I talked to the people who installed the 456/gears and front airlocker and they say breaking the front axle is very common but they were suprised at the rear locker. The main reason for the front axle damage was that currently I have 570hp and just as much torque.
when I was climbing that hill my rear tires were binded up in rut and with the front airlocker engaged I was putting extreme torque to the front axle and when I started to spin and gassed it my front end came off ground and with the weight of the vehicle and all that torque something had to give. There were 2/loud bangs, first the right axle snapped the all the torque went to the left front axle and it exploded. Both the axles broke in a split second. I don't know when the rear end went. because when axles broke I put vehicle in reverse and backed down the hill, then I put in drive and tried to climb back on to road but the rear end wouldn't engage, I never hit the pavement. The lesson I Learned is with the current horsepower and torque in my vehicle i have to be very careful when airlocker is engaged. I should never hit the throttle hard because if that front end goes in the air and comes down with all the torque there will probably be more trouble. It was my falt I had tried to creep up hill slowly 3/times and on the forth I said screw it, and put the throttle down for split second. I should of taken the time to deflate my tires and just creeped up hill. Currently there really isn't heavy duty
front axle available that I know of, these H2 come with heavy duty axles already.
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