Not much traffic, presumably due to the holiday week. Well, that makes
it easier to get work done, anyway. ;)
Went up to the dealer this morning to pick up my '95 Dakota, after a
warranty fix for rear end growl suffered by a few people on the list.
The noise appears to be gone. I ran the truck through it's courses on
the ~40 mile drive to work, and couldn't detect the nasty low-flying-airplane
noise of a failing bearing.
There is a fault code on the repair invoice which someone might
be able to decode: CAUSE: FC-68.
The fix included replacement of two (presumably) input bearing-and-cups,
a bearing cone, a seal, another cup(?), and a fresh fill of gear lube and
additive (it's a Sure-Grip LSD). If anyone cares, I can offer the part
numbers, and cost figures. Lucky it was covered under warranty.
I sincerely hope that was a fluke, and it doesn't happen again in another
30K miles. Considering that some rear ends go 300K miles with absolutely
no maintenance, this still strikes me as way odd.
Ron
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