SMuesse
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- Joined
- Jun 3, 2017
- Posts
- 34
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- 9
- Ram Year
- 2017
- Engine
- Hemi 6.4
What year is ur truck SMuesse?
2017
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What year is ur truck SMuesse?
I guess I should have never brought up diesel tuning, I knew id get roasted for it as soon as I hit post. I was just making a point that the last vehicle I tuned was a diesel and it had been a while since i tuned a gas truck of my own. I had hoped gas tuning had gotten to where it makes a bigger difference. However I have had good experience tuning Ford F150's of various years for friends. Basically this boils down to the fact that i do not like how my truck runs and shifts with this installed, and I do not like how poorly it fits. Im just trying to give an honest review if my experience with it. I truly wanted something that would work for this truck since the factory tuning is crap. I just cant afford the $1000 pcm swap or a $2500 re-gear.
It's funny, I'm reading this where the OP is getting too many downshifts for his liking and I'm like I wish the God D#$% truck would downshift.....friggin' thing loves 3rd gear......cruising along at back road speed, someone bangs a left in front of me, I slow down to 10-15mph as they turn......guess what gear it gives me? Yup you got it, 3rd.....want the downshift.....have to really goose the pedal.....then it gives me 1st and I make a commotion and look like an ass. Overall this is the one real annoyance with the rig, love everything else, just feels like my high school girlfriend trying to drive a stick.....
Really I just want to meet the guy who programmed the trans and just give him a firm kick in the balls and walk away.
A PC is on the list for the summer for me as people seemed pleased with how it drives.
HOLD UP!
some funky stuff happened just now.
pulled up onto a curb and parked level on some grass next to the road.
inflated FRONT tires from 40PSI warm to 48PSI....cold they were at 38PSI. (wanted to test out some higher pressures for handling and fuel economy)
Pulled off the curb, and the shifter was limiting the gears in 2nd, so AS i was accelerating(Moderately) I hit the + until it was set at 6th.
about 3500RPM in 2nd, with the gear select now on 6th, going over 25MPH....THE TRUCK LOCKED THE FRONT TIRES AND BROUGHT ME TO A STANDSTILL! IN THE MIDDLE OF ACTIVE DIXIE HIGHWAY!
released the gas pedal, and truck reverted to a higher gear and i carried on. now wet. and now flooring it so traffic didnt pile up on me.
Cant say why this happened. Maybe because after filling the tires, it was only 25 seconds or so until i was back in the truck slowly dropping one tire off the curb at a time.
Maybe the diameter and revolutions of the tires are measured constantly. New tire height messed with the ABS or PULSAR. It always takes a few minutes for TPMS to update.
Maybe the Pulsar couldnt translate the new data fast enough to the PCM, and the Pulsar corrupted some data.
Maybe the ABS or traction control thought something was out of line, with tire pressures changing drastically(like always)
i have filled my tires like this many times, and i have floored it in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd lockout to redline, and other then power being pulled, it never applied brakes UNTIL THE TRUCK WAS STOPPED completely.
in the moment, it felt like nothing was going to get the truck rolling again.
it felt like a very strong emergency stop, not ABS taking its time.
I heard alot of Gear/Transmission noises. Its driving fine now, and no other issues persist.
Not Fun