Thanks Burla. I am going to give it a try. I have 2012 Ram 1500 Sport with the 5.7 Hemi. I am also getting ready to do an oil change with Redline.
I had a roller bearing go out on a lifter a few months ago, at about 170,000 miles. (5800 hours) It also wiped out the lobe on the camshaft. I replaced camshaftwith Mopar, but chose to replace lifters with aftermarket. Big mistake, they make so much clatter. Any other ideas to quiet it down?
I see you are new, welcome to ram forum, sorry it seams like this scourge of cam/lifter problems brought you here. We have been dealing with this and experimenting with different lubrication strategies because for most of us that is all we got. I know you feel bad because you have new cam/lifters and it still ticks, that will not be the first or last time this has happened, in fact it happens pretty frequently. I don't have a % at this point on how many engines tick after a cam swap, but I can tell you I have heard this at least ten times in my ten year here.
So at this time the best Ram Forum has come up with is running redline 5w30 to kill that tick, and if you read the poll results in my sig, you will see only about 10% of people who try this don't get any relief. Kinda of amazing that a simple oil change will have 90% of ticking hemi's better, and of those 66% kill their ticks completely.
I recommend you do this and only this, change to 5w30 redline and a spun microglass filter I recommend royal purple 20-820 or amsoil ea filter. And the science of this formula is waiting for the plating effect of the formula, so sometimes a tick goes silent right away, others like mine and hemi395 it takes between 500 miles and 1700 miles. The plating effect takes pressure and time and has to survive heat cycles, this "can" take time. It's just an oil change and for people suffering from tick this has proven to be very very effective. Leave the lubegard alone at this point, it is good, but not as good as redline for this. With more testing maybe it will be, dunno. But redline's results are established, we have multiple regular ram forum members on this voodoo going on a decade.
I hope you try it, this is my advice, and keep in mind the forum deserves accurate info, so if you try it please report whether it was successful or NOT, whatever the facts are in the poll.
Everyone has their opinion on this, my opinion is it isn't the lifters or cam, but the block. I think the lifter cavity is just wrong, I think the design keep lubrication from getting to the pressure points. That is why this high molybdenum formula kills so many ticks. I killed my tick with 5w20 redline, and that is very close in viscosity to the 5w20 that was in it, so how would that be possible? It isn't a viscosity thing, it is a base oil thing plus additive thing. Lubegard has two features redline has, ester and high moly, this is also effective as we see. Similar science, but redline has more of it if you compare lubegard added to otc oils. So get you some 5w30 redline and a 20-820 and give er a go.
