EricKBattleGround
Junior Member
I'm perhaps a few years late in posting this - I've posted to this forum several times while looking for information to help in keeping my truck on the road.
I own a 2006 Ram 2500 Mega Cab 4x4 (diesel/manual trans) that I purchased new. The purchase decision was based on the phenomenal access to the rear seat area - important for my family, as one of my children has a physical disability, and I needed a vehicle that could tow, haul, and potentially be modified with a wheelchair lift. (That latter modification did not happen.) Prior to purchasing this truck, I was a GM addict - not any more!
I've put a lot of wrench time into the truck over the time I've owned it, though there are some repairs that I will send out to a shop. I've installed PowerSteps (2 times - first set failed in early 2024), a Jake Brake (Chrysler-branded Cummins kit), rebuilt the front axle with DynaTrac's Free Spin (manual locking front hub) kit, and done far too much electrical work on the truck.
I retired from Daimler Truck in 2024 - my last role was providing 3rd level technical support for electronic control systems. I was a jack-of-many-trades on the electrical side of things, and learned way more than I can ever share about harness design, electronics design, software design, user interfaces, and diagnostics (both DTCs and internal workings of the diagnostic tests that cause DTCs to be sent).
Eric
I own a 2006 Ram 2500 Mega Cab 4x4 (diesel/manual trans) that I purchased new. The purchase decision was based on the phenomenal access to the rear seat area - important for my family, as one of my children has a physical disability, and I needed a vehicle that could tow, haul, and potentially be modified with a wheelchair lift. (That latter modification did not happen.) Prior to purchasing this truck, I was a GM addict - not any more!
I've put a lot of wrench time into the truck over the time I've owned it, though there are some repairs that I will send out to a shop. I've installed PowerSteps (2 times - first set failed in early 2024), a Jake Brake (Chrysler-branded Cummins kit), rebuilt the front axle with DynaTrac's Free Spin (manual locking front hub) kit, and done far too much electrical work on the truck.
I retired from Daimler Truck in 2024 - my last role was providing 3rd level technical support for electronic control systems. I was a jack-of-many-trades on the electrical side of things, and learned way more than I can ever share about harness design, electronics design, software design, user interfaces, and diagnostics (both DTCs and internal workings of the diagnostic tests that cause DTCs to be sent).
Eric
