Was In an accident wondering thought about what sound be still the cause of this?

Socalramfan said:

I second that

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It has been taken care of and going in for a reassessment. I just want to give all possible scenarios for them to look at. I had to tell the last place what was wrong because they were not correcting what needed to be fixed. They were awful, it was a small town and were not equipped for the repairs the need to do.

in larger cities the shops can move vehicles to other specialist. not so much in smaller towns. easy for me too say,take the vehicle further from home to have fixed correctly. p.s. the local dealer here just left my radiator overflow open,empty. says the coolant we are smelling under the hood coming from radiator cap which he says is normal. lol sealed system. only leaks at 16 psi for safety. Ram 1500 Classic 3.6 wont take fuel at the pump. he says truck was overfilled at some point which ruined the vapor cannistor not their problem . {the truck came with an overfilled tank when purchased new at same dealership} i dont argue ,just get po'd,ed. 18,000 miles feeling intermittent hesitation at pedal. any ideas ?

Wes Veness said:

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Find a frame shop.get a qoute. Thats just a start. And once the frame is found straight, anything else is easy to figure out. Basically starting out with no front end each part can easily put into the right position and adjusted

If think the body shop would be on the hook to fix this. Your truck wasn’t like that before the accident so I’d contact insurance company and let them know about the problem and have a adjuster look at it while at the body shop. I hope you get things back in order as it’s a nice looking truck

If you want, you can see if my 2013 rams shocks and rear axle/shocks or whatever would be of help to your problem. It's on blocks, and would love if the parts went to other rams in need.

There is no easy way to identify the problem. The only sure way is to put it up on jack stands and pull everything off. Then start by measuring the spring mounts to the outside edge of the body and both to the front and rear of some random point not affected by the accident. You need to make sure they are still square with the body. Then you need to look for a twist at the ends of the springs and measure the length and look for any twisting. A bent spring can also throw it out. Or just replace them. Then you need to check the axil thoroughly. look for stress cracks, look for any possible bend or twist or just replace it too.

It will not be the shock. It will not be a bolt on part like a sway bar. It could be the drag link if you have one after the lift. The lift would have thrown that off center so they had to take the original off or replace it with one from the kit. A cheap kit may not have had one.

Also consider you are now adding another angle to the already poorly aligned drive shaft because of the lift. u-joints are to account for minor alignment issues from a suspension. They are designed from the factory to be in a straight line from the tail of the transmission to the rear end. Now it drops to the rear end because of the lift and is off center because of the accident. Expect driveshaft, u-joint, transmission or pinion gear problems if you do not fix it. I have seen the entire tail of transmissions being destroyed because of a bad u-joint on a lifted truck.

My rule of thumb is to sell any vehicle i own after anything more than a light fender bender. You could have easily bent the frame. It would not take much. And then mounts start to fail along with mysterious creaks and groans in the plastic parts along with cracks where screws go, transmission problems, etc etc etc. If you jar a car hard, you will do all kinds of minor damage that will turn into big problems later on.

If you love THAT truck, spend the time and money to fix it. if you love a truck LIKE that one, sell it. This is just the potential tip of the iceberg of a ling list of potential problems.

Jmanzer123 said:

If you want, you can see if my 2013 rams shocks and rear axle/shocks or whatever would be of help to your problem. It's on blocks, and would love if the parts went to other rams in need.

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If you RAM has the plastic bumper. I NEED the left corner of the inner bumper around the driving light area. Mine has been damaged and the guy did not disclose that when he sold me the bumper. The outter part of the bumper is fine.

I will join others...take it to a good shop and put it on the frame machine.

I had a power wagon back in the early 80s. That got in a MVC. All I can say if I ever have another truck reck that has frame damage or major drive train repair I would traid it in.

You shouldn’t have to tell them anything but what happened. A good shop will tell you what has to be done. Probably has to go back on a frame machine with lasers to make sure tires are tracking correctly & not being worn out. Since he hit try to get your insurance company to go after his

Socalramfan said:

Frame?

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I have to take it in and have it put and the rack so the can laser point the frame, the bed and box aren't centered properly.
This is all cover by insurance jut taking so long to finally get done.

Turns out I had three bolts sheered off. as soon as it was put up on the rack they noticed it right away. That fixed the 1" offset on the passenger back rear and put the cab and bed back in alignment. I have been working with the quality control from the insurance place and he said the 1st shop that worked on it is going to loose their accreditation. Here in Manitoba you have to be certified as insurance is Gov run so you need to be an accredited collision center to be able to do work on collision repairs. They should have never missed it the 10 times they were told to check my suspension. Now after 6 months though it is finally back to pre accident condition.