Power Wagon Registry

drained the factory oil at about 1k mi to get out any debris that may of been in there. refilled with regular 80w90 and its working fine after 13k. nothing strange at all.
many of the oils are predosed with friction modifiers so check the bottle

front 40136007 rear 40030646

they cut corners to save $10. i dont even bother with aftermarket seals as alot of them are cheap junk

:rant: Wheel spacers are always a bad idea! The people that use wheel spacers are the same ones that complain about their Unit Bearings failing... And yes - post up pics of some of those Mall Crawlers :doh: your better off not saying anything. then you can laugh when their wheel snaps off on the hi...

ya could be a bad batch of pumps like the bad fan clutches. im not even sure what pump manufacturer theyre using these days

it sounds like your not sure its the pumps fault at this point. loose ground the first time but dealer didnt realize that until after they changed the pump ? now something is acting up again only after the dealer had their hands on it. the first pump may of been just fine but replaced because of mis...

sounds like that shop was more specialized in cars, perhaps race cars. i would like to hear their reasoning for gears beyond 4.10 being noisy as it makes zero sense. likely just a forwarning to cover their ass when they dont do the job right while im not a mechanic by trade, my dad was ase master me...

ya some are engraved. nitros are. i have speculation why aam isnt engrave but its just speculation. maybe the person making your gears just dropped the ball and didnt paint them. my fronts were perfectly legible with white. rear did have signs of yellow but portions had been washed away. i suspect i...

the large diam aluminum driveshafts have alot of bending and torsion strength but almost no impact resistance. if your wanting to use a more impact resitant shaft so you can crash it on boulders, youll likely just break the tailshaft off the tcase

steve it almost sounds like your pointing fingers at the gears when clearly the setup was all wrong from the get go. i can assure you aam gears are top qaulity from usa and /or mexico. i dont know why they include that instruction sheet with the gears, it could confuse a person if theyre not familia...

i havent got my gears installed yet (been lazy and working on other projects) so i cant comment on any noise but the factory installed gears are dead silent. ive looked at both 4.10 and 5.13 gears but didnt pay attention to if one was 2cut and the other 5cut. supposedly the 2cut is quieter. from the...

i think aev is just spacers on top the spring. seems cheese dick to me. thuren springs is solid choice. never used carlis so no experience there

anyone using the johnson lifters?

if its about the same procedure as a dakota then lifting the bed may be far easier. i did a dokata myself by lifting bed about 8in off the frame rails. was fairly easy job actually.

going back to 2014 ,some pieces of the front housing are different from pw and non pw. some of the internals are the same but whether all internals are the same i dont know

i havent seen the skf hubs for these trucks but i put skf hubs (nsk japan bearings) on the rear of my toyota car which is same as factory and the best you can buy

the lower gawr in the front is because the soft springs. i suspect the rating of the axle itself is 5000 or possibly 5500. it could use a 7000 lb axle but would still be limited to less than 5000 because the springs

some of what they do makes little sense. parts of the front axle housing is specific to pw. the pumpkin and passenger side connecting tube. why would they go to this trouble and not standardise axles across the board. pw doesnt need 6k lb rated axle but why spend the additional time, money and resou...

that 12' new rear housing is also used in the 2500 cummins as ive seen them at the local dealer

All 2500/3500 trucks have the changes underneath. Power wagons aren’t special variants. New front axle casting, new rear axle casting, larger rear axle tubes, different diff cover patterns (existing diff guards won’t fit the new trucks), new transfer case, new Rzeppa front driveshaft, new rear driv...

probly stiff as a board

why are you using centramatics? honestly i would try and get them out of there as theyre only covering a problem. check road force and see where your at now. hopefully not around 30lb. probly have to do match mount. maybe even dismount then some rim and tire swapping. 15lb is good if you can manage ...

the gears will be different as the fronts are likely reverse rotation and rears standard

if a guy could find a new wrecked one in a junk yard and had fabrication skills. its one hell of a front axle thats for sure

unfortunatly the new 10.5 front is the old 4link design. probly wide track also. be great if it could fit in the pw