corneileous
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- 2018 Ram 1500 Limited 4X4
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- Hemi 5.7
Just curious how the front ends work on all the trucks as far back at least while they’ve not had any kind of manual spinning hubs or anything like that where are you can actually disconnect the front wheels from the axle shafts like I’m assuming you can on all the other truck brands.
Although I’ve never owned a heavy duty, I did drive a 2007 2500 with a Cummins as a work truck in the oil field but I don’t know if the front driveline was turning all the time even in 2wd or not and as far as all the other heavy duties from the second GEN‘s all the way up to the fifth GENs, I have no idea as well but at least my 96 Dakota, my 2004 Dakota, my 98 1/2 ton, my 2008 1/2 ton and my current 2018 1500 all had….. i’m pretty sure, anyways, the passenger side axle sleeve or something else in the differential in maybe the 98 ram and the 96 Dakota but I’m almost a hundred percent certain that in all of my trucks I’ve had, only the complete driver side front axle and the wheel half of the passenger side axle would turn with the truck was in 2wd.
I talked to a guy last night that has a 2012 ram 1 ton with a Cummins and I guess all of his front drive components turn even when his truck is in 2wd… I guess that’s just a little strange to me because the only time every front drive component is turning on my 2018 is when you actually have it in auto four-wheel-drive which would make sense but in something that doesn’t have auto four-wheel-drive, that doesn’t make any sense at all to design a truck like that. No wonder there’s manual hub kits for the heavy duty trucks that are built this way because I wouldn’t want all of my stuff to turn at the same time when I’m just two wheeling. That’s a lot of unnecessary wear and drag when your four-wheel-drive is not being used.
Although I’ve never owned a heavy duty, I did drive a 2007 2500 with a Cummins as a work truck in the oil field but I don’t know if the front driveline was turning all the time even in 2wd or not and as far as all the other heavy duties from the second GEN‘s all the way up to the fifth GENs, I have no idea as well but at least my 96 Dakota, my 2004 Dakota, my 98 1/2 ton, my 2008 1/2 ton and my current 2018 1500 all had….. i’m pretty sure, anyways, the passenger side axle sleeve or something else in the differential in maybe the 98 ram and the 96 Dakota but I’m almost a hundred percent certain that in all of my trucks I’ve had, only the complete driver side front axle and the wheel half of the passenger side axle would turn with the truck was in 2wd.
I talked to a guy last night that has a 2012 ram 1 ton with a Cummins and I guess all of his front drive components turn even when his truck is in 2wd… I guess that’s just a little strange to me because the only time every front drive component is turning on my 2018 is when you actually have it in auto four-wheel-drive which would make sense but in something that doesn’t have auto four-wheel-drive, that doesn’t make any sense at all to design a truck like that. No wonder there’s manual hub kits for the heavy duty trucks that are built this way because I wouldn’t want all of my stuff to turn at the same time when I’m just two wheeling. That’s a lot of unnecessary wear and drag when your four-wheel-drive is not being used.
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