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Old Oct 3, 2007 | 02:54 PM
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Yeps, but they did tell me i needed my front brakes done for 200, and a transmission flush for another 200. Truck has 29800 miles on it....
Brakes will be done in my driveway. Transmission will be done when i find a dealer i like...
 
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Old Oct 3, 2007 | 03:35 PM
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ORIGINAL: OldMoparMan

Overtorqing the pinion nut can cause issues.

Keep us posted.
should change that to "over torquing the pinion nut WILL cause issues"....i had the pinion seal replaced on my ram and the dealership did a real **** job of doing so...when you replace a pinion seal you need to see what the turning torque of the diff is before you take the pinion nut off...reason of doing so it so then when you put it back together, you add 2 in pds to that number to get the preload right...well what the dealership did on mine is used an impact and just tightened down on it....i did not realize this until after i moved up here to Detroit and had a noise comin from the rearend.....

instead of having the dealership up here work on it, I had the guy that sets up the axles at JTE (jeep Truck Eng.) work on it....what had happened from them doing that is it crushed the pinion bearing, which split it up into like 4 chunks...luckily none of it dropped down into the fluid...

basically if you have the dealer do it, i'd be standin in the shop watchin em like a hawk...good luck
 
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Old Oct 3, 2007 | 04:03 PM
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Just got intouch with a family friend who is a local mechanic. He said the same exact thing, actually did it wrong once and cost himself $1600 fixing the guys truck. He is going to go with my parents tonight to get the truck.
 
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Old Oct 8, 2007 | 06:52 PM
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Got the truck back, suddenly its not making the noise anymore and they said they did nothing to it except drive it, i crawled under, the rear diff cover had been off since i took it in so i dont know what they did, but its fixed for now.
 
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