New Paint!

[LJ3]

Well, new to me anyways and that's all I care about :)

Ram 1500 Laredo with all the trimmin's.

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[Arty]

Nice ride!

[BarryBobPosthole]

Nice wheels! Did it come with a spare tranny?

BKB

[Captain]

Nice ride. Can it haul a canoe without tearing out the transmission? ;-)
You gonna enjoy that on a nice ROADTRIP! :D

[Thumper]

NIce lookin' ride there Ticboy. Congrats!

Ummm, just wondering .... you DO realize it's a Dodge, correct? ;)

[Chicken Dinner]

Very stylish!

[Captain]

Something about LJ having a hard headed goat on the front of his truck..... fits!

[BarryBobPosthole]

I always thought Dodge trucks needed a hood ornament to augment their style.
Like this one, maybe.

BKB

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[Captain]

A little back door action ....
The screwing you get for the screwing you got sorta thing?
:moon

[BarryBobPosthole]

This one matches his paint.

BKB

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[Captain]

Something tell me we in for a cussin' when he checks back in! :D

[LJ3]

Nice wheels! Did it come with a spare tranny?

BKB

No but it DID come with a lifetime warranty for less than the cost of a tranny so I figure I'll be ahead of the game if that time comes :)

And this truck will haul quite a few stools as well. I'll be making deliveries here very shortly.

[Captain]

This one matches his paint.

BKB

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The color is the ONLY part of that thing that matches his... (so Hank tells me)

[Thumper]

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[Chicken Dinner]

The color is the ONLY part of that thing that matches his... (so Hank tells me)

Why you dragging my good name into his poor purchase decision?

[LJ3]

Oh look... another perk of the Laramie trim package... I got a bag of these to distribute with the stools!

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[Buckrub]

You bought a Dodge?????????

I know you're not rich, so you (and most other Dodge truck owners) probably didn't get the VERY EXPENSIVE option......a muffler?

[LJ3]

It's pretty hefty sounding with the 5.7. I'm considering something a bit louder to soothe my redneck side :) Dang cabin's too quiet!

[BarryBobPosthole]

So it's the Hemi? I think those are up to like 390 hp.

Mopar always had the best sounding engines. Wonder if that's still true? And the induction starters were cool sounding too.


BKB

[Thumper]

And the induction starters were cool sounding too. BKB

WTF???

(You've been hanging around the electronics field too long.) :D

[Fido]

You'll like it! Have a 2014 and it's a sweet ride!

[airbud7]

Nice....Man those Dodges are selling like hotcakes there everywhere down here...

[DeputyDog]

My work vehicle is a 2014 crew cab Ram. I really like it. Haven't had any issues with it and it's been driven pretty hard as you'd expect. It's got 60K on it now.

[Thumper]

You'll like it! Have a 2014 and it's a sweet ride!

Still a "Jeep" man, huh Fido? ;)

Good to see you dropping in old man! Don't be such a stranger.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Maybe gear reduction is the term I was looking for. When those old Dodge starters cranked, it sounded like the were turning over a beast.

I had a 74 Dodge B100 van with a 318, hedman headers and corvair mufflers and that was the sweetest sounding engine I've ever heard. I used to love going to downtown areas and listen to those pipes chugging off the buildings.

BKB

[Thumper]

Yeppers ... (gear)-reduction is what you wanted. I just had to do some amateur SD'ing. I assume the mufflers you mentioned were for the turbo Corvair? Ya' can't get much more 70'ish that that. Ahhh, the good ol' days!

[LJ3]

So it's the Hemi? I think those are up to like 390 hp.

Mopar always had the best sounding engines. Wonder if that's still true? And the induction starters were cool sounding too.


BKB

395 and 410 torque. it's a 6 speed tranny and feels smooooove as fuck. Fuckers.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I like the feel that you are gearing down with the six speeds, and I guess that's what you're actually doing. Especially when you are towing. That is handy as heck.

BKB

[LJ3]

Yeah, the manual control of the transmission feels pretty good as well. It has a towing mode than changes shift points as well, trailer break controls in the cab, bofe adapter plug types on the hitch and that hitch is as unsullied as Lynn's woman parts. Never touched, as it were :)

[Nandy]

That is a real good looking truck!

6 speed transmission? I thought only toyota was still behind on that. Most stuff now is 8 speed but I might be wrong... Hemi, oh yeah baby! That might explain why it dont have an 8 speed transmission, it is going to suck that gas no matter what... Had I need a working truck instead of a Sunday truck i would have been looking dodge or gmc.

[BarryBobPosthole]

For Dodge, I'm sure they look at those two additional gears as two more points of failure.

BKB

[Trav]

That is a real good looking truck!

6 speed transmission? I thought only toyota was still behind on that. Most stuff now is 8 speed but I might be wrong... Hemi, oh yeah baby! That might explain why it dont have an 8 speed transmission, it is going to suck that gas no matter what... Had I need a working truck instead of a Sunday truck i would have been looking dodge or gmc.
my 2015 Silverado has a 6 speed transmission as well, i am not sure what the 2016 & 2017 chevys have.

[Thumper]

When GM went from the 6-speed to the 8-speed in their pick-ups, their fuel mileage dropped 1 mpg. It's mostly for smoother shifting, although it would probably help a bit on take-off while towing.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I don't ever use the tow-haul switch on my Yota. It drops my mileage by a f mpg and I have plenty of torque for what I drag. I think the six speed definitely fills in the gap between the low end and the top end in that respect. My old Chevy would lug in overdrive sometimes but this one you hardly notice downshifting.

BKb

[Thumper]

I once talked with Lynn's brother on why Toyota always seems to drag a bit behind the industry when it comes to new innovations. (he's been an engineer with Toyota for 30 years) He told me that any design changes they make have to pass a rigorous QDR (Quality, Dependability, and Reliability) criteria. That's for ANYTHING ... down to something as simple as a glove box latch. In the industry, many new innovations get thrown into production and fixing the bugs becomes a work in progress (with the public being the guinea pigs). That's why (many years ago) I used to be afraid of buying newly designed automobiles and would always wait until something new had been out a couple of years. According to him, Toyota requires a QDR study to extend at least 10-15 years out. As far as I can tell, it may not be 100% effective, but it pays off for the most part. ;)

[DeputyDog]

That is a real good looking truck!

6 speed transmission? I thought only toyota was still behind on that. Most stuff now is 8 speed but I might be wrong... Hemi, oh yeah baby! That might explain why it dont have an 8 speed transmission, it is going to suck that gas no matter what... Had I need a working truck instead of a Sunday truck i would have been looking dodge or gmc.

My work truck has the variable displacement with the Hemi and gets really good mileage unless you have your foot into it all the time.

[Nandy]

variable displacement


and I have no idea why that is not standard in every 8 cylinder.... most of the time is my butt alone in the truck, I dont need all those cylinders firing, believe me, im not that fat!!! (I might have a load of stools to deliver if anyone quote that last part...)... :chainsaw

[Bwana]

Congrats on the new ride Len.

[BarryBobPosthole]

It'd dog has that variable displacement in his truck and really likes it. He has a z71.

[LJ3]

This thing has a hard drive for storing files and ripping CDs. My math says I should be able to get about 300 CDs on there which is COOL.

[Chicken Dinner]

Ripping CD's? 1999 called and wants its technology back...

[LJ3]

smell my nutsack fuckstick!

[Nandy]

Ripping CD's? 1999 called and wants its technology back...

BAMMMM! Well napster is gone and also the pirate bay so you do what you have to do...

Len, is that hd a solid state? If not I wonder what will be the lifespan of it with the constant vibration on the vehicle...

[LJ3]

Yes, it's solid state.