ok it has been a really long time since i have posted and figured i would tell everybody this. i saw where people have been complaining about a noise underneath their beloved truck. well it happened to me several weeks ago. i keep happening and i asked professionals and looked and what not my self. well finally i found the problem, the rear end. yeah it literally internally exploded on be driving around. at first i thought it was u-joint, but the mechanic took off the housing and parts fell out all over the place. if you hear a noise underneath your truck might want to keep this as an option, but there is no way to check unless you want to go thruoght the trouble and time of pulling the cover off. nearlly a thousand dollars later it is back up and running good.

 

no ujoint in the rear except the driveshaft to the pinion yoke. Thousand dollars sounds rediculous stupid price for something like that. you coulda found another at a JY already set up for maybe a few hunny.

 

it is not a "rediculous stupid price" considering he replaced rear axles, rear drums, rear shoes, bleed the brakes, rearend and labor. and it all came from a junk yard.

 

for a thousand bucks its rediculous. but im one of those do it yourselfers, so i think all labor charges are rediculous. those are all super SUPER simple operations, they just take a little time, which they obviously charged you for...

 

yeah i am to but i forgot to mention that i was 2 hrs away from home. price some local shops in your area to see what they say and let me know.

 

what im curious about is why axles were replaced when it sounds like you just trashed your spider gears.. i almost bet you could have gotten away with just the spiders. iv trashed 2 sets and have only had the replace just them

 

why? when i could do it myself for the cost of parts, and well shopped out parts i might add.


maybe, but exploded spiders can also fawk the ring and pinion gear, and all that jazz, in which case JY axle would be cheaper...

 

true on the R&P... but axles? almost bet you couldnt get far enuff in order to fubar them

 

i didn't ask you to let someone else do it i said get a price. you said for a thousand bucks its rediculous. see if you can find a better price than i found. prove me wrong. i never said for someone else to work on your truck

 

huh?

 

sounds like you got screwed....and Ill bet you have the 7.5"....you could have easily gotten the 31 spline 8.8 out of an x-ploder had it set up and swapped in for less than a grand