Ram 2500 CTD in Africa
Pretty interesting. Owner Review: I Drove a Ram HD 2500 Nearly 100,000 Miles in Africa
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I got a chance to read the article the owner sent to TFL Truck. Most of the people I know in AB or SK or BC would be pissed if a new Ram diesel didn’t run 100k miles with anything but routine maintenance and any lawyer repairs. Mine needed nothing but a clutch (95k miles) before 100k miles, 40% towing 10-14k trailers. Now at 260k miles it has a broken piston ring which I caused myself by not looking after an out of spec injector, and understanding what was happening. Yep, it broke. Of course it only towed back 1800 miles from the Mexico border with AZ to eastern AB and then got used for some heavy towing last spring and summer with a oil jug under the hood to catch the blow by slobber, but now it is quietly resting except when it’s needed on the 18k goose neck stock trailer. Misfires for a couple minutes on cold start but after that it’s a 5 -1/2 cylinder... there’s a project plan afoot...
TFL Truck is an entertaining organization- but their experience is with brand new latest and greatest (in the “real world”) or gently poking fun at 5 yr old trucks as “dated” etc etc etc
They don’t really do much with trucks that have been used for 5 or 10 years in the real world.
TFL Truck is an entertaining organization- but their experience is with brand new latest and greatest (in the “real world”) or gently poking fun at 5 yr old trucks as “dated” etc etc etc
They don’t really do much with trucks that have been used for 5 or 10 years in the real world.
