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matt
Dodge Dakota
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8/14/2005
12:59:59
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 Subject: c-notch and lowering kit installed
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Hey guys, im a regular to this page and have used a lot of usual information to help solve some minor and major problems with my dakota.
However, i can not find an answer to a problem i am currently having. Several months ago me and some buddies installed a lowering kit consisting of shackles, hangers, springs and shocks. everything was fine until about a week later started getting a grinding noise whenever i accelerated fast or took a corner quick. the noise eventually disappeared about 3 weeks later. didnt think anything of it except the suspension was breaking in and settling.
I have decided to bag the truck, and with that decided to take the first step and had a notch installed in the rear. when we took the bed off we noticed that the bolt hanging the passenger side leafsprings into the hanger no longer had a nut on it. no problem put a nut on it, continued with install of c-notch. test drive time came, and guess what.....the noise is back again. cant figure it out, any ideas would be helpful....THANKS!!
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ucimaplaya2
Dodge Dakota
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9/21/2005
14:45:09
|  RE: c-notch and lowering kit installed
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Sounds like your drive shaft might be a little too long or if you shortend it, maybe a little too short. that sound you hear could be your rear u-joint failing. Same thing happend to my buddy's old dakota with hydrolics. his was cut and was too short. if this is the case it is failing NOW
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speed
Dodge Dakota
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10/07/2005
21:22:07
| RE: c-notch and lowering kit installed
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did you install pinion shims ??if not and the rear end angle is not the same as the output of the tranny, it will howl or whine
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