Thanks Wrightpayne, I am going to very carefully through the entire suspension to see if there is play anywhere or something is bent. It is somewhat strange that it happened on the left side because that was on the inside when it broke, so the sideload was a lot less than on the other side, but, of course, that was where the sideload was trying to pull the wheel away from the diff, so maybe it isn't that strange. It was a cool day and I was on R888R, so the inside tire had a tendency to slip, grip, slip, grip, which puts some hard torsion loads on the axle. It will be interesting to do the post mortem. I plan to start today. Anker