Well I had to replace the prebent factory line that goes from the front all the way to the rear, yea it decided to rot while I was drivin and I lost ma brakes. But now to the question I'm going to overhaul the rear drums as well, when I go to autozone they are tellin me a 2001 dodge does not according to there comp have rear drums soooo me and the tech in the store he's a smart guy as well as me I say well let's just order the stuff for a 2000 with drums? Am I right in doing this and are they the same parts I'm hoping as a 2001 with drums? Thanks to all

 

http://dodgeram.org/tech/specs/brakespecs.htm

 

So I'm guessing I was good in ordering parts for a 2000 thanks for the post

 

tell him to get the parts for an '01

 

...Seems like the obvious answer. I swear these parts stores must be the number one cause for stress-related heart attacks. They do nothing but make my blood pressure rise. I'm sure the 00 kit will work.

 

Oh I told him and I know the guy and he knows my truck is an 01 but the computer refuses to recognize the truck has rear drums, so we had to do it as a 2000 yr model

 

Wow your spot on?

 

do the wheel cylinders while your at it cheap and easy.

 

I could easily be wrong but did the 01 have a factory rear drum upgrade?
IIRC there was a change of some sort

 

If I remember right, in 2000 the drum size changed from 13x2.5 for the 2500's and 13x3.5 for the 3500's to 12.125x3.5 for the 2500's and the 3500's.

 

2001.5, or late 01 models, have disk brakes.

 

this turning into a pain for me now once i got the pass side off the shoes look brand new the driver side was worn all the way to the rivets? hmmm

 

How did the auto adjusters look? I bet one is frozen and the other still worked.

 

Yea they both look nasty but I'm thinkin that pass side was froze up, now a new one I'm gettin nothing but air on the driver rear when I bleed the line well not all air there is fluid but not solid, it's more air than fluid. All the other lines are solid fluid when I bleed them and I'm using one of the pneumatic deals from harbor freight to bleed. I've went through 3 qts of fluid tryin to bleed the line and still got air??

 

Well that just doesn't make sense does it..... You'd have to have a leak somewhere to be sucking all that air and a lot of fluid escaping, especially since the other side is fine. Which also means that the problem is at least not that far away.