1999 Dodge Dakota 4x4 transfer case failure
From : eagle view
Q: it is very possible you have a bad battery cable or connection on either end. often corrosion creeps down under the insulation eroding the cable. since its under the insulation its not easy to detect. heres a simple quick test you can do. take a volt meter and measure the battery voltage. now start the engine and measure again. should be a bit higher typically 14v with engine running. next turn the headlights on and measure again. if the alternator is working the voltage should not drop when the headlights are turned on. if the alternator is not charging then the voltage will drop some. its also quite possible your new batter is also bad. it happens. jason wrote im stumped... ive taken out my alternator and had it tested - its fine. ive replaced my battery which was old and apparently only at 45% - so the new one should be fine... but the new battery saturday has drained and ive only done like 100km 60 miles. it seems like the alternator isnt charging the battery while im driving. is my fan belt loose i didnt see where i could tighten the bloody thing. heres some work that has been done on it since december 1. replaced heater core. 2. new ball joints. 3. fixed left light wires - my high beam was out but it wasnt the light itself - some wires were corroded. ive cleaned all of the leads in/around the battery so theyre clean. can anyone help .
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From : roy
heard some talk over the past few days about ford coming out with a new diesel. anybody here have any info that was fast... scrapping the 6.o-no already .
From : tom lawrence
fortunately when most of the u.s. was opposed to going to war in 1940 we decided to enter the european theatre regardless. that is simply not true. in fact even hollywood would be shamefaced to drift that far from reality. well alan i guess you forgot about lend lease destroyers the four stackers as they were called and the huge amounts of supplies and milatary hardware shipped to england from 1939 to 1941 prior to pearl harbor. further i guess you forgot the guys who died on patrol aboard the u.s.s. reuben james in the north atlantic while escorting a convoy. they died as a result of a torpedo attack on the ship with a loss of over 100 men on october 31st 1941. this was just the first of iirc four usn ships sunk prior to war being declared. in addition all of these events were part of the reason that there is a theory that fdr conspired to get us into the war. in order to continue sending supplies to england if not increase the amounts it has been supposed that fdr deliberately allowed pearl harbor to occur. it fascinates me that not only do you not realize so much was done before wwii started for the u.s. but that you dont know it despite the conspiracy to which the events prior to wwii have given rise. -- max there are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty soap ballot jury and ammo. please use in that order. -ed howdershelt author fortunately when most of the u.s. was opposed to going to war in 1940 we decided to enter the european theatre regardless. that is simply not true. in fact even hollywood would be shamefaced to drift that far from reality. -- alan lehun .
From : tom lawrence
its beautiful! i had real problems getting to your pics. my adaware is programmed to block pop-ups and crashes the browser. in opera you get to your home directory but when you click on an image a pop-up generates afaik there werent any pop-ups at all... its just a crappy little 10mb personal web space and just raw .jpg files. of course now its got the images you re-did for me thanks again opera crashes. grudgingly i opened explorer -- in explorer this means 6-7 pop-ups generated by earthlink before it crashes. i see none of these. i dont even get a pop-up warning. in fact i turned off my pop-up blocker completely and tried it again. no pop-ups. shrug .
From : tbone
and yet we managed to prevent all of europe from speaking german lol! -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving huw wrote dtj wrote potential they have the potential to get their asses kicked if they keep supporting terrorists. cite like you kick the asses of those arabs i suppose http//.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4649066.stm hah ! you beat me to it ! the us military cant even cope with iraq. graham .
From : rachel easson
if that is your beginning stuff then i am even more impressed. i made a bowl once in high school woodshop and it came out pretty good. i was impressed anyway and my mother still has it displayed on the china cabinet. someday i would like to get a lathe but i really need to get my shop put together first raised floor. i got my new toy almost a month ago and still have yet to put it together a grizzly cabinet saw. when you collect some pictures of you more recent work let me know. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving on thu 26 jan 2006 163808 gmt tbone tbonenospam@nc.rr.com wrote it appears that you link back to your main page doesnt work for them. i have no trouble with it. nice work on those turning btw. thanks... that was sort of my beginning stuff... need to post a gallery or something when i get time..lol mac please remove splinters before emailing .
From : rachel easson
max dodge max340@verizon.net wrote as for the roads - well until youve driven through a few indian pot-holes you havent experienced how bad roads can really be. you havent seen pennsylvania highways have you heh. thanks to pa roads ive got three slightly bent wheels and the fourth is only unbent because of http//www.wheelcollision.com. but costa ricas roads makes pennsylvanias roads look smooth and i doubt indias are much better. -- theres no such thing as a free lunch but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. .
From : tom lawrence
with job cuts announced on both sides of the atlantic its clear daimler-chrysler is serious about cutting the fat. even more it has announced plans for increased production at the currently hot chrysler unit without additional workers. that is truely cutting the fat. but observers wonder if daimler-chrysler has really identified all its fat. its not just in the workforce. it is in the cars and trucks. at the chrysler unit the new dodge dakota which perhaps only coincidentally is selling poorly picked up 600 pounds in its re-design all for a paltry additional 2 inches back seat room. but it merely followed the example of the pacifica over 4000 pounds for a six passenger vehicle that has all the luggage space - in both shape and volume - of a 78 plymouth horizon. the pacifica isnt even in the same league as chryslers all time weight efficient 6 passenger vehicle the then downsized 79 new yorker newport and st. regis at under 3800 pounds. the extra weight is generally not evident on the road thanks to chryslers potent engines. but it is at the gas station. and it certainly takes a toll in increased wear of mechanical parts. it may not matter however if the chrysler unit can convince customers the extra weight means greater quality. mercedes has been quite successful until recently with this strategy. mercedes economy car the c230 makes its tires scream with a hefty load of 3405 pounds. in contrast a honda civic with 5 cubic feet greater combined capacity weighs 777 pounds less. but there is always opportunity. with the added weight lee iacocca may be tagging chrysler dodge and jeep commercials with built like a mercedes. of course if that turns out to be true chrysler financial will soon be in the business of offering car equity loans for the repair bills. .
From : christopher thompson
on sat 28 jan 2006 055906 +0000 max dodge wrote the compression ratio is 16.51 or so. i suspect you are looking for cylinder pressure which should be well beyond testing with any reliability by common compression checking equipment....... over 2000psi. most diesels are measured in bars and need rather complex and expensive equipment to measure cylinder pressure. if that doesnt answer your question post more details. i was looking at a 2500 for sale and i dont know the quality of the maintenance history. i was thinking about a compression test. sounds like this would be a tough test to do tho. how would you go about testing the quality of a hi-mileage 5.9 cummins .
From : roy
wha kind of mileage does it have anything less than 250k and the truck should be ok as far as mileage is concerned. its rather difficult to evaluate a cummins without taking an oil sample for analysis but look at the oil after having driven it for a bit. any irregularities should be noted such as metallic oil or a brown color. listen to idle quality as that will tell you if a cylinder is not firing quite right. a diesel should be very even in its firing after warmed up. if you have access to one take a scanner and pull codes from the truck if there are any. take the vin and run it both with dodge and the carfax service. -- max there are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty soap ballot jury and ammo. please use in that order. -ed howdershelt author on sat 28 jan 2006 055906 +0000 max dodge wrote the compression ratio is 16.51 or so. i suspect you are looking for cylinder pressure which should be well beyond testing with any reliability by common compression checking equipment....... over 2000psi. most diesels are measured in bars and need rather complex and expensive equipment to measure cylinder pressure. if that doesnt answer your question post more details. i was looking at a 2500 for sale and i dont know the quality of the maintenance history. i was thinking about a compression test. sounds like this would be a tough test to do tho. how would you go about testing the quality of a hi-mileage 5.9 cummins .
From : tom lawrence
look here www.eagleequip.com a nice set up if you have the room. couldnt agree more a friend of mine has one. 15k lift cost him around 4k to put it in i found it to be a quality piece of equipment. ymmv roy .
From : tom lawrence
on fri 27 jan 2006 110031 -0500 rachel easson rske@sympatico.ca wrote check out this british video http//www.exn.ca/video/video=exn20040414-towbike.asx budd yabbut does it have heated leather seats mike now mike youre not talking to that eastern wabbit you should say that correctly . . .try again . . .yea budd !!!!! yea budd!!! does a goldwing come with heated seats i ride american brands now and real riders dont need them. just ask beekeeper. budd eastern wabbit just stuff a couple of warm rabbits up your pants falling apart at the gut rach i thought that game was played with ferrits beekeep how would you know that greg budd hey dont ask -- eac to his won hey rachel in this group darn little is off limits for comment by 900% of the group . . .just to give you fair warning. btw welcome to the second most rednecked group on the internet the other group still thinks logging on is adding wood to a fire good one but not original . . i stole it. no problem -- worked with truckers out west then the sewer crew i calgary i affectionally nicknamed the shit-disturbers which stuck bfmfg and married a mechanic lived with an wreckers parts mgr. common-law love real-men hands drink beer etc. you get the point rach i know the type. ive been a heavy equipment mechanic truck driver sewage technician roto rooter and for a city but found both jobs just a little bit too crappy sergeant in a dump truck platoon taxicab driver janitor small engine mechanic instructor for the handicapped carpenter stonemason millwright physcal plant maintenance manager artist and author. p.s. i had thought i had made a coment about eating the rabbits so they cant talk skinning the fur and making a bunny outfit for feb 14 for the missus -- could keep the warm fury rabbits on the cheeks with pins until he sits on them grn -- heard of a recipe called pressed duck remember a joke about scots and velcro to keep the sheep in the welly boots.. yes i can say that easson is scottish and also 1/2 irish heck youre not as confused as i am . . .scottish moved during an invasion by the brits to ireland moved back after the invasion and have ancestry in both countries . . . . we havent quite figured out why denny wears the bunny suit so much but were also not sure we want to know . . . . budd .
From : tbone
looks like 40 x 50. that thing is huge. 32x56 actually... shoulda went 40 deep... and shoulda went another bay wide. coming from a single 12x20 garage i thought the new one would be way bigger than i needed. bzzzzt! wrong... they can never be big enough for long. that is much bigger than i can afford and i really dont have the room for it anyway. then on top of that the restrictive covenants here require it to look like the house so you can imagine the cost increase that causes. hell i would be afraid to pay the heating bill on that factory that you built. why do you wish it was deeper did you have to have anything special done to the floor when it was poured to deal with the lifts especially the 2 post one eagle as well as most other lift companies was a minimum of 4 of 3500psi concrete. i had a 3500psi mix with a 4 slab wire re-inforced but the guys doing the floor dug out around where the columns were going to be placed so ive got a little over 6 of concrete under the posts in a roughly oval shape about 4 wide by about 6 long. it probably would have been fine with a 4 slab throughout but they wanted to make sure i didnt have any problems. i wasnt going to argue i wouldnt argue either as that sounds like a great idea with a minimum of added concrete considering the size of that floor. what type of heating are you using by that i mean forced air radiant or some combination of systems we also planned for the columns so the expansion joints that were cut into the slab didnt run under or anywhere near the columns. another good idea. i am not trying to be nosey but i hope to build one myself in a few years was going to be this year but money was needed in other areas around 30 x 40 and tall enough for a lift and i find it a good idea to ask questions from those who have done it to avoid the not so easily corrected mistakes like not building deep enough. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
From : rachel easson
old ! http//www.consumeraffairs.com/recalls04/nhtsadodgedurango.html .
From : tbone
old ! possible fuel leaks from the filler necks of their gas tanks http//www.consumeraffairs.com/recalls04/2005/dodgedurango.html .
From : rachel easson
on sun 29 jan 2006 151251 gmt bude budelvin@msn.com wrote well said mr. cochran! well said! top-posted and un-trimmed mr. bude. -- what the heck ill play too. - dave .
From : lorne guess noguess net
no its about getting america to get off its lard butt and take back its industry but that would mean unions taking wage cuts and the epa being told to shut up and suck on a pine tree. how about we cut your pension or however you get paid. im so sick of hearing cut the employees wages as part of the cure all end all. who the hell here can afford a pay cut and the funny thing here is that all of these pay cuts come from the workers never from the owners or upper management. perhaps if the salaries of these big execs were brought back into reality we would also be far more competitive but god forbid that ever happens. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
From : christopher thompson
sounds like you are an expert what type of paint would you select for painting this van. thanks clyde on thu 26 jan 2006 223259 -0800 clyde n19346@humboldt1.com wrote i have the same problem and so did my daughter with her van. im not sure if the dealer will honor the warranty but the way they were talking i have my doubts. how i wish they still made internationals. i had a travelall for years and never had problems like these newer vehicles. in fact i still have a 68 one ton ihc flat bed and it is just now starting to rust out. seems like nothing is built like they use to be. even my 47 diamond t has not rusted out it is also a one ton . clyde oh bullshit - paints are much better today than they were years ago. back in the 60s if you were luckey you got 100k out of a vehicles drive train. if the drive train did last any longer you had a rusted out pos. repainting a vehicle after 10 years is just pm. beekeep .
From : max dodge
wha kind of mileage does it have anything less than 250k and the truck should be ok as far as mileage is concerned. its rather difficult to evaluate a cummins without taking an oil sample for analysis but look at the oil after having driven it for a bit. any irregularities should be noted such as metallic oil or a brown color. listen to idle quality as that will tell you if a cylinder is not firing quite right. a diesel should be very even in its firing after warmed up. if you have access to one take a scanner and pull codes from the truck if there are any. take the vin and run it both with dodge and the carfax service. -- max there are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty soap ballot jury and ammo. please use in that order. -ed howdershelt author on sat 28 jan 2006 055906 +0000 max dodge wrote the compression ratio is 16.51 or so. i suspect you are looking for cylinder pressure which should be well beyond testing with any reliability by common compression checking equipment....... over 2000psi. most diesels are measured in bars and need rather complex and expensive equipment to measure cylinder pressure. if that doesnt answer your question post more details. i was looking at a 2500 for sale and i dont know the quality of the maintenance history. i was thinking about a compression test. sounds like this would be a tough test to do tho. how would you go about testing the quality of a hi-mileage 5.9 cummins .
From : max dodge
on thu 26 jan 2006 223259 -0800 clyde n19346@humboldt1.com wrote i have the same problem and so did my daughter with her van. im not sure if the dealer will honor the warranty but the way they were talking i have my doubts. how i wish they still made internationals. i had a travelall for years and never had problems like these newer vehicles. in fact i still have a 68 one ton ihc flat bed and it is just now starting to rust out. seems like nothing is built like they use to be. even my 47 diamond t has not rusted out it is also a one ton . clyde oh bullshit - paints are much better today than they were years ago. back in the 60s if you were luckey you got 100k out of a vehicles drive train. if the drive train did last any longer you had a rusted out pos. repainting a vehicle after 10 years is just pm. beekeep i have some suggestions on paint --industrial/commercial/farm paint will last forever --marine paint back in the days with my ex when we were expecting kiddo and had a tight budget we bought a 66 4-dr fairlane for $300 that had been sitting outside for 20 yrs. he completely re-wired it with no manual and changed the front seats mice we did a little body work and i tracked down some free paint -- light blue marine paint not beyond reconditioning with thinner and a bit of green tint--lasted forever rach p.s. how about a conversion roof that gives you standing room .
From : eagle view
yes there are several variants of the nv230 231 232 233.... series transfer cases. the one you have should be easily figured out by what shift selector you have manual lever or pushbutton and by getting a build data printout from any dealer based on your vin. engine oil changes will have no effect on transfer case maintenance. if it was never checked the tc could easily have been low on fluid and simply worn itself out. -- max there are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty soap ballot jury and ammo. please use in that order. -ed howdershelt author i guess i blew this subject way a moment ago sorry. i was trying to edit my comment. anyway we lost the tranfer case at hiway speeds a couple of weeks ago. the truck is a 1999 dakota with a 5.1 v8 extended cab with automatic trany. it has been a really great truck with very little trouble before this. we have had oil changes and maintenance usually at the 3000 mile mark and once in a while out as far as 5000 miles. the shop that is working on it said that the gears looked in good shape and they had never seen a failure like this before. are there really 9 different transfer setup in the dakota lineup they said that they had to have one assembled as we had blown the part number off the case with it came apart. thanks lowell @ eagle view home of the 5mm craig .
From : max dodge
double check the controls settings defrost / heat or a/c and if those are right start checking the vacuum lines to the air doors in the heater box. budd ill try to explain more thoroughly first if all the ac broke a long time ago and i had the compressor removed. but the heater works and when it was on warm air never came out of those vents before. this is all i know. clark i have a 1983 d-150 pickup v8 2wd. what would cause the heater to suddenly begin blowing warm air out of the air conditioning vents you mean all on its own poltergeist-style because normally a heater is supposed to blow warm air. or do you mean you have it set for a/c and it suddenly gets warm instead of cold you get points for including your vehicle description but you get deductions for lack of problem explanation. .
From : thesnoman
i have a 1983 d-150 pickup v8 2wd. what would cause the heater to suddenly begin blowing warm air out of the air conditioning vents my mechanic brushed me off by saying the blower motor resistor was bad and that dodge didnt make them any more so there was nothing he could do. it doesnt quite add up to me. id like to return to my mechanic with a little knowledge maybe get him to fix it this time. clark .
From : thesnoman
just fer you greg. a cushman eagle with an 833. budd my browser doesnt show the original link. beekeep . 222 310361 98b432974e5637e786210f4b78aa94ee@localhost.talkaboutautos.com sorry about that just a little tired - i have a 98 dodge 4x4 1500 - 5.2 liter truck standard cab - thanks for the tip!!!!!! .
From : max dodge
max dodge wrote sounds like it was low on oil and siezed up or it was in 4wd without you knowing it for a while and the chain wore and stretched and tried to jump a tooch and self destructed. basically true; both are possible. your level of damage strongly suggests it was in 4wd when it failed where it was selected or not because in 2wd is is a simple pass thru unit with very few internal parts moving. false. the nv transfer cases are a shift on the fly unit. as such they use a synchronizer and a slider to engage 4wd. therefore the front output shaft must be rotating in order to engage smoothly. further the oil pump is driven by the output shaft. also gear reduction uses a planetary gearset. this gearset is always rotating since its driven off the input shaft. as such almost everything in the transfer case is rotating at any given time particularly because its a shift on the fly unit. you are incorrect. if the front shaft is rotating it is because the either the front axle disconnect has failed to disconnect or the tcase has failed becuase shift on the fly does not mean the the front ouput shaft is awaly turnin because if it was it would always be in 4x4. when shift on the fly came out the added a syncronizer to 4wd on some tcases to add engagement and a few on them even have electric clutch that engages via syncronizers for front output shaft even though they may have a floor shifter too. on full sized hd truck they did away with front axle disconnect completer so front output shaft is always turning but it is being driven by the front axle not by tcase when in 2wd. poor design that wastes a bit of extra fuel too. -- ----------------- www.thesnoman.com .
From : christopher thompson
well said mr. cochran! well said! bud with one d no its about getting america to get off its lard butt and take back its industry but that would mean unions taking wage cuts and the epa being told to shut up and suck on a pine tree. if you want to buy american it needs to be owned and built here. japan and germany didnt lose ww ii they just waited and bought us off. budd comments4u wrote with job cuts announced on both sides of the atlantic its clear daimler-chrysler is serious about cutting the fat. even more it has announced plans for increased production at the currently hot chrysler unit without additional workers. that is truely cutting the fat. but observers wonder if daimler-chrysler has really identified all its fat. no. its about getting america off its lardy ass and competing at world standard productivity levels. compete or die. the world is hungry for jobs and theres no space for lazy weaklings. graham .
From : eagle view
if you have the money to build something you may want to look at a parking/service lift they are drive on lifts. i would imagine you would spend close to the same amount of money on the steel to build something or more to drive up on that would be tall enough to allow you to work on the vehicle. -- -chris 05 ctd 99 durango i finally got to see the damaged transfer case and front driveshaft. the interior of the transfer case were in great shape still looked new with very little sign of wear. the failure was with the transfer case end u-joint on the front drive shaft. it failed and allowed the drive shaft to shift and wedge against the transfer case blowing up the case. we paid two garages to look at the u-joints within a month of the failure. i wish we still had self-service garages like we had in the 1970 where you could hoist a rig and look for your self. i have a physical impairment that prevents me from crawling under a car or i would have done the inspection my self. i guess i need to build somethng that will allow me to stand and work under a rig. thanks for all the ideas and discussion. these groups are a great resource. lowell .