Re: Gear whine?

From: Josh Battles (jbattles@bankfinancial.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 12:06:37 EST


Actually... In my experience the weight of the lubricant has had not effect
on wether the rear end makes noise or not.

Jason, you may want to find out if the shop added the fristion modifier back
into the differential. That could cause the noise. Do you hear it around
corners and while parking? It would be sort of like a howling sound.

The reason that I bring this up is that the 3.55 unit I've got is a LSD and
would assume that yours would be the same, now just with 3.92 gears on it.
I'd start there.

-- 
- Josh
Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L
www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html

"Michael Maskalans" <dml@tepidcola.com> wrote in message news:2CD682BF-25AE-11D8-92CB-000A277E09C8@tepidcola.com... > > > On Dec 3, 2003, at 7:44, Jason Bleazard wrote: > > > The fluid was also changed to 75w140 synthetic. Could that be causing > > more noise than we had before in the cold weather? > > I'll have to go along with Andy on this one. 75w90 is what's right > AFAIK. don't know if that could cause noise or not.... getting under > there and checking the oil levels might not be a bad idea, either - > though you probably would have noticed any leaks. > > > > I'm hoping to take it over to the shop that replaced the gears, but > > it's over an hour drive from here, so it isn't really convenient. > > could always give them a call and see if they have any thoughts on the > matter, too. > -- > Michael Maskalans '98 Dakota SLT CC 4x4 318 > details here: <http://mike.tepidcola.com/dak/> > mobile.612.618.4652 campus.585.274.2246 fax.954.697.0487 > >



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