Yup, I blew it. The spider gears are missing teeth.. however the ring and pinion look excellent. soo, should I replace the gears in the carrier? or http://www.summitracing.com/parts/au...iew/make/dodge

Its too soon after christmas for this foolishness...

 

I can get the spider gears for 85 with free shipping and coupon codes. http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/web...gear_19640201-

Do I need to Pull the carrier to Change these? Opinions? ideas?

help?????

 

Cheese, you should not have to pull the carrier out to replace the spider gears. There is a cross pin that has a retaining bolt, pull this out. Two of the spider gears will come out. To get the other two, you need to remove the c-clips. I'm almost certain you need to un-bolt the axle by removing the 4 bolts behind the brake drums to get the c-clips out. I'm not a diff expert by any means. I would reference your Chilton's manual.

Look and Randy's Ring and Pinion for parts. I think they have the best deals.

 

Thanks For the heads up donkey. I might as well service the axle and pinion seals while im in there. this is gonna be fun.

 

Or, you can use this opportunity to do a gear swap...

 

When I was looking for a rear axle for another project one of the guys at the auto wreckers said to check the spiders carefully on the gen3 Dakota axles as MOST that he sees are missing teeth.
I checked mine right away but they were good.
No idea how long they will last with the Cummins in front of them :<(

 

lacking the necessary funds ATM.

 

do the Auburn! your truck has a small gear ratio like 3.21 or something right? since its a manual..

 

Also lacking the neccessary funds...

 

I would just replace the spiders with ones made in China. That has to be where the factory ones come from since they are junk! No seriously just replace the spiders, and while in it the pinion seal since they all like to leak as well. It is a fairly easy repair.