These hurricanes chewing up bearings?

[Marshall]

This screams crapola quality

I don't see a motor in there ?

 

[FIRE UP]

This screams crapola quality

Is there really an engine in there somewhere?
Scott

 

[Daw14]

I just traded in a grand Wagoneer for a ram 1500 tungsten. Both engines use needle bearings in the rock assembly. If you don't maintain the oil you're gonna strip one of those bearings and send those little needles through the engine. The sad part is that those needles are the hardest alloy in the motor. Having just read this post I'm pretty terrified because I leave in five days to tow a 7000 pound trailer to Florida from New York. Wish me well lads I hate to spend my months trip in a dealership parking lot halfway there! My truck is only two months old and I'm the original oil.

Join an auto club , they can tow your blown up truck to the dealer .
Then if you are real ice to the driver , he will drop you at a hotel in a good neighborhood.
Good luck , and have a fun trip.

 

[ramffml]

I just traded in a grand Wagoneer for a ram 1500 tungsten. Both engines use needle bearings in the rock assembly. If you don't maintain the oil you're gonna strip one of those bearings and send those little needles through the engine. The sad part is that those needles are the hardest alloy in the motor. Having just read this post I'm pretty terrified because I leave in five days to tow a 7000 pound trailer to Florida from New York. Wish me well lads I hate to spend my months trip in a dealership parking lot halfway there! My truck is only two months old and I'm the original oil.

If you have over 500 miles on the oil, I would just swap it out first. I changed my oil a few times very quickly when I bought by new truck.

 

[ramffml]

Word on the street is the engine has an oil pressure issue causing the bearing failure. The street said nothing more than that. A failed attempt at a new engine design.

I haven't read that for the hurricane. I did see that as a theory floating around for the toyota 3.4 failures, the pump dropping to about 3 or 4 psi. Wouldn't that be something eh, all those replacement engines just due to a software glitch not turning the pump up enough.

 

[Truckit]

What a bunch of whiners. A lot of speculation in these posts. Oh, try working on an engine that is packed in. I wish Mercedes had a removable cab! LOL

 

[MeatCurtains]

What a bunch of whiners. A lot of speculation in these posts. Oh, try working on an engine that is packed in. I wish Mercedes had a removable cab! LOL

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I'd rather light my face on fire than have to dig around in that.

 

[turkeybird56]

What a bunch of whiners. A lot of speculation in these posts. Oh, try working on an engine that is packed in. I wish Mercedes had a removable cab! LOL

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ARGH, MB V-12, ewwwwwwwww. Purty when new though. I had a European Spec 74 (4) door 280 SE while in Europe. Straight inline 6 with (2) (2) barrel carbs. Beast for sure and sucked up the "benzine". I would have liked to import to States but the vehicle grey laws made the cost to convert to US Specs horrendous, especially considering I paid $800 for it and sold it same price when PCS back to States. Looked something like this but more banana yellow.

 

[DILLIGAF]

People that can afford that engine don't care about shop rate

 

[TerraNewf]

You don't have to limit your search to 2019's. In fact I'd personally avoid 2019's because they had the highest number of recalls (first model year of a redesign). You could choose the Hemi with or without etorque through the end of the 2022 model year. If I was in the market for a used Ram 1500 I'd look for 2020 or 2021 models. Uconnect5 was introduced for the 2022 model year, and there were teething problems with those as well.

I own a 2019 Longhorn, crew 6.4 bed. 126000kms and no recalls. But both manifolds replace, sway bar and stabilizers, engine base pan. Rear oil seals and bearings all under warranty 5 yr 100000kms. No e-torque or air suspension, no gremlins. Cheers

 

[Yardbird]

I just traded in a grand Wagoneer for a ram 1500 tungsten. Both engines use needle bearings in the rock assembly. If you don't maintain the oil you're gonna strip one of those bearings and send those little needles through the engine. The sad part is that those needles are the hardest alloy in the motor. Having just read this post I'm pretty terrified because I leave in five days to tow a 7000 pound trailer to Florida from New York. Wish me well lads I hate to spend my months trip in a dealership parking lot halfway there! My truck is only two months old and I'm the original oil.

Definitely change the oil before you go. According to Lake Speed, you will have more metal in the oil now than anytime in ownership unless something lets go.

 

[TerraNewf]

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I own a 2019 Longhorn, crew 6.4 bed. 126000kms and no recalls. But both manifolds replace, sway bar and stabilizers, engine base pan. Rear oil seals and bearings all under warranty 5 yr 100000kms. No e-torque or air suspension, no gremlins. Cheers

I won’t see mine again until April, terrible road conditions in winter here.

 

[rowemesp]

I just traded in a grand Wagoneer for a ram 1500 tungsten. Both engines use needle bearings in the rock assembly. If you don't maintain the oil you're gonna strip one of those bearings and send those little needles through the engine. The sad part is that those needles are the hardest alloy in the motor. Having just read this post I'm pretty terrified because I leave in five days to tow a 7000 pound trailer to Florida from New York. Wish me well lads I hate to spend my months trip in a dealership parking lot halfway there! My truck is only two months old and I'm the original oil.

I'm betting you'll have a great, uneventful trip!

 

[MrBonez]

You guys are hilarious.

How many decades of complaining about the alleged ****** engineering of the 5.7 AFM lifter failures on this and other forums, and now you're ******** on the 3.0.

RAM stops the 5.7 for 2025 you'd thing you'd all be saying 'hallelujah', but what happens?

You scream that you want the 5.7 back.

Crazy!

It's simple preference of what one wants.
Me, you and everyone else wants what they want.
And as the song goes "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice".

I'm the same way too, if I had a choice I'd probrably choose the V8 Hemi over the I6 overall BUT I6 engines still have their place too.
it's not like I haven't owned a vehicle with one because I have and it did well for as long as I had it.

Many V6's aren't exactly popular overall in terms of reliablity either but there are a few that's known for it, My S10 has a 4.3 V6 and that engine is well known to last at least 300-400K with no major problems, as long as it's properly maintained since it's based on a design that was already time tested when it was conceived.
The one I've got is already past 300K and still kicking rather well TBH.

I have both the 5.7 & the 3.0 HO & hands-down, the latter is the better engine.

One the former, 104k with 10k oil change intervals - no problems.

Based on your own personal experience I can see why you'd say that but at the same time, the Hurricane engine is just too new right now to outright declare it as "Better" since that's yet to be proven - And that takes time like anything else like it.

"More Powah" doesn't mean better, it just means more power and that's it, regardless of how it's done - Reliability is a different thing in itself.

As for an I6, there is nothing inherently wrong with one IF it's done right. The "Done Right" part of it is what's in question here with the Hurricane I6 and again, that's something only time can tell - And it will from here.
I do wish you luck with yours and hope you won't need the luck because if it turns out to be a piece of , You'll know it for yourself and it will be yours to deal with too.

 

[Six Turboed]

WOW!!! Just WOW!!!!

 

[mikeru]

I own a 2019 Longhorn, crew 6.4 bed. 126000kms and no recalls. But both manifolds replace, sway bar and stabilizers, engine base pan. Rear oil seals and bearings all under warranty 5 yr 100000kms. No e-torque or air suspension, no gremlins. Cheers

I’m glad to hear that you’re happy with your 2019. I’m dubious about your claim about having no recalls, but I’ll take your word for it. Still, it seems you did have issues with your truck which may no longer be covered under warranty on a 2019 if the @jws123 (whom I was replying to with that post) were to buy one now.

But the main purpose of my previous post which you quoted was to point out the fact that it wasn’t just 2019 models that came with and without etorque equipped Hemi’s, and it seems that jws123 wasn’t aware of this fact.

 

[turkeybird56]

Join an auto club , they can tow your blown up truck to the dealer .
Then if you are real ice to the driver , he will drop you at a hotel in a good neighborhood.
Good luck , and have a fun trip.

Wow lil tongue in cheek humor there.

 

[turkeybird56]

I’m glad to hear that you’re happy with your 2019. I’m dubious about your claim about having no recalls, but I’ll take your word for it. Still, it seems you did have issues with your truck which may no longer be covered under warranty on a 2019 if the @jws123 (whom I was replying to with that post) were to buy one now.

But the main purpose of my previous post which you quoted was to point out the fact that it wasn’t just 2019 models that came with and without etorque equipped Hemi’s, and it seems that jws123 wasn’t aware of this fact.

5 recalls/TSB’s of major type for the 2019s. I have had 3 completed. 1 not needed yet 1 not gonna do cause is a software recall AND Everytime they go in there and update BCM etc U get a different issue. Some of the TSB/ warranty recalls actually got warranty extended to 8/80.

 

[Dusty]

5 recalls/TSB’s of major type for the 2019s. I have had 3 completed. 1 not needed yet 1 not gonna do cause is a software recall AND Everytime they go in there and update BCM etc U get a different issue. Some of the TSB/ warranty recalls actually got warranty extended to 8/80.

I checked my service record. I've had three recalls: Remove paint from ground stud (loss of power steering), V61 DT ORC Power Down flash, 75B ABS recalibrate.

This is on a very early build. Other recalls may not have applied to my vehicle because of configuration.

Regards,
Dusty
2019 Ram 1500 Billet Silver Laramie Quad Cab 2WD, 5.7 Hemi, 8HP75, 3.21 axle, 33-gallon fuel tank, 18” wheels. Build Date: 3 June 2018. Now at 144520 miles.

 

[Marshall]

What a bunch of whiners. A lot of speculation in these posts. Oh, try working on an engine that is packed in. I wish Mercedes had a removable cab! LOL

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How about a chain or two and a front end loader, I don't see the problem