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I have been having trouble finding a steering knuckle for my 01 dak 4x4 I went to a salvage place and asked them for one and they boxed it up and sold it to me. Expecting the experts to know what they’re looking for and what I need I get home to find a knuckle to a late 90’s dak. The knuckle on my truck resembles the same one on the 98 wranglers but slightly smaller/larger I forget now. But I asked Mopar and I was told they’re discontinued. After two months of prowling threw pull-a-part and other salvage places anytime I ring a matching truck the knuckles are gone is this a epidemic in the dak community?
Yes it is a problem so you know 97 to 98 is different than a 99 and 2000 is different than both of them.
The problem is stripped out slide pin threads you can go too over sized thread slide pins but they get stripped out also.
They get stripped out because people think they need to be cranked down hard and strip them out. The other way they get stripped out is they tend to go in angled not straight and get stripped out usually due to not pushing the caliper piston in 100% causing the caliper to jam and angel the caliper out of alignment.
A Durango 98 to 99 has the same knuckle as a 99 Dakota I think 2000 to 2002 Durangos have the same knuckle as a 2000 to 2002 Dakota.
2003 to 2004 Dakotas changed to different brakes also and dual piston Im not sure the dual piston was standard or an upgrade package.
When I went hunting for 03/04 spindles, the yard's interchange book said 97-04. I had to argue with 3 reps and give them a 45 minute lecture on the series of changes that happened in those 7 short years.
2003/04 dakota spindle is different from the 03/04 durango spindle. Calipers and rotors are different too.
Yours being an 01, stick to 2000 to the early half of the 2002 model year. Or upgrade to the 03/04 brake package off either a dak or a dur. Just remember which it is...
Thanks magnethead I just learned this myself as I want to swap out my crappy 98 front disk drakes to 99 or 2000 disk brakes so I need some spindles.
To show the difference check this pic out a small 98 pad and the larger 2000 pad a 99 pad is exactly the same size as a 2000 to 2002 pad but has a different tension spring attached to the pad.
02-02-2019, 10:48 PM
01 Dakota 4x4 “steering knuckle”
