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The easiest jobs always take the longest by mistake.

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Normal oil change today, was also going to change differential fluid as well. Instead of getting my step stool I decided to stand on the ranch hand grill guard got 3 quarts in everything was all right. Dripped a little bit on the ranch hand and thought to myself no worries. Went for the fourth quart and went to go pour the oil in and slipped. Spilt about a half a quart all over the motor. So I washed the engine bay with some dawn soap and hot water. First pass, I let it dry for a little bit with some low air pressure, then started the truck and instantly had a squeal from the serpentine belt. Turned it off, washed it again, but this time with the pressure washer and foam canon. Let it run for about 30 minutes and it seemed to be fine no more squeal and no more smoke from burning oil. I swear sometimes I make the easiest jobs the hardest.
 
I know exactly what you mean , some of the easiest tasks have turned into huge Charlie foxtrots . Don't feel bad , happens to the best of us !
 
About half of the things i do i get in a hurry and cut corners to save a few minutes then in the end it bites me in the ass, so i know what you mean.
 
Got to get a Go Industries Rancher Grille Guard for our 2024 Ram 3500 4x4 Crew Cab to be able to easier to do maintenance on it. Plenty of deer get hit out on our rural highway, but so far we haven't yet. Replaced the thermostat housing on our 2016 Ram 2500 4x4 Power Wagon today. I'm 6 feet tall, but with the lifted truck on 35 inch tires it's high up. Having that Rancher Grille Guard with the bottom step being graded really helped. Did it with it parked in snow with no foot slippage. It would have been a tougher job without that Grille Guard.
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Bull Creek said:
Got to get a Go Industries Rancher Grille Guard for our 2024 Ram 3500 4x4 Crew Cab to be able to easier to do maintenance on it. Plenty of deer get hit out on our rural highway, but so far we haven't yet. Replaced the thermostat housing on our 2016 Ram 2500 4x4 Power Wagon today. I'm 6 feet tall, but with the lifted truck on 35 inch tires having that Rancher Grille Guard with the bottom step being graded really helped. Did it with it parked in snow with no foot slippage. It would have been a tougher job without that Grille Guard.
View attachment 82036Yea I am 6’0 and normally not a problem. Crocs apparently aren’t maintenance footwear. My fault, I got the ranch hand for the same reason when we’re in flagstaff. Always having close calls with elk and mule deer.
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Love being up north
 

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Guess I have to wash it better. Looked good at first. Now that it’s dry not so good.
Even though I thought I washed it thoroughly as you can see there’s still oil. Son of a gun. At least I got my spare 10mm sockets.


Doesn’t have oil burning on the valve cover or manifold at least.
 

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Our family's 2014 Ram 2500 4x4 Crew Cab Cummins runs the 35 inch (285 75R18) Toyo A/T III's in Wyoming. I've towed in Wyoming in very bad winter conditions with it across I-80 with the Toyo A/T II tires previously on it and the toy hauler trailer did begin to slide out at less than 30 MPH. The truck tires never slipped.

I'm running 275 70R18 Toyo C/T's on our 2024 Ram 3500 4x4 Crew Cab Cummins and 35 12.50R17 Toyo C/T's on our 2016 Ram 2500 4x4 Power Wagon in Western Colorado. Just needed a little more aggressive deeper tread 3PMSF rated commercial truck tires than the A/T III tires.
 
Never really looked into the C/T but, now that you mentioned it. I was reading about them and I am interested. My at3’s are pretty chewed up from rocks
 
Bull Creek said:
Our family's 2014 Ram 2500 4x4 Crew Cab Cummins runs the 35 inch (285 75R18) Toyo A/T III's in Wyoming. I've towed in Wyoming in very bad winter conditions with it across I-80 with the Toyo A/T II tires previously on it and the toy hauler trailer did begin to slide out at less than 30 MPH. The truck tires never slipped.

I'm running 275 70R18 Toyo C/T's on our 2024 Ram 3500 4x4 Crew Cab Cummins and 35 12.50R17 Toyo C/T's on our 2016 Ram 2500 4x4 Power Wagon in Western Colorado. Just needed a little more aggressive deeper tread 3PMSF rated commercial truck tires than the A/T III tires.
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I had the A/T 2s and 3s the 2s wore out extremely fast and the 3s were absolute garbage traction. If it was not for my bad experience with toyos ove the years id try the C/T they look like a nice tread.
 
I have had a decent experience with them in the mud. With that said I have limited experience in the snow and ice (I live in phoenix and visit flagstaff once or twice a month) so I am only really driving in those conditions 10-20 days a year. I will say I air down to 25-30 while off roading and surprised how chewed they are and how many cuts and gashes the fronts get. My buddy has loads of range F nittos and he has about 70,XXX miles on them and we do the same trails and they look better than my Toyos with about 30,000 miles.
 
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