I just discovered a new noise. It's a sort of crackling noise, only way i know how to describe it. It sounds like it is coming from the rear end and only makes the sound once in a while, it doesn't really make it that often, but it seems like it happens more when i let go of the gas and going down a hill. Kind of sounds like a bolt bouncing around inside the diff. i looked for loose rattling parts around the rear and could not find any. What could this be???

Thanks

 

I was checking old TSB's this weekend. The only thing that rang a bell was this:

http://dodgeram.info/tsb/2000/02-04-00.htm

This is an awesome sight that you can check through lots of TSB's and look at symptoms and fixes. Good luck!

 

Thanks, i'll check that out

 

might want to check out your cat. when the cat went bad on my dakota it sounded like a pop can was tumbling under the truck on decelleration.

just another idea

 

It's not my cat, not even a year old. I narrowed it down to the rear somewhere. I believe it is the suspension because when i leave my driveway (25ft hill with a lip on the top) and turn into the road i can hear a few creeks or crackles coming from the rear, i guessing the leafs. My leafs have been squeeking for a while now and now there is this new sound (crackling). The only thing is it does it going down a perfectly flat road too, with barely any movement of the suspension, and it usually only makes the sound 40mph or under, maybe even slower than that. It might have been doing this for a while, it just got warm around here, so now i have my windows open, so i can now hear it. Also, in response to the first response to this thread about the TSB, my clinch clips are on there and i cannot move them with my hand, but there only supposed to be in the front of the leafs right? Not in the back too? But the symptoms in that TSB are basically exact as mine with the squeeking/clicking/crackling.