Differential fell off jack

TheFoxAndTheTremec said:

Hey everyone, I’m new here and I’m limited on mechanical abilities although I’m able to do many things myself. Question is, the other day I was changing the poly bushings to spherical on my 8.8 axle and had to pull it out to fully get to them. When putting it back in with new UCAs and LCAs my differential fell off my jack (while it was down) when I was trying to re-install. What is the probability that I damaged or knocked my diff gears out of alignment? Any advice would be appreciated

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Slim to none. Imagine if you were to hit a pothole and you had to reset the gears every time - I'm sure you've run into bigger bumps in the road than what you've subjected the differential to.

Worst case scenario (that I can think of.....) is if it were to fall from a higher height and land directly on the pinion - that might cause some damage to the mounting face of the pinion and/or some bearing damage. OR - if it were to fall from a higher height and bend an axle tube. A lowered jack just isn't high enough that I'd be concerned with much of anything that I couldn't see outright.