For the sake of the archive its 5/16-24 1 1/2" grade 5 bolts with 2
lock washers. Now once again my 4x4 is more than in name only.
On 2/13/08, Dustin Williams <dustinewilliams@gmail.com> wrote:
> I got the driveshaft, had to put it off a day because of
> work....anyway, I got down in there this morning a realized I didn't
> have the correct bolts to connect the drive shaft to the transfer case
> (I'm fine on the differential side). Does anybody happen to know off
> the top of their heads what size bolt I need?
>
> Thanks,
> Dustin
>
> On Feb 11, 2008 8:13 PM, Dustin Williams <dustinewilliams@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Actually the first one was incompetently rebuilt by some lame ass shop
> > in Kelso, WA before I bought the truck, the second one was from a junk
> > yard in Wisconsin and was already shot when I got it, but since I
> > bought it used (not rebuilt) it was a really good deal and I was
> > broke. The current one was rebuilt and came with a 1 year warranty and
> > came out of Northern California (i.e. Southern Jefferson).
> >
> > Of course the shop in Kelso and the junk yard in Wisconsin must have
> > been Red sympathizers...
> >
> > I really need to stop watching Dr. Strangelove....anyway, back to
> > reality....the other half of the story is the front drive shaft. The
> > original was lost by the same incompetent shop in Kelso so when I got
> > the truck my dad hunted down a drive shaft out of Mt. Shasta, CA. I
> > tightened the bolts a tad too tight on the mounting clip on the
> > transfer case side of it and when removing the transfer case after it
> > blew up on me in Nebraska I rounded off the heads of the bolts and
> > couldn't get them off for the life of me, so I disassembled the
> > transfer case so I could remove the drive shaft while still attached,
> > then left the country for two months. Returned and moved back across
> > the country. Didn't have time to try again to get that damn drive
> > shaft off so I left it behind in that hell known as Michigan (no
> > offense to anyone from there). Winter rolled around and I realized
> > that it would be handy to have 4x4 capabilities for the snowboarding
> > season and any trips across the mountains so I ordered a drive shaft
> > from a junk yard on line, they sent me a rear drive shaft. They gave
> > me the run around for a month, finally I got instructions for the
> > return, but they never sent the right part and continued to give me
> > the run around until they finally stopped answering my calls and of
> > course never once returned one, finally I gave up, decided to cut my
> > losses, and filed a complaint with the BBB. After calling every junk
> > yard around I finally found one today and picked it up (also took the
> > power mirror knob off the junk yard truck, something that's been
> > missing as long as I've had the truck), it was a very sad sight
> > though, a blue 1994 Dakota SLT CC 4x4 V8 and completely
> > gutted....Tomorrow morning before work I'm going to put it in and I
> > will once again have more options than just 2 high and 2 low. The
> > hellish saga will finally be over.
> >
> > On Feb 11, 2008 7:49 PM, Bernd D. Ratsch <bernd@dodgetrucks.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hehehehe..... "Made in China" ;)
> > >
> > > - Bernd
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dustin Williams [mailto:dustinewilliams@gmail.com]
> > >
> > > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 8:48 PM
> > > To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> > > Subject: Re: DML: RE: Red fuel
> > >
> > >
> > > Well in the less than two years I've had my Dakota I have had two
> > > transfer cases that subverted trips of mine... Sounds suspicious to
> > > me...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2/11/08, Bernd D. Ratsch <bernd@dodgetrucks.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So your transmission and power steering is Communist/Chinese? ;)
> > > >
> > > > - Bernd
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Dustin Williams [mailto:dustinewilliams@gmail.com]
> > > > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:01 PM
> > > > To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> > > > Subject: Re: DML: RE: Red fuel
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Feb 11, 2008 11:34 AM, Bernd D. Ratsch <bernd@dodgetrucks.org>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > That's correct. Plus, if you show them that you're mixing diesel
> with
> > > > > ATF...not a whole lot they can do since ATF is RED. ;)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Red fuel, sounds like a Communist subversion plotted by the Chinese to
> me.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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