The Official 2015 2nd Gen Ram OT Thread
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From: Fredericksburg, Virginia
Well that was a waste.
Dropped it off at a local shop close to our truck yard, dude charges $100/hr labor.
I told him what it was doing and that I thought it was the water pump, I think they automatically dismissed that because I thought of it, I hate mechanics like that...
They looked at it and best they could come up with was the bypass hose was leaking and they wanted $400 to fix it. WTF! Cost me $52 for 1/2hr just for them to diagnose it...
Turns out one of our guys is an ASE Certified Diesel Mechanic, we looked things over and the consensus is the water pump is bad and possibly a leaky bypass hose.
My thought on the leak was is the pump isn't pumping coolant or enough of it the coolant in the block is bound to get hot and it's gonna find a way out, least that's my thought.
With the truck at normal temp you can remove the radiator cap without any issue, it's cold, coolant in the rad was cold enough to stick your finger in it without getting burned.
The diesel tech is gonna help me switch out the water pump and thermostat tomorrow, doing the tstat just because.
Dropped it off at a local shop close to our truck yard, dude charges $100/hr labor.
I told him what it was doing and that I thought it was the water pump, I think they automatically dismissed that because I thought of it, I hate mechanics like that...
They looked at it and best they could come up with was the bypass hose was leaking and they wanted $400 to fix it. WTF! Cost me $52 for 1/2hr just for them to diagnose it...
Turns out one of our guys is an ASE Certified Diesel Mechanic, we looked things over and the consensus is the water pump is bad and possibly a leaky bypass hose.
My thought on the leak was is the pump isn't pumping coolant or enough of it the coolant in the block is bound to get hot and it's gonna find a way out, least that's my thought.
With the truck at normal temp you can remove the radiator cap without any issue, it's cold, coolant in the rad was cold enough to stick your finger in it without getting burned.
The diesel tech is gonna help me switch out the water pump and thermostat tomorrow, doing the tstat just because.
Last edited by stewie01; Mar 27, 2015 at 05:02 PM.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I screwed up trying to move mr. Chillyphils's technical post about his gears out of it and ended up moving the whole dang thread. Took a few beers to figure out how to move it back.