Do yourself a favor. Go to the local bearing house, and buy a set of
QUALITY bearings. It may be that the last sets were basic U-bets that do
not have the quality of the name brands. I did the all of the bearings in
the rear of my 98 9.25. The bearing set ran about 250-275 if I recall, plus
labor.
TonyC
-----Original Message-----
From: David Carmany <thebeast@knology.net>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:26 AM
Subject: DML: doing a little whinning
>Excuse me if I vent a little. Welp had to take my truck in today for
>whinnning in the rearend. I had taken my truck in for the exact same
>issue 11 months and 22,000 miles ago. All my bearings in my rearend have
>failed AGAIN! I do no hauling and havent gone offroading in 50,000
>miles. I talked to the service manager and he was like most places give
>a warranty of 1 year or 12,000 miles. I say thats all fine and great but
>the rearend never made it to its first service! His response is again
>most places give 1 year or 12000 mile warranty. I am getting very upset
>at this point (I had this repair done at 38000 miles at a different
>dealership in atlanta and they got DC to foot the bill for the parts.).
>I say, so it is normal for a car/truck to have 3 rearend bearing
>failiures by the time you hit 60,000 miles. He goes welp I cant do
>anything about it beside fix it for $685. there is a lot more to the
>story but I am hoping to get in contact with the DC regional manager.
>Because of stuff like this I dont beleive I can buy another
>Dodge/Chrysler product.
>
>
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