Grit dog
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^Yup seen all those. I’m on the internet too. Not an exclusive issue with Dodge. In fact by the sheer (lack of) numbers for any of the brands, and the obvious clues with some of them, that defects may or could be responsible for some failures, and that overloading, corrosion and blatant abuse are responsible for the majority.
For example that grungy white Ram dually. That’s a Northern Alberta oil sands work rig.
Nothing more needs to be said about that….
I’m sure many of the speculators and hecklers here (and the rest of the internet since the Baja guy is now famous) DONT have a broad, lengthy or varied experiences using light duty trucks at or over their rated “capacities” even randomly, much less, frequently.
The old adage “stay in your lane” seems to be appropriate here when trying to speculate.
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I'd rather over-truck than over-load.
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SpeedRacer350 wrote:I'd rather over-truck than over-load.
Drawing conclusions from a picture of a frame failure without having any other supporting information seems a might impulsive, but for those so inclined, perhaps they should consider Military surplus??
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I would buy another Ram 3500 in a heart beat and load it with a truck camper up all the way to GVWR of the actual vehicle when camper is fully loaded. But I would not take it into serious off road with all that weight on it, let along over loaded.
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towpro wrote:I would buy another Ram 3500 in a heart beat and load it with a truck camper up all the way to GVWR of the actual vehicle when camper is fully loaded. But I would not take it into serious off road with all that weight on it, let along over loaded.
You signature says you bought a Ford. What happened? ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/grin.gif "grin")
Seriously though, I don't think this thread is about what brand we would buy.
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towpro
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jimh406 wrote:
You signature says you bought a Ford. What happened?
Seriously though, I don't think this thread is about what brand we would buy.
I used to purchase Dodge/Ram for the Cummins. Plus I used to get friends and family pricing through my employer until Ram cleaned up that list and took my company off.
I changed jobs last year and now I get Xplan from Ford.
Before I started buying Dodge/Rams, we owned several Rangers in the 80's and my Wife continued to drive Fords. I went with a F150 Lariat.
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Wonder if this is related to the Frame Flex (or lack of) shown in this video?
https://youtu.be/_f3CAnH7WIM
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towpro wrote:Wonder if this is related to the Frame Flex (or lack of) shown in this video?
https://youtu.be/_f3CAnH7WIM
That clip demonstrates the uber strength of RAM’s hydro-formed frame, but if used improperly, ain’t nothing infallible…
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towpro wrote:Wonder if this is related to the Frame Flex (or lack of) shown in this video?
https://youtu.be/_f3CAnH7WIM
I’m sure you understand that mode of flexing is normal and expected. Hence the reason truck have a bed that’s detached from the cab vs a car or suv which isn’t designed to carry as heavy of loads.
And actually that video is showing the (old) Ford frames which were still a c channel frame from the front x member back. Same basic frame design since the early Superdutys and a common basic design of all trucks (c channel) until the 2000s when fully boxed rear frames started on Dodges and GMs. Ford was late to that party by about 15 years.
Doesn’t mean they could haul less load, but they did flex more torsionally than the fully boxed frames.
Speculating whether the fully boxed stiffer frame was even a secondary cause of the Baja guys broken truck is a stretch and most very likely had nothing to do with it.
Simply by the numbers. NONE of the trucks in the last however many decades that I can think of have had an abnormally large or defective amount of frame failures. Just different designs and in this case the fully boxed frame is stronger and newer technology if you want to call it that.
Or in other words that video is not newsworthy and Ford switched to fully boxed HD trucks in 2017. If it was bad then would seem ALL mfgs wouldn’t have changed their designs and kept those similar changes for 5 to 20 years now.
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3 tons wrote:towpro wrote:Wonder if this is related to the Frame Flex (or lack of) shown in this video?
https://youtu.be/_f3CAnH7WIM
That clip demonstrates the uber strength of RAM’s hydro-formed frame, but if used improperly, ain’t nothing infallible…
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Too stiff can be bad as it lets you get into the material fatigue zone more quickly. That may be why chassis/cab trucks use less rigid C-channel frames with thicker steel. Better to flex than break.
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