hey everyone im new to the forum and need some help please, i have a 99 dodge dakota ext v8 5.2L. the other day the rearend locked up on me so i pulled the diff. cover off to see that the pin droped and wrecked the 2 spyder gears, the rearend thats in the truck( think its stock ) is a 12 bolt 9.25 with 355 gears.im going to the junk yard tomm. to pick up a complete rearend for 30.00$ what i want to know is what years can i pull the rearend from. i know the dodge ram half ton trucks have the 12 bolts but are they the same length and do the perches line up with the dakotas leafs. bassically what year trucks have the 9.25 that will bolt right up to my 99 dakota, some people say that i can get them from 4x4 durango but i dont know how that is true since the durangos are spring under and my truck is spring over. i think one of the spyder gears on my rearend locked up because the bolt was sheered off both ends of the pin, i dont know how else it would happen other then the pin to twist. so if anyone has an idea what i need before i go up thad be great, thankyou keith

 

107 people read the post, is everyone as confused as me lol. can someone atleast tell me what 9.25 corp rear ends either had a locker or a lsd and would i be able to install it into my rear end thats in it now which is an open diff with spyder gears?

 

I will move this to the 2nd Generation Dakota Sub-Forum.