Poor Little Cone Style

THANK YOU Rusty!

I have an Auburn cone-style diff in my lowly 8.25" rear end behind a pretty stout 340 with a 4-speed.
According to a lot of posts, the rear end should explode if I try to put it in gear, and the differential will wear out in less than a week if I don't go straight.

Yet somehow I've been burning up the tires since I put the car together a year ago and it seems to be holding up just fine (knocking on wood now). I have plenty of parallel lines up and down my street indicating that both tires are indeed trying to grab the road and launch my car forward.

Additionally, I can't turn a corner too sharp without barking the tires. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but I am here to say the cone-style differential holds up just fine from where I'm sitting.

-Mike