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    Ram 1500 Rear End Hop When Plowing

    Thanks for the link, 3pedals! I have Hellwig LP35 helper springs on it now. Without additional dampening, they might be causing or exacerbating the problem--even when backed way off! I originally had lighter Hellwigs on it, but they took a permanent set in less than a year's time (hauling my...
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    How many have had to replace their water pump?

    70k? Yup! My 2004 Ram 1500 V6 spit up its bearings at about 70,000 miles since new. Since replacement #1, I've accrued over 100,000 more miles and I just replaced it for the second time a couple of months ago. Coolant loss through the weep hole had been getting worse for over a year and it got...
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    Rebuilding Rear end

    Thanks, Joseph. I used the original set too, but I thought I might be able to improve on the pattern. In the end (so to speak), the original set of shims was best and the job has lasted several 10s of thousands of miles now without noise or trouble. I always thought the pattern could have been...
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    Ram 1500 Rear End Hop When Plowing

    Of course I'll provide updates on my progress in solving this problem.
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    Ram 1500 Rear End Hop When Plowing

    Thanks, crash68! I will start with shocks. It's been a long time since I've looked at the 4x4 Ram 1500 but I think it uses the same rear end so I'll look into traction bars, if shocks don't solve the problem. Sounds like a "second the motion", crazykid1994! I never had wheel hop before I put...
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    Ram 1500 Rear End Hop When Plowing

    Interesting thread. Thanks! Yeah--soft stuff and snow is usually when it happens but it can be dirt and gravel sometimes too. I don't have an aftermarket sway bar but I think it has a small OEM one. I'll have to look under the front end, because I don't remember. Of course sway bars stiffen...
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    Rebuilding Rear end

    Thanks for your reply, CaptQ. Yes--I used the old gears. With all the snow plowing I've been doing this year, I'm thinking that I should have changed them out along with my old differential carrier. I'm geared too tall for optimum plowing use and the tall factory gearing is tougher on the clutch...
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    Ram 1500 Rear End Hop When Plowing

    I'm posting for help here in the Towing and Hauling forum, because whenever I'm plowing snow, I'm hauling too (weight in back). This is the forth year that I've been plowing with this rig but the snow has been particularly thick lately in N. Central Idaho and I'd like to do something about a...
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    Rebuilding Rear end

    I overhauled my 2004 Ram 1500 rear end about 6 years and 50,000 miles ago with 137,000 miles on it. The pinion bearing had failed (I abuse it with a lot of camper hauling and light towing) so I took it as an opportunity to upgrade it with a Yukon Duragrip carrier (and overhaul kit) too and...
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    Camper shell

    I have a gen. 3 Ram so no photo but I recommend a cap that has a sharp angled flange or lip that extends down past the deck of the box where the cap rests and seals. The flange must slightly overhang the outside of the pickups box, instead of the cap terminating with an almost square outside...
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    V6 towing Travel Trailer

    I've done extensive travel (many 10s of thousands of miles) with a medium-size self-contained camper mounted on my 2004 V6 5 sp. manual Ram 1500. The camper's empty weight is almost 2000 lbs and sometimes I also tow a small utility trailer that weighs perhaps 1000 lbs gross when loaded with some...
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    Coolant Change Interval for Hemi Engines

    Why not drain/flush to the best of one's ability without resorting to crazy measures, and then refill with water only, start/drive the vehicle until the engine is up to temp and the thermostat is open and then repeat the drain/flush an additional number of times as desired? I'd guess one time is...
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    Tire Recommendations

    +1 !!! The OEM Transforce AT tires on my 2016 Cummins 2500 Bighorn suck! They've always provided poor traction and the only reason I've made it to 30,000 miles is almost all of the miles have been with a camper. Just like my motorcycles, I've found that tires last longer when there's weight on...
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    Change coil spring or add airlift on ram 1500

    I don't know about your application but I'll weigh-in ;) here, regardless. When I moved my camper from my 2004 Ram 1500 (leaf springs) to my new Cummins 2016 Ram 2500 Bighorn (coil springs) six years ago, the 2500 would rock side-to-side on straight roadway at 50 plus mph. I installed Air Lift...
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    The stupid front driveshaft greasing....

    It takes quite a bit of pumping but you'll know that you got some grease in there when it starts coming out other places than where you are pumping it in! Lots of good advice here but I'll add that I use a fully metal tip on the gun (not the rubber tipped adapters that work best on my chainsaw...
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    the "joy" of new lug nuts fyi

    Haha! Yeah--the only thing the detached cladding killed was my patience for tire installers. It was a bit of pain to get the loose cladding off my worst OEM nut and then of course I needed a smaller socket to remove the nut. The need for a smaller lug nut wrench isn't a problem when you're at...
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    the "joy" of new lug nuts fyi

    Three years ago, the cladding on my 2004 Ram 1500 failed and was spinning on the internal lug nut on a couple of nuts. In one case, I had to take a Dremel tool with the tiny cuttoff wheel and painstakingly cut, split, and remove the cladding cover to get the nut off. Too many tire changes at...
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    Recorded 68RFE Temps after the TTBV block delete

    Well...an extreme case of running too cold too much of the time (Fairbanks, AK in the winter?) is probably tough on a transmission too but my guess is this mod is probably a better wager for most of us than the factory bypass valve. I've seen well over 200 degrees F far more times than I can...
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    Recorded 68RFE Temps after the TTBV block delete

    Sounds like a case of two good ideas gone bad (sticky/excessive bypass and less than full lockup). Now I know why my 2016 Cummins Bighorn tranny runs so hot! Ironically, this seems to me to be a mod that would severely threaten a transmission warranty claim. Might not a dealer / FCA claim a...
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    Limited Slip Rear Diff

    +1 !!! On my on my 2016 Cummins 2500 Bighorn, I find that traction control is only helpful (for control and safety) when driving on good road suface conditions, including plowed snow/ice covered roads. It becomes un-helpful and I turn it off when I'm steep hill climbing, trying not to get...
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    Fuel filter life reset

    Yup--quick tap on right arrow button after highlighting "YES" worked for me too. The funny thing is this is my second fuel filters change and I had no trouble the first time without even looking at any documentation. I guess I just got lucky the first time and today I could not remember exactly...
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    6.4 or 6.7 for the next truck?

    I have 20,000 mile on my family's 2016 Cummins 2500 Bighorn. Nearly all the miles were driven hauling a medium weight self-contained slide-in camper and probably 1/3 of the miles included a flat towed Honda CRV behind the camper rig. I got a great deal on the pickup, but it's not the best...

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