I talked to my instructor (I'm taking a welding class) and we looked at my axle and it looks like my rear D44 tube broke off the lower plug weld and is trying to shift out up (rotate).
So current plan is to clean out the lower part of the tube/housing till it's squeeky clean. Jack up the center section till things look straight (I'll figure out a way of measuring that) and then run short beads of 7018 along the tube to the housing (picked up some fresh out of the oven 7018 from the class supply and stuck it into air tight container as soon as I got home). Well, it iwll be one interesting evening tomorrow. I"ll either fix it and go to swamp.. or I"ll break it and be out looking for a d44 housing in a hurry so that I can go to swamp LOL.