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Anonymous Posted on Jan 03, 2010

I just bought a 98 Dodge Ram 1500 4X4. It is making a howling/growling sound when it's in 4 wheel drive. High or low range. I haven't driven it very much yet and never noticed it till today. The 4X4 light on the dash wasn't working, found a broken wire, fixed it and now the light works but it started making this noise. Any ideas?

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U ever try the vacum line or the vacum chamber i have a 98 dodge ram with the same problem with the 4x4 and i had to replace the vacum chamber and vacum line

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