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Quote from: SixGun on May 06, 2016, 05:45:00 PM
Hills.....now in my newer vehicles with cruise control, hills kill mpg dramatically.  I only use it on flat land.

i usually only use it on fairly flat land but it did a great 

Quote from: rjtx667 on May 07, 2016, 12:17:47 AM
if you have 3.55 gears and something around stock tires and a stock engine.... it will kick down out of over drive period.

now add a mild cam and 3.73 gears... and it makes a difference!!   

ya i got 3.55 gears, stock tires and engine. at 75mph it actually only kicked out of overdrive once on the 60 miles of highway driving but it was a really big hill that got it to kick out of overdrive. i guess i just got to play with it and see. i am just glad the cruise control works.

i wish. as much as i wouldn't mind modding the engine and everything i wouldn't mind finding a more solid base to start with. there are a couple i am thinking about looking at but i really need to see about getting back to work before buying another vehicle. i really almost need another daily driver but everything i am finding are pretty much toys and could only be driven in the summer

ya it was probably not helping things. maybe next time i will try the trip at 65mph and see if it helps. i know the older trucks were built to do 55 but overdrive makes a huge difference. staying under 3000rpm is easy with an overdrive transmission. i think i actually stay under 2200rpm with it at 75mph. i am just wondering how it will do on the hills at a slower speed. at lower speeds i think i might see it kicking in and out of overdrive more often on the hills.

i got to really test the cruise control out the other day and it works real good. did about 60 miles of straight driving on a highway at 75mph and only kicked out of overdrive once but it was on a pretty big hill. i was a bit disappoint with the fuel mileage on the trip but i think it might have been effect by winter fuel or possibly my lead foot. it got 15mpg over a 280mile trip. it was a pretty un-eventful trip other than the 1 exhaust flange clamp breaking and making the RC extremely loud.

that sucks that the tree came down but at least no one got hurt. we had a lot of trees come down at the end of last month and it sucked. i even parked my truck on the front yard for about a week because i was a bit worried about the crack in the neighbors tree that had got worse under weight of ice. i still got to eventually talk to the new neighbor and see if they are willing to trim the tree some more. i would be willing to do it myself or get my friend to do it super cheap. i don't want the whole tree taken out but i would really like if the tree was trimmed so that there was less weight on the branches that would fall towards our house if they came down. they probably wouldn't hit the house but would most likely hit my truck

a hellcat engine in something like that almost seems like a waste. you would almost be better off with a diesel.

now that is what i am talking about. it looks a bit strange in crew cab form but i would definitely take that over the other one any day of the week

they are just as ugly as the jeep renegade. it is just more proof you can't beet a classic as far as looks go. i know they are trying to make change things but if they really want them to sell they should make them look like the older versions that everyone wants.

i almost thought about building a switch panel and mounting it somewhere since my vehicle didn't come from the factory with cruise. once you understand how the switches work the rest is simple.

if you need to you can do this. i pretty much did this with mine except used another cruise control switch off an older vehicle that does the exact same thing.
http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/forums/1st-gen-ram-all-topics-93/cruise-control-switches-296465/

if they were that old them any new bulb may have been better than what was on it.

yup that is the way it is some days. really hard to pass up a good deal. too bad you didn't live closer. i know someone that was trying to sell a tri axle trailer that they had. it almost seemed like he was giving it away at $1500 or $1300 but up here it is kind of a bad time of year to sell vehicles and trailers since a lot of people don't have room to store stuff for the winter. i would almost consider buying it if i really had a use for it.

that sucks. maybe you can pull it out. i don't think anyone sells patch panels for that. you would almost need to find another ramcharger to cut that off for a patch.

glad you like them. i have seen a bit of moisture in a light but never seen an inch of water in one. usually around here especially this time of year if there is any moisture at all in a headlight it can cause the bulb in the headlight to blow. i had 2 go bad last winter on the RC but they were the used ones that were on the RC when i bought it.

cool . i think you will like them. i originally picked the set i put in the truck up because they were the cheap set that the parts store kept in stock. i could have gone over to walmart and bought some lights that would have been $2-3 cheaper but i know they  are not as good. i do enough night driving that i really need some decent lights.

well i have never really had any bad luck with any tire brand yet. all have worked good for me but then again the only tires that i have bought new are the ones on my 81. i have usually liked good year tires. the last set i picked up got great traction even when wet out. i ended up selling the last set because my neighbor gave me the tires that had matching rims and good tires. 2 were cooper discover at3's and the other 2 were good year wranglers 1 of which went bad. at least i got them for free. i have put about 20,000km(12,427miles) on them since i got them about 1.5 years ago and the good years were getting closer to end of there usable tread life. them cooper tires still look in great shape with lots of life left in them.

that white stuff is snow. i wish it was 70 out. i think it was 53 out yesterday and felt pretty decent. this winter has been so weird. the temp has been jumping around. 1 day is is -13 and the next day it is about 32 out.