Just started getting an advertisement every time I come to a stop that wants to sell me a pre-paid oil change plan. How can I make this atrocity go away?
It does seem odd that they chose to go the axle disconnect route. 05+ Super Duty 60 vacuum/manual hubs seem to have an excellent reputation. Maybe it would have been too difficult to adapt that to fit in a smaller 5 lug hub. The axle disconnect is the only thing that really concerns me about...
With the catastrophic failures is it breaking the tube or is the tube pulling out of the FAD? If it's pulling out, welding around it might be a solution like what is commonly done on the ford 8.8 to keep it's tubes from spinning