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Old May 7, 2008 | 07:37 PM
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bent axle?

Here is the problem. Pulled a car I was parting out of my garage by putting a snatch block on my rear bumper. Had another truck with a winch run the cable through the snatch and up to the car. Kind of like an " L " Got it out but looked like it was tweaking my rear axle funky. Now the truck rides bad.
Kind of drags and doesn't like goin backwards. Do toyota axles bend or usually break? The leafs are sitting on their perches fine. Drive shaft looks straight. But the passanger side tire looks closer to the box than the other.
89 pickup reg cab reg box.
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Old May 7, 2008 | 07:47 PM
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I assume you mean the rear axle. Toyota rear ends about as tough as they come. Have you jacked up the rear and spun the tire by hand? Maybe the parking brake it messed up.
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Old May 8, 2008 | 06:06 AM
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Jeez - how big a car was it, or how steep is the driveway (or whatever you were winching the car up)?

ANYTHING is breakable, but barring some strange circumstance, doing what you did shouldn't be anywhere near enough to cause a problem.
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Old May 8, 2008 | 06:40 PM
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The car had no wheels so maybe dragging is a better way to put it. I will check the parking brake but it actually hasn't had a parking brake handle for years. "chicks dig chocks" I'm wondering if maybe I sheared the keeper bolt off the leaf and pulled the axle crooked. Think it would screw up the driveline enough to match my symptoms?
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Old May 8, 2008 | 06:44 PM
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Well, pull out the measuring tape and figure things out. That might have not been the BEST idea ever, but it shouldve have hurt anything. I have pulled many heavy vehicles (full size lifted chev 1500 the other day) with no problems.

Perhaps you had some rust problems and this "drag" finally broke something, like your center pin on one of your leaf packs.
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Old May 8, 2008 | 06:51 PM
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good call. Stop bichn, get on my back and fix it.
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Old May 8, 2008 | 07:07 PM
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Haha, yep. Time to get dirty
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