What did you do to your Gen3 today?

Demon-HeMi · Jun 25, 2018

Fishstickz said:
I'm throwin' in the towel, this noise is literally IMPOSSIBLE for me to pinpoint. Any suggestions?

Ball joints, tie rods, front shocks, along with the sway bar links and bushings are all in new/good shape

Check your shock and check the control arm bushings

Lil_Ram · Jun 25, 2018

Demon-HeMi said:
Check your shock and check the control arm bushings

I was gonna say the bushing as well or the isolator maybe

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Fishstickz · Jun 26, 2018

Demon-HeMi said:
Check your shock and check the control arm bushings

To be clear, I'd assume you mean bushings that hold the control arm to the truck, and not the ball joints right? I'm quite new to the suspension world lol

Lil_Ram said:
I was gonna say the bushing as well or the isolator maybe

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I don't really know what an isolator is or where it would be located, but I'm gonna check out the bushings sometime soon. Yesterday I was looking and where the control arm connects to the truck (I assume thats the bushings you guys are talking about) still had grease, but were covered in dirt, grime and other disgusting things. One day I'm gonna have to take the wheels off to give it more of a cleaning because as it stands I can't tell how worn those things are. Knowing how much on the front end has already worn out and been replaced, I'd bet they're in bad shape

Thank you guys

Jerseystyle · Jun 26, 2018

Fishstickz said:
To be clear, I'd assume you mean bushings that hold the control arm to the truck, and not the ball joints right? I'm quite new to the suspension world lol

I don't really know what an isolator is or where it would be located, but I'm gonna check out the bushings sometime soon. Yesterday I was looking and where the control arm connects to the truck (I assume thats the bushings you guys are talking about) still had grease, but were covered in dirt, grime and other disgusting things. One day I'm gonna have to take the wheels off to give it more of a cleaning because as it stands I can't tell how worn those things are. Knowing how much on the front end has already worn out and been replaced, I'd bet they're in bad shape

Thank you guys

Greasy or dirty doesn't matter, just look for excessive wear. Take a prybar under there and start manipulating your control arms and all the other suspension bits. You should be able to figure out if they're worn out or not pretty quickly.

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Fishstickz · Jun 26, 2018

Jerseystyle said:
Greasy or dirty doesn't matter, just look for excessive wear. Take a prybar under there and start manipulating your control arms and all the other suspension bits. You should be able to figure out if they're worn out or not pretty quickly.

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I looked up videos and pictures and I know I was in fact looking at those bushings yesterday lol

I would've tried to a better look yesterday to solve this issue but my time table was narrow. I did take a flathead screwdriver and tried to clean them out as best I could, just from doing that I think its time for replacement. On both sides, the back bushings were completely covered in multiple layers of dirt and the front bushings were much cleaner, but I could tell they were worn out.

Does anyone know how difficult and expensive these are to replace? I've been saving up for an exhaust system but I think a quiet stock exhaust without squeaks is better than a V6-level exhaust with squeaks

Jerseystyle · Jun 26, 2018

Fishstickz said:
I looked up videos and pictures and I know I was in fact looking at those bushings yesterday lol

I would've tried to a better look yesterday to solve this issue but my time table was narrow. I did take a flathead screwdriver and tried to clean them out as best I could, just from doing that I think its time for replacement. On both sides, the back bushings were completely covered in multiple layers of dirt and the front bushings were much cleaner, but I could tell they were worn out.

Does anyone know how difficult and expensive these are to replace? I've been saving up for an exhaust system but I think a quiet stock exhaust without squeaks is better than a V6-level exhaust with squeaks

If you're going to replace I'd get all new control arms that have new ball joints and bushings already installed. Overall price will be more but it will save you a lot of headaches.

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Fishstickz · Jun 26, 2018

Jerseystyle said:
If you're going to replace I'd get all new control arms that have new ball joints and bushings already installed. Overall price will be more but it will save you a lot of headaches.

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That works out well because the upper ball joints and the control arm bushings are the only two bushings/joints that I haven't replaced on the front end. Everything up to this point have needed replacement, the upper ball joints look to be in okay condition (for now) but might as well go on and replace them and knock out two birds with one stone

Demon-HeMi · Jun 26, 2018

Goodbye Hellcat style red key and hello new flip key, my 3g is getting all kinds of fancy lol

Dont mind the extra pad there, thats the tailgate opener

adrian_cast · Jun 26, 2018

Bottom turbo oil line. Was a pain in the ass. Looked a lot easier to do on YouTube. Took out the starter too. That comes in tomorrow.

derekp · Jun 26, 2018

Couple new hauling pictures.

Loup_Garou · Jun 27, 2018

New headlights for both mine and the wife's they were turning yellow went with the black lights instead of the factory chrome on mine

Fishstickz · Jun 27, 2018

Few days ago my sister got a new car, a '15 Honda Civic. I can't believe they STILL make cars without automatic lights standard. Anyways driving it was just a lot of "meh" for me, but she seems happy so thats what matters. Imo, the CVT-type transmissions they put in these cars destroyed any of the fun I would probably have with them. You can put as many technological goodies in these vehicles as you want, if I can't enjoy driving it, I'm not gonna like it

To say I was happy when I fired my truck up later is an understatement

Drunken Hamster · Jun 27, 2018

Loup_Garou said:
New headlights for both mine and the wife's they were turning yellow went with the black lights instead of the factory chrome on mine

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Grey ram is looking ******* already. It's the little things that make a big difference.

Anything else you doing to it?

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Drunken Hamster · Jun 27, 2018

Fishstickz said:
Few days ago my sister got a new car, a '15 Honda Civic. I can't believe they STILL make cars without automatic lights standard. Anyways driving it was just a lot of "meh" for me, but she seems happy so thats what matters. Imo, the CVT-type transmissions they put in these cars destroyed any of the fun I would probably have with them. You can put as many technological goodies in these vehicles as you want, if I can't enjoy driving it, I'm not gonna like it

To say I was happy when I fired my truck up later is an understatement

Amen. CVT's suck. That civic would actually be fun with a stick. At least a normal auto...

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Gary krk · Jun 27, 2018

Slagwagon, if there is enough of the original bolt protruding from the block. Run a thread cleaning die down the nowastud.. Then spray liberally with some Zep 45 and let sit for a "while". Then clean, and run the correct size but on the end of said stud and puddle weld it on. Remove with a small impact wrench. The quick heat normally breaks them loose..

Fishstickz · Jun 28, 2018

Drunken Hamster said:
Amen. CVT's suck. That civic would actually be fun with a stick. At least a normal auto...

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We saw some of those Civic Si trims, That was her first choice because she loved the look, I'll even admit those things look pretty dang cool. But I guess they only put manual trannys in those things, and shes never been much of a stick-shift kinda person. With the amount of driving shes gonna be doing, auto was the better choice

With that said, if I got my choice I'd be picking up that purple 6.4L charger or the black 6.4L challenger I saw at those dealerships. It'd be fun to dust some ricers at the traffic lights

adrian_cast · Jun 28, 2018

New starter. No more clicking. Saved $650 doing myself.

02ramboi · Jun 30, 2018

So my ac on driver side is blowing week and on the passenger side hardly coming out at all any ideas on what it could be

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SYKRAMMAN · Jul 1, 2018

02ramboi said:
So my ac on driver side is blowing week and on the passenger side hardly coming out at all any ideas on what it could be

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Core needs cleaning or blend/mode door problems.

02ramboi · Jul 3, 2018

SYKRAMMAN said:
Core needs cleaning or blend/mode door problems.

Thanks ima check them out

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