What did you do to your Gen3 today?

[brownie289]

Major rust repair in progress.
Bed came off 3 holes in the frame. Cab corners shot..


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[brownie289]

Replaced my rear bumper (03 1500) that has had a dent in it since 2008. The dent was MADDENING!!! The replacement...easy.

That’s a great fix!
Did mine a while back, was sorry I waited so long.


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[Hexxus]

Replaced upperbank spark plugs and coil pack boots.
Coated the threads in anti-seize and dielectric grease to the porcelain.
Every single one of the boots (but one) broke during this so I am glad I had already bought the boots before hand.
Not all of the damn spark plug socket would fit in the hole and the one that did fit in the first hole, didn't in the others. I ended up up taking a flapping disc to the outside, I also applied some of my dielectric grease to aid in inserting the socket.

 

[SYKRAMMAN]

Finally fixed the pesky mysterious leak, now that my hand healed up. It was one of the cab vents, 18$ a piece not bad, I was guessing they would be 50$ ea but was surprised to see a Chrysler part that cheap lol. The parts were cheap but installing them was a huge pita, because of course they had to make them be installed from the outside! Would’ve been ahellava lot easier if I could remove the bed but don’t have access to the right rigging at the moment. So I just used a long pry bar to snap them in.

Also went to change a cargo light bulb and found the housing is glued in, must of leaked and previous owner or dealer sealed it instead of using the right stuff. Smh! Oh well, I’ll wait till the brake light goes out then replace the entire housing because I know I’ll break it trying to remove it. I should be set for winter now, hopefully anyway.

 

[Demon-HeMi]

Finally fixed the pesky mysterious leak, now that my hand healed up. It was one of the cab vents, 18$ a piece not bad, I was guessing they would be 50$ ea but was surprised to see a Chrysler part that cheap lol. The parts were cheap but installing them was a huge pita, because of course they had to make them be installed from the outside! Would’ve been ahellava lot easier if I could remove the bed but don’t have access to the right rigging at the moment. So I just used a long pry bar to snap them in.

Also went to change a cargo light bulb and found the housing is glued in, must of leaked and previous owner or dealer sealed it instead of using the right stuff. Smh! Oh well, I’ll wait till the brake light goes out then replace the entire housing because I know I’ll break it trying to remove it. I should be set for winter now, hopefully anyway.

sadly that is the best way to fix the 3rd brake light on our trucks, many have changed the gaskets and stuff like that but ultimately silicone has become the known fix for our 3rd brake light leak problem, ive had to do that on every ram ive owned, OEM or aftermarket didnt make any difference in the matter either

 

[CUAviator]

(yesterday) - Changed my oil to Mobile One High Mileage and Mobile One oil filter, cleaned my positive battery post (which also reset my stupid check engine light - small evap leak), rotated tires (was able to degrease and wash the insides to turn them back to silver from dirty black).

 

[Harley Harrold]

Installed new 3rd brake light.

 

[mboymopar]

Installed new 3rd brake light.View attachment 150048

Looks great!

 

[brownie289]

Finally cleaned my dirty throttle body. I had taken off a bunch a parts to swap out a EGR valve and tube and it was just staring me down, easy job and glad I did it! Followed the many write ups I have seen here.

 

[Demon-HeMi]

Took my old headlights and decided to smoke them today...

 

[DRkNESS]

So what made you decide to do that, looks really good.

 

[mboymopar]

Took my old headlights and decided to smoke them today...

Looks great!

 

[Demon-HeMi]

So what made you decide to do that, looks really good.

this was the set i had on my truck for some time that i just took off, the lenses took a hell of a beating and were really rough, this was a good way to sand off what could be sanded down and the tint hides the rest, this was a test to see how they would turn out, they didn't come out perfect but they look 100x better than they did before, im probably just going to list them locally and see if i can get anything for them

 

[Mistwalker]

New upper control arms and outer tie rod ends. They lasted 6.5 years. Need to replace steering rack as it has bad leak and get it aligned. BUT

Since truck is lifted. There are 4.5" drop arms attached to steering rack in place of inner rod ends. Which is tied into some sort of stabilizer. Then the stock inner rod ends are attached to bottom of drop arms/stablizer. So hoping all that swaps to a stock steering rack. Really wish I knew who made the lift kit on my truck.

 

[SYKRAMMAN]

Turns out that my cab vents weren’t the only place leaking.

On my power slider back window, there is two weep holes under the cable mounts (one on each side) in the track that were clogged, causing water from the slider rail to overflow down into the under seat area and door sills, there are YouTube videos on how to take the brackets off but make sure you open the slider for the driver side to release tension on the cable or it will bind and coil up on you. When removing the passenger side bracket, close the window to relieve tension. The holes are a little bit larger than a spray can straw, a little blast of air works good.

Now I can safely say “it doesn’t leak anymore” for now lol.

 

[Demon-HeMi]

Did some wet sanding and polishing to make my smoked lights even more shiny lol...

 

[brownie289]

Been laying on my back and finally cut out that stupid spare tire hoist! What a pain in the ass....got a new one to put back in now wondering if I really want to do that.

 

[mboymopar]

Did some wet sanding and polishing to make my smoked lights even more shiny lol...

Looks great!

 

[Lil_Ram]

Man y’all are all losing at what I did to my 3rd gen.
It’s stuck in the back yard hooked to the trailer.


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[Fishstickz]

Added black 08+ door emblems to both sides, old ones ended up leaving a bad residue on the drivers side which probably won't come off until I buff it out.

Im starting to believe my A/C compressor clutch bearing is the culprit for the annoying hissing and squealing sound I've had for the past 6 months. I like the idea of replacing a 20-dollar bearing myself more than shelling out 700 bucks for someone else to replace the entire A/C compressor, especially when it overall works perfectly