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X2

Being able to crawl over the rocks and keeping your tires straight is the best way to prevent breakage regardless of what you are wheeling.

When do you usually see breakage of either cv's or birfs on the trail?, with speed and with wheels turned. More times than not the driver is trying to find tracton with either the wheels turned sharp, or turning the wheels back and forth, or with the wheels turned and up against a rock. This type of breakage can usually always be avoided by stopping and stacking a rock, or backing up and taking another line. I know it is less fun to have to engineer the trail a little to get the rig over an obstacle, while powering over it gets you applause/yells from bystanders, but to me, spending hours on the trail side fixing your junk just doesn't seem to be worth the applause.