Nick's new Ram 2500

[Signal73]

My dial coolant temp gage reaches its normal operating spot right around 160 degrees. It will stay in the same spot up to 195 degrees. It does tick up slowly from a cold start, almost mimicking the digital readout.

 

[NIsaacs]

I started with a warm engine, about a 4 hour shutdown and had it on fast idle for about 8 minutes.

Same haul as two weeks ago, display says 11.32, math is 11.17. So mileage is up some and the display is off some.

 

[NIsaacs]

Called the dealer to get the truck in after the holidays. The exhaust brake stayed on 4 times today, slow speed or parked. Park is the only setting it will shut off on. Drive, reverse or neutral it comes on. When it does it, I shut the main switch off but it don't help, just park. It lasts for a minute or two then all is good again.

 

[AH64ID]

Called the dealer to get the truck in after the holidays. The exhaust brake stayed on 4 times today, slow speed or parked. Park is the only setting it will shut off on. Drive, reverse or neutral it comes on. When it does it, I shut the main switch off but it don't help, just park. It lasts for a minute or two then all is good again.

Have you checked the regen screen?

 

[NIsaacs]

Have you checked the regen screen?

Yes, if that screen is DPF, zero % and no messages.

 

[NIsaacs]

Went on a 4 hour round trip delivery today, the truck ran flawless. 2 hours of off highway, so only 138 miles.

I had to drive through about a 50' sand pit and almost spent the night there. Right in the middle, I got a ding and the dang display quit, scared me and I let off the gas. Lucky I was loaded with chips, only about 4k net and managed to get going again in 4x4. The display came back on in about 2 seconds and all was well again.

 

[JR]

Some odd gremlins for sure. I hope they get everything resolved for you Nick.

 

[NIsaacs]

Ordered a set of side steps and mud flaps, my driver cant get in the truck, but after a run to Auto Safety House (ASH) to pick up a gooseneck ball kit, she said It can stay
I got ripped off to the tune of $150, so much for buying local. That was kinda my fault for not doing my homework. I assumed it was a B&W kit, $300 on E-trailer, but nope, it was a Kurt @ $354 for a $191 kit.

Could not stand it, didn't like the Curt at all. So I ordered a B&W ball kit. I also figured, with the extended shank, I could re-adjust my PJ hitch and make it work on the new truck. Yup, 7" of clearance at the tail gate v/s 5.5" with the Curt. Now, from the center of the trailer axles, to the front, at the gooseneck riser, I am 1/2" high. That works for me

The Curt is on C/L already

 

[Signal73]

Check all the fuses in the engine located fuse block. Make sure they are fully seated. Also look at all your ground points for proper tightness. These have caused hit and miss errors in the 4.5 gens in the past.

 

[NIsaacs]

It has been a month and not a single hic up. Not many miles, (4200) June and July are my quiet months. School is out, families are on vacation and the gardens are all in.

Made a short haul today and had time to stop, take pictures and watch the coolant gauges. Pretty sure it is the display gauge that is whacked. When I got home, after a short fast idle while I dumped, the gauge was 213. I jumped out with my I/R temp and hit the t-stat elbow, 180F and under the t-stat on the casting 190F. On the way back it varied from 156F-196F. No movement out of the dial at all, stays in the normal. I guess I will just watch some other gauge and assume the dial is right. I probably won't take it in until something else is wrong, then ask them to check it.

Does anyone have experience with the shutters? Are they just operational in cold temps, like the gird heaters? I have not seen mine shut yet.

 

[Tuesdak]

Gauges have been lying works of fiction for entertainment purposes only for a long time. The LLY Duramax overheater is a perfect example for numb temp display (doesn't move at all over a range and is well documented) hiding a major design defect as well as any Dodge RAM Cummins that only have an oil pressure switch. The oil pressure display is a work of pure fiction as long as the pressure switch is activated.

Further shifting from "Park" to "Drive" in our high heat with fuel diluted oil on a 2008 Duramax could cause a momentary oil pressure loss and "Low oil pressure Stop Engine" alarm. GM's answer was to "Buffer" that warning aka ignore the short below 9 psi oil pressure condition. The oil needed to be changed.

The ignorant public likes gauges but they hadn't better move or there will be "questions" and complaints. So we have "HAL" running the display saying "Everything's fine, nothing to see here." no matter the actual conditions.

 

[NIsaacs]

Yes, using 26k as the legal limit, you can haul more "net" than I can

I guess it is a good thing that my PJ won't work on the new truck, I would be at 16k empty or 5 ton net

Hauled a load of mortar sand today. I didn't know the pit went on 4-10's so there was only a skeleton crew there today. The yard boss said he would load me if I told him when to stop, "I said ok".

Truck was 15,740 empty, with the PJ. Loaded, the truck was 10k exactly, with 26,020 total Legal felt kinda light

 

[JR]

Truck was 15,740 empty,

Daanng Petunia!

 

[Cummins12V98]

I am guessing the Curt kit was made in China? My son really likes his B&W.

 

[NIsaacs]

I am guessing the Curt kit was made in China? My son really likes his B&W.

Yup, I think it is also the oem supplied one. Did your son ever get a new trailer built?

 

[Cummins12V98]

Yup, I think it is also the oem supplied one. Did your son ever get a new trailer built?

I know he ordered one but have not heard as it was a long lead time.

 

[NIsaacs]

My original plan was to change the oil for the first time at about 5k miles. I have a 1300 mile round trip scheduled Labor Day weekend so I went ahead and changed it a little early (4551). Guaranteed...if do anything with oil I am going to make a mess, yup, I hit a gusher and had the drain pan offset so the oil hit the slope and not the center My '01 has the controlled flow plug so I was not ready, even tho, I knew this one was not that way as soon as I loosened it. Then, even tho I let the truck set for at least an hour, the filter was still full, grrr. I will change it again and fuel filters at 15k. I need a lift

PS, now I can't reset the oil minder. I did what the book said and it shows 0% but when I start the truck it goes back to 70%, where it was at when I reset. Maybe it will clear in a few days.

 

[JR]

I have a 1300 mile round trip scheduled Labor Day Weekend]

I would have guessed you were bringing me my new Honda 4wheeler, but that is only roughly half the required distance

 

[BSeyler]

I need a lift

Do it! That was a must have when we built our new shop and it's kind of like a loader on a tractor - once you have it, you don't know how you ever got along without it!

 

[bcbender]

it's kind of like a loader on a tractor - once you have it, you don't know how you ever got along without it!

X2 on do it!!! you'll never sit on you porch chair and say I wish I hadn't bought that tool!! It's gotta be one of my favorite tools I have (next to my tractor and loader...
Makes jobs like this, axles, trans, etc a whole lot easier .... but even tire rotations are a walk in the park now... if only RAM hadn't blocked access to that filter!