I found this video amazing: the bearings failed but the big gears survived. The carrier bearings got spun and the case no longer holds them. It looks like it is going to be straight forward repair, but then he adds up the prices and all of a sudden a used axle out of the junkyard looks like a better deal. Can you imagine a factory that could produce these axles in such volumes that perfectly good ones get sent to the junkyard? Okay, we get an axle from the junkyard and all we have to do is swap out the old one and install the new one. How hard can it be? Well, not too tough, just a whole lot of hammer and tongs.
He does some slight of hand with the video that's amusing and then there's the business of lining up big heavy pieces so they fit together. Wes is frankly amazing. It's too bad that he seems to need a special tool for every stinking step.
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