Hemi Tick Lawsuit Looks to Be Dead

[Wild one]

Hemi Tick Lawsuit- The JUDGE Makes His Decision

Three years ago I made a video talking about the Hemi tick lawsuit that the plaintiff's were trying to sue as a class action lawsuit. Lawyers for FCA (Now St...

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[zrock]

the lawsuit was never alive. THe lawyer that took that case was just in it for the money..

 

[RamDiver]

Hemi Tick Lawsuit- The JUDGE Makes His Decision

Three years ago I made a video talking about the Hemi tick lawsuit that the plaintiff's were trying to sue as a class action lawsuit. Lawyers for FCA (Now St...

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That's fabulous that he says right up front, jump to 41:01 if you don't have time to listen to the entire video. That works for me.

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[Mojo88]

Personally, I would have expected this dismissal. However, let us hope and pray that the newly revived V-8 Hemi's in production will have corrected the cam/lifter oiling/failure issues. My guess is the fix to facilitate better oiling would be cheap. Higher quality lifters might be a little more money, but perhaps this lawsuit will make FCA pay more attention to the now-famous "hemi tick" problem..............

 

[Wild one]

Personally, I would have expected this dismissal. However, let us hope and pray that the newly revived V-8 Hemi's in production will have corrected the cam/lifter oiling/failure issues. My guess is the fix to facilitate better oiling would be cheap. Higher quality lifters might be a little more money, but perhaps this lawsuit will make FCA pay more attention to the now-famous "hemi tick" problem..............

The dumbest move they made was relocating the cam farther away from the crank,and sticking an oil passage tunnel under the cam,that blocks alot of the crank splash onto the cam lobes/lifter roller.
Doesn't take many smarts to know that's going kill cams.Even a dumb-ass like me,can tell that wasn't the wisest thing they did,it also puts the lifters on an angle ,that means none of the oil that actually creeps past the side of the lifter and lifter bore doesn't make it's way onto the lobe or roller either
If they'd of located the VVT oil passage above the cam,which wouldn't of been hard to do,when they recast the blocks in 09,and kept the cam closer to the crank,there'd be alot less cam/lifter issues.
The earlier pre-VVT blocks don't have anywhere near the cam issues the later VVT blocks have,as the cam is closer to the crank,and they don't have an oil passage under the cam,blocking crank splash.
It's basically designed to just make it past warrenty,and then Ma Mopar could care less about the customer

 

[huntergreen]

I wouldn’t get my hopes up for an updated/ corrected hemi. The holding company hasn’t changed.

 

[Skyjockey]

Probably why the "dropped" the Hemi. Couldn't admit there was a design issue and be liable. Drop it a couple years and claim customer demand is bring it back, redesigned !

 

[Tominator223]

Curious. Anyone used a gen3 block in a gen4. Say a 2500 w/o vvt or mds. With gen4 heads. As I agree with wild1 gen4 is a bad design. Probably a DEI engineer. lol. Just wondering. Don’t really care if the mm need modded. I mean could they have used piston squirters under the cam to spray oil on the cam/lifters. Like they did on high pro bikes 20yrs ago. And the 5.0 from ford. I know Suzuki & ford used it to cool piston temp & run higher comp. Really FCA make the hemi great again.

 

[Neomoritate]

the lawsuit was never alive. THe lawyer that took that case was just in it for the money..

Lawyers do not take on Class Action Lawsuits altruistically. The law firm gets 30%, i.e. 1 Million class members, $1 Billion settlement, each class member gets $700 (actually less), law firm gets $300 Million. Every Law Firm is "just in it for the money", there is literally no other reason for them to exist.

 

[Wild one]

Curious. Anyone used a gen3 block in a gen4. Say a 2500 w/o vvt or mds. With gen4 heads. As I agree with wild1 gen4 is a bad design. Probably a DEI engineer. lol. Just wondering. Don’t really care if the mm need modded. I mean could they have used piston squirters under the cam to spray oil on the cam/lifters. Like they did on high pro bikes 20yrs ago. And the 5.0 from ford. I know Suzuki & ford used it to cool piston temp & run higher comp. Really FCA make the hemi great again.

Just a heads up for you,all 03 and newer Hemi's are classed as the Gen 3 Hemi,the trucks might not be,but the engines are.
The 1st Gen Hemi's are the old 50's Red Ram Hemi's / 2nd Gen Hemi is the 426 from the mid 60's to early 70's / and the 03 till now Hemi is the Gen 3 version of the engine.
Not a big deal,but figured you'd like to know how the engines are designated.
The easiest redesign would be to add squirters that spray oil onto the cam lobes as you stated,as odds are they won't properly redesign the block to locate the VVT tunnel above the cam,but squirters would be an easy upgrade