Good Crack in the Front Axle Shaft Housing

[OR VietVet]

Holy crap.

Yea, I said that too!

 

[FrankU]

Is there a place that makes a heavy duty brace for the front rear ?

 

[wsteele]

I knew a girl like that once, juuuust once!

Well, I was thinking along the lines of Pistachio's. Can't hardly eat them if'n they aren't cracked..

 

[OR VietVet]

Yea, cracked is a must, IMO.

 

[donjetman]

What

I knew a girl like that once, juuuust once!

U 2, what was her name?

 

[OR VietVet]

What


U 2, what was her name?

I think her name was Susan but her handle was "Dynamo Hum".

 

[FrankU]

Dynamo Hum don't know where she's comin from !

Zappa.....used to see him in the Felt forum of Madison Square Garden every New Years Eve.

 

[Bill 1960]

Is there a place that makes a heavy duty brace for the front rear ?

ProComp supplies a brace that adds a new mounting point at the front of the diff housing as a component in their 6” lift. I don’t know if they’d sell it separately. And it would take a bit of fabrication to attach to a truck without a lift. Any good machine shop could replicate it easily. It’s important to note their brace is mounted with a flexible bushing like the factory mounts.

I have the feeling these failures are possibly caused by failures of diff mount bushings. Mine had a separation of a driver side bushing, so all the torque would apply to the passenger side mounts.

 

[Rocket Man]

ProComp supplies a brace that adds a new mounting point at the front of the diff housing as a component in their 6” lift. I don’t know if they’d sell it separately. And it would take a bit of fabrication to attach to a truck without a lift. Any good machine shop could replicate it easily. It’s important to note their brace is mounted with a flexible bushing like the factory mounts.

I have the feeling these failures are possibly caused by failures of diff mount bushings. Mine had a separation of a driver side bushing, so all the torque would apply to the passenger side mounts.

My bushings were fine, it was the result of a supercharged 6.0 doing an AWD reverse WOT launch because some idiot came out in the road and started throwing shit at me and I wanted to get back to him before he ran away like the ***** he was. Something had to break lol. I don’t think the system is designed for that much torque in reverse. Not sure what everybody else’s excuse is.

 

[Jason in DLH]

My bushings were fine, it was the result of a supercharged 6.0 doing an AWD reverse WOT launch because some idiot came out in the road and started throwing shit at me and I wanted to get back to him before he ran away like the ***** he was. Something had to break lol. I don’t think the system is designed for that much torque in reverse. Not sure what everybody else’s excuse is.

I just drive crazy sometimes.

 

[OR VietVet]

My bushings were fine, it was the result of a supercharged 6.0 doing an AWD reverse WOT launch because some idiot came out in the road and started throwing shit at me and I wanted to get back to him before he ran away like the ***** he was. Something had to break lol. I don’t think the system is designed for that much torque in reverse. Not sure what everybody else’s excuse is.

That had to be something to see and hear.

 

[Jason in DLH]

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[Jason in DLH]

My bushings were fine, it was the result of a supercharged 6.0 doing an AWD reverse WOT launch because some idiot came out in the road and started throwing shit at me and I wanted to get back to him before he ran away like the ***** he was. Something had to break lol. I don’t think the system is designed for that much torque in reverse. Not sure what everybody else’s excuse is.

That had to be something to see and hear.

I agree with PNW. Mind doing it again but recording it this time?

 

[Jason in DLH]

I found a good video on how to remove the axle tube without much work (hopefully it’s similar for NNBS as the video is for NBS)...

 

[Rocket Man]

I agree with PNW. Mind doing it again but recording it this time?

Ummm...no lol. I replaced my diff with a rebuilt one from Cardone for about $800 and then since one CV axle was blown up,and I’m at 160k, I replaced both those for another $550 so I’m not looking to do reverse launches anymore. And I’m pretty sure I have the trans issue figured out so hopefully I won’t break any more output shafts on forward launches because I’m tired of fixing it. But that dude about shit his pants, should have seen him run. Luckily I was able to drive a few blocks afterward, that would have been awkward.