well if your drive shaft is silver then its aluminum, and if its rusty, then its steel

I think I have royal purple ATF- 3 or 4 I forget which one it takes.

and I have 10w30 in my engine.

and on your glove box there is a sticker with your options on it. there was a link floating around here somewhere that if you put your vin# in it will tell you all your options.

 

Cool, ya i got a aluminum one! is that any good? lol does that mean my truck came with a different option? Cool well i may have to concider putting in the royal purple.

Thanks for all the help

 

Mine was making a clunk noise when i shifted from park to drive or to reverseand I always mentioned it when I brought the truck in for service and finally on a typical oil change the mechianc tightened the bolts on the tranny and found they where actually lose! The noise hasn't come back since, I wish I could tell you the exact bolts that where lose but they must have worked themselves lose at one point!

 

Thanks for the idea. Im taking my truck into the shop saturday to get a oil and filter change, ill tell them to check it out

Thanks

 

i just had a nice clunk too. I checked the u joints and they seemed tight and it sounded like it was in the rear end. I didn't have time to do it myself so i dropped it off at a shop and let them look into it. I was convinced it was in the rear end. So were they so they pulled apart the diff, and said it looked like new, so they did a flush anyways. Then replaced the rear u-joint... it was seized.

 

Well i havent had time to go and take a look at the U-joints. Im gonna look before i take into the dealer to get looked at. But thats for the imput!

 

Big green a little FYI you can request a build sheet on your Dak by giving the dealership your VIN.

 

Right on well maybe ill do that on saturday.

 

on every automatic you are allways going to have a slight clunk from reverse to drive or vise versa because there is play between the gears, if its louder then usual then i would check what people have mentioned above.

 

I have a 97' Dakota 4x4 w/ manual transmission. I have had trouble on two occasions with shifting from 1-2-3 but never in 4th or 5th?!? I have read the above posts regarding the U-Joints...does anyone here think maybe this could be my problem? I appreciate the help all!