Front axle woes

[MarkEagleUSA]

What causes this? Never seen it before...

Note: not my truck. It's from a local listing on Facebook Marketplace.

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[bighammer]

OK, that's a different method of draining the front axle oil.

 

[Yo Hoot]

I'd say an accident

 

[BigPapa]

Trying to pull/snatch it or something with it tied to the front axle?

 

[AEdelheit]

Hard off road use with no truss, there is a reason why Thuren and Carli sell axle truss's , I have personally seen about 8 break like that.

 

[Darkbloodmon]

Hard off road use with no truss, there is a reason why Thuren and Carli sell axle truss's , I have personally seen about 8 break like that.

Looks pretty stock underneath to me, I wanna say its a Y link but not clear from the picture. Could rust be a factor? looks like a clean disconnect on the passenger side axle tube.

 

[AEdelheit]

Looks pretty stock underneath to me, I wanna say its a Y link but not clear from the picture. Could rust be a factor? looks like a clean disconnect on the passenger side axle tube.

Most the ones I seen break were pretty stock and people thought suspension didint matter, that passenger tire looks to be air down so they might have been playing in sand. It is Y link as the T style used a damper clamp, the Y style had the stud through the tie rod as seen in the pic.

Those Rosette welds are very weak, it takes less force then you would think to pull a tube out of the diff housing.

 

[Ozymandias]

Thumbs up for a Truss from my side, I paid the price.
Non HD users could just weld the axle tubes to the pumpkin to avoid this scenario above.

 

[Topzide]

Hard off roading! look at dents in the oil pan! Surprised the engine didn't let go before the axle gave out!