Ahh, I feel your pain! Nothing like letting someone have your truck and
then see dents magically appear!
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And the funny thing is I still am not certain how it got there because my
brother maintains it was from when he moved his mattress! Uhh, yeeeahhh!
Good part is my friend Frank is gonna fix it, plus do some other evil &
psychotic things. So I'm almost happy to have a legit excuse to have a 2005
dakota in the body shop! :)
OT: If anyone out there is in the finance industry, and is very, very,
very, very, far away from IL.... Please e-mail me. Same person who molested
my baby needs a job to pay for the repairs! :) Has his NASD serries 6, 7,
24, 63 & some other stuff like that with management experience. I'll buy ya
a happy meal for your help! :)
--Gary Hedlin www.garyhedlin.com 2005 Dakota SLT CC 4.7 5spd 1998 Dakota Sport RC 3.9
On 1/7/05 8:11 PM, in article A08746FE-6119-11D9-921E-000393129EB2@tepidcola.com, "Michael Maskalans" <dml@tepidcola.com> wrote:
> > I dropped off my driveshaft at FleetPride this afternoon to get > retubed, and I had them put on a 1350 yoke in back to match the > Sterling rear axle's yoke so I won't have to use a conversion ujoint > anymore. > > They called me up to tell me it was done while I was waiting at the > towing company to talk to them in person, with pictures in hand. > Naturally, the continued denying that they possibly could have done it. > They claimed that if they'd lifted the rear wheels with the tail of > the bed, it would have snapped off. The two guys I talked to were the > ones who loaded it and unloaded it, and they said that they didn't do > anything stupid with my truck (though they did say they were going to > take the tools and parts out of it if they couldn't track down the > owner since they were pretty sure it was stolen/abandoned). > > BUT, the guy who unloaded it didn't put it in the same spot it was in > when I picked it up. The third guy, who is the one who must have > moved it (and who happens to be the owner, supposedly with 50 years of > towing and recovery experience), was out on a AAA call. I'd put money > he was being careless or lazy when he moved it, and that's when the > driveshaft bit it. The flatbed that was there (they seem to have two) > didn't have any telling marks on the tail of it's bed, but it was so > chewed up I don't think anything would have shown in particular if it > was been the perpetrating truck... > > So the bottom line is that I spend $45 to get my truck back, $33 > balancing tires before I found the driveshaft problem, and $180 getting > the driveshaft re-tubed and the rear yoke swapped out, and there's no > way I can *prove* that they did shit, and they won't admit it either. > In summation, "damnit.", but at least I'll have my truck back in > running shape tomorrow when I pick up my rebuilt driveshaft. > -- > Mike Maskalans <http://mike.tepidcola.com/dodge/> > '98 Dakota SLT 318 4x4 SFA & 35s > '84 RamCharger Royale SE 360 4x4 stock > mobile.612.618.4652 home.585.935.7129 >
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