"They make everything look easy." Ain't that the truth! Getting ready to do this this weekend on my Dakota and I'll be sure to have the BFH on hand for when the axle doesn't just drop right down...
I have a 2011 Ram and it has the same setup. Thank you for showing how to remove it saved me a lot of time and this is the only video I found showing how to do it!
You may not be a mechanic, but this is how everyone starts out... Done good. 🙂Check your work after a couple of hundred miles and once in a while after that.
Great video. Lot of detail other videos miss. Ima bout to do this job on my 05 1500 3.7 V-6. Hopefully mine goes as smooth as your video made it look. Thanks for making it
Crazy storytime: went to oreilly to get ujoints for rear drive shaft on my 07 ram 1500 4x4. The clerk started running her mouth and said i had to go to 3 different stores to get the 3 ujoints. "But there are just two"... plus theyre identical. Something was for sure wrong about oreilly. So i went to Napa where i asked a lot of questions. My 4x4 takes 4 u joints on two drive shafts and theyre all identical. Crazy. O'Reilly mustve been drunk
That thing around the rear pinion nut is the result of a recall. The pinion nut was failing and allowing the yoke to fall off while people were driving ripping the drive shaft off the truck. It is a poor fix and it seems to make it really hard to get that pinion nut out. Also the tool that is needed for that removal "Snap ring pliers". Question, doesn't the pinion nut need to be torqued to 210ft Ilbs?
Never knew that was the reason wow good info. I put a pic at the end of the video showing snap ring pliers when I went over needed tools. As far as the pinion nut the manual says to measure or count the teeth of the pinion that stick out of the nut some people just mark it. All before removing of course. 200+ ft-lbs. seems a bit much.
@@yellowjacketram4143 Yeah, I know it has been a minute but I am about to do this to my 2005 and I needed to come back and review your video. You're correct the procedure says "Do not exceed 271 N·m (200 ft. lbs.) the minimum tightening torque when installing the companion flange at this point. Damage to the collapsible spacer or bearings may result."
That pinion nut...torque to 300 ft-pounds. Measure the pressure it takes to turn it. (The pinion) Should be 12 inch pounds. You have balls to mess with it.
I used the haynes manual and a few friends to back it up. Says minimum 210ft-pounds and go up 5 as needed. 300 would have been to much and would have crushed the collapsible spacer.
Went to rural king it appears. What store in what town? Please say Champaign, IL. If i had to guess id say you live in dobbins downs in north champaign..
