Transmission pan & control arms
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Transmission pan & control arms
Hey everyone
looking to replace my transmission pan gasket on my 1996 dakota v6 4x4. I believe the transmission is a 42re. Is this doable without removing anything else? Crawled under there before it got -5000 degrees out and I have the shaft, an exhaust pipe and a support bar that runs from the passenger side to the drivers side all making access to the pan bolts look rather difficult. Anyone have any tips?
Also, am I crazy or can we not buy new control arms for these 1st gen trucks? All I can find are the bushings.
thanks for an advice
looking to replace my transmission pan gasket on my 1996 dakota v6 4x4. I believe the transmission is a 42re. Is this doable without removing anything else? Crawled under there before it got -5000 degrees out and I have the shaft, an exhaust pipe and a support bar that runs from the passenger side to the drivers side all making access to the pan bolts look rather difficult. Anyone have any tips?
Also, am I crazy or can we not buy new control arms for these 1st gen trucks? All I can find are the bushings.
thanks for an advice
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1) You SHOULD be able to; however, even on my 1988 2WD, the Y pipe makes the transmission guy cuss in at least three languages. YMMV.
2) I doubt you can find new ones, they've been NLA too long. However, the uppers share bushings with the 2WD; the lower 2WD bushings, one fits, one can be made to fit.
There's a couple of articles on here on how to fit the poly bushings into the 4WD LCA.
Check out https://dodgeforum.com/forum/1st-gen...-bushings.html
Side note: I have Energy Suspension bushings in my 1988 Dakota 2WD and love them; however, after buying and installing them, I ran across this note on the black Prothane bushings:
https://www.suspension.com/blog/red-...from-prothane/
YMMV natch.
RwP
2) I doubt you can find new ones, they've been NLA too long. However, the uppers share bushings with the 2WD; the lower 2WD bushings, one fits, one can be made to fit.
There's a couple of articles on here on how to fit the poly bushings into the 4WD LCA.
Check out https://dodgeforum.com/forum/1st-gen...-bushings.html
Side note: I have Energy Suspension bushings in my 1988 Dakota 2WD and love them; however, after buying and installing them, I ran across this note on the black Prothane bushings:
https://www.suspension.com/blog/red-...from-prothane/
YMMV natch.
RwP
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