Hey Hop!
<snip> I'm in the same boat as you.
Just on the way home one of my lower shock bolts snapped.
I've dulled all of my drill bits trying to drill a hole in the bolt.
I thought i'd be lazy and drill a small hole and try the small easy out...
Nope!! I ended up snapping the easy out in the hole i just finished
drilling.....
Sheesh! They don't make drill bits like they use too.<snip>
I hear ya! If I remember (CRS) correctly, I mighta ended up using a carbide
or TiN coated drill bit to get the damn thing out....Course I mahtzoed the
threads & hadd get a HeliCoil kit to repair it...
<snip> Any idea how long i can limp around without a shock until i get this
thing
drilled out??<snip>
I drove a coupla weeks before I figgered out what the freek the "clunk"
was...If yas look at the lower support arm, the shock is kinda sittin in a
"nest"...i.e. - there's a depression shaped like the O.D. of the bottom of
the shock...
As long as you don't do any crazy off-roadin or deal with any "washboard"
roods that will get the front end jumpin around, causing the shock to come
free of the "nest", I don't see where you'll have a problem
<snip> I drive 100 miles a day m-f.
This friday i gotta take the truck in for the 3rd ring and pinion and
bearings. Seems like the rear end only lasts 50k and then they start to
howl
and then gernade.
I was going to buy a new ram but, it looks like i'll stay with the dak long
enough to get the money out of the new rear end.<snip>
Geez! I only replaced one pinion so far & that was at about 110K - I think
(CRS, again!)
I have eaten up three sets of U-joints tho...hmmm...maybe the Asian
manufacturing
of the poor quality U-joints has been saving my pinion?
Bob (DAKSY) Smith
DAKSY2K on AIM
2K SY Dakota Sport +
V-6 4 x 4 5 speed
2K05 HD 883C YP
http://home.nycap.rr.com/daksy/
Averill Park, NY
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