Nick1994
$100 site donor 2024
My dad and I were heading out to the desert and the front left tire blew on the 18' tandem axle trailer. He forgot the spare at home but luckily he had extra ratchet straps. He used a really big one and used it to pull the axle up high enough. Finished driving it out there and all the way back to town on 3 wheels.
I wasn't with him, but my brother was driving down the highway in his 91 Jeep Cherokee. Threads pulled out of the castle but that connects the tie rod to the pitman arm so he all of a sudden had 0 steering. It veered to the left, luckily no cars in the way, and he stopped it just in time. He was only a foot or so hanging into the far left lane when suddenly a big pickup truck sideswiped him. He has some back problems since then, driver of the pickup was cited as at fault for the accident. My brother pushed the steering assembly back up through the pitman arm and cross threaded a lug nut onto it to hold it on. Had to put the spare tire on too since the front right wheel was mangled from the side swiping and the tire was ripped apart.
This one wasn't on the side of the road, but my brother was up in Montana a couple years ago in his 1996 Lexus ES300. He was up there for over a month, he was planning to come back on Sunday. Saturday evening he called me because it was overheating and leaking coolant. He thought it was the head gasket. He wanted me to drive up there and bring him home so I hopped in my 97 Camry the next day and drove straight up to Montana. After I looked at it I realized it was the intake manifold gasket. Was still a lot of work but I brought my tools and we fixed it and drove it back down. It was always an oil burner, took almost 4 quarts of oil in top up to drive it back down to Phoenix, we changed the oil the day before we left so it was totally full. That V6 still got 28.5 mpg at 80 mpg on the way down.
The alternator died on my grandfather's 86 Ford Ranger. We were at the dump and it wouldn't start. My grandmother came and gave us a jump, we let it charge for 30 seconds or so. It was enough juice to start it and I drove it back to their house 9 miles away with no radio, brake lights, turn signals, etc. and I pulled into the driveway and it died right then and there. New alternator and it was fine after that.
I wasn't with him, but my brother was driving down the highway in his 91 Jeep Cherokee. Threads pulled out of the castle but that connects the tie rod to the pitman arm so he all of a sudden had 0 steering. It veered to the left, luckily no cars in the way, and he stopped it just in time. He was only a foot or so hanging into the far left lane when suddenly a big pickup truck sideswiped him. He has some back problems since then, driver of the pickup was cited as at fault for the accident. My brother pushed the steering assembly back up through the pitman arm and cross threaded a lug nut onto it to hold it on. Had to put the spare tire on too since the front right wheel was mangled from the side swiping and the tire was ripped apart.
This one wasn't on the side of the road, but my brother was up in Montana a couple years ago in his 1996 Lexus ES300. He was up there for over a month, he was planning to come back on Sunday. Saturday evening he called me because it was overheating and leaking coolant. He thought it was the head gasket. He wanted me to drive up there and bring him home so I hopped in my 97 Camry the next day and drove straight up to Montana. After I looked at it I realized it was the intake manifold gasket. Was still a lot of work but I brought my tools and we fixed it and drove it back down. It was always an oil burner, took almost 4 quarts of oil in top up to drive it back down to Phoenix, we changed the oil the day before we left so it was totally full. That V6 still got 28.5 mpg at 80 mpg on the way down.
The alternator died on my grandfather's 86 Ford Ranger. We were at the dump and it wouldn't start. My grandmother came and gave us a jump, we let it charge for 30 seconds or so. It was enough juice to start it and I drove it back to their house 9 miles away with no radio, brake lights, turn signals, etc. and I pulled into the driveway and it died right then and there. New alternator and it was fine after that.