Re: Front Bed Bends?

From: KARL MOLTZAN (kmoltzan@mymail.net)
Date: Fri Sep 05 1997 - 19:52:23 EDT


On Fri, 05 Sep 1997 14:27:35 -0400 Rader <rlr@bbt.com>
wrote:

>Frank Ball wrote:
>
>> read [CR's] comparo test with the Dakota, S-10 and some
other trucks.
>> Their description of how the brakes worked on the S-10
was positively
>> scary, and the front of the bed bent when they loaded in
a motorcycle.
>
> Hey, glad you reminded me, Frank!
>
> I have bent the front of my Dakota's bed (a full beer
keg broke loose
>from it's moorings :( ), but found that it was easy as pie
to bend back
>by hand. A little too easy, I fear.
>
> A buddy of mind has a '96, and had some rental equipment
bend the
>shit out of his front bed. He drove with the bed smacked
against
>the cab for at least 6 months, so nice guy that I am, I
bent his
>bed back by hand. Lots of missing paint!
>
> Anyone else noticed this?
>
> Ron

Yea I had an aircraft tire and wheel bend the front of my
bed when I mad a FAST stop.
 
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