.
 

HemiBabe

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OMG!!!! Glad y'all are ok

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09SMOKINHEMI

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dang.... you know something similar happened to my boss on his 03 Ram while he was driving home from work. something popped, he pulled over, then the dash caught on fire and ran out.... scary
 

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oh damn....Glad you are ok....this might sound odd but maybe one of the cats? Years ago my Dad lost a car because the cat caught fire and then burned up like that.
 

Big Boi

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Oh, sorry... Glad you guys made it out. The truck is replacable. But family and friends arent (for the most part ;))
 

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dude that sucks hope getting a new truck goes smooth for you
 

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This is the most insane post I have seen. I hope this incident brings you an upgrade. :)

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I think you may be right I have seen it on a 98 Ram with 360 the cat was glowing hot. Luckily it did not catch fire.

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Woah glad you guys are all ok!
 

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