 project storm is broken she is broke so last couple weeks we noticed that a project storm was making some whining slash a roaring noise so kind of notice this a couple weeks ago we were doing some data logs she's just kind of kind of whining we was afraid it was a transmission thought maybe it could be the rear end you know don't see too many rear ends on these things really have problems with that as far as I know but she was whining so anyway long story short we put the truck up pulled the drive shaft put it in four high drove it on the lift and the noise did not continue to happen so that kind of told us transmission wasn't bad told us it was either in the drive shaft or the rear end so here's where we are today is a teardown we went ahead and we bought a Detroit true track of course same unit that we're running in frostbite so we got a true track unit and we were hoping to carry our bearings was what is making the noise and we got an install kit so any who tore the old fat girl down and carrier bearings this is the old Mo Parallel SD right here the carrier bearings were all good as you can see looks good looks good once we pulled out the chunk out of the rear end rotate the pinion and it was just gritty feeling it felt like garbage so that told us one of the bearings or both on the pinion had failed which is just crazy I just haven't heard of a lot of people having that issue on the fourth gen Rams but what do I know so anyway here's our pinion and this bearing which would be the inner bearing towards the inside of the carrier looks good feels good nothing wrong with it however what you call I guess the PTO bearing closest to the drive shaft it is absolutely hammered ass look at all the pits in the bearing rollers it is hammered man definitely caught this thing in time before it grenade it and caused the whole and tire rear end failure but it is just look at this garbage absolutely crazy the fluid in this thing's been changed you know on time it had Amsoil in it at the time of this so I don't know I don't call you know looking at this bearing you guys tell me what you think we got any rear end guys here but to me it just looks like the bearing it's just coming apart just falling apart all the other ones look good so I really don't want to blame any type of oil for this issue it's just funny how you know we put the Amsoil in it I don't know what do you think Ryan six months ago something like that yeah six months ago and it had some highway trips going up to the racetracks and stuff and and then all of a sudden we got a winding rear end but it's the only bearing that's failing and to me it just looks like crap bearing that's just coming apart I don't really want to blame the oil per se so no but that's where we at project storm wanted to be a pita and go down on us but we caught you we caught you before you cost us a bunch of money all right there get you some Mike how's or what's up buddy bad metal I think so man I don't see nothing else wrong with the rear end I just think we got unlucky and and she broke that's that's really all I can think man trying to there we go live chat what's up Eric yeah pretty much so yeah we're upgrading it we're gonna have a Mike says Stellantis metal homie you are probably right you were probably right but we're kind of messing with everything we're trying to get the big project storm we're trying to get it fixed today good news is we feel like we're confident we'll be able to fix this thing and have it run in here no time we got projects I was gonna say project storm we got frostbite in the trailer we brought it down we're gonna work on it so what's up Sean from Texas what's up buddy so what we're gonna do a frostbite today my fellow Mopar fan we're gonna we're gonna try to make it a little lighter you know we're trying to get that nine so today when we get project storm fixed we are gonna try to go on a little bit of a diet as you guys know we got thing pretty much all full weight on this truck with interior and all that jazz so today we're gonna put it up on a rack we are going to pull the full exhaust system off as you guys know I got full carnage exhausts from the long tubes all the way back three inch pipe x pipe to mufflers all the way to the bed it's heavy mucho heavy exhaust it's actually the same exact setup that we have on project storm except for storm has Cadillac converters and I do not so I figure with the exhaust system will be almost a hundred pounds we're gonna pull it down I'm not getting rid of it I'm gonna pull it down and we're gonna pull the passenger seat and we are gonna hit the track the next time we can get out and I'm hoping with a little bit of weight drop maybe a little over a hundred pounds we can get that nine so that is that's what we're gonna do today for frostbite I still have the ported Hellcat throttle body that we got to put on it still but I'm waiting on the wiring adapter because I have an 11 truck it's got the older plug and nobody has one so it's been on back order from Summit for like the last two weeks now so yeah so plan is trying to make it a little bit lighter and try to get that nine before the heat gets here because it's coming in quick I don't have much time left that's for sure but just want to kind of go live a little bit today show you guys what we're messing with I'm gonna try to video this a little bit and kind of help you guys out for if you're wanting to do you know a true track swap or whatever they're really easy man we've already done one on frostbite and this is my my homemade gizmo I made out of some black iron pipe get you some welded a bolt to it so I got a hex and then we found get this Joker out of here in the pipe section that's a big can't remember the size I have to try to remember but big hex flange I welded to this pipe to make this tool which this tool adjusts the how would you call them the spanner spanner nuts or tension tension gizmo doodadders right here you see you see where it fits in that hex basically that tool just kind of rotates those so you can tighten or loosen the rear end carrier to move it in or out to get your backlash play all that jazz set up you can buy that tool online for pretty cheap I forgot to buy one so we literally built one pretty quick to do my truck a while back and it works great so yeah I mean I think I built it for like 20 bucks I think them things are like a hundred dollars online nothing fancy here this is little Harbor Freight backlash dial indicator doodad which we checked the backlash before we tore it down and it was right there in the middle of the two black tangs it was about a about a eight and a half somewhere right there and I want to say six to eight somewhere roughly I think is like your you know your normal range or shooting for I usually just try to see where we're at and try to get as close as I can to go back together so yeah other than that we're gonna clean this thing up get the new install kit the bearings change them out and then we got to pull the gear we'll pull the ring gear off of this old Mopar LSD we're gonna have to install it on the new true track unit over there and after that it's just a matter of adjusting everything to get your backlash set up now we're not changing gears so we're not gonna have to worry about you know a whole bunch of shims and junk going along with this we're keeping the same ratio we don't want to change that this is a four by four truck and we don't want to mess with the front right now so pretty much that's what we're doing guys so yeah let me try to catch up here with some chat see what's going on do do do do do yeah sweet tool weight reduction no this is a this is not a rental lift place let's just say we got a we got a we got an amazing hookup for this it's all I can really go I don't want to go into too much detail and get us in trouble but yeah we got an amazing hookup here the man I looked at you know what I didn't look at MMX I looked at HHP and I think they said they were out for that plug so yeah I don't know I'm gonna hit up a summit here because I need that harness like yesterday yeah that's pretty much it guys we're gonna get done with this thing like I said I'm gonna try to do a little bit of a video on maybe some of the important stuff to kind of show you the adjustments and whatever you know you don't need crazy expensive tools to do this if you know you can do this in the driveway on the ground you know probably half a day especially if you don't have a bad pinion bearing like we do right now if you're just doing a carrier I mean you have that knocked out literally a couple hours something like that so that's it don't forget give it a video thumbs up comment down below what you think crappy metal crappy bearing stilantis bearing amzo oil I really don't think so but yeah and stay tuned I'll try to put something together for this for the more you know technical crap on here and hopefully the next time you see frostbite we have a nine second pass slip in our hand guys fingers crossed stay safe out there we'll see you guys on the next