89 Dakota rear axle
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87-90 Dakota 2WD is about it for "bolt right up".
91-96 also bolts up, but the axle shafts are 6 stud not 5 stud.
4WD is flipped spring landings; it'll raise the back of the truck something like 2 or 3 inches.
As you're looking, don't forget to check the ratio (that'll make a bit of difference) and you might want to check car-part.com for possible sources.
RwP
91-96 also bolts up, but the axle shafts are 6 stud not 5 stud.
4WD is flipped spring landings; it'll raise the back of the truck something like 2 or 3 inches.
As you're looking, don't forget to check the ratio (that'll make a bit of difference) and you might want to check car-part.com for possible sources.
RwP
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Blue Moon (06-23-2019)
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Depends on what the 318 has had done to it.
It's not factory unless it's a Shelby, and Dakotas never had the 727 (Chrysler had dropped it for the 518 with the lockup torque converter back in the 70's.) But a 1990 wouldn't have been 3 speed, it'd been 4 speed (3 speed plus integral overdrive).
So I'd take what the motor's had done to it, and work from there.
Also, how do you drive? Mostly highway, mostly in town, quarter mile at a time?
Correction: The 518 was the 4 speed; 3 speed was probably a 904. The V6 got a 998/999 3 speed auto; but even that had been discontinued by 1990 for the Dakota (was on some of the other trucks, though.)
RwP
It's not factory unless it's a Shelby, and Dakotas never had the 727 (Chrysler had dropped it for the 518 with the lockup torque converter back in the 70's.) But a 1990 wouldn't have been 3 speed, it'd been 4 speed (3 speed plus integral overdrive).
So I'd take what the motor's had done to it, and work from there.
Also, how do you drive? Mostly highway, mostly in town, quarter mile at a time?
Correction: The 518 was the 4 speed; 3 speed was probably a 904. The V6 got a 998/999 3 speed auto; but even that had been discontinued by 1990 for the Dakota (was on some of the other trucks, though.)
RwP
Last edited by RalphP; 06-17-2019 at 06:43 AM.