Just got threw washin my truck this afternoon and i get in in to back up and my foot slips off tha clutch and boom blows tha rearend to peices .... so i pulled tha diff cover to take a look at it and its busted tha gears ..... ima pull tha axles and take tha chunk out tomrow and look at it further ..... but heres a pic of it now .......

 

ouch..... foot slipped or you were showin off for them pretty girls?

 

i think the foot slipped TO show off for the pretty girls! Dang lot of carnage for a simple slip. OUCH.

 

Truck has been washed so tires are wet, yes? Water is usually slippery stuff.

 

naw wudnt no pretty girls around , i was at home ..... but when it slipped it yanked hard and it was loud as hell ......

 

Seems odd, i cant even imagine what would cause it to break like that, droppin the clutch, still seems odd, my truck wont spin the tires, it will slip the clutch if i drop it at a standstill. Maybe its taken a lot of wear and tear and finally just gave out. Thats all i can think of.

 

The 3rd member usually doesn't break like that . The housing must have cracked.

 

x2 on ^ My theory... The carrier more than likely had a crack already, right where its broke obviously. When you dumped the clutch, the ring was starting on the pinion right where it's cracked, and the crack allowed for the pinion to skip, causing all the havoc.

 

i have done 50+ ft burn out with that rear end after 155k miles with no probs... agreed what ever happend, the damage was done before, given the info was right

 

I'm with the rest of the consensus, must had had a crak in there somewhere, also the dump of the clutch with those 35" mudders sure would have put a strain on that carrier.
Rich

 

When i bought it , i could tell who ever had it before had to been ruff on it ...... cuz the stuff under the front like the bumper valance had been cut to fit bigger tires and the whole unside of it was covered with mud. i have had it in the mud 1 time and i was not hard on it ..... so it must have already had some wear and tear as yall say ..... well im bout to go take it out and look into in further , ill let yall kno ......

 

Well, now would be a good time to upgrade to a truetrac, or similar.

 

well the axles are ok .... but the rest is gone .... gotta call around and get price on parts tmrw , and call the salvage yards , may be cheaper for me to buy a whole rearend outta another truck .....

Bobby82490- i aint got the money to upgrade nutn , i had to sell my baby my 77 4wd to git the money to fix this rearend.

But heres what is left of it ......

 

whats the pinion look like?

 

How does the ring and pinion look? It looks like in the picture that the ring has some messed up teeth..
I also agree with what some of the others said, the person who owned it before you probably stressed the housing alot, because the 8.8 is kinda strong for how little it is.