Hello all. I'm Adam. I have a 2004 1500 ram. 5.7 hemi. With RWD. I'm going to be replacing the*spider*gears. I have done some looking in to it and I'm not sure if I need to mess with the shims. I thinking the shims are if I change the ring gear. Any help or advice would be great.

 

Why just the spider gears?

 

When I was changing the axle bearings. I notice that some of the teeth had chunks missing out of them. Also I'm going to sell it. I don't want to put a lot of money in to it that I will not get back. Just enough to fix it right.

 

You should be able to simply swap them out, there will be one shim under each gear, just reuse them.

 

Thanks frava. That is what I was thinking.