I always enjoyed a small lift. Around 6-8”. But I also used to do a lot of off roading and my old job in the oil fields kinda required to have a vehicle that could go just about anywhere. I loved that truck. 99 ram 1500 4x4 6” lift with 35’s.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...6a148d0d8f.jpgthis was in uwharrie in North Carolina.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c22d7e567c.jpgthat little girl was the reason why I got stuck. Never go through a mud hole backwards, lesson learned.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ce09da2d37.jpgthe end of the “Tail of the Dragon”.
This truck is stock height. Most stock mechanically. Said it was deleted completely. Only the exhaust is done. The EGR is still on the truck. Don’t know if it’s on or not. Also said it has a stage 2 trans in it built from a shop out of midland, it’s shiny but I don’t think it’s a stage 2. And the front end is suppose to be completely rebuilt with moog parts, it’s not as I just changed out the worn out sway bar bushings and end link bushings.
The tuner is a punisher performance product called “the reaper”. Don’t know much about it. But I changed the tune from whatever it was on to number 4 and now it don’t smoke as bad. But constantly hazes black smoke any time you give it throttle. Black smoke is money out the pipe and loss of power that could be used, plus it makes you look bad like you don’t know how to tune a truck right. I’ll find out when I go to work in the morning. Maybe if I can find my go pro I can video the amount of smoke. Seems like the truck gets under the turbo and gets really laggy. But after you drive it for a while like most of the day it rips like fire. It’ll break traction doing 65 mph and swing sideways in the rain.
Trucks just been neglected. Was in a front end crash, hood bent, fenders bent, aftermarket bumper, a/c condenser smashed but still works, intercooler popped a hole in it, jb welded the hole and no I didn’t do that, front of truck was very very cheaply repainted.
The truck is slowly and constantly in one shop and into another for something randomly getting fixed. I’m just trying to get it to a stable point and properly setup before I start to upgrade the truck into something even better. The only mechanical thing I’ve done was complete fluid flush, new tires to pass inspection, removed cheap and poorly done tint for professional ceramic tint to pass inspection, replaced rotors, pads, and shoes on the rear from the previous owner acting like an f-ing idiot and smoked off good tires and ruined the rear brakes. I know the water pump was done at the dealership. The first 2 owners of this truck took it to the local dealers around here in Texas for everything. So car fax showed that. I can trace it back to when it was purchased. Just not over the past 2 years.
The previous owner was what seemed like a ranch hand. But then after having the truck a bit he just trashed out a beautiful truck and didn’t care about it. Now I’m trying to get it back to good standing to make it beautiful again. I don’t plan on buying another truck for around 10-15 years. So I’ll be dropping a lot of time into this one as I did with my old dodge.
Currently has around 275k miles. Seems all stock except for the straight piped exhaust, it used to have a side dumped exhaust at some point. Engine bay looks to be all intact minus a couple thing like a fuse box lid and coolant bottle cap. Just had an oil sample sent off to be analyzed. Just got the results back. They said it looks like coolant in the oil. But want another sample as I have no idea as to what they used, when the changed it and how often, or who did it or if a shop did it. I’m close to sending off another sample as soon as I get another sent of bottles in.
Light load button don’t work, passenger butt heater don’t work, plastic ring around the sunroof won’t stay up (really annoying me right now but can’t find another one anywhere), don’t know if the rear DVD player works, fixed the rear sliding windows already, fixed the rear door locks and windows already, busted tail lights, busted headlights, mirror gears worn out, scratches and dents everywhere, used to have a gooseneck hitch (currently has a hole until I get another one in there). Had to do body work to get the fender flares to match the contour. TPMS light constantly on, no sensors in the tires, can’t turn off. Check engine light randomly comes on with a red lighting bolt sometimes. No codes seem to ever be present when I check for them. Over head console will randomly say to see dealer now or service required. Stupid little stuff needing to get fixed.
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this was in uwharrie in North Carolina. 
that little girl was the reason why I got stuck. Never go through a mud hole backwards, lesson learned. 
the end of the “Tail of the Dragon”.
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