There is first time for everything Mike but drag racing with the trailer?
That was indeed funny.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Schwall [mailto:mschwall@flash.net]
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:21 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Long stupid 4x4 story--but really funny
Well I have a little one. Don't try to drag a truck with a 2500lb trailer
attached to it. Did that in my old '78 Ferd. Twisted both ears off the
universal joint near the tranny. It was kewl. It was a Chebby, I was
towing a 16' trailer full of steel scrap. The cam I got in that Ferd
sounds real nice. Guy in the Chebby does the gas pedal slap while looking
at me. We're both going around 30 on a 45MPH road. I'm in
second. Downshift to first slam the pedal, truck twists pretty good, RPMs
climb to 5000, powershift to second and
BANG...cling...cling...cling..........Slam the brakes, get out and see gear
oil flowing out the rear of the tranny and the drive shaft hanging down,
look back about 100 feet and see the yoke on the road.
Don't drag with a trailer, dumb thing to do. Ten bucks for a u-joint and a
trip to the junk yard for a newsed yoke and I was back on the road. This
was almost two years ago.
Mike
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