There has been a lot of talk of Alum. Diff. cases. To all those people with them are you experiencing a damage roll on effect i.e. an increase in broken driveshafts? Certain parts are made to break before others, before I commit to Alum. Diff. cases I thought I'd ask.

yes. certain parts are indeend meant to break before others. the diff cases however are not one of these. they just made the plastic ones too weak. i have the aluminum ones in and nothing has been breaking on the drive train. its actually been weeks since ive snapped a drive shaft. not that the aluminum diff cases help with that. they are a must in the upgrade department.

What lstman said!

I still break the same things regardless of plastic or aluminum it doesn't matter. Dump the plastic though.

Teach me how to better [ab]use my truck. I'm on the same plastic set of cases my truck, number 660, came with from the factory. Not a crack or sign of wear.

you must have a 4 leaf clover up your *ss.lol. your one of the lucky ones.

#59 and still doing fine[8D] no clover here,its called skill

#3395 put the ally diff case in the front from new (shop only had one) craked my rear one last week end, i feel like a proper LST owner now.

As for #59 & #660 come on guys you gotta try harder!!!

How do you abuse a diff?

I don't know..........How?


(sounds like a set-up for a joke)

My front diff cracked recently (I was being relatively nice to it that day) and I'm thinking it happened after a jump landing front wheels first with the brakes on. The plastic Diff can't take the shock. Any one reckon they've had a similar experience?

That sounds reasonable. If you watch my videos I have had the cast aluminum diff cases from day 2 with no issues and trust me, I edit a lot of tape to come up with some clean landings. I am amazed with the abuse the LST will handle. The diff case's are cheap and I was watching a Spurs game while I changed them out. (16.98 for both from NitroHouse)

I'm going to replace mine but they'll be a long time getting here to Australia.

Waaaa.

I just replaced both stock cases with blue alum. , fit well inside and out. This came about after front case shattered at the input shaft bearings. This happened at 1.5 gal. I think the front case cracked early on after break in. This resulted in a loud clicking under hard braking, later under full accelaration if the tires hooked up. The ring and pinion were worn victim of clicking noise I heard. Never was able to see the cracks with diff. installed.. I have faith in the new aluminium ones. I doubt stronger diffs are going to cause a worse weak link. The only drive train failure I've had is spurs and pinions, dogbones. Drillbit shank makes great dogbone, dremel to length and a touch of a flat spot.