Yeah I think it's a combination of road riding, salty water spray when transporting on my open trailer, and just age (this thing is almost 30 years old after all). Especially during transport I think, since for the past few years we were having to trailer 2-3 hours away to find any amount of snow.
Every single bolt that held together the trailing arms and skid fought me coming out. Many simply would not come out and I had to bust out the angle grinder and sawzall. That donor sled came apart much easier and has been very handy for bolts, bushings and little things that would have been hard to find otherwise. Someone bought the 500 engine for his go-kart. That's gonna be one quick go-kart lol
My 2016 Ram 6.4 Hemi started running horribly back in November, I pretty much made a vow 3 years ago to never go to a mechanic again so once my slow season came in December I started in at this. My original thought after looking around online was can and lifters. Once I got onto a Ram forum a fellow recommended checking the coils/springs/resistors for corrosion. Ordered new boots, longer springs and did away with the resistors, I was very optimistic that my problem would be fixed with the amount of corrosion but unfortunately it didn’t. Found a broken exhaust valve spring for cylinder 3 so pretty sure that was the issue but after reading the loads and loads of cases where the needles in the lifter goes bad, creates a flat spot on the lifter and then destroys the cam I’ve decided to take both heads of and change all the lifters and inspect the cam with a borescope. Its been a challenge for me, with not knowing these engines and what exactly to be looking for, but with the help of a good fellow on the Ram forum I’m slowly making my way through it. Wish me luck, I’m probably going to need it.
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