Broken axle bearings? Need Help!!!

[DeTwizzle]

I put like 2-3tons of landscaping block in the back of my runner today, drove it to the site... about 25miles away under very slow and safe driving conditions.
Get to the site to unload, unload the block(this was about 8am), work all day and leave at 4pm from the job site.
As soon as I hop back on the 2 lane highway to head home I hear this (clunk,clunk,clunk,clunk), and it intensifier with the revs.
Sounded like a loose drive shaft or a U-joint was loss.
Got under the car and the drive shaft are sturdy, so is the U-joint.
WFT???
So I jacked the rear axle up enough to get the rear tires off the ground and on some jack stands. Put it into (D) and to my surprise it sounds like the axle bearing may have been crushed under that load. I also put on my parking break and noticed that my passenger tire could still spin, reaffirming to me that I crushed my bearings, and now I have a rear axle leak.
:satan::redbrick::satan::redbrick::satan:

 

[J-money$$$]

2-3 tons? i think a 4runner is rated for 500 lbs of cargo. I wouldnt be surprised if the axle is bent or something I dont even see how you could get a couple pallets of block into the truck, You should have rented a little trailer

goodluck

 

[DeTwizzle]

Okay, I wanna say 1-2tons max(I hope I was exaggerating in my previous post) , but that is still way more than 500lbs. DAMN, I thought these things where tanks!:vader:

 

[DeTwizzle]

2-3 tons? i think a 4runner is rated for 500 lbs of cargo. I wouldnt be surprised if the axle is bent or something I dont even see how you could get a couple pallets of block into the truck, You should have rented a little trailer

goodluck

It is called careful stacking and a cardboard 4x8 as the lining. Of course both rear seats down.

 

[ease]

It is called careful stacking and a cardboard 4x8 as the lining. Of course both rear seats down.

I'd personally add a few more adjectives to that description.

Give us the spec on block, and a count so we can calculate how re****ed that idea was

 

[DeTwizzle]

I'd personally add a few more adjectives to that description.

Give us the spec on block, and a count so we can calculate how re****ed that idea was

11 Blocks= 80lbs
2 Blocks=40lbs
26 Capping blocks=52lbs
Total=1352lbs
So you want adjectives? A+LOT=****TON+MORE+THAN+I+:biggrin2::toilet:SHOULD+HAVE!!!

 

[ease]

11 Blocks= 80lbs
2 Blocks=40lbs
26 Capping blocks=52lbs
Total=1352lbs
So you want adjectives? A+LOT=****TON+MORE+THAN+I+:biggrin2::toilet:SHOULD+HAVE!!!

Thats not SO bad, I thought you really might have put a full ton in there or more. Overloading scares the **** out of me, I put a half pallet of stone in the bed of my old ranger, and it sagged right to near the bump stops. I think that was only about 1000 lbs and the brakes barely worked.

 

[Nelsonmd]

Yeah, sounds like you should pull your axles and take a look around. It's not that hard to do.

 

[noneckrex]

I came up with 2,272 lbs

11 Blocks= 80lbs =880lbs
2 Blocks=40lbs =80lbs
26 Capping blocks=52lbs =1352lbs
Total=1352lbs TOTAL = 2,272lbs

you need a trailer bro. I did a landscaping job for my mom this summer. i had 3 pallets of retainer wall bricks. each block weighed in at 22lbs. 75 blocks per pallet. and I put 3 pallets on my little utility trailer. it was heave as sh*t. the 4runner was squatting like craze. long story short. I now have a bad ringing sound in the rear end. It is most likely the bearing.

 

[econhonda]

Great minds think alike....

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I ended up replacing one axle seal and checked the axle shaft, and it was still straight. Hopefully it's just your bearing and nothing more.

 

[DeTwizzle]

Update!!!

I broke about 3.24 teeth in my third member from the load on my 4:30.
Lets just say this puts a damper on the rest of my cash for my plate bumper.
The good thing is that the 97' runner this replacement came from only had like 120K, and the guys at the junkyard said it was owned by someone that seemed to just road drive it... in my mind it is just and $800 upgrade... that or the most expensive 25miles that I have ever driven in the runner.
Oh well, hope fully this evens out my Karma, I have been a little knotty lately.
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