here i envy everyone that has mass amounts of snow and now that we have some i can't play in it with my truck, i was on my way out to my brothers house and i heard, what sounded like a turbo prop plane behind me, my rearend making noise, needless so say when i got back home i checked for leaks thinking that maybe i was loosing fluid and a gasket with some gear oil would fix but no leaks and since i have another vehicle i wasn't tooo concerned with it, but i wake up this morning and holy cow its snowing cats and dogs, i had the fluids changed like 6 months ago, i know theres and additive that you have to use in the front end but do you have to do that in the rear????????

 

you only need the additive if you have limited slip.
did the noise sound like the one on this thread https://dodgeforum.com/forum/2nd-gen...-rear-end.html

 

if you turn real tight circles with your truck going slow you will know if you need the additive as the wheels will almost hop because the clutches arn't lubed right.

 

no wheel hop on sharp turns, and as far as the noise is concerned, you hear it when accelerating, when you are coasting you hardly hear it.

 

really??????? i thought my wheel bearings were bad because it hopped when turning left going slow...never does it when going above 5 mph....and if i ease of and strighten ita little bit it doesnt hop

dealer told me it was a frozen ujoint (wheel bearings are tight, new ball joints)....but now that you say this it makes sense....i ddint use an additive when i changed my front diff fluid........but i have open diffs with 4.10s

 

You only need the additive if you have a Limited slip. You do not need it in the front because no Dodge Ram came with a limited slip in the front from the factory.

BTW I am loving this snow too!

 

dang...give up my hopes why dont ya lol....


and the snow is awesome...except when you meet snow and dirt, i burried my truck on a beach today....its on the ocean, and the wind made big drifts, well it didnt look like a drift and i burried it, tried to get out, dug myself a hole in the sand, and had to pay 60 bucks to have a wrecker come pull me out lol. the truck was so burried, the front of it, the snow was as high was the hood

 

i'm pretty much convinced that its the pinion bearing, i'm just glad that it did this now and not tomorrow as i am driving to virginia and having a pinion bearing go out is not a good thing in the mountains, just have to find a big garage to fix it in when i get back.