ah well i should probably get cracking on doing a rebuild on mine to make sure on it then I have a solid spacer though. so it may take a little more of a hit.

there is good 9 " rears and there is bad ones.
that is a bad one lol.
a ford guy told me so!
here do some reading
http://www.kevinstang.com/Ninecase.htm

mine or joe's mine is only ford on the center housing. not the third member or any thing else for that matter

Damn you guys in your breaking 9 inches. Never had a issue with mine at all.

anything will break if its not setup properly, oh well

took a look at the pinion/support had 0 preload, pinion would move side to side probably .005 of an inch, took the pinion nut off and removed the pinion, both bearings wiped out, inner one was the worst, cage and bearings fell right off when i tipped the pinion upside down. support is just a standard one, nothing special. so either the preload was way to tight to begin with and smoked the bearings causing it to loosen up or the preload was to loose from setup or crush sleeve giving out.

looks like ill be starting from scratch, everything is junk except the trutrac and pinion yoke.

also added two new pics in my original post.

Wow that sucks man even busting 9"s is rough hard to launch a 10 bolt without worrying about it. Hope you get it fixed soon

knowing joe it will be like a week or two he is a pro at scrounging up parts

def a shitty situation

well we do have the ten bolt worst case so he can drive it