You're right, that is one big honkin' dent. They had the deck of the
flatbed raised off the ground. That's a trick I used quite a bit doing
theft recoveries (I used to drive a flatbed tow truck) to keep from having
to drag the truck all the way from where it is sitting. You just drag it
until the front wheels are on the deck, tilt the deck up a little and then
suck the flatbed up under the pickup until you're almost to the back of the
truck, put the deck back on the ground and drag the truck the rest of the
way up the deck. Drizzle a little tranny fluid on the deck (if it's an
aluminum deck) and it's just like sliding the wheels across ice. That is
the best way to minimize the possibility of causing damage to a vehicle you
don't have keys for or can't get into neutral. My guess is they had the
deck too high when they were sucking the flatbed under your truck and
tagged the drive shaft. That's pretty much the damage I would expect to see
from that.
I'd go after the towing company for sure for the repairs.
Why did the truck get towed anyhow?
At 04:29 PM 06/01/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>In my rear driveshaft, that is.
>
>I was just out looking to pull my rear driveshaft to test, and in the
>daylight looking at it from the proper side, it was pretty fscking obvious:
><http://home.tepidcola.com/dented_shaft/>
>or in case my DNS change hasn't propagated:
><http://66.67.204.89/dented_shaft/>
>
>Naturally, the towing company says there's no way they could have done it
>on the flatbed, but I find it rather odd that the scrapes in the dent are
>not at all radial, meaning the shaft was still (ie the truck in park) when
>it happened, whatever it is that happened.
>
>I guess I'm glad I did what I did to keep the rear driveshaft stock so if
>it ends up cheaper than re-tubing I can just get a junkyard replacement.
>
>I really want to know what the hell they did to my truck now....
>Anybody have a spare club cab driveshaft hanging around?
>--
>Mike Maskalans <http://mike.tepidcola.com/dodge/>
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