Mine started leaking about half way up the driver side where the plastic meets the metal.
The radiator is stupid simple to replace. Just take off the fan and shroud, drain the radiator, remove both hoses and both transmission cooler lines then a couple bolts up top and pull it.
Just don't forget to check the transmission fluid after the swap if you do end up needing to replace it.

 

Discovered the premium I put in the truck makes it run like a top.
Who would have thought?
Sunday (when I filled it up), it drove the best since I've owned it.

$3 a gallon be damned! I'll do whatever it takes to keep it from pinging!!

 

Beat the snot out of another 1500 on the way home from work. Also decided today that I'm getting black out clearance lights. Haha. I want them bad!

 

Washed and waxed my truck today. Now I just have to get a few days off so I can change the plenum

 

Well today I decided to go to a fire once I got out of class, was there just chillen and a friend with a rcsb chevy was taking his truck out and having fun so I made the mistake of telling him to take this little path and he got stuck I would help him get out.....well he got stuck so off I go to help well decide it will be easier to pull him out baclwards problem is gettin to the backside

Well about 5 minutes later and I kinda slide of trail into a mud ditch and get stuck, ruts deep enough to were you can see the diff dragging until it stopped after a couple back and forth tries, look back there and one tire is tucked and in a lil bit of mud and the other is completly flexed and under mud, hitch is under mud and the bumper is in the mud, great Im f^cked.

Friend goes and gets a rope and then we use a ford...yes a ford to get us unstuck, there are pics of my friends ford in the 2nd gen OT thread so its not like a stock little ford pulled us out, needless to say nothing got messed up that we know off and didnt take much over an hour for all this to be done and over, friend has pics of me stuck on his camera and I will have those up when I get them.

For now I will post a pic from in front of wall mart, this is after I took it threw a 1' to 2' puddle to clean it up, and even though I got stuck everyone including myself was suprized with my cheap little pepboys tires and how they did.

 

Finally got that job I've been trying to get for the last 3 months! F*** Yeah! Everything is lookin up. Even that 5" Fabtech lift kit I've been Eyeballing..... OH YEAH!

 

here you go. =D

http://www.autotrucktoys.com/ram/Rou...cid=9660296426

 

I like the idea of new control arms but not too keen on blocking the rear. I would probably end up replacing the whole rear springs, mine being 174k miles old.

 

Noticed my radiator leak is down to a few ounces on shut down. Monday when I get back from work it was atleast a quart. Same drive every day. Every morning this week I topped off the radiator and every day it took less and leaked less. By today it was barely a shot glass or two that hit the driveway and collant level still seemed basically full in radiator and over flow. I still plan on changing the radiator, but feel a little less sense of urgency.

 

ya i dont blame you, but for the price, you cant really go wrong.

ive pretty much decided on 315/75-16 treadwrights, that 5" lift, and 4.10 gears.

after playing with countless numbers of calculators and doing many many different equations, the optimum gear ratio for those tires (34.6") is 4.10 using the stock 245/75-16 and 3.55 combo, and plugging the numbers in it shows that 4.10s is actually the closest to the factory tire size to gear ratio.

so i think im gonna go that route as 4.56s at 65 are 200rpms higher than the factory size(245/75 and 3.55s) and the 4.10s only put it about 20-50rpms higher.