justin13703
Senior Member
Hey everyone, just joined but I bought my truck back in April of this year. The truck is an 08 1500 4x4 Laramie, 5.7 hemi, auto. Bought it with just over 35k miles. Coming from a Rotrex supercharged Tacoma, I miss the speed/handling, but I love the Dodge for it's practicality, being able to tow and use the bed, etc. Speed will just get you into trouble anyway lol.
So far I have put an S&B intake on it, and completely replaced that junk factory infinity sound system, which was NOT easy. Now it has a Pioneer double din with nav, Infinity kappa 3 ways the whole way around, and Polk audio MOMO series tweeters where the factory ones were up on the dash. Center channel was just deleted. These are powered by a 500w RMS kenwood 4 channel. Also have an Alpine Type-R 10 in a Fox Acoustics ported box under the rear driver side seat. Powered by a 500w RMS Kenwood amp. Also installed a new bed cover, since as you can see in the pics, the old one was beat. I don't have pictures of any of the new stuff yet. Ill get those soon.
Now, I am having one issue with the truck. When I first got it, at idle, there was a faint "chirp" or "squeak" coming from the transmission area of the truck. It sounded almost identical to a throwout bearing chirp on a manual transmission, but its an auto so I didn't know where to even look. Then, about 3 weeks ago, the "Chirp" went away and turned into a consistant "Tick tick tick" noise. It has no drivability issues at all. Just makes that tapping sound, that is definitely coming from or very near the bell housing area. It is rpm dependant, at idle it is a slow tick sound and as the rpms go up so does the frequency of the sound. I have a powertrain warranty, and when I had the dealership that sold it to me look at it, they said it is normal but it definitely is not. It isn't obnoxious, but is definitely very annoying and something that a truck of that price range shouldn't be doing. Does anyone have any pointers as to what this could be or where to look? I will try to get a video of it when I get updated pictures of the truck soon, within a couple of days.
Anyway, sorry about the long post, but here are some pictures of the truck a few days after I got it.
So far I have put an S&B intake on it, and completely replaced that junk factory infinity sound system, which was NOT easy. Now it has a Pioneer double din with nav, Infinity kappa 3 ways the whole way around, and Polk audio MOMO series tweeters where the factory ones were up on the dash. Center channel was just deleted. These are powered by a 500w RMS kenwood 4 channel. Also have an Alpine Type-R 10 in a Fox Acoustics ported box under the rear driver side seat. Powered by a 500w RMS Kenwood amp. Also installed a new bed cover, since as you can see in the pics, the old one was beat. I don't have pictures of any of the new stuff yet. Ill get those soon.
Now, I am having one issue with the truck. When I first got it, at idle, there was a faint "chirp" or "squeak" coming from the transmission area of the truck. It sounded almost identical to a throwout bearing chirp on a manual transmission, but its an auto so I didn't know where to even look. Then, about 3 weeks ago, the "Chirp" went away and turned into a consistant "Tick tick tick" noise. It has no drivability issues at all. Just makes that tapping sound, that is definitely coming from or very near the bell housing area. It is rpm dependant, at idle it is a slow tick sound and as the rpms go up so does the frequency of the sound. I have a powertrain warranty, and when I had the dealership that sold it to me look at it, they said it is normal but it definitely is not. It isn't obnoxious, but is definitely very annoying and something that a truck of that price range shouldn't be doing. Does anyone have any pointers as to what this could be or where to look? I will try to get a video of it when I get updated pictures of the truck soon, within a couple of days.
Anyway, sorry about the long post, but here are some pictures of the truck a few days after I got it.
