u/Chemical_Animator_76

My 2004 dodge ram 2500 5.7 hemi just had this start happening. Had my truck parked and working on it for the last few weeks, most of the that had the front end elevated. I have an exhaust manifold leak if that gives any context. Sometimes when I let it sit and idle the rpm’s get to like almost 400 and it just idles super rough and doesn’t feel like it’s running right. What could be going on? I’m low on transmission fluid because I changed the cooling lines. When I shut it off and key it back on this problem goes away. Sometimes it will do this and sometimes it won’t.

2004 dodge ram 2500. Looks like the couplings are slightly leaking from the couplings on the soft line. I was thinking about taking off the old soft hose and couplings and just doing straight hose with hose clamps instead to fix. Once pushing the hose over that hump the coupling held on to I’d Put one or two hose clamps on either side of that hump on the hard line to seal it really good and help prevent it from coming off. This is just the solution I thought of, if I could just find a new section of soft line with couplings I’d get that but haven’t found them, seems like you have to buy the whole thing which is expensive and takes time to install which I don’t have. So should I go for the semi permanent fix, or should I be good to leave it for a while if it’s a pretty slow leak and I check my transmission fluid every day? A problem I just encountered while taking the soft house couplings off is that I got the couplings on the radiator end off easily but have been struggling with the other side still seen attached in the vid. Is there a trick I’m missing? They seem slightly different on the other end. Im using one of those master fuel line kits from autozone and the butterfly tool worked on one end beautifully.

Will my rear differential seal with this build up? The corrosion is like raised and welded on, so the surface isn’t perfectly flat like it should be. Went at it with a bronze brush and razor and that’s as good as I could get. I have the original reusable gasket but I’m not sure it’s gonna seal right now that I’ve took it off and with the nature of the surfaces. I think it may be better to use the gasket maker stuff in the tube but I’m not even certain about that. It wasn’t ever leaking before, I just needed to change my fluid. My 2004 dodge ram 2500 5.7 hemi

So in the vid I’m looking at a mystery fluid dripping onto my front axel, not like an active drip but obviously it’s been enough to make it wet. It’s a 2004 dodge ram 2500 with the 5.7 hemi. Noticed this after I jacked up the frame and let the suspension hang for several weeks now because I haven’t been able to return to the project. I’m just hoping it’s not brake lines but if it is how much would it be to take it in vs just trying to fix it myself. I’ve bled brakes before and replaced all the major brake components except for the brake lines. I’ve also gotta leave for my new job on Thursday. It’s either that or power steering fluid from when I used it to pop off my steering knuckle. Haven’t checked my reservoir yet because I have to have the front end jacked up a while longer while I finish putting the u joint and steering knuckle and everything back together on the drivers side.

The peg on my Detroit axel lower ball joint came and it’s slightly off center like shown by the pink line. It’s for a 2004 dodge ram 2500

Lower ball joint on a 2004 dodge ram 2500, missed a few times when swing a hammer to get it out and it marred the top lip where the top of the ball joint sits. Any potential problems from this? I was going to just file away the marred bit that’s sticking out.