Re: Bad Dakota Weekend

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Sun May 31 2009 - 18:02:32 EDT


Matt Beazer <teseract@moparhowto.com> wrote:

> Now I know why country music singers like to sing about their pickup
> trucks breaking down. It's depressing! I went into this weekend
> thinking I'd just change the diff and transfer case fluids and change
> the pitman arm if I had a chance. Boy was I wrong.

When it rains, it pours! ;-)

> 2.) Don't base the RTV pattern on the diff covers from memory of the
> FSM - look at it first. Now I'm wondering if I'll have a leak there
> since I looped around the outside of the bolt holes rather than around
> the inside.

   You can probably just wait and see if it leaks of course, but if
you are worried about it, you can remove each bolt, (one by one)
squirt some RTV on the hole and re-install the bolt, making sure that
some of the RTV gets on the threads and that the shoulder of the bolt
is in RTV as well. The next time you pull the diff cover, you'd just
need to clean the RTV off the bolts and run a tap down the holes.

-- 
                                          -Jon-

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