Hey guys. Just bought my 06 2500 Mega Cab 6sp about a month ago. I've posted about it twice already, but I can tell I will be doing a ton to this thing. Most likely I'll need all the help I can get. Rather than post a bunch of individual threads I will have all my progress and questions here. It is honestly a great truck with a ton of aftermarket sexiness, but it kinda seems like somebody forgot to do some basic maintenance...for the last 10 years!
Here's what I've done so far:
Stock track bar was trashed. Put in a Thuren adjustable. Still have loose steering and quite a bit of wander but its much better.
Upper driver ball joint was trashed. Replaced with Moog adjustable. Hopefully a temporary fix as I would like to go to EMF ball joints soon.
Driver hub assembly had play so on to rockauto to score an SKF unit which is OEM if I'm not mistaken.
Drag link was done so on to Moog for that too. My crystal ball shows me Synergy linkage in my future.
I went to Fort Benning, GA to my little brother's Airborne graduation and destroyed the driver U joint. Luckily there is an AMAZING shop you can rent a lift stall and any tool you can think of. No tools of my own, I was able to get a lift and tools for a few hours for less than 15 bucks!
Next on the to-do list is two tires as the front ones look like garbage. After that I'll be tackling my fuel leak. Then I'd like to do ball joints, U joints, and replace the passenger hub. Hopefully, if I'm not completely broke after the front end, I can then start to replace this garbage Rough Country setup piece by piece with Carli, Thuren, and/or Pure Performance parts. So stay tuned for the ups, downs, and learning lessons of a problem riddled truck and the first time Cummins owner trying to handle it all!
Here's what I've done so far:
Stock track bar was trashed. Put in a Thuren adjustable. Still have loose steering and quite a bit of wander but its much better.
Upper driver ball joint was trashed. Replaced with Moog adjustable. Hopefully a temporary fix as I would like to go to EMF ball joints soon.
Driver hub assembly had play so on to rockauto to score an SKF unit which is OEM if I'm not mistaken.
Drag link was done so on to Moog for that too. My crystal ball shows me Synergy linkage in my future.
I went to Fort Benning, GA to my little brother's Airborne graduation and destroyed the driver U joint. Luckily there is an AMAZING shop you can rent a lift stall and any tool you can think of. No tools of my own, I was able to get a lift and tools for a few hours for less than 15 bucks!
Next on the to-do list is two tires as the front ones look like garbage. After that I'll be tackling my fuel leak. Then I'd like to do ball joints, U joints, and replace the passenger hub. Hopefully, if I'm not completely broke after the front end, I can then start to replace this garbage Rough Country setup piece by piece with Carli, Thuren, and/or Pure Performance parts. So stay tuned for the ups, downs, and learning lessons of a problem riddled truck and the first time Cummins owner trying to handle it all!