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Tom:
I must say your wood working looks very good. However, I am not quite sure how you use this fixture. I have a vertical jig I have been using for years. My work bench has a carpenters vice attached to it. I mounted a rotational vice I picked up at a swap meet on a stout board I laminated and added some axle housing grabbers made from spliting a section of pipe in half and welding them to brackets that are screwed onto the vice. The stoud board is secured in the carpenters vice. I work on the rear axle assembly by mounting the right axle housing vertical in the vertical jig. The banjo is next added, then the left axle housing. The vice can easily support the weight of the entire rear axle assembly, including the torque tube. However, I don't add the torque tube until I have the assembly down out of the vertical jig and resting in the horizontal roll around jig.
I can also rotate the metal vice on the vertical jig into a horizontal position for some fine tune cleaning with a rotating wire brush on the end of a long shaft in a drill motor.
Right above the vertical jig I have an electical hoist mounted to the rafters that I can attach to the banjo when it come time to remove the rear axle assembly from the vertical jig.
I will try to dig up some more photos of the jig and post them here. Most of them are posted on the Orange County web site.
www.ocmafc.com, in the tech section.
Tom Endy