@hour
, why the regret though? Sounds like the diesel is awesome. Also, it looks similar to a tundra to me, but with a top on the cab obviously.
Honestly, I like the black wheels on white exterior.
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...Sucks that it'll probably end up bought back by Chrysler right after I started modding it....
...So I rolled the dice and went with a domestic vehicle for the first time in my life, lured in by crazy fuel economy, and have suffered because of it. Live and learn
It's a lemon. Cracked oil cooler at 7500 miles (beginning of January) that caused mass amounts of oil to mix with my coolant. 3 visits, 37 days in the shop, countless flushes, 3 new overflow reservoirs, and 17 hoses replaced... still have oil in the coolant.
Hour, that stinks to hear. My buddy has an Ecodiesel and has put roughly 25,000 miles on his in a year. No major hiccups to speak. His looks nowhere as nice as yours.
Yet it is a Dodge, hence the reason I would never own one. Hopefully Ram buys back the engine and installs a new one for ya. I would settle for nothing less.
It's a lemon. Cracked oil cooler at 7500 miles (beginning of January) that caused mass amounts of oil to mix with my coolant. 3 visits, 37 days in the shop, countless flushes, 3 new overflow reservoirs, and 17 hoses replaced... still have oil in the coolant.
Decided to have my Borla 40664 muffler installed this morning. I've had it new from amazon in a box for like 5 months.
Sounds good, but my camera seems to suck at picking up sound while capturing great video, and I'm parked next to a cement wall. Engine noise isn't neat either.
Finally took the 4runner out today... first time this season that she's seen rough terrain (drive to work once or twice a week to keep charged). This trail just became passable in the last week and a half, but still feel like I should have been out doing fire roads and stuff camping instead of taking my new truck. Front diff leak has had me a little wary with frequent dripping in my driveway, but I realized it was the drain plug and nothing serious before I left this morning. Next mod- desert tan paint job. Have proper single stage paint and catalysts or whatever, have garage, waiting on good deal for air compressor.
Then rear bumper, savage front skids, and probably call it quits for the modding season. Now that I have a garage, for the first time in my life, I can actually buy myself a bunch of xmas presents and install them the same week
Hour, not bad on the paint job man. How did it go?
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Dude I have no idea how I keep seeing your messages like months later.. but thanks re: paint. Prep work was totally the suckiest part of it, but spraying was OK minus low clearance in my garage for spraying roof, screwing up the first coat with a crappy fan pattern from the gun (which didn't help any following coat look too great), and the color being way darker than I anticipated. I should have sought out khaki or dune colored, not desert sand.
So in short: If I ever feel like taping it up again and giving it a quick once over with a scuffing pad, I'll spray it the color I actually wanted it to be and try to do a better job on the first coat.
Maintenance crap and some rants to serve my memory and build giant walls of text at 2am .. between July of 2016 and mid August 2016, 266,500 mi:
Brake fluid with some Valvoline full synthetic. Series of turkey bastering the reservoir, excessive flushing through each corner of the car, and a proper bleed. As I was trying to do the last corner I noticed I wasn't really getting much in my collection cup - hadn't tightened the previous corner fully and it shot a ton of brake fluid all over my garage
Power steering fluid using a series of turkey baster to reservoir->refill with ATF fluid->rotate wheels a few times->repeat, a lot. Then refilled with Lucas PS Stopleak because my rack boots had a little fluid in them, which I noticed when I did...
Inner and outer tie rods on both sides, MOOG brand, worked okay. I couldn't separate my inner and outers so I had to use an angle grinder once they were off the car to slide the boots off. Also replaced steering rack guide with the updated style used in 3rd gens made after mine.. easy, significant improvement
Front and transmission skids from RCI offroad in steel, painted with the HVLP and Rustoleum Hammered. Pretty awesome products
Re-did front brakes because I had used rotors for 15" wheels 2 years / 5,000? miles back. Oops. New rotors & new Wagner thermoquiet pads again. Picked up a reman'd front passenger caliper as it's a little uncooperative at this point and I had done the drivers side a couple years back for the same thing... yet to install.
Installed new Hopkins trailer tail light converter as the factory one had bit the dust. Installed 7 pin/4 pin trailer connector but haven't run wires up to the front yet. Purchased and received, but yet to install: Prodigy P3 brake controller
And wow, I just realized I've dumped significantly more than I paid for this thing back in to it in 12,000 miles and 2 years 9 months
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