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Xfxram

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Hello all, I'm new to the forums, I've owned an 07 Dakota, 03 Ram, and 04 Ram. I am currently driving an 09 Ram with a 5.7L and nearing 285,000 miles. Is there any highly recommended maintenance I do aside from oil changes at this point? I also have the infamous tick occurring so is that going to cause any issues? How much longer can I expect this bad boy to go!
 

WiSH2oo0

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A couple questions for you.

What oil and filters have you been using?

Have you changed the rear and/or front differential fluids? If so what weight, additives and brands?

Same questionsize about any transmission service you preformed or had serviced?

How often did you preform these maintenance items?

I always like knowing what people have done to there vehicles to get high mileage like yours. I've had two vehicles that broke 230k + and only changed the oil & filter every 3k and changed the transmission fluid & filter once at 125k or so. Both of those vehicles are still running yet to the people that I sold them too. I have no idea what there mileage is now though.
 
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Xfram, I would keep doing what your doing as it seems to be working for you.
 

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Congrats on your girls longevity.


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All you need to do is routine oil changes, and every 100k do plugs/wires, and coolant/tranny/differential flushes...and you'll be fine in 99% of cases. My dad put 390k on his 2003 2500 with the 5.7 doing 3k OCI's with plain ol' QS oil (high mileage later on) and Fram orange/silver cans. I always ran thicker oil as my trucks got older. Once I broke 150k I'd start running 15w-40 diesel oils to give the insides a little more cushion.
 

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All you need to do is routine oil changes, and every 100k do plugs/wires, and coolant/tranny/differential flushes...and you'll be fine in 99% of cases. My dad put 390k on his 2003 2500 with the 5.7 doing 3k OCI's with plain ol' QS oil (high mileage later on) and Fram orange/silver cans. I always ran thicker oil as my trucks got older. Once I broke 150k I'd start running 15w-40 diesel oils to give the insides a little more cushion.

2009 ram with the 5.7 have 30000 mile plug change schedule.
 

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my 2012 also has the 30k plug change and I'm at 60k but I'm holding out for a few more miles...
 

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All you need to do is routine oil changes, and every 100k do plugs/wires, and coolant/tranny/differential flushes...and you'll be fine in 99% of cases. My dad put 390k on his 2003 2500 with the 5.7 doing 3k OCI's with plain ol' QS oil (high mileage later on) and Fram orange/silver cans. I always ran thicker oil as my trucks got older. Once I broke 150k I'd start running 15w-40 diesel oils to give the insides a little more cushion.
4th Gen Hemi requires new plugs every 32K miles.
 

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my 2012 also has the 30k plug change and I'm at 60k but I'm holding out for a few more miles...
Changed mine at 30K.
Went in for oil change and asked them to check semi-rough idle. Stealership recommended I change my plugs at 54K! The ***** even put my decline in the system too. Doofus told me I should pay to have my throttle body cleaned too (I have a catch can and TB is spotless).

Oh well, pre-paid maintenance contract changes them at no add'l cost at 60K.

Silver lining, I've now confirmed I can't believe any of the Sh@t this stealership service department says. Added a bottle of Techron fuel system cleaner and the idle mellowed out within 60 miles.
 

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Xfxram welcome to the forum. Do a search on tick it is covered weekly, if you have any issues past that PM me. Two main causes, lifters or exhaust, and they sound the same. There has been good success with redline oil and now some other oils that have high moly content IF it is lifters. Take some one inch pipe and see if the tick is near the exhausts bolts to rule that out first, hold one end to you ear one to each bolt.

Sounds like you already are a great success story.
 
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I normally use Mobile brand oil, not always full synthetic, differential fluid changed twice each around every 100k. Transmission did quit at 220k so only 60k on it. Other than that nothing really. Oil every 5k miles.
 

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Run some RedLine 5w30 or 10w30 with a Royal Purple filter and see if the tick stops, it has stopped the tick in a few motors.
 

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I met a guy one day who runs Hemi 2500's in his fleet. He does all of the Chick Fil A new construction and renovations nationwide. He runs each truck up to 450,000 miles or so before retiring them.
 

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I met a guy one day who runs Hemi 2500's in his fleet. He does all of the Chick Fil A new construction and renovations nationwide. He runs each truck up to 450,000 miles or so before retiring them.

Dam that's a lot of driving, that's like 50k+ miles a year for close to ten years if he keeps them that long. Still that's is always good to hear someone is getting good mileage out of a 50k$+ truck. Now that's what I call getting your money out of a vehicle. Nice:happy107:.
 

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Dam that's a lot of driving, that's like 50k+ miles a year for close to ten years if he keeps them that long. Still that's is always good to hear someone is getting good mileage out of a 50k$+ truck. Now that's what I call getting your money out of a vehicle. Nice:happy107:.

Actually, he has those kind of miles on them at the 5 to 6 year mark! When I spoke with him, he was in a 5.7 2500 that was a year and a half old, it had 169,000 miles on it!
 

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At that mileage I would check for broken exhaust manifold bolts first before spending a $100 on an oil change.
 
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