Cracks In My Rear

[John Poling]

This message title should get some attention!

Seriously though, Roscoe, PNJSnak or anyone else out there that may have been watching the "Vibrations at speed" message here, I need help on what to do. In that thread I believe PNJSnak mentioned something about cracks in the rearend housing as supplied by A&C. I had replied that I saw no evidence of any such thing on mine, well lady luck hit me over the weekend and now I have uncovered TWO cracks in mine. I may have missed these before as I had a pretty bad transmission leak that I had recently repaired and figured that the oil around the rearend was from that. While I had it up in the air over this past week I cleaned everything up real well so I had no more oil on anything not paying attention to the color of the oil. Sunday evening after putting about 100 or so miles on him I noticed an oil spot under the rearend while sitting in the garage. Last night I lifted the back off the ground to see what was happening and found two areas of the rear axle housing that were saturated with fresh oil not transmission fluid. Upon inspection with a mirror and light I have found that I have two cracks in the axle housing, one is in the rear of the "Pig" where a cover would be if it were a GM axle, the other is located in the top section of the axle tube where the rearend was cut and welded back together for shortening.

I looked back at the "Vibrations" thread and Roscoe said a friend had a problem like this and Joe replaced it. Input on how to approach this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

John