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Sorry - have never owned a half ton Dodge pickup, but experience with the bigger ones has been excellent. In 1970 bought a 1967 full crew cab 3/4 ton with the 8 foot bed - that truck was LONG - then added some rear leaves and put a heavy Red Dale Camper on it. With the camper dismounted, it was my wife's land yacht for hauling the kids around Tucson - she liked being up that high - loved the truck. A family of six, we traveled the entire US in that rig for nine years without anything to repair except new plugs/points/condensers and brake shoes. That little 318 V8 was a dependable workhorse and we sold the whole thing in 1979 (with 280k miles on it) for more than its purchase price. Now have owned a Dodge 4wd 2500 with Cummins HO and 6 speed manual for 19 years - 335k miles to date - and have replaced ball joints and drive shaft carrier bearing so far. Dodges have been good to us.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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The two biggest items I know of is the TIPM and the roller lifters.
The roller lifter issue shows up around 80k to 120k miles. It will start throwing codes. What is happening is the roller lifter bearings wear out and start to wear away at the cam lobes. The valves can't open correctly, causing issues, especially at higher RPMs. These issues are the exception, and not the rule. Our experience is that the cause of the lifter problem/s, stems from the 4-8 cylinder solenoids clogging with sludge residue, therefore slowing / reducing oil to top end at start up ! 2 of the vehicles (2008 & 2009) that "died this death" were regularly maintained with 5000km (3125mile) lube, oil & filter services. Do you have any idea why that is? IMO no modern motor oil is going to sludge up in 3,000 miles even if you short trip it. Change the oil every 3k in a small block chevy and you could eat off the valve train. I have an old 2001 "second generation" Dodge truck with 140k miles. Runs good but looking under the oil fill cap.....its ugly. And the previous owner changed oil every 5k or so he said. Must be a Dodge thing. May as well add my good friend has a 2013 or 2014 w/5.7 Hemi that he bought new that he has had no problems with. Its super nice.......the newer ones do ride like Cadillacs. Should have been more specific, sorry ! It not the solenoids themselves, but the micro screens attached to them, that the oil passes through. Both these Rams hemi's had between 100 & 150k miles. Best guess is, that it just plugs up over time. We have started changing the solenoid screens when we change the 16 plugs. Dodge recommends every 60K - Phug that !
Paul.
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Campfire Tracker
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I thought Ram fixed the roller problems in 16 or so?
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I have a 2018 with the 5.7, and no issues, 40k on the odometer. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.postimg.cc/NjpZ1r0s/20190207-115245.jpg)
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