New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine.

   / New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine.
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#241  
OP already bought the truck, more than two weeks and 20 pages ago, so that request was satisfied. OP was talking about rust proofing by page 21, post #213. So now you're telling him what he can discuss, on his own thread? :rolleyes:

Perfect timing on posting about rust proofing again just now, coobie. :ROFLMAO:

No one is forcing you to read any of this, nor did anyone elect you to police the entire forum.
You are welcome. 🤣
 
   / New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine. #242  
Glad to hear the report so far!
 
   / New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine. #243  
As someone who has rarely driven outside of FLa/GA, and never driven north of the Mason Dixon, it dumb founds me the general public wouldn't be up in arms about vehicles rusting in 5/10 years. Yes, pool service trucks, bed and tail gate/bumper are done in 3 years, but that's chlorine. Even guys driving on the beach a lot, maybe in 10 years they have some rust holes at rear wheel wells. But for a vehicle to be "scrap" it would have to be a total frame complete failure to scrap it, and with a 4wd truck, even then, it should eb worth a few grand as a mud truck. Stuff like rusted through exhaust, that's not a functional part, brake lines, whatever, rerun them, bottoms of doors/fenders missing, that just cosmetic... Guess it's just a different world
 
   / New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine. #244  
Yes, I 100% understand it happens, but how much of the frame is gone to consider scrapping a running vehicle? I'd be mig welding some old angle in that frame before I scrap a 10 y/o truck for $900.
 
   / New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine. #245  
Here is a good video of the Hurricane engine overheating issue (thermostat). The video shows a Wagoneer in the shop and the mechanic's take on the engine design.

 
   / New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine.
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#246  
Here is a good video of the Hurricane engine overheating issue (thermostat). The video shows a Wagoneer in the shop and the mechanic's take on the engine design.

Sounds like he says pretty nice engine.5 million sensors on engine is over stated but funny.
 
   / New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine. #247  
Here is a good video of the Hurricane engine overheating issue (thermostat). The video shows a Wagoneer in the shop and the mechanic's take on the engine design.

Wow. I gotta go pamper my existing 5.7l truck.
He said it has like 5 million sensors on the engine, I think that’s an exaggeration. I only saw around, a hundred 😂
 
   / New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine. #248  
Sounds like he says pretty nice engine.5 million sensors on engine is over stated but funny.

Wow. I gotta go pamper my existing 5.7l truck.
He said it has like 5 million sensors on the engine, I think that’s an exaggeration. I only saw around, a hundred 😂
It's too bad they had to over-engineer the thermostat and housing. I understand the need for sensors when the engine is high tech. It is the sign of the times. The long cyl head (I-6) (warpage) and questionable head gasket is something to watch down the road. Time will tell.
 
   / New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine. #249  
... it dumb founds me the general public wouldn't be up in arms about vehicles rusting in 5/10 years... But for a vehicle to be "scrap" it would have to be a total frame complete failure to scrap it...
Hah... "what we have here is a failure to communicate!" When we talk about getting rid of our trucks after 10-12 years due to salt and rust, it's not that they're going into the crusher, but that the guy who is buying a new truck is typically not the same owner driving it after the body is full of rust holes and to the stage of tin and Bondo repairs.

I think I got something like $8500 for my last truck, when I traded it in due to rust. The corners of the doors were rusting, bubbling paint and orange telegraphing thru the silver paint, and holes were just starting to appear in the rear fenders around the wheel wells. Rear bumper was also starting to turn orange, with the chrome starting to bubble off.

Someone is probably still driving that truck today, 7 years later... but I'm sure it looks like hell, and they may even have to do a bit of body work on it each year, to keep it roadworthy. They're probably also replacing exhaust, brake lines, and other mechanical items that I just don't want to devote my own hours toward. My life is busy enough, I just need the damn thing to start and run every time, and not look like hell when I arrive at a customer site in the thing.
 
   / New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine. #250  
Hah... "what we have here is a failure to communicate!" When we talk about getting rid of our trucks after 10-12 years due to salt and rust, it's not that they're going into the crusher, but that the guy who is buying a new truck is typically not the same owner driving it after the body is full of rust holes and to the stage of tin and Bondo repairs.

I think I got something like $8500 for my last truck, when I traded it in due to rust. The corners of the doors were rusting, bubbling paint and orange telegraphing thru the silver paint, and holes were just starting to appear in the rear fenders around the wheel wells. Rear bumper was also starting to turn orange, with the chrome starting to bubble off.

Someone is probably still driving that truck today, 7 years later... but I'm sure it looks like hell, and they may even have to do a bit of body work on it each year, to keep it roadworthy. They're probably also replacing exhaust, brake lines, and other mechanical items that I just don't want to devote my own hours toward. My life is busy enough, I just need the damn thing to start and run every time, and not look like hell when I arrive at a customer site in the thing.
Ok, that makes more sense.

Is there not a way to incorporate Cathodic Protection into a car frame, like is done with bridges, steel gas mains, and boat motors? Even if you used a 5 pound chunk of zinc, that wouldn't be that expensive.

I've kinda always had a thought that the car industry likes the build in life span.
 

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