Your thoughts on the 5.7 hemi tick

The hemi tick and the fact that they are also experiencing cam and lifter failures are not necessarily related. I've been lucky and just passed 205k on my 2010 5.7 Ram. I figure that if it ever happens to me I'm going to bite the bullet and pay the 4k to have new cam and lifters put in. If you're feeling brave and want to remove the front end radiator, you can do the work yourself for a little under 2k. I have had a diablo tuner on mine and deactivated MDS from new. It's actually the lifter that fails first then starts to grind out the cam.