Technical Welding on a rear differential

"" For sure!
The old test on if a truck was overloaded was if you couldn't see the tires between the wheels and the fender openings. If the tires disappeared up into the bed sides, you needed to add more leafs to the main leaf springs or more leafs to the over load springs.
We would be more concerned about blowing the tires, then we were ever afraid of hurting the rear end. A bent axle housing just was not on the radar. ""

Ha ha, yea I remember that. I also remember watching a semi-trailer loaded with sacks of cement. The springs were smashed flat on the frame and the tires looked like compressed water balloons. We were standing next to it and I said we had better get away in case a tire might blow. Not more than 30 seconds later the tire rims literally blew off the steel wheels, right off the rims all 4 tires at the same time. Could of killed us. But the axle and springs survived !