
Tell me something I don't already know. If I were going to use it for a rock crawler then yes your right and it wouldn't make sense to use it. The Willy's pick-up, these days is more of a "Mall" crawler. Nobodies beating on the front door for this axle(its for sale) so rather than do nothing with it and lose $$$/what I paid for it, I'll put it to use till im done pouring money into my D60 & D44. "and then scrap it"/part it out or sell whole with the tubes shaved of the coil buckets, replaced with leaf spring pads.
If my Flathead 6 cylinder breaks a D44a while im wheeling......I'll be impressed.