Try these people for a full rear axle: Your 4.10 gears should work with the 3:55 carriers.

Year
Part
Model
Description
Miles
Part
Grade
Stock#
US
Price
Dealer Info

2001
Rear Axle
Dodge Truck 1500 Series
W BRAKES,QUAD,AOD,360,5.9
84,000
A
5K1528
$850
Sun Auto and Salvage USA-ME(Norridgewock) E-mail 1-800-843-5176

2001
Rear Axle
Dodge Truck 1500 Series
W BRAKES,4DRPU,AOD,5.9L,OFFIN
87,000
A
7C1970
$850
Sun Auto and Salvage USA-ME(Norridgewock) E-mail 1-800-843-5176

2001
Rear Axle
Dodge Truck 1500 Series
W BRAKES,4DREXT,AOD,5.2L
78,000
A
8A2213
$850
Sun Auto and Salvage USA-ME(Norridgewock) E-mail 1-800-843-5176

2000
Rear Axle
Dodge Truck 1500
-4X4, 3.55 RATIO-
P74
$850
Auto and Truck Parts USA-ME(Windham) Request_Quote 1-800-974-6334 Request_Insurance_Quote

2001
Rear Axle
R 3.55
892B0101
$795
New England Auto Parts USA-ME(Unity) E-mail 1-888-211-7034

2001
Rear Axle
Dodge Truck 1500
4X4, 3.55 ratio-
CC-1
$750.03
M and P Auto Parts USA-ME(Auburn) Request_Quote 1-800-244-0663 Request_Insurance_Quote
[/b]

2001
Rear Axle
Dodge Truck 1500 Series
LOOK AT MAY BE SPRUNG,5.9L,AOD,OFFIN
7C1958
$650
Sun Auto and Salvage USA-ME(Norridgewock) E-mail 1-800-843-5176

 

Do you have rear disks now? This might be a good time to find one with those and do a swap.

 

Since his truck is an '01, he might alrady have rear disks, but if not, I think he'd be better off keeping this as simple as possible.

 

I have a late series 01 and mine came from the factory withdrums in the back.

 

Thats why I was asking. Mine is a 01 and still has rear drums. I'd like to have disks but don't want to shell out $700 or whatever for EGR's kit.

On second thought I think you are probably right and keeping this as simple as possible is probably the best thing. Well, second best I still say a for sale sign is the best but he doesn't want to do that so minus well go with the 2nd best.

 

Whats the build date on yours? Mine was like May of 00 I think but it's a 01. I don't know if it was May for sure but I think it was. It was really early for a 01 but it's a 01.

 

I believe that my manufacture was in December 2000. I have to use the postJune 2000 PCM for my truck.

 

Maybe mine was June of 00. I don't remember but it was made somewhere around there. It was earlier than I thought it would be. Anyone know when they started making 01's?

 

If it were my truck, i'd have a hard time justifying selling it after taking out a $4000 loan for that tranmission. If it weren't for that, i'd definetly agree to sell it.

On second thought, he's about out of major things that could go wrong with this truck, so soon it will be like he has a new truck. Only things left that could give him a headache like this would be if the front axle/diff started acting up, or if his motor let go.

 

I agree with that I'd have a hard time selling it too but I think he would be better off before he has to dump another 4k into it. While he has taken care of the tranny and is the rear end now he still has the pleneum which I doubt he can do. I paid $660 in labor and $158 or something for the APS kit. So thats not really minor. Then has the crappy lift that is putting parts at angles they shouldn't be. So when he needs to replace half the front end parts on the truck that isn't going to be cheap either.

Then he has the motor and front axle like you said. Hopefully nothing will go wrong with those but what if he starts having a problem and has one of the famous cracked heads? There is another $1000 easy.

He has a messed up wheel which he has been saying so there is the price of that.

There is the price of a proper lift since he doesn't want to put it back down to stock. This in addition to any front end parts that become worn out from the crappy setup he has now.

All in all while not major there are still quite a few things that can and probably will go wrong that are going to cost on up there.


Then you weigh in the fact that everything he tells us on here that he wants to do with it or likes to do with the truck is stuff the truck doesn't do well at all. If he really wants to race and treat stuff like that he would be 100x better off with a Honda and they will hold up 2 times as well plus be fairly cheap to modify.

At the end of the day he is going to have a ton of money in this truck and he is still going to have a 7-8 year old truck that has 100k some miles on it. He isn't going to get out of it what he is putting into it now so I think he should get out of it what he can before he puts to much more money into it.


I honestly this last round of repairs and a few other goodies but mostly repairs I have around 8 grand or so into it. Thats a lot for a truck this old.

Then he still wants new tires which are another $1000 or so.