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96 Ram 2500 LH steering knuckle

Dr.Jass

Dr.Jass

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I have a friend who's working on a 1996 Ram 2500 diesel for a customer. The LH steering knuckle is shot in the brake-caliper area. It's a Dana 60 front with 4-wheel ABS; apparently the knuckle is different between 2WABS and 4WABS. It's discontinued by Chrysler, and the local junkyards are batting zero on this one. If you can help out in any way, he would be ecstatic to find one and he doesn't care about shipping costs, etc. If you have any solid leads (even the name/number of a junkyard where you know such a truck is sitting), please call 715-336-2811 and ask for Scott between 8AM and 4:30PM Central time.

He's got a legitimate shop and would prefer if he could use a credit card and have a receipt. I'm just trying to help out a former customer who's in a bind... and I already saved his ass once today. :D
 
The problem I'm having is that no one wants to take a steering knuckle off a perfectly-good Dana 60 front for a Dodge. They want to sell the whole axle or nothing at all, and we're talking 4 digits in most cases. 4WABS isn't all that common in those years, either.
 
I found him one from a wrecked '97 where the RH side of the axle was destroyed. $150, which was pretty cheap compared to what I was finding.
 
He just called me to thank me for once again pulling through for him. While we were on the phone, he got another phone call confirming it was shipped.

Ironic, me still keeping the customer happy a year after I left the job. If someone hires me, this dude alone will pay my wage there because he will follow me... he only spends $80K-$100K a year on parts, after all.
 
I'm glad you found one. I don't think I've ever noticed one of those trucks with 4 wheel abs. My '98 dually doesn't have it in front, and I'm pretty sure the '97 doesn't either. Plus, they're both 2wd.
 
It took me a lot of time on the phone to find one. I found two, both wrecked in the right front. Every other one I found was non-ABS, and I was told "It don't make a difference." Well, according to the Chrysler catalog is does because there's no mount for the ABS sensor otherwise. The front-axle stub shafts are different, too, because that's where the exciter/tone ring is mounted. From the folks I talked to, the tone ring could technically be installed on the non-ABS stub, but it's slightly easier to extract pure caffeine from Coca-Cola or get blood from a turnip than it is to remove it.
 
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