RE: Re: Shock Bolts again...

From: Rick Barnes (rascal@scrtc.com)
Date: Wed Oct 25 2006 - 10:43:24 EDT


Hop, that is exactly the way I look at it...you can do some pretty good
repairs and still just spend a couple of new truck payments. I plan to keep
this 98 till it just will not go and it still really runs very well.

Rascal

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Hop *
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:47 AM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: RE: DML: Re: Shock Bolts again...

>From: "DAKSY" <rsmith13@nycap.rr.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
>Subject: DML: Re: Shock Bolts again...
>Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:19:25 -0400

>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...
>

I'll have to buy some new bits on the way home.
Anything special to look for at the depot for bolts?
Looks to me like the stock bolt was threaded all the way thru the shock.
I would have thought that there would have been a shoulder on the bolt
for the shock to rest on.

>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

I went ahead and removed the shock.
Sure makes for a fun drive with the front end bouncing around. LOL
I should have pulled both front shocks so it would atleast bounce front to
back
and not pitch left rear to right front.. I think i'm a little sea sick.

>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?

I'm still on the original U-joints (165k) 'knocks on wood'.
Last week it flooded pretty bad down here and i was driving the dak thru 3'
high water.
It would have made Tom proud!
I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the u-joints go. Found a place to

do the rear ring, pinion, and bearings for $800. The posi unit is another
$320 if it bad.
I'm starting to wonder if it would be cheaper to have a new truck payment.
--Hop

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