This sucks

[booblinker]

So im driving down an icy ass road and I spin out into a snow bank. It was really weird, like more uncontrolled then any time I had ever spun out. So I get out and my tire is laying beside my truck, even worse it hit my taillight, and the tow truck said 6 or more hours.

 

[kunar]

do you know what failed?

 

[booblinker]

do you know what failed?

My ability to read a torque wrench.

 

[kunar]

My ability to read a torque wrench.

bummer. so why wait to get it towed if all you need is to jack it back up and put it together?

 

[booblinker]

Well it was halfway in the road and its a free tow through aaa, and its -18 windchill. but I said screw it, if its a 6 hour wait I'll do it myself. So we just pulled it off the road with my buddies truck.

 

[Jspafford]

They must have only been on there finger tight if they call came off before giving you any warning.

 

[booblinker]

They must have only been on there finger tight if they call came off before giving you any warning.

I he put over 1k miles on it since I have worked on it. It has been wobblling a lil, but I figured it was sno in the rims. I was driving down a really bad road, like worse then most 2 tracks I've been on.

 

[Dishtowel]

I was booking down a high traffic gravel road one day and I felt like I had a blowout, except there was not noise.....

As I began to apply my brakes my left rear tire passed my truck..... rolled down the road at speed, and went and hid under a log 60 ft into the woods.

fun times, again, the lugnut issue, except I was at the tire shop THE DAY BEFORE, i had not even put on 200km. I needed some new drum brake springs because the drum came off too. but whateve. interesting experience.

 

[Carlos Murphy]

200km?

HA ha...

How fer is that thar 200km?

Broke a bead once on a trail ride after slydin sideways into a ditch and didn't know it for a fer minuets cuz the trail was so ruff an uneven, when I stopped to check, the tire had rolled back onto the rim.
I couldn't find any damage so I air'd up from my on-board SCUBA tank and kepon goin.

 

[kunar]

i had one front brake rotor that had a broken lug, so i had been driving it on only 4 till i could steal a rotor from my other truck. one day i noticed it got really squirrelly really quick, so i stopped to check it and 3 other lugs had broken off. there was only one holding the wheel on and it was working its self loose. i fixed it in a school parking lot at 10 at night.

 

[Insanejughead]

i had one front brake rotor that had a broken lug, so i had been driving it on only 4 till i could steal a rotor from my other truck. one day i noticed it got really squirrelly really quick, so i stopped to check it and 3 other lugs had broken off. there was only one holding the wheel on and it was working its self loose. i fixed it in a school parking lot at 10 at night.

Damn! You must have felt like that angel was really hanging around you!!!

 

[Redneckryder]

just put my truck back together and i stopped every 50 or so miles and retighten the lugnuts, needed it 3 times before they stayed tight......damn cragars.....