Hello, I recently lifted my 1997 dodge ram 1500 12 inches (9 suspension 3 body) my 4x4 driveline angle looks awful what can I do to correct it?

 

Clocking ring for the transfer case, and high angle driveshaft. It's still gonna eat u-joints for lunch though.

 

That's way too high. First and foremost you have to drop the cross member by about 3inches. Then click the transfer case and then buy a high angle driveshaft. I do this for a living

 

Thanks. Could you possibly get me the links to these?

 

Nobody makes a drop cross member for these trucks it would have to be fabbed and then a cutout in it for the clocked transfer case. BDS makes a transfer case indexing ring (I'll let the part number in a few). The driveshaft has to be custom made you will need the length (after you do all this. I only deal with Adam's driveshaft and it will run you about $900. You'll have to call them with your measurements

 

thank you. When lifting it I didn't use any drop brackets or drop pitman arm (got lazy) wont do it again now I have serious death wobble will putting all the brackets on fix that it wasn't doing it before

 

It could or it couldn't. Hard to say without being there. Your suspension geometry and steering geometry is clearly screwed up without using them. So that could contribute to death wobble. Bigger tires can cause it to.

To get it right (having 4wd with no vibrations) you are looking at about $2,200 to get it right depending on how much a shop near you will charge to fab up a crossmember

 

One thing I would do with the front d-shaft angles is to cut the plug welds from the diff housing and rotate the pinion up to ease the steep angle.

 

A high clearance driveshaft can operate at a really high angle. Although that's not a bad idea not really need.

 

This is true, but.... (and you knew that was coming.... ) The higher the angle the driveshaft operates at, the more parasitic power loss you experience.

Now, is spending the money to re-index the differential worth saving that bit of power?? Up to you.