Re: Off topic Ram 1500 rear end noise

Posted by The tractor vet on December 31, 2019 at 09:35:10 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Off topic Ram 1500 rear end noise posted by Tony S. on December 31, 2019 at 08:27:18:

With out listening to it and doing a test drive it is sort hard to tell ya for sure . what ya need to do is see how it sounds when you get on it then at a even drive then on a coast . The new modren way of setting up rear ends with the CRUSH spacer can over time back off the org . setting allowing the pinion to move and set up a bad ware pattern . and over time this will set up a whine . Back in the good old days pinion bearing preload was set with shims and NORMALLY never changed thru the life of the rear end . Myself personally saved the rear end in our trusty old 2003 Dodge Durango , ours has the heavy trailer tow pkg. and the same rear end as a 1500 , I noticed while doing a oil change that i was getting some seepage on the pinion seal and went back to check it out , while doing the wiggle and giggle test i found that i had movement on the input yoke . So now let the fun begin as now i have to get a new seal along with a new crush spacer and guesstamate the rolling preload on used bearings , so i set rolling preload to 27 inch Lbs on a new seal used yokes and old bearings , sofar all is well. On my old 88 Ford F350 4x4 i lost that rear end as i did not catch that one in time and ate the ring and pinion . Out of all the rear ends i have set up in my life time that Ford STERLING 10.what ever it was was the worst rear end i had ever done . It also used a Crush spacer for pinion preload and as long as you were deriving FORWARD that was fine but when you where backing up with a load on the trailer it pulled against the crush spacer causing it to colaps and cause the pinion to move getting out of scyincwith the ring . On that one i did away with the crush spacer and made up a solid spacer and found some thin shims to fine tune the preload on the new ring and pinion and bearing . Now how to solve your problem You may end up having to rebuild the rear end with a new ring and pinion and bearing kit. Or take your chances with a bone yard replacement . Either way it will not be fun.

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