2009 Dodge RAM 1500: engine knocking or ticking

Filed Nov 19, 2020 · Engine · 79,000 miles · IL

Exhaust manifold bolts broken. Causes ticking on start up. Its bad on your engine and it won't pass emissions. How has an investigation not been done on this?! So many complaints on forums, facebook, even on here. With less then 80k miles this is ridiculous

Filed May 21, 2019 · Transmission · 72,100 miles · MS

Engine ticking - faulty manifold bolts

Filed Mar 21, 2019 · Engine · 137,000 miles · NM

On march 5, while driving to work, I heard a knocking sound from the engine. Later in the day when driving, the truck would lose power when I accelerated. I called a doge dealership and made an appointment with the service department early the next morning. The next morning, the sound was louder and had less power through acceleration when driving to the dealership. I agreed to have a diagnostic and was later called and told my fuel pump needed to be replaced. I was charged $1,045. When I drove home, the truck stalled out once but I managed to make it home. I had several mechanics including one that worked at a different dodge dealership listen to the knocking and each mechanic immediately suspected a problem with the lifters. Also, according to each mechanic, this was a common problem with doge ram truck. I towed the truck to a mechanic and found that the 5th cylinder lifter had froze up and carved a groove into the cam. The mechanic has order the lifters and parts to repair the engine and found a backlog of orders for the same parts. I'm currently having to rent a car. My work requires me to sometimes drive on the highway 100 miles round trip. Fortunately I was not in that required situation at the time of the breakdown.

Filed Sep 21, 2018 · Engine · NC

2009 dodge ram 1500. When the vehicle was started, a ticking noise was heard from the exhaust manifold. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed that both sides of the engine block hinges were fractured and needed replacement. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The VIN was unknown. The approximate failure mileage was 80000

Filed Jul 22, 2016 · Engine · 53,000 miles · MO

Tl* the contact owns a 2009 dodge ram 1500. While starting the vehicle, a ticking sound was heard constantly. The contact noticed that the engine manifold bolts had fractured. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 53,000.

Filed Jul 14, 2016 · GA

Started hearing a ticking sound from my truck when starting it up, but mostly in the morning.took it to the mechanic shop and was told I had a manifold leak. They told me that the leak was due to four of the maniflold bolts had completely broken off the manifold for no reason at all. Upon doing futher research I've found that this is a common problem with a lot of other dodges.

Filed May 19, 2016 · Engine · 74,000 miles · MO

2009 dodge ram 1500, 5.7 hemi, 74000 miles. Developed ticking in the engine at idle and acceleration. Within a couple days engine light came on with shuddering under small load (up hill highway). Took to the local dealership that day. They discovered that the roller lifter failed (seized) and ground the cam lobe flat causing the misfire in one of the cylinders. $4300 repair bill! This is very common in the 5.7 hemi and not just the ram, so common in fact that the dealership called and said the repair is on hold because the lifters are on backorder! Google "failed 5.7 hemi lifters"... Some vehicles don't make it 25000 miles before this happens. Chrysler has since changed the part number of the lifter because they know there was a defect or design flaw. But when you ask for assistance with the repairs they don't acknowledge there is a problem. This issue needs to be investigated, there are too many of them out there.

Filed May 12, 2016 · Engine · 52,000 miles · TX

2009 dodge ram 1500 4x4 5.7 hemi, my issue is concerning "the hemi tick" which is actually broken exhaust manifold head bolts. Seems like everybody that has this year model has the exact same problem. I have 2 broke bolts on the passenger side. The bolts happen to be the same bolts holding on the exhaust manifold shield in the rear of the motor. The cost to fix the issue is moderately expensive and if not addressed could easily cause more serious issues. The exhaust leak can be identified by the ticking sound (usually at start up until motor warms up and seals the leak) and should be replaced with stronger bolts that allow for the temperature changes.

Filed Apr 30, 2016 · Electrical, Engine · 142,000 miles · CA

For the past month now my 2009 dodge ram 1500 hemi has stalled out on me 4 times. It has happened both while shifting from reverse to drive, slowing down to stop at a stop sign, and just sitting in drive in a parking garage lot. Truck has 142000 miles on it but this stalling issue has happened before around 30k. I can put the truck back in neutral or park and start it back up but there's a knock every time now. It is starting to worry me that the truck may stall out on the freeway. I do notice that it occurs whenever the RPM get low around 500-700 RPM. The truck then bogs down and stalls whenever I shift from reverse to drive on the few occasions that it happened. When I was pulling into a parking spot or slowing down to stop at a stop sign I also noticed the RPM drop to stall the truck.

Filed Mar 8, 2016 · Engine · 95,000 miles · NV

Tl* the contact owns a 2009 dodge ram 1500. When the vehicle was started, a ticking noise was heard from the exhaust manifold. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed that both sides of the engine block hinges were fractured and needed replacement. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The VIN was unknown. The approximate failure mileage was 95,000.

Filed Jan 22, 2016 · 111,000 miles · TX

I bought my truck in 2010 and a year into owning the truck I started hearing a loud knocking sound and my HVAC started messing up, defrost or heat wouldn't work, it wouldn't blow where I told it to blow, etc...I called dodge as there was a recall for this and they stated it was already fixed so I had to fix it on my own. I bought all the parts and 3 new actuators and had it repaired. Now, it's happening again. It's winter time and the defrost doesn't work and I shouldn't have to pay to have this repaired again, obviously something is wrong with how they are repairing these or a problem with the actual parts they are putting in. This shouldn't happen 3 times in one vehicle. There are many complaints about this online so it's not just my truck that's having this issue. I know dodge is in another situation with recalls on the dodge trucks and I believe the HVAC recall needs another look to see if these were not repaired incorrectly or have defaulted parts that we keep shelling out money for.

Filed Nov 3, 2015 · Engine · 84,000 miles · NC

Ticking nose from passenger side of truck under the hood near the wheel. Got underneath truck and found two bolts had broken off manifold. After looking on the internet found there are alot of other owners of this same truck with same issue, ram/dodge needs to fix this problem, I think issue is from to much heat. The sound is at its best when truck is started the first time of the day / cold out.