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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #195 on: July 19, 2022, 07:50:58 PM »
I’ve got a portable CB if you want to try it
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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #196 on: July 19, 2022, 10:35:30 PM »
can you see your brake lights? brake will shut of cruise of course.
just a thought. I can't remember if I found the cause for that on the dakota but it intermittently did the same - even though it was fully previous generation, so not likely same cruise system
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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #197 on: July 20, 2022, 08:14:49 AM »
Matts generation there is all kinds of goofyness in the tail light that makes dash lights / cruise inop / dash dings constantly.

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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #198 on: August 05, 2022, 08:15:31 AM »
Had a puncture on a freshly stoned road in the Moose River Plains last weekend.  I couldn't get a plug to stay in, tried three times.  Tried again yesterday and it went in no problem ::)

Spare tire leaks around the bead but will hold 40 psi indefinitely.  Harbor Freight HD air compressor came in handy.  Thing gets so hot you have to let it cool for 10 min before you can move it. 

Cruise would shut off from time to time but would immediately come back on with the on button. 

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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #199 on: August 10, 2022, 03:25:26 PM »
Spare repaired.  Bit the bullet and ordered $65 used OEM center cap ::)

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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #200 on: October 05, 2022, 10:26:14 AM »
Cruise is dead :(.  Ram forum says its usually the vacuum line. 

Lamp out light comes on and goes off and dings every time.  No lamps are out. Ram forums says this is common and eventually a lamp will go out.  It may be weeks or months.

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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #201 on: October 05, 2022, 12:49:44 PM »
i think matts truck still dings every 30 seconds for past 5-6 years

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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #202 on: October 05, 2022, 02:00:31 PM »
Its not that often, thank goodness

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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #203 on: October 05, 2022, 02:23:18 PM »
three or four trips like that my truck would never ding again....

I got a standalone voltage regulator for mine to hopefully take care of the pulsing overcharge. I've read I need to put a resistor in the right place to prevent a check gauges & ding...
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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #204 on: October 15, 2022, 12:41:22 PM »
Improved election sign mud flap holders

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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #205 on: October 15, 2022, 02:25:27 PM »
Hammered

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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #206 on: March 24, 2023, 09:43:59 PM »
Took apart the tail lights and mounted the modules + bulbs under the bed.


in your research, any other solution for playing nice with LED flat bed bulbs?  looking like im going to do my uncles 06 cummins this year at some point. 

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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #207 on: March 24, 2023, 09:51:03 PM »
I think my truck has these

6 ohm, 50 watt

in parallel on each light signal

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Re: New truck for etk
« Reply #208 on: March 27, 2023, 10:35:45 AM »
I couldn't find any reliable information online when I was looking. 

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