I had an eventful day. Not an epic trip, but more of a shake down run for my wife's Disco. We went with three of my coworkers to a local OHV area called Rowher Flats (same place that Tacoma on Instagram lost the rear axle a few months ago).
Before we even got to anything challenging one of the silver Discos had some noise coming from the rear. We found the rotoflex coming apart. Fortunately he had a spare. One thing I like about the rotoflex is that it is super quick to change out.
We got to an area with a few challenging hill climbs so we decided to give it a go. My first coworker in the white Disco tried it and didn't make it. I figured I would try. Made it further up than he did and heard a pop from the left rear. I figured I broke a shaft since that wheel wasn't spinning. Went another 6" and heard a pop from the left rear and now only had front wheel drive. I ended up having to winch to get to a flat area to pull it apart. I think I got lucky because both rear shafts broke right at the flange rather than at the splines. I have spares at home but didn't bring them.
It was nice having the broken flanges to use as caps to keep the gear oil in and the dust out for the drive home.
After this I decided to head back with one of my coworkers while the other two decided to carry on. 20 minutes later we get a call that the white Disco broke something in the rear (didn't bother to take it apart since a DII isn't full floating). Guessing he blew up the rear diff.