ADudeOnSkis
Senior Member
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2014
- Posts
- 396
- Reaction score
- 226
- Location
- Truckee, CA
- Ram Year
- 1999
- Engine
- 318/5.2 Magnum
Long time, good looking trucks here lately.
As some of you will remember, I've been having rear end clunk since the day I bought my truck. I FINALLY got around to opening up the rear diff myself (not having a monkey at QuickyfuckfuckLube do it), and while there are no metal shavings, there are chunks of teeth missing from one of the spider gears. I know that I myself cant rebuild the inside of a differential. All the quotes I've gotten seem to be in the 900-1500 range, parts and labor. The ring/pinion gears seem to still be intact. The biggest problem for me is the turnaround time of over a week. I started looking at junk yards for trucks I could pull an entire axle from, and while I was doing that I stumbled across this (site selling whole axle assemblies for less than the cost of a rebuild). The only problem being that they only have 2008-2010 years, which have disc breaks.
SO after all that here's my question; for a 1999 1500 4wd with the 9.25 rear end, what years can I swap into it without any fab work? Can I use the later 200x axles? I've done a fair bit of googling and cant seem to find any definitive answer.
Thanks in advance,
Dory
As some of you will remember, I've been having rear end clunk since the day I bought my truck. I FINALLY got around to opening up the rear diff myself (not having a monkey at QuickyfuckfuckLube do it), and while there are no metal shavings, there are chunks of teeth missing from one of the spider gears. I know that I myself cant rebuild the inside of a differential. All the quotes I've gotten seem to be in the 900-1500 range, parts and labor. The ring/pinion gears seem to still be intact. The biggest problem for me is the turnaround time of over a week. I started looking at junk yards for trucks I could pull an entire axle from, and while I was doing that I stumbled across this (site selling whole axle assemblies for less than the cost of a rebuild). The only problem being that they only have 2008-2010 years, which have disc breaks.
SO after all that here's my question; for a 1999 1500 4wd with the 9.25 rear end, what years can I swap into it without any fab work? Can I use the later 200x axles? I've done a fair bit of googling and cant seem to find any definitive answer.
Thanks in advance,
Dory
