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Just curious, were you running a rear anti-sway bar and what shocks were on the truck when the breakage occurred? ( just curious about a theory I've had for a long time...


I think I know where you are going with that. The more flex you get the greater the torque stress on the axle. As the bushing in the arm start to max out on their flex, the torque force on the housing goes up very quickly with any extra travel. Basically, there is a limit to how far you can have one wheel go up with the other dropping before you start to bind up the rear suspension.

Going past the binding point puts a lot of stress in the axle. Add in the torque from climbing and the housing fails.

Two solutions.

1: Limit the axle travel to stock.

2: Develop control arms with more flex.

3: Beef up all the parts so they dont crack when overloaded.


Exactly..With the coil spring trailing arm suspension this is a weak point. Mitsu addressed it with the gen 2 by beefing up the trailing arms in a couple spots..highly recommend that gen 1 guys that wheel (even moderate wheeling) swap to the the gen 2 arms (direct bolt on).

In my opinion longer shocks really add to the problem since you will over articulate..if I'm not mistaken both Lloydd and ray had longer than stock shocks when they both cracked their axle housings on the Con...Just saying..

I haven't seen a gen 2 break an arm or housing yet, not even the AZ crew or Carlos or my old 95 all acid tested..Although I heard of aussies breaking the housing (rarely)...

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