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

[Heatheroo]

Howdy @Heatheroo
from poofa-land.

Lancaster Co. says hello to York Co.

 

[Hanover Fiste]

I replaced the weak plastic spur gear in both my outside mirrors with solid steel gears from Grüven Parts. Though only one was broken, the other one was showing stress cracks. It was cheaper to do both at once.

 

[Stefan N]

I replaced the broken plastic spur gear in both my outside mirrors with solid steel gears from Grüven Parts. Only one was broken, but the other one was showing stress cracks. It was cheaper to do both at once.


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First time I heard if this, is it an easy fix?

 

[Hanover Fiste]

First time I heard if this, is it an easy fix?

If you're mechanically inclined and have the proper tools, it's not that bad.

 

[1 MEAN66]

The only problem with metal instead of plastic is the plastic is designed to take the abuse, metal will not be forgiving! If the plastic does not break what other part will the metal gear cause to break instead. C5 Corvettes have pop up lights, with plastic gears. Have seen people add the metal replacements, the electric drive motor itself failed the next time ($$$). Plastic gears as you said easy to change and not very costly.

 

[Hanover Fiste]

The only problem with metal instead of plastic is the plastic is designed to take the abuse, metal will not be forgiving! If the plastic does not break what other part will the metal gear cause to break instead. C5 Corvettes have pop up lights, with plastic gears. Have seen people add the metal replacements, the electric drive motor itself failed the next time ($$$). Plastic gears as you said easy to change and not very costly.

You have a valid point. However, I only folded the mirrors in about a dozen times or so since I bought the truck. One gear has already broken, while the other one is showing signs of stress cracks. I plan on keeping this truck for a long time, so I opted to install better gears at this time.

 

[WWlorodd1]

Got my rear diff back in and painted the cover. Thought about doing something with the bolts, paint, get chrome or stainless, decided to just install as is.
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What kind of paint did you use?

 

[Racer9]

Rust-oleum spray paint. Navy blue gloss. I cleaned it up with a wire brush on an air angle grinder, and sprayed a coat of self-etching primer, let it cure a day, hit it with 2 coats of paint, curing a day each time, and finally a coat of clear. I also put stainless steel flat washers under the bolt heads to prevent them from scraping the paint off.

 

[Racer9]

I currently have the dash apart to paint the silver/aluminum parts blue to match the exterior. Painting plastic is tough!

 

[Bandit517]

Finally got warm enough to turn on the ventilated seats. Kids and I cruised around with all the windows open. Now I get to track down my intermittent CEL (P1621). Throws the code at random it seems. Will light the CEL for a week straight, then one day, its gone for a couple days, or maybe a month.

 

[hunterdan]

Finally got time and decent enough weather to install my switch panel and ditch lights. I had previously installed the grille lights, but hated the way I had wired it up. The panel lets me add more circuits if needed.

 

[4xdad]

Heater core flush and replace the thermostat both apita. The clamps on the firewall are not easy to get at so I separated them at the hard lines and inserted a small piece of 1/2 inch copper pipe in the end and flush them both ways. I used clear vinyl tubing to join the two pieces together and then put clr in for 15 minutes and then flush them again. I turned the clamps so that they were easy to get at next time. The thermostat is one big housing with the thermostat and temperature sensor built in i think it is only 2 bolts but they are apita to.

 

[Black-Wolf]

Finally got my flood lights (rear facing), spot lights (forward/side facing), and off road lights completely rewired. Using an AUXBEAM 8-channel controller - lights are wired up as follows:

Button 1: Front Left spot light
Button 2: Off-road light
Button 3: Forward facing running lights
Button 4: Front Right spot light
Button 5: Rear flood lights (Left and Right)
Button 6: Rear facing off-road light
Button 7: Rear facing running lights
Button 8: Dashcam

Used a 25' long 7-wire trailer cable (cable management with each light wired in individually was insane and impractical) that has 2x 10-gauge, 1x 12-guage, and 4x 14-gauge wires, to run from the AUXBEAM switch control/fuse block, under the carpet on the driver's side, to the lights. Used a separate 10-gauge ground wire to the bed frame.

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[4xdad]

Why strobes? Am going to add more lights to but as scene lighting for camping

 

[Black-Wolf]

Why strobes? Am going to add more lights to but as scene lighting for camping

They're actually both strobe capable and off-road (non-strobe) capable. I'm a volunteer fire fighter too - so there's that...

 

[TC]

Installed @caulk04 ZF thermal bypass. Pic taken after installation so no pic of the new valve. Sorry.

 

[4xdad]

Well that explains it

 

[04fxdwgi]

This past week,I nulled out the throttle controls in the BCM. seemed to make it a little snappier, but nothing to scream about.

That was till yesterday.Had to drive to NY to assist MIL in moving. Was making a left turn and some moron do 65 in a 40 came out of no where and I was going to get tboned. Hit the pedal hard and holy crap...... Truck jumped and lit up the rears ( 20" inchers on the posi rear end) and got out of a bad situation real quick.

I am now a firm believer a little help / trickery is needed to get great throttle response that is hiding in these trucks. Really love this hemi. Saved my bacon

 

[RamDiver]

This past week,I nulled out the throttle controls in the BCM. seemed to make it a little snappier, but nothing to scream about.

That was till yesterday.Had to drive to NY to assist MIL in moving. Was making a left turn and some moron do 65 in a 40 came out of no where and I was going to get tboned. Hit the pedal hard and holy crap...... Truck jumped and lit up the rears ( 20" inchers on the posi rear end) and got out of a bad situation real quick.

I am now a firm believer a little help / trickery is needed to get great throttle response that is hiding in these trucks. Really love this hemi. Saved my bacon

That sounds interesting, could you provide more details?

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[04fxdwgi]

To Change go into AlfaOBD and follow the steps below:

Body Control Module -> Diagnostics -> Car Configuration Change

ECUConfig14 /Acceleration Threshold: Filter Off Original at 480

ECUConfig14 /Acceleration Factor: Filter Off Original at 5

Didn't seem to do too much during regular operation, helped but subtle. But being aggressive, WooHoo.