Gave my pickup some TLC ...

[tacticalturnip]

When I was younger I found the dog bone style creepers to be quite comfortable. I don't recall the brand we had at Fort Hood, but it was well built, red, with big wheels.

 

[dieselscout80]

I don't believe I had the MDS, fortunately.

You had a 2018 from what you posted and so yes you did have MDS. MDS started in 2006 for all 1500 HEMIs with automatic transmissions.

Now even my 2020 2500 6.4 HEMI has MDS and I don’t mind having it.

 

[dnw64]

You had a 2018 from what you posted and so yes you did have MDS. MDS started in 2006 for all 1500 HEMIs with automatic transmissions.

Now even my 2020 2500 6.4 HEMI has MDS and I don’t mind having it.

What? I thought all HD/SDs didn't have MDS or the equivalent.

BTW, I hated MDS and paid over $1000 to get a new programmable PCM so I could disable it (and adjust tire size, fan cut-in/out temps, re-map engine tuning, etc). Both on my 2015 and 2020 RAM 1500s with the 5.7.

Now I have a 2024 F250 with the 7.3. No cylinder deactivation. Spent the money on an exhaust instead...

Now I am contemplating spending the Big Bucks for a Whipple Supercharger...

 

[sandman2234]

Yeah, this has been a good truck it's 4X4 with the Hemi ... Wish it had a longer bed, and a manual transmission ... Couldn't find a 3/4 ton back then, but I make do with this.

I just brought a 2003 2500 home with a stickshift!

Was WAY overloaded on my move, had plenty of motor and brakes, but suspension was over taxed!

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Glad you didn't have to come to Florida, as they like catching those doubles and writing tickets. Usually a camper with a boat behind it. I have dbls/triples on my CDL and can't do it! Been a time or two it would have made things easier, or I need a bigger trailer!
I was close to your place this week,
David from jax

 

[Shawn T. W.]

I find that the states that border the ocean seem to have some of the craziest or most restricted laws ...

I got home today for my regular scheduled time off ... A nice sunny fall day in the Ozarks, got up to 77°!

I decided I needed to get my truck ready for winter, so started with a wash and wax ... Cleaned the windows inside too ...

For a 2018 it cleans up pretty nice, but the wax is mostly for protection from the elements, as it spends most of its time parked up at my company's trucking terminal ...

Topped up the windshield washer fluid ...

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Then put my new creeper together, ships with the wheels separately ... It the Bone Rough Rider version, it goes over the cracks, and I actually took it out on the gravel, and works fairly well out there too!

I was trying on my new chains I got, now that I did the spacers, and lift there is plenty of room!

Probably don't even need the spider tightener ...

They have these "latches" on both sides, and you can get them pretty snug just with them ...

I also bought the optional version with "cams" ... This set has 4 of them on the outside, and a "L" shaped "wrench" to tighten them ... I could only tighten 2 of the 4, this one is not tightened ...

This one has been rotated and is in the tightened position ... (Tire is yellow from rubbing on my ramps last time!)

My plan was to run my "emergency chains" I bought for my semi-truck on the back ...

While there is room inside now ...

The wheels on my pickup are not really set up for this style of chains, which are basically a temporary deal to get unstuck, and up onto your real chains, or a short ways in a bad parking lot, I couldn't get them tight enough, and the extra chain would trash my wheels ... So I'm gonna buy another set like I got for the front ...

The new ones come in a nice bag! I'll put the emergency ones in my semi-truck for the winter !

 

[Hay Dude]

I had my Ram 5500 Aisin in for transmission fluid & filter service and my ram salesman told me they did away with the dial shifter.

 

[dieselscout80]

I had my Ram 5500 Aisin in for transmission fluid & filter service and my ram salesman told me they did away with the dial shifter.

I know they did for the HDs for 2025.

 

[Hay Dude]

I dislike steering column shifters. A 1950’s design that takes up too much physical space for it’s purpose. It’s no longer a shift stalk connected to cables. It’s a giant electronic switch.
Time to go to an Allison style push button key pad.

Or the Volvo truck shifter.

But our smaller trucks need a park pawl.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

My 2018 has the dial shifter, and the stupid mds ... If I remember I turn it off before going anywhere ... Once in Drive, gotta hit the - gear button, then the + gear button till it gets up to 8th gear, then it won't go into "eco mode" ... But every time I take it out of Drive, I gotta do it all over again!

Before I left out last time I did readjust the headlights down, I had marked them on the door, and moved them back down after the lift, but haven't driven in the dark, just here in the driveway ...

I'm not looking forward to the drain transmission, drop pan and throw it away, put new pan and new filter (part of the pan!) as it looks like I need to remove the exhaust to get to the drain plug, and the bolts that hold on the pan!