Busted front shaft, what the heck...

[rickcdewitt]

but the simple fact you can go slow and crawl up stuff with some finesse (rather than just blasting through with momentum, bouncing around all over the place) certainly does allow the shafts to survive many times longer.

while this may be true and i have noticed it with just the rear locked,i think going slow saves your alignment and suspension more than the shafts.you will have a very hard time putting much over 50% torque on an open diffs axleshaft

 

[kevinsranger]

is it possible one of your beams is bent thats causing your joints to fail?