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Old Aug 25, 2015 | 01:54 AM
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what is this?

what is that called that's under the axle? the thing that the jacks are holding lol sorry guys

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Old Aug 25, 2015 | 02:03 AM
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Looks like maybe a homemade brace for the axle. Rock crawlers do stuff like that to add strength to the axles to prevent bending the tubes up/down.
 
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Old Aug 25, 2015 | 02:16 AM
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I have seen that called an "axle truss".
 
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Old Aug 25, 2015 | 05:31 AM
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I concur on "truss" . And not a bad idea if you plan any serious off roading with the little 44 front end. I've broke a couple of them right in two and it didn't really take that much.
 
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X4 on yes it is an old school "axle truss", I have seen them for sale years ago. Could be home made, not to hard to copy. Same idea like a "Go Rhino" clamp on the axle tube brace, style but the Go Rhino is more of a pinion skid plate/diff cover guard... and not really a axle truss. And some folks though they look good when chrome back in the 80's.

I guess if you are in fear of the front axle tube breaking use it. IMO it is just something to get snagged on stuff when out 4 wheeling.

Now days the deal is to mount it on top of the axle and get it up out of the way when rock crawling.
 
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