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Socket Sizes?

RHINO69

RHINO69

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My PW is going to be my first vehicle that will require SAE tools. Coming over from a long history of Toyotas, all I currently have is Metric tools. Hoping someone here can advise which socket sizes are needed for suspension work. Going to be installing Thuren springs and trackbar soon, so I just want to know which sizes are going to be needed.

TIA!
 
kennyarsen said:
wtf, really? lol
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yup American trucks have been metric for a long time. they are either going to be 8.8 or 10.9 grade bolts....now some metric and sae cross over like 19mm and 3/4 can be interchanged.
 
Is it even worth looking for the Teflon sockets for lugnut protection considering the 130 ft/lb torque? I have a feeling they wouldn't really last against too many ugga-duggas.
 
Almost 30 years ago all vehicles switched to metric
 
ClawSS said:
Is it even worth looking for the Teflon sockets for lugnut protection considering the 130 ft/lb torque? I have a feeling they wouldn't really last against too many ugga-duggas.
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Perhaps, I've never found the need but then I haven't used them to do a tire change on the truck either. They worked great when I had a trailer tire run flat. I also keep an old 4-way speed wrench in the toolbox though I don't think that one fits the truck lugs..
 
@Brutal_HO , as you know it's just a cosmetic thing on black lugnuts. You hammer on black lugnuts with a "normal" socket and it can break the coating leading to rust or just an ugly appearance that a lugnut like me may not like.
I also have never used a set and only piggybacked on this thread (sorry @kennyarsen) to see if there were experiences to be noted.
 
ClawSS said:
@Brutal_HO , as you know it's just a cosmetic thing on black lugnuts. You hammer on black lugnuts with a "normal" socket and it can break the coating leading to rust or just an ugly appearance that a lugnut like me may not like.
I also have never used a set and only piggybacked on this thread (sorry @kennyarsen) to see if there were experiences to be noted.
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I haven't seen any of those sockets that have an inner lining other than the cap end of the lug, It's still steel on steel on the 6-point.
 
Brutal_HO said:
And your RAM has a snazzy conversion table on the underside of the center console lid!
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Really? I will have to look later i have the jump seat so maybe i don't have it? I already know the conversions but it would be cool if i do have it
 
H3LZSN1P3R said:
Really? I will have to look later i have the jump seat so maybe i don't have it? I already know the conversions but it would be cool if i do have it
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I just went and looked on my 2020 and I don't have it...
 
jadmt said:
I just went and looked on my 2020 and I don't have it...
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Brutal_HO said:
You have at least one, possibly up to 3 Easter Eggs total on your HD RAM depending on model and how it's optioned.

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The Story Behind Ram’s Center Console Easter Egg:

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I haven’t seen mention of this little divider at the bottom of the center console so I thought I’d ask. The first pic has the divider in the up position. These must be some legends in the Dodge Ram world but I’m not familiar enough with the lineage to identify the models. A nice little hidden...
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I have 0 of those lol i guess thats what i get for having a tradesman as my work truck!
 
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