What did you do with your 4th Gen this week?

[Badger 13]

Are you happy with the tone, and amount of sound your new horns produce ?

 

[Jacob Maguire]

Installed a Zone 6" kit. Along the way found a few areas in need of refreshing....stock front UCA ball joints boots were ripped, front left camber bolt seized in LCA bushing, passenger axle seized onto intermediate shaft. Replaced UCAs, driver LCA, new passenger CV and intermediate shaft/bearings/seals/dust cover. New hub assemblies onto Zone knuckles, new tie rod ball joints (part of kit), new sway bar links/bushings.

Smooth as butter now, plus a "face lift" for this OLD girl : )

Thanks @Nick@GotExhaust and @Quick_Shifter for preplanning guidance, suggestions and killer parts pricing!

 

[co-pilot]

looks great!!

 

[T. Anders]

Installed a Zone 6" kit. Along the way found a few areas in need of refreshing....stock front UCA ball joints boots were ripped, front left camber bolt seized in LCA bushing, passenger axle seized onto intermediate shaft. Replaced UCAs, driver LCA, new passenger CV and intermediate shaft/bearings/seals/dust cover. New hub assemblies onto Zone knuckles, new tie rod ball joints (part of kit), new sway bar links/bushings.

Smooth as butter now, plus a "face lift" for this OLD girl : )

Thanks @Nick@GotExhaust and @Quick_Shifter for preplanning guidance, suggestions and killer parts pricing!

Your truck looks awesome. It gives me a great idea what mine will look like if I install a real lift kit (just leveled now). What size tires did you go with and what size/brand wheel spacers did you use?

 

[Jacob Maguire]

Thanks! 35x12.5 on stock 20's. Front tires did rub on Zone 6" kit's knuckle/spindle, so I needed to use 1.5" hub centric spacers. The tire brand is Avix and were recommended by a local shop. Quiet at highway speeds too (at this point in their life cycle, anyway)!

Avix Off-Road Tires | Built Different

Trail-tested performance. Daily-driver manners. No extra cost for a 'big name

www.avixtire.com

 

[Sean J Blackburn]

Did front and rear diff fluid and transfer case fluid. Used valvoline extended protection gear oil and valvoline atf +4.

 

[JJEH]

Spending too much stupid $ on stupid wheels...

 

[Average_gatsby45]

got a local shop to give me a quote on doin some front end work new bushing and possibly track bar upgrades

 

[Jacob Maguire]

Did front and rear diff fluid and transfer case fluid. Used valvoline extended protection gear oil and valvoline atf +4.

Curious how your fluid looked and how many miles on the clock?

 

[diymirage]

She's at the shop getting new tires

I had several people tell me Falken wild peak is the way to go, so we will give it a shot

 

[04fxdwgi]

Replaced battery. Nothing wonkey going on with system. Not starting as fast as usual and just decided to run some tests. Old one failed.

 

[Sean J Blackburn]

Curious how your fluid looked and how many miles on the clock?

Fluid only had about 20k on it. The reason I changed it is I'm about to hit 200k miles and I want all free fluids as a baseline, so it's easy to keep track of when to change going forward. Plus as my truck gets older I think frequent fluid changes are cheap insurance. The atf 4 in the transfer case still looked bright red, the diffs were still a dark amber color but starting to get a grayish brown hue. No water was in the diffs which was good.

 

[Magfan2]

New inner wheel / fender shields. Pretty much the end of the paid work. Then I catch a pebble on the way home from the shop - a passing pickup / trailer on pavement!. Small but with some serious cold coming. Going to see if I can get it fixed tomorrow. Not used to one set of wheels yet!

 

[Jacob Maguire]

Still progressing on the 'face lift' on my '15 Laramie. Giving the fugazi Amazonium carbon fiber a shot and thus far, impressive fitment. Few more pieces still in transit.

 

[Runaround]

I disconnected the batteries hoping to get rid of a CEL but after I reconnected them the truck was in security/antitheft mode. When I get in to push the start button it shows on the dash “ push clutch and start button.” The truck is an automatic. There is also a little red light flashing. I have to wait until Monday to get a code from the dealer to unlock the system.
I got a code but it only unlocked the radio.

 

[Marshall]

I thought that you had to spend $$$$ to get rid of CEL.
Thank heavens I have never had to find out.

 

[diymirage]

Getting ready to drive to maine, through Canada
I had the Anderson plug for the rear plow tucked in under the truck, but since I'll be bringing the winch as well, I mounted the plug in the bumper

 

[jmc921]

Wrapped up the overhead light switch project. Works, and function as I planned. I did go down on switch size slightly, because I wasn’t able to find the three colors I wanted in the original plan, but did find then a size smaller. Which works out good because I was concerned about having a big bright light bugging me from the switch ON. Not an issue now

Also discovered that the garage door controler also controls the compass. With the controller unplugged and removed….. rather than get N, S, E, W indications, now it’s simply dashed lines.

I‘ll have to see if there is a work around for that, as I want everything to function

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I have a 2014 Ram Express that originally came with the non touch screen radio. I upgraded to the 5.0 RA2 unit and added the backup camera. This radio has a compass function but obviously isn’t working. Do you know what additional items are needed to get this function to work? I know there’s a compass module but I don’t know what else is needed. It looks like I may need the overhead console as well bu it’s not all that clear to me.

Can you or anyone else help with this? Thanks.

 

[PA Ram]

Bought some new shoes for my truck. Just need to get them installed. Mastercraft Courser Trail HD 275/65R20. Replacing my 4 year old Cooper Discoverer AT3 XLTs 275/60R20s already have a 2 inch level.

 

[StateOfMind]

Had a little time off, so I finally got around to stripping my calipers, sandblasted, and powder coated them in the same HEMI orange that I used on the horn bracket.
I thought a touch of color would look good on an all black truck, and I am pleased with the results. Now I need to find a solution to either black out the 5.7 LITER on the
.side badge, or preferably make it HEMI orange too