broke the plug welds on my rearend!!!

[bigsuperduty]

130,000 miles on my 08 ranch never had a problem took off from the red light pullin my gooseneck the rear plug welds broke shooting the pinion straight up brakeing the u joints and throwing the driveshaft out am I the first person this has happen to or what oh yeah I need a new axle who has one!

[Erikclaw]

That is brutal, haven't heard of that from leaving a light.

[c69ss396]

seen it happen alot on jeeps, but never on a fullsize axle.

[bigsuperduty]

it twisted the driver side axle tubing where the leafspring had gaps where u could stick ur fingers in between each of them it was pullin my truck down on one side I thought my frame was bent now that the axle is out u can see the different angles on the leaf spring pads and there off alot

[CT Performance, Inc.]

Plug weld it and reloocate the spring pads to the correct location for the pinion angle..lots easyer than turning the tubes.

[bigsuperduty]

yea that what I'm doin I welded the tubing to the chunk and gusseted from the tubing to the chunk and buildin some ladder bars

[StarDriver]

How much weight did you have on?

[bigsuperduty]

my big orange truck it's around 13 maybe more the tires that were on it were around 700 a piece so maybe more than that

[powerstrokemike]

would love to see pics..