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Twisted shaft

This past weekend i went wheelin up in grayling, on saterday my drivers side wheel was making some noise that i thought was the u joint was going bad. so that night i go to take the wheel off to check it out.
Well it turned out that i twisted to outer axle shaft. i still had 4WD. it peened over the spindle so we couldn't get the axle nut off.
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so we cut the end of the spindle off and the ended up breaking the inner nut trying to get it off. it also took out the inner bearing. i had spare bearing and seal and the guy that was showing us around had spare spindle nuts. got it put togother and didn't wheel on sunday.
i drove it home 150 miles with no problems.
heres the shaft
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wow...
 






wow...and only 33s...hmmmmm

Even got it fixed wheeled and went home...Great.
 






Impressive.
 






that is something... never happened to me...

wow!
 






I have never ever seen a stub twist like that. Thats really odd...
 












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