Hi people,

My name is Rick, i live in Holland and drive a ram 1500 sport (on LPG)

yesterday i came back from france, and found out that my rear ABS sencor was broken, after replacing it, i found that the original one wase damaged, so i removed the back cover from the diff, only to find out that there where 4 bolts broken inside,

the bolts are holding the ABS plate against the big gear, (in holland whe call it the crown wheel) i called the dealer, but as iti is a self imported vehicle, there is slim chance that it will be a warrenty isseu,

any of you got an idea what causes such an event?

and do these bolts onle hold the ABS plate? or do the have another function?


Sincerely Rick Wolting

Dodge Ram 1500 sport
2007 hemi

 

so, follow up,

i found out that these bolts are connecting the two axles together,

there are 4 broken off, and when i tried to see if the others where thight (it surpriced me that they are left treaded), it turned out that they where all lose,
after thigtning them, another broke off....

how can this happen?

 

If you can take some pics and post them i can look up the part numbers and help you find them.

 

are you the original owner?
are you talking about the ring gear bolts or the bolts on the end of the axle tubes?

 

 

on the exploded view, that would be part number 24,

 

I am the second owner bought it in Germany with 16.000m on it..

i will try to make some pictures, but my cam broke in France, so the will be made with my mob...

 

We call those the ring bolt which is what brettj asked about. There are 12 of them and the part number is 06036054AA. They are about $6 each

 

my guess is it was re-geared or serviced. because they should have been torqued down

 

I'm wondering if the bolts were properly tightened in the first place. Once a few got loose, the others were more burdened with the task of holding the ring gear (crown gear) to the differential housing. It could be that the previous owner had taken it apart for some reason, or they may not have been tightened properly in the first place.

Unless you're familiar with aligning and setting up the ring and pinion gears, I'd get it to an experienced shop and let them put new bolts in and make sure that the gears are properly aligned. They will use shims if needed to get the proper measurements.