My New Truck

[patrickc]

And too think it once looked like this.... Is it ok to cry now?

 

[atk]

...glad you didn`t get hurt to bad. that sure was a nice truck....

 

[no-red 6 0]

My truck and the ditch didn't get along so well. I can laugh about it now but I thank the Warn winch bumper for me not getting seriously hurt considering I hit the ditch at 50 mph. The rearend went over the front end and then came to a rest half in the ditch and hanging out over the road driver's side down. It hit so hard that it broke the steering box in two, bent all 4 shocks on 90* angles backwards, twisted the front and rear diff, pushed the front diff into the firewall on the passenger side, snapped the passenger side rim in two peices right down the center, shoe horned the front of frame and who knows what else!

Here are a few pics that I dug out........it doesn't look really bad in the pics but the truck was twisted all too hell.

All I got was a fat lip, a few stitches, and was a little stiff for a few days.

WOW - sure glad you are o.k.
and how did that happen?

 

[patrickc]

Me nor the Police are exactly sure what happened. I didn't get charged and they wrote it up as road conditions. It was raining quite hard out so I think the truck hydro-planed shooting me like a rocket for the ditch without even the chance to brake or try to turn out of it. I did a good job according to cops avoiding three different hydro poles along my well marked path through the ditch.

 

[powerstrokeguy]

And too think it once looked like this.... Is it ok to cry now?

If you dont i will for you...What a beautiful truck...