My New 05 2500 Cummins 4x2 - Front Suspension - TSB ?

I've noticed that when my front wheels are fully locked while doing a mild turn into a shopping center driveway or of going over a mild bump with full wheel lock, that my stock wheels sometimes rub the front fender well at the top of the opening. I don't remember this when we first got the truck back in August. It now has about 8,000 miles on it.

Now, here's my question. Since that Cummins weighs almost twice as much as a Hemi, could the stock front coil springs we defective and possibly be sagging a bit. Might there be a Dodge TSB on this? This is a stock 4x2 front end. I noticed that there's a pretty good "rake" to the stance of my struck with the rear being higher than the front end of the truck when you look at it unloaded sitting on flat ground.

It seems that I heard of this problem in the past with some fairly new trucks having front springs that were defective and were letting the truck sit lower in the front than factory spec.

A factory-stock wheel shouldn't rub/bump the upper part of my wheel-well/fender-edge when making a tight slow turn.
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You Dodge Truck experts........help me out. I don't think a bad shock would do this.
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Other than this, the truck has been flawless.

I have run my finger along the edge of both front fender-wells and I do feel a little bump where I believe the tire on each side is rubbing/contacting the fender momentarily, and pulling the sheetmetal out.

 

I know of a person who has a 05 3500 that had the problem you're talking about.

Dodge replaced the front springs in the truck, saying they were not the right ones for the vehicle.

I also checked here for a TSB with nothing shown.

http://dodgeram.info/tsb/index.html

Dave

 

Got my baby(truck) back from the service department this afternoon.

Thankfully they did reproduce the sound that I was hearing in the front-end.

It wasn't tires rubbing a fender-well according to them, but apparently the steering components when in the full turned/locked position when turning were rubbing against the "stop" which the service advisor told me was just a bare metal surface being rubbed. It needs periodic lubing, or it will make that metallic rubbing sound that I thought was fender metal.

Actually when inspecting the upper edge of the two front fender wells there wasn't any tire rubbing marks, as pointed out by the advisor. I guess the edge wasn't being hit by front tires.

They lubed the stop and other components, and feel that this will take care of it. Apparently winter-time is a more common time for this as moisture from rain/snow washes away the lubing on the steering/stop.

Seems quiet so far.