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    3.7 V6 Smells Like Gas P0300 P0171 Codes

    Hope this is the right section. My son just bought 2009 1500 3.7 V6 from a family friend as his first car. I've known the guy and the truck since new. 132,000mi, meticulously maintained, and ran perfect...until...it sat in my driveway for a few weeks and my son wanted to wash and wax his new...
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    First Tow With The New Ram!!!

    Just wanted to update this thread. Well I tried and I tried but I just wasn't completely confident pulling that much trailer in the Mountains with our new Ram. Frankly I never really enjoyed towing that trailer much anyway. So me and the little lady made a big decision...We went trailer...
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    First Tow With The New Ram!!!

    There was a time when we actually were thinking about going bigger! After this past weekend the conversation around my house has been about going smaller so we can get back into those hard to reach places we went to when we had a smaller trailer and it would be easier to tow. In fact I think we...
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    First Tow With The New Ram!!!

    Well when we aren't camping it is my soccer mom who drives it..LOL As for the WD hitch, its an EAZ-LIFT. Never really liked it but it has served is purpose across three trailers. Your right I am over on payload. Truck tag says 1384. 1384-980 tongue-500 People/dog= -96. That said some of...
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    First Tow With The New Ram!!!

    You know I was just in the garage looking at the sidewalls of the tires they put on these things. Technically they are not overloaded BUT there gotta be a ton of sidewall flex. That would explain alot of what I'm feeling. How shall I explain this to the wife again? :roflsquared:
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    First Tow With The New Ram!!!

    Just wanted to share my experience with our shiny new 1500 towing our sort of heavy TT. Coming from a 3/4 Duramax I expected things go be a little more "difficult" but as it turns out this 5.7 Hemi paired with the 8spd and 3.92 Gears is a towing machine! No worries about power here. Here is a...
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    The GM Gods are crying

    I probably should have added its got the 4 corner Air Suspenders on it you cant't add air bags to that can ya? Im pretty confident once I get the WD hitch set up in "Jack mode" as I read on here somewhere it will be just fine :waytogo: Thanks for all the kind words from everyone I'm looking...
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    The GM Gods are crying

    Hi All - Wanted to stop by here and introduce myself. This may get a little long so if you have a short attention span ya may want to just click the back button now :flipthebird: A little history..everyone in my family all the way to my Great Grandfathers have always driven GM products. Hell...
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