No offense taken. If you look at the 3rd pic, you can see the factory bracket is tweaked downwards, meaning the area of the pinion was forcing down.

In the 5th pic, the factory bracket is twisted/pushed up. The way it bent is consistent with a torque on that axle tube "into the passenger wheel" which is the case if the diff was forced down at the pinion.

Trust me, I didn't land on the diff - in fact you would need a very thin pointy rock to get through the lower crossmember and actually hit the diff as the diff is very well protected. If this was all caused by hitting the diff then that would mean I would have landed hard on the diff each of the approximately 5 times I replaced brackets. All of this damage was surprising done by torque.

And yes, I will cut all that crap off with joy <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cyclops.gif" alt="" />

-Scerb