I just want to check all your opinions before I weld on everything to this axle and find out it's shit.
I bought this axle (14B ff) used from a truck that ended as a hoopdy (from what I understand), typical pa rust. My bro wire wheeled it once over quick and Chasis Saver'd it then I noticed all the "lines" not sure wtf they are. I took the sandblaster to it to clean the paint off and had to take the pics last minute at night but I wanted all your takes on this because it's right where my BTF 4-link truss will weld on at. If you can't tell they are right off the edge of the diff. What is/would cause them???:confused:

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/peccavi18/My%20build%2008/020-3.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/peccavi18/My%20build%2008/018-3.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/peccavi18/My%20build%2008/017-3.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/peccavi18/My%20build%2008/016-3.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/peccavi18/My%20build%2008/024-3.jpg

Creepy pics bro.

camera flash made them a blur so I had to use a random flood light that didn't have quite enough cord to make it all the way there. I'm just worried this axle may be toast and I will have to source another.


also it doesn't seem out of round to the touch but I forgot my calipers to see if it is egged or ovaled out at all.

they look like just pits from rust build up, ar ethe y spicificly on the top or bottom of the tubes?


the tubes are .5" thick and the diff housing typicaly fails first.

It's the whole way around, that's why I was wondering. I thought rust at first too but then was like... "why is it centrilized only in this one area and the whole way around?"

the variation in the tube and the axel housing gives/gave the rust cuase garbage a better spot to hold onto thats all.

Thanks, that's all I was hoping it was, but figured with my luck...

the variation in the tube and the axel housing gives/gave the rust cuase garbage a better spot to hold onto thats all.

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cosmetic...

Could a chain of been used at one time to wrap around the axles for being towed?

I don't see any issues really. I'm no 14b expert but way does that axle tube look like its coming out of the housing????

I don't see any issues really. I'm no 14b expert but way does that axle tube look like its coming out of the housing????

they machine down the tube and then push it in, they just carry the maching out past the housing a tad.

to the OP if your worried about it then find some tube that bigger than the 14 bolt ( or even pipe ), slice it down the middle and plate bolh side's with it. i want to say my 14 bolt had some shitty spot's on it.
if it didn't crack or break under the load of the truck that you got it from ( with no renforcement i.e. your truss ) then i think it will hold under a jeep or whatever its going into, jason.

Looks identical to what mine did. I hit it with a 120 grit grinder pad searching for a crack and found nothing. I let it alone and its fine...however i did weld the axle tube to the diff. But I do that with every axle though. That suckers 1/2" thick so unless a crack is visible then run it.

Looks like it was that way from the very beginning. There's no roughness where the tube was machined to go into the centersection (if it was from rust, there'd be pitting there too).

Agreed, run it.

Thanks everyone, no chain marks. just the creases, I sent the pics to my dad who works with a metaloligist(sp) and they quickly said rust.

The truss and link mounts are gonna get tacked this weekend...