I've only broken one LR axle and that was on a 97 P38 RR on a tricky bit of a hill, the wheel hopped, spun, and then got traction = snap crackle pop.. Looks like a lazer cut it clean in half (still have the shaft piece on my desk). I prefer to pick my lines carefully and unlike 99% of the Jeep's out there I do my best to tread lightly which means slow steady vs tall skinny pedal. I had an 05 Rubicon with F/R air lockers and sometimes those lockers can get you into stuff you shouldn't have attempted in the first place. I was basically on a trail with only 2 wheels making contact with the ground for like a football field and the guys behind me were so scared I was going to simply roll over. I honestly had no clue I was even doing that. I even saw a guy at a Jeep 4WP Event roll his Jeep in the parking lot when we went up the flex ramp with his lockers on... It went up, and up, and up, and over..... Had he not had them on = it would have spun a tire and he'd have known when to stop.

When I went on the LR Event last fall I was amazed to see all the different LR's out there from Series I 88, Series II 109, RRC, D1, D2, LR3, RRS, and even a few LR4's out on the trails doing super technical sections and hardly ever spinning a tire. On a typical Jeep event it's high RPM's and lots of burnt rubber. The older Series I/II's were so low geared they just crawled up stuff.

Air vs Electronic E-Lockers = I've had both and I had personally had better experiences with the E-Lockers. I had line failures, and one pump failure with the air lockers, and on my H3 with the Adventure Package the F/R Eaton E-Lockers worked flawlessly and never let me down.

 

so what you are basically saying is that unless I am a total a$$, i should have very few problems with the standard axles and shafts?