It's sold. I commented in another thread ofneons about itand hometheaterman said he wouldn't buy it because it was 50 bux. Aparently it was too much.

 

And the crying begins , i got to much invested , bla bla , bla .. If it was that much of a problem you would never dump 4 grand into the trans , and dump it. You got to much invested ???? What are some of us sitting on ?? a turd ?? LOL... Good thing you dont live on a farm with equipment that breaks down daily , fixing , welding , then the honeydue list of fixing ..LOL.. it never ends !!! take a pictures of this rear end i like to see what is broke and write down what this guy says and post it.. Dont want to go thru like we did with the trans (BLINDED) Rember its your truck your money so its your show tell them what you want , not what they think you should have...Good Luck !!!

 

Hey 01dodge I will trade yeah the fiances 03 neon for your truck and then you will not have to fix the rearend and won't have to have your dad be upset about your truck, LOL.

 

Dude he's practically in Canada. I don't even know if they have farms up there. What would be the point? The summers like 3 months long. I seriously doubt they could keep up. Especially when the mechanics up there can't even fix a dodge ram. Do you really think any one of them would be able to handle heavy machinery? I seriously, seriously doubt it.

Anyways no more bitching until you post the pictures and show us why this guy is trying to rip you off. And if you look over on pavementsucks.com open carriers go anywhere from free to $25.

Anyways this is another one of those reasons where you need to learn how to do ****, so you can be out having fun working on your truck, and not pissed off because you're paying someone to rip you off. Hell for the thousand dollars you'll probably end up sinking into having someone replace your whole axel, you could have upgraded both your axels to Dana 60s and then your brothers truck would not really have poop on you

 

I went this morning to check it out. They had everything out of the housing except what looked like the pinion gear that sticks through the front of the housing from the driveshaft? Anyways, he showed me where the carrier had slid over and started to damage the housing. He said since it's been chipped in places, that nothing will sit true inside there now. They are saying I need a complete new rear end for this, or a new housing, but of course nobody sells just the housing. I took a picture of what he said was broken. Would something being chipped in the housing make the whole housing useless really? Uh, I mean everyone wants $1000-1300 for a used rear end...I don't have that kind of money. Here is a picture of what he said was chipped and why the housing is destroyed. I made arros pointing to where it's chipped. Help is needed guys, and I'm not doing anything until I find the right and smartest prices, thank you for your help.




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I mean really that's what I want to do. It's making me nervous with these big 35" tires with just 1500 axles. Every mechanic I talk to always says I'm pushing it with 35" tires on those half ton axles, makes me sick. I mean, can 1500 axles hold 35s ok? Really what I want are Dana 60s front and rear, and 4.56 gearing with a Detroit LSD, then the truck wouldn't be all show. But obviously I can't afford all new axles. Lot of stressfull **** going on. I don't do anything rough with this truck, I'm just paying for all the playing the retard previous owner did. Anyways, are 1500 axles ok to have 35" tires on. I'm just getting nervous if it's going to be tough on my truck. They had those tires off on the ground, and I was just like JESUS, how the hell does my truck even move with those ****ing cloppers on there?? Anyways, I obviously cant afford to go crazy. I need the cheapest way to get a new rear end on this truck (if it needs it), and then to slap in a detroit/auburn lsd immediatly. I can't believe all of this happened because DODGE was lazy and put in a piece of **** product in the rear. Why would they waste their time putting an LSD in if it wasn't quality, because it destroyed my rear end, WTF.

 

Hard to tell from that picture maybe you better let someone else tell you. Post this up on PS too maybe from the picture they can tell you something. Most of the time when I've had technical problems thats where I have gotten help even though it may take slightly longer.

As for the problem with the used rear end if you spend $1000 on one there is still a huge chance that it's in as bad as shape as yours or is about to have these problems. If I was to get a used rear end I'd rebuild it before I even attempted to put it in. BTW I think you should be able to find one cheaper than that if you keep looking and wait until you find one.

Does he have a time limit on how long the truck can sit as his shop? It might be worth it to get it towed home or something so you can sit on it and wait until you find something cheap.

 

Sighh...I'm not sure how long he'll let it sit in his garage. He has 8 bays. Worst thing I can just have them put it in their parking lot for a week. I mean I just got my truck back, now I'm going to be truckless for at least 2 weeks, this is just great. I don't know how it went from just checking to see if the lsd was broken, to not having a choice to replace something. Just great. I don't even know where to look for one. And I have to find one that has 4.10 gearing. Or does it matter. Couldn't I just reuse my ring and pinion gears right? Ahh, so much confusion, and bull**** I just do not need to deal with right now. I already know I'm looking at $1500-1700, just ****ing what I need. ****ing truck. And I'm sure as hell not giving this truck away. All they'd have to do is replace the rear end and bam they'd have one of the best trucks in town, **** that, I put too much work and time into this damn truck. But god damnit, when does it stop? My dads truck is two years older and its NEVER had a god dman problem. A transmission died at 106,000? Are you kidding me? That's pathetic, they aresupposed to lst at least 200,000 miles. Now this rear diff.. bull****. Dodges are pieces of ****s unless you replace the transmissions.

 

The rear axle holds up to 35" tires fine. The one that has problems with the big tires is the front D44. I doubt you will have too many problems as usually the guys having these problems are the ones that offroad. They bend the inner C's and then seem to wear through hubs and just break stuff a lot more when running a 35" or larger tire and beating on it offroad. For street use you can usually run 35"s with little to no problem on the D44 so for you I don't think it would be worth the money to upgrade as you don't do anything the D44 can't handle.

As for the rear other than the factory LSD it's a pretty strong unit and can more than hold up to your 35"s so no need to upgrade it unless you want to or plan to go with a lot bigger tire or offroad it hard with these tires. Since you don't go offroad much you are fine with 35"s on the stock axles. I'd be more worried about that front suspension setup than I would the axles holding up.


As for why didn't Dodge put in a quality LSD? The same reason they didn't put in a quality transmission or a quality intake design that doesn't blow pleneum gaskets or a quality dash like the other companys have that doesn't crack. Dodge just used a lot of crappy parts on this truck. I kind of wish I had gotten a F-150 or F-250 when I got my truck instead of a Ram. I really wanted either a F-150 flareside or F-250 diesel 01-03 with the 7.3L but I looked for around a year and couldn't find what I wanted so I found the Ram and liked it so got it.

 

From what i've read, the 9.25 rear that is in our 1500 is not much weaker then a Dana 60. It should be able to handle 35's without issue. The stock limited slip unit might not be able to handle them, but the ring and pinion and the axle should be fine. The front Dana 44 is usually where people have problems with tires over 35, but even that is not very common.

Hard to tell what is going on in there from that picture, but i'm also not an expert. Definetly put this up on pavementsucks. Those guys will know more about it then probably anyone else.