Rear differential major damage

The axle housing new alone is likely over a $1000

The center section new is likely around $1500

This is just the bare bones stuff assuming the axle splines aren't gooched. If those are boned add another couple of hundred on the fire, plus the labor to swap the backing plates, brakes, pound in new axle tube seals, bleed the brakes swap all the ABS wiring and sensors, brake cables etc.

People don't believe this but Toyota dealers really aren't interested in digging through Connor's stash of used Toyota parts to scare up a deal. The OP would be better off sourcing a rear end on car-part that was drum to drum

 

. Gotta clean the key board... - found it, TW was beginning to disappoint this Friday PM

 

damn your wife can drive

 

Are you blaming your wife for your the mess you created?

 

OP's "wife" was trying to do some sweet burnouts and/or redline launches to impress "her" friends

 

Not recommended. I use to work in a Dana factory and had no idea what I was doing. Now I make ice cream. Still no clue.

 

yo he probably has one of those diffs that when feathering the throttle at 55mph was howling https://media.giphy.com/media/XuBJvrKHutnkQ/giphy.gif

 

Its definitely howling now
Didn't you see @Robb_D 's pic

 

Bunch of savages in here on a friday i see

 

That's class right there

And this too


Props @Norm89

 

Only thing I see savage at this point really is that giant extra hole in that axle.

 

I got the whole rear off a 2017 with 6k miles if interested for 1k

 

see Smitty was right, now the OP has to pay the price for Toyota low quality out sourced parts https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DarkFlatCoral-small.gif

 

But they were going so slow!

 

Some jerk just stole mine!!!

 

yeah op, that wont be covered...especially spinning wheels in reverse

 

I am not passing any judgment about abuse, manufacturing defects, or proper techniques, etc. Nor have I witnessed any differential grenading that wasn't due to high stress put upon it. But I want to present a separate scenario and let y'all debate if it could produce these same results we see in the photo.
Most of the comments state that the hole could only have been caused by a high speed projectile. But the tolerance between the ring gear and the case is very, very tight, almost nil! In fact, most rear case covers are shaped to just clear the ring gear.
So with that thought, could the hole have resulted from a loose bolt (or gear chunk) which got pinched between the gear & case - and thus forced through the case wall? (The fact that a bolt (or other part) was loose / free inside is another discussion and, granted, it may have been set free by too high of speed or abuse.) I just can't discount (w/ my limited knowledge of diffs) that there may be a reason for the hole other than the wife slamming the xmsn between gears.
What do you think?

See post #159.