Like mestdagh said, these trucks produce sooooo much torque you need all of the traction items you can get. Rope Horse

 

Howdy ropehorse. You need to join chapter 7 there buddy since we's is neighboors pertin'eer. Just go to the bottom of my sig and print out an app form and put it in the company mail to me. Don't cost a thing.

Joel

 

My concern is it doesn't work. When I got stuck the other day I was in my driveway, perfectly flat, one wheel on concrete and the other on the grass, with my gooseneck trailer attached. I could hear the right rear spinning yet look out the window see the left rear wasn't moving.

My wife has been stuck three times so far at different horse rides. Each time it has been flat and the grass/ground has been wet. She's not been a happy camper (*!*!#$%*! over the phone). My reasoning for not getting 4wd was the extra cost. I figured we could get pulled out a couple times a year for the next 20 years and still be far ahead between the initial, maintenance, and decrease in mpg cost. I'd also heard about all the vibration problems w/ the 4wd at 70 mph and thought I'd avoid that.

At least I don't have the vibration problems.

If the anti-spin worked I think we'd avoid most of the problems.

 

gbl, in your case it sounds like the incovenience alone (and a happier wife) would have been worth the cost of 4WD. No vibration problem here. I'd guess vibration happens with only a small % of vehicles. The ones who have it make a lot of noise though.

 

With a 2wd, and to a lesser degree with an open diff on a 4wd, you need to pay more attention to tire selection. Even if you spend 95% of the time on the highway if you end up getting stuck when you get on wet grass, a bit of mud or snow, you need tires for the worst 5% road condition. Around here this means that I need to carry chains, as even with studded tires and 4wd I've had to chain up during ice storms when going up and down the hill that we live on. During the last ice storm at it's worst the only vehicles that I saw out were large 4wd with chains, as some people in smaller vehicles with cable chains still weren't getting traction.

With the Torsen style anti-slip in the Dodge you need to use a bit of brake sometimes to engage it, something that even HumVees need to do.

 

taking a tight right turn, drive pavement, moderate acceleration feels like a clunking in the rear end. . . towards back right. Harder I accelerate out of turn, harder she clunks and then no more clunking once straightened out. . . have never noticed the clunking while coasting through a tight turn. Is it just the way these torque type anti-spin diffs work, like the system is trying to lock the two sides together and I'm sort of hopping?? or am I'm about to explode something?? Anybody else seen this

don't think I've seen the same thing from the left. . . probably just don't make enough tight left turns.

2005 4x4 4door short box 6spd

 

I have the "Anti-Spin" also. AAM should not have labeled it this way, as no matter what I try (e-brake, power-brake, light/hard/soft throttle, swearing etc**) it will still spin only one wheel. Once it starts, the only way out is to go to four wheel drive.

When I purchased my truck, the dealer salesman said it was supposed to lock up after 1-1/2 rotations. I know now that this is not true.

Dan

 

I left a nice patch of dual tire rubber leaving my buddies place today... that is with a 90* turn leaving his driveway. I have had very little "one wheel squeal" in the limited time I've had the truck. I've gone out in the dirt a few times and it's exactly what Dodge says it is.... a limited slip. It is NOT a locker and it will NOT deliver power to both wheels under all circumstances. If I could find a Detroit for the AAM 11.5" I'd buy it. I will say that what I've got is better than an 100% open differential.

Aloha