Tell your broken axle stories

[Jim-ME]

I guess that I've been just plain lucky but I have never broken an axle. I do have a spare ser of rear axles on hand which hopefully will mean that I'll never need them.
Jim

[Tim Smith]

I guess that I've been just plain lucky but I have never broken an axle. I do have a spare ser of rear axles on hand which hopefully will mean that I'll never need them.
Jim

Lucky? No.

You are being covered by the Murphy's Law policy. Once you sell the spare set of axles to a buddy or misplace them somehow, then your axle will snap.

It's science.

[yorker]

I guess that I've been just plain lucky but I have never broken an axle. I do have a spare ser of rear axles on hand which hopefully will mean that I'll never need them.
Jim

Check them for wear. I found that if the drive flange was a good tight fit to the axle shaft with less lash I got far less twisted axles- I assume the same would be true of wear within the differential but I wasn't able to check that.

My initial set of axle flanges were well worn and that was when I was having more issues.