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hey everyone ive got a 01 dodge dakota with the chrysler 9.25 (12 bolt) rear end. My rear end started making some noise a while back and just have been putting it off for a while.


when it first started it made kind of rubbing noise when turning and then it slowly turned into like a grinding/binding sound and has slowly gotten worse and worse.


If you watch the rear tires when the truck is turning slowly you can tell something inside is like binding cause the tire shakes.


Last night i pulled the diff cover off and was looking around a bit. I didnt jack up the truck so i didnt spin the tires yet to try to diagnose the noise or anything but from what i could see the spider gears & ring gear still looked good, no broken teeth.


At the bottom of the diff was one little tiny piece of metal and just a little bit of metal shavings but not really much at all. The truck has a 150K miles and has  done some pretty good donuts/ smoke shows in the past lol. Anyone got any idea what might be causing this?


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