A little while back I posted a question about my 83 f150 with the broken axle. I have a new axle to install and have tried but it does not line up with the diff housing. Upon inspection I believe my ifs beams are pushed back a little. I am gonna put up pics soon to show what I am talking about. Is there a way to jack out the beams? Any easy way to straighten them?

I assume your talking about the passenger side axle? And no there isn't really any safe way to bend it back. What did you do to bend it in the first place. Here is my answer to the whole problem. SAS:D

A little while back I posted a question about my 83 f150 with the broken axle. I have a new axle to install and have tried but it does not line up with the diff housing. Upon inspection I believe my ifs beams are pushed back a little. I am gonna put up pics soon to show what I am talking about. Is there a way to jack out the beams? Any easy way to straighten them?

Don't listen to the SAS crowd, the brackets for your beams may be bent, check them out. If they are, take them off, hammer em back straight and reinforce them. If the beam itself is bent, you can easily find another one in a junkyard, maybe try beefing that one up too.

It would take some serious abuse to bend a ttb housing.

And, in my experience, stock ttb brackets will break before they bend--my pass. side bracket came out in two pieces and had cracked in one place before I removed it when I did my lift...which has been removed and replaced with a solid axle.

My money would be on worn TTB pivot bushings, allowing the axle to swing forward and backward a bit, causing the misalignment. Check those first, and replace as necessary.

Post up pics, would be Very helpfull, to help you out. ya dig?:D

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