Recent content by mbarber84

iDash is read-only. No issues with warranty. Dealership SM’s and SA’s love to flex power whenever they can. Ultimately the warranty decisions are handled by RAM, not the dealership. Again, the burden of proof lies on the manufacturer’s shoulders.

It’s not much larger than a current 6.7. Remember the engines sole purpose is to be a direct replacement for the B6.7 commercial engines currently in use. They can’t make it substantially larger because it would require every manufacturer who uses that power plant to dramatically alter their...

My 2022 was bone stock. Never modified in any way. I had a Banks iDash monitor in it so I could monitor DPF functions but aside from that it was untouched. Each dealer handles bolt-on stuff differently. There’s no rhym or reason to it. Some will turn a blind eye, some won’t. Corporate however...

Fretting and the block “flexing” has been noted in the past, especially by several well known performance houses, including Choate. This video (Click Here For YouTube Video) is a good one to watch. The guys from Choate discuss this starting at the 50:00 min mark onward.

Oh it’s definitely a given. These were 100% quality control / manufacturing issues. Not design issues.

Both the lifter bodies and the rollers that attach to them can cause premature lifter failure. The chief mode of failure, when referring to the lifter body as the culprit, is the roller axle bore. If that bore is drilled / machined on any angle other than parallel to the cam shaft, it causes...

That’s a reality that becomes more and more clear to me each day!

Those grooves around the upper neck of the lifter body are not oil related. They are tooling marks intentionally placed there to identify which manufacturer (or specifically which production line) each lifter body was manufactured by. There are, or at least were, up to 5 different “versions” of...

It’s still not a huge problem. Huge if you’re unfortunate enough to get a bad lifter. But on the whole, the lifter failure issue is very similar in nature to the grid heater failure in terms of its proliferation. Yes they fail. No they aren’t failing in massive numbers. Big enough to be a...

There are multiple 2023 and 2024 trucks on the response spreadsheet. They’re just not entered into the spreadsheet you can see. I haven’t had the free time to transpose them from the response form to the visible spreadsheet. Too many irons in the fire for me right now.

What are the drive hours?

Which version? (Where is it manufactured?) There are at least 3 iterations of the Microgard that I’ve encountered over the past 3 years. Same part number, manufactured in different places, and vastly different filters physically in terms of their construction and materials.

Well that’s right from the horses mouth so… Believe what you want.

It will be a new lid design with automatic air purge valves for what I hear…

While im sure this will help, this is still a bandaid. They need to get the redesigned lid / housing out so that it isn’t trapping air at all.