After bending the rear axle housing and snapping the inner axle on my F-Toy on an obscure line on Hwy 20, I asked Matt of Trail Gear to please send me their Trail Gear Rock Assault Axle Housing, plus his Chromoly Rear Axle Shafts and Bearing Kits...
This thing is the BOMB!!!

Here it is shortly after crippling it back to camp:
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The Axle Shaft was stuck so tight, I had to cut off the Housing End to remove the Shaft. And even then it was still stuck. So then had to weld a collar to the shaft to pry off of. Worked well.

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Works WELL!
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I do believe that being I had in-boarded my rear springs without trussing the axle tube is the root cause of the bent housing. However it has endured 6 plus years at the Hammers as well as a ton of other hardcore wheeling excursions. BTW, That's w/ the original set of stock inner axles. Just proves Toyota is strong right out of the box.



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Ive got a a Toy rear in my Jeep but its SUA. Think theres any difference in the forces applied?

Not sure. But if your springs are in a bunch like mine are, then I would say it's possible. I was also running the IFS rear axle, of which is 2" wider.
I was really bound up with a ton of weight on my left rear corner w/o any loss of traction while the tire continued to grab and motion forward while the rest of the rig was fixed solid...hence the forward bent housing....then BANG! The inner couldn't maintain the forward bend :eek::laughing::laughing:

Looks Great Steve!

AWESOME carnage!!! how stable is it with your inborded sprins and the creeper joint style joints on your shackels?

AWESOME carnage!!! how stable is it with your inborded sprins and the creeper joint style joints on your shackels?

Very. But if you're asking about on pavement, not bad...

I have bent a housing too after going inboard on the Ftoy, building a new housing to take the abuse. :smokin: To broke right now to get a TG housing. Looks good!!

We bent our stock housing with inboarded springs too, but actually made the round hole for the 3rd oval. Not sure if the inboarded springs did it, or if it was being wedged in a hole with the sticky's pushing us through it. realized the housing was bent AFTER the pinion snapped. Stock shafts were still good.

I bent the rock assault last year @ dayton. I think the shackle design could have helped. Once the leaf bent, the axle had no support, and bent also. With the sackles mounted to the outside of the crossmember, the spring can only shift sofar forward, and the shackle stops it.

Good thread at the right time. My rear ifs axle is bent too, not as bad as yours but still bent. Inboarded also. Been eye balling these axles since they came out and am about ready to pull the trigger. F-toy discount? :D

I've got a front and rear set for my Ftoy build and have compared them next to the stock housings and they are beefy. :grinpimp:

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I bent multiple housings front and rear I've been running Trail Gear housings now for a long time and have not bent one yet. They are beefy and they look good on my f toy

Just got mine today! Man this thing is nice. I wanted the inspection plug but couldn't figure out how to order it with one. I would probably just lose it anyway. Ho ho ho!

If you manage to bend a Rock Assault housing you might just want to hang it on the shop wall because they'rs probley a good story to go along with it. I can't wait to start abusing mine.