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      1500Vol replied to the thread My Hemi tick experience.
      No flaw in the design but definitely a flaw in materials quality. Some of the 5.7s (mine) have play dough cam and lifters
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      1500Vol replied to the thread My Hemi tick experience.
      Yeah I’ve seen that as well. My truck made 38 psi at hot idle running 5w20 and now makes 48 with thick oil. 500 idle hours 4600...
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      1500Vol reacted to jws123's post in the thread My Hemi tick experience with Like Like.
      You dont need a new engine when it starts to missfire swap the cam/lifters hell even do it earlier if it bothers you I had to swap mine...
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      1500Vol reacted to Marmay's post in the thread My Hemi tick experience with Like Like.
      After watching many videos on YouTube, reading many posts on forums, about hemi cam&lifters, all of it ,lead me to one conclusion, 5.7L...
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      1500Vol reacted to JHoward's post in the thread My Hemi tick experience with Like Like.
      I've read here in the RAMforum that oil(s)high in molybdenum and zddp or using LubeGaurd BioTech with off the shelf synthetic oils could...
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      1500Vol reacted to JHoward's post in the thread My Hemi tick experience with Like Like.
      Yep, absolutely. Hence an oil strategy is probably the best bet and using expensive high end synthetic oils are cheaper than cam/lifter...
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      1500Vol replied to the thread My Hemi tick experience.
      Correct except i don’t think expensive 5w20 is the answer because my engine is blowing up at 165k. Think ill be running a high quality...
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      1500Vol replied to the thread My Hemi tick experience.
      Agreed. I guess the point i was trying to make is that so many people are running these super expensive 5w20 oils thinking they are...
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      1500Vol reacted to JHoward's post in the thread My Hemi tick experience with Like Like.
      An "well maintained" HEMI is just as likely going to crap out as one that isn't well maintained. It's just that some folks get...
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      1500Vol replied to the thread My Hemi tick experience.
      Based on my understanding there are times it has been fixed with different oils. Yes i know i need a new motor lol but i also know...
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      1500Vol replied to the thread My Hemi tick experience.
      Yeah i mean the thing is gonna blow soon though, shouldn’t happen in a well maintained vehicle.
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      Hello all, about a year ago I bought a 2014 Longhorn 1500 5.7 with about 130k miles. I did all the research on common issues and the...
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