how much work to replace these and is it expensive?

 

I had to replace the carrier and all internals on mine and it was $1000 installed. it was like $600 for the parts. but I dont know enough about them to intall them myself.

 

i pulled the cover off and the spider gears are shot. Now the hard part is trying to find parts, i called the dealer in my area and its like a month back oder on them. A freind of mine has a rear end out of a 05 or 06 Dakota, does anyone know if these gears are interchangable with the 2000 model?

 

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madie...just a quick check found that,.,.

 

www.ringpinion.com

Call them.

never understood plowing with anything but a 3/4ton or heavier duty truck, something made for hard work.

 

thanks for the website, just called them, ill have my gears tuesday morning for a fraction of the cost from the dealer.

 

Sounds like a front sticking CV joint

 

it was the spider gears in the rear, they wear all broke.

 

Glad that helped. Randy's is pretty much the only place I'll go for gears.