I guess that plowing snow means salted streets.
My 1999 Dakota V6 AT would easily tow my 2,000 pound empty trailer (sold) with my 3,500 pound car on it with no trailer brakes… It would stop as good as when I used the old Power Wagon to pull it…
No need to guess, I explained the type of plowing in the very first posting:
I don’t salt my own driveway.
Around town, there are lots of wetlands protected areas where they are prohibited from using salt. But the truck over its lifespan has seen salted roads. But if this is to imply that the salt exposure made the lines fail, this was another mention earlier-
And later on, when looking more closely, the failure point was at the OEM line crimp where the hardline transitions to a flex line. It looks fine externally so no amount of visual inspection would have alerted someone to the impending failure.
Sometimes, things just fail without warning not because of something you did, or did not, do.
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You’re surprised? Don’t things rust out in your neck of the woods? I expect problems, check everything at least annually. I have only 1 vehicle, but if I had 1 sitting around the way this one was I’d check it carefully before driving it.
Yes, they are made of good steel and hardened at the outer bearing surfaces. So YES, very hard!
Whether the steel is chrome moly 4340 and heat treated (very strong steel) or 1008 cold drawn steel (very weak) it flexes with exactly the same stiffness below the yield point. The 4340 yield point is MUCH higher than the CD 1008 but the flex is the same.
To reduce the axle flex, it needs to be larger in diameter and/or the hub needs to be closer to the bearing. And neither of those was happening.
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Now the name makes sense. It’s plain to read what I wrote and I believe everyone here but perhaps one could comprehend what was written…
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