Well, not really. There is something up with the rear axle in the Jalopy. It is a D41 and the spiders are welded. The past couple of times I drove it, it just would not go through the easiest stuff. Today, I had a passenger and I had him watch the rear tire on his side. It wasn't spinning.

I'm hoping it is just the outer key and not something internal. I know what snapped shaft feels like and I never felt that or anything. I'll pop it apart tomorrow and have a look see.

To me it looks like you would want to save the axle tube and diff casting and swap out the internals...

Unless you think you could improve on your coil suspension....

I really do not feel like cutting all that stuff off. The D41 did last an awful long time behind the V6.

I'm not sure if the axle snapped or the splines just twisted off the end. The past few times I used it, it felt like there was no traction in the rear. Never occurred to me that something was wrong. It is the passenger side. Never heard or felt anything unusual. That is why I'm leaning more toward the twisted off splines at this point.

Not so bad.

I would go with Walck's.

I don't know if Herm the overdrive guy carry it.

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Better check a new one out carefully i.e. where is it made. 

Best of Luck
Steve

Nate, just thinking, I thought D41 and D44 axle shafts were the same?

Man, I've got extra D25 shafts, don't have any extra rear shafts or I'd send you one.

I got it back together and the consensus is, I'm glad it went boom. Both rear outer bearings and races were shot and the other side's splines were twisted and that side also had the original outer seal too! Now, it should be good for many moons before it breaks again.

I used to not be a fan of the D41, but it really isn't that bad of an axle. I will say, the outer bearing retainers between the brake backing plate and tube is a far better design than the GM axles with the clips in the carrier. It saved me from having the wheel and axle fly out unlike my friend's blazer!