To try and clarify my article and your confusion here is a list of the parts as I know them:
Axle Housing:Stockers
Calmini Anvil:
Here is where I think you are getting confused: I call these enitre units (shown below) the 3rd members of the front axle. In this picture the stock Alum. front is on the right and the Stock XL-& steel 3rd member housing is next to it (the 'empty one')
The parts that are missing from the XL-7 is the 1-carrier, 2-the ring and 3-pinion.
The Carrier is the peice that holds the Ring gear, spider gears(or locker) and mounts inside the empty collers you see in the XL-7 peice.
The Pinion is the peice that sticks through the snout of the 3rd member housing (the peice that you broke). (next to my hand in the second picture below)
I believe that your project will better follow Hutches article:
http://www.zukiworld.com/month_090103/feature_sidekickdrivetrainimprovements.htm than mine.
"I recognize the need to reinforce this area to keep this from happening again. After reading Jagular's post above, it seems as if the snout housing and the drop-out third member are separate pieces and this is getting me confused. According to that post, Zig is running an anvil, XL7 third member, 5.83 Track/kick gears, a modified sammi case(machined to fit the 26 spline side gears), an ez locker and a Track/kick long side inner axle... I was under the impression that the pinion snout housing had the carrier for the whole differential molded into it. Is this right or wrong?"As the parts go, yes you are correct for my set up. If you go this direction you can get the anvil and locker from calmini and get everything else you need (machined carrier and all) from Hawk.
Did I clear up the 'snout housing' question with my pictures above? If not: The 3rd member housing does hold these parts but they are seperate form the housing. The carrier mounts within the vacant 'rings' you can see in the xl-7 housing pick above. It (the carrier) has the spider gears or locker mounted inside it with the ring gear bolted to the outside of it. Then the pinion gear mounts to the 3rd member housing coming out of the 'snout of the housing.
Here is a close up of my carrier mounted into the XL-7 housing (same one that is empty above)
HTH,
Zig
