Bent Toyota Diff

I think it's the axle that bends. My brother hit a wombat hole on the farm in his Patrol - dropped one front wheel 2 feet at 50 km/h. That was one force that the 'unbreakable' Nissan diff coudn't cope with, and the axle bent about 10 degrees. Also he broke the windscreen with my sister's head (that'll teach her that seat belts aren't only for the highway!!)
BTW he drove the Patrol 5km back to the homestead after winching it out of the hole. Sounded and drove a bit funny :))

I think it's the axle that bends. My brother hit a wombat hole on the farm in his Patrol - dropped one front wheel 2 feet at 50 km/h. That was one force that the 'unbreakable' Nissan diff coudn't cope with, and the axle bent about 10 degrees. Also he broke the windscreen with my sister's head (that'll teach her that seat belts aren't only for the highway!!)
BTW he drove the Patrol 5km back to the homestead after winching it out of the hole. Sounded and drove a bit funny :))

Sorry for the duplicate, must have missed my medication again ... again ... again

Bending diffs isnt as hard as it may sound, jumping dunes would do it quite easily, havent seen it happen personally, but have see the results more than once.

More like another advantage, you are forgetting the better/safer handling on road. After all that's why they put it on in the first place!
Don't know bout you guys, I love 4wding, but percentage of on road use is higher than offroad. Just getting to the places is normally a few hundred k's not to mention the city driving during the week.

Big red is the highest sand dune of the Simpson desert crossing on the eastern side 40 ks from birdsville, little red is about 3 ks away and is a lower height in the same dune,( possibly put in for nissan patrols so they dont get stranded on the other side,) !!! LOLOL

Go down to the beach.

Build a sand castle about 40 metres tall using about 50million million tonnes of sand.

Try and drive up it in the 4by!

Big Red is the largest of the thousand odd sand dunes in the Simpson Desert in the Northern part of South Australia which is itself the largest parallel drifting sand dune desert in the world. It represents one of the most serious individual challenges in Australian 4 wheel driving.

Cheers

Steven

Forget about the 40 metre sand castle .... Big Red is 90 metres high. The Prado actually had to work a bit to get over it! The rest of the Simpson is an absolute breeze.