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1st Gen. Ram - All TopicsDiscussion for all Dodge Rams prior to 1994. This includes engine, drivetrain and non-drivetrain discussions. Anything prior to 1994 should go in here.
I cerakoted my 14CM exhaust housing and it still looks perfect after two years.
Mine is sitting on the table. I did bad prep, it's flaking in some places. I put it on too thick on my turbo. Hand painted the Stoplight red and Glacier black cerakote on the top beauty cover. Hand polished the unpainted areas with Brasso. Shot clear gloss cerakote on both. Coated the factoey paint on the black one.
On Friday I went to discount tire to get 4 new BFG T/A KO3 tires, and after an excruciating 4 hour wait I started driving, and pulling out of the first stop light something terrible started happening with my front left wheel. It tried to lock up, was making horrible noises, but once I got rolling it seemed to quiet down. I couldn't see anything wrong externally. The pulling out of the next stop light it was even worse. My son was gone camping with his Cummins so I had no way to get it home other than driving it, about 15 miles. Got home, pulled the wheel, lug stud was missing, when I pulled the hub it was mayhem. The lug stud had poked holes in the disc brake rotor, and decimated the splash guard and several of the nuts coming through the spindle. Also the back of the hub had gotten ground down and mushed in to the point that I had to spend hours grinding the inside radius with porting gear do I could get the grease seal to fit. They refunded the cost of one tire, but in retrospect that wasn't nearly enough for how much time it too. Replaced the grate Timken bearings with the only ones I could get, wutang wonders. I need to find a replacement left side disc splash guard and all the studs and nuts, and another BUDD 4x4 hub, but those are not easy to find. That ate two days of my three days off.
Almost the same thing happened to a friend of mine but with Les Schwab tires, after countless times of phone calls and in person visits, he contacted an attorney and all it took was one phone call with a follow up letter and they were on the phone with him with apologies and a check for his parts and time. Good on you for taking pics and sorry to hear about your truck.
I guess I will stick with my technique of pulling my old tires off with the rims myself. Then bringing them down to a local shop to get fresh tires mounted and balanced.
Then picking them up and mounting them back on my truck myself.
25 Years ago I had a tire shop tell me all the lug nuts on one side of my ‘70 Challenger where frozen on…..Glad they did not break them all before I needed to tell them they where left hand thread on the old Mopars on the left side of the car.
My fuel filter started leaking so I was finally forced to change it. While I was there, I upgraded to the larger WIX filthier. On the subject of tires, I took my 2nd gen in to have the seasonal tires swapped out. The stupid tire "tech?" started zipping lug nuts off before putting a jack under it. I stopped him, but the damage had already been done. Lucky for me I know the owner and called him over. 2 replacement rims and 16 wheel studs later I got my truck back.
Considering what I've seen them do to my trucks my guess would be; one person put the wheel on and started the lug nuts, a second person pulled the jack out from under it without checking, then a third person seeing the nuts were loose used an impact on nuke to tighten the nuts down stretching the lugs to their breaking b point.
I replaced my wiper motor hanging by a bolt lol and crawled under it to find the tinny rattle at certain constant speeds and under sudeden throttle chopping. Founfd rubbing on exhaust pipe in several places with many rubbed through hoies badly run by previous owners "mechanic" lol Now planning the 5" short muffler replacement with 6" full stack so..... time to restomod
Considering what I've seen them do to my trucks my guess would be; one person put the wheel on and started the lug nuts, a second person pulled the jack out from under it without checking, then a third person seeing the nuts were loose used an impact on nuke to tighten the nuts down stretching the lugs to their breaking b point.
But aren't the lugs splined to anchor them into the rotor? I've always had to beat/press them out.
Well one of the tires "of questionable age" on the truck failed today. I was planning on replacing them before towing the camper later this month anyway. Now I just need to see about finding a tire to limp it home on and to the tire shop. Then decide on stick with stock 235/85 pizza cutters or step up to 265/75 and get a slightly wider stance.
I personally like 285s as a tire size for stock W250. The added height helps drop the RPMs a bit an the highway too.
285/75? I recovered it yesterday after loading a "good" tire my jack and a borrowed dewalt impact in my wifes car. A little sketchy driving home with a stock 235/85 "spare" on with 245/65s on the other 3 corners. I went slow and thankfully not far that way, will probably throw another 235/85 on the other side of the rear axle to drive to the tire shop for replacements.
285/75? I recovered it yesterday after loading a "good" tire my jack and a borrowed dewalt impact in my wifes car. A little sketchy driving home with a stock 235/85 "spare" on with 245/65s on the other 3 corners. I went slow and thankfully not far that way, will probably throw another 235/85 on the other side of the rear axle to drive to the tire shop for replacements.
You can burn up the suregrip driving too far with different sizes on the rear axle. Don't forget a proper sized spare.
