let me share a little secret, those axels dont break everyday under stock loads. ripped or not, knocking or not, wobbling or not, they just dont break that easy. My mother rode around for 6 months on a axel that had a tear ALL THE WAY AROUND the boot, and guess what, it never broke. It takes ALOT of wheel hop and ALOT of horsepower to break a axel, ask wcs.