I can't believe that you cab flexed that much that the box actually touched
the cab. Over christmas time, this same thing happened to one of my friends
who owns a new Tacoma. I expected it from a Toyota but never from a Dodge.
Drew Schofield wrote:
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:08:26 -0600
> From: Dennis Baker <dbaker@deltech.net>
> Subject: DML: Defective Body/Cab Mounts?
>
> I just took my 98' 4x4 CC off-loading for the first time and about a
> week
> later after I finally decided to wash off all the mud I uncovered
> something
> rather interesting.
> Apparently while off-roading the back of the cab and the front top
> portion
> of my bed rammed into each other... The funny thing is that while we
> were
> having fun we heard a loud pop and upon further inspection couldn't hear
> a
> thing... It happened right after breaching the top of a rather steep
> hill at
> a very slow pace in 4-low.
>
> It's not like we were hotrodding over moguls or anything... Anyway.. The
>
> damage isn't a pretty sight... The back of the cab is dented and the
> paint
> is chipped off in a way that I find quite irritating... Basically it
> looks
> like I've got another one of Dodges crappy paint jobs where the paint
> and
> primmer simply flake off.
>
> Has anyone had anything like this happen to them... I'm sitting here
> thinking defective body bushings for starters and If they made it a 4x4
> and
> it took something this simple to mess it up I hear factory warranty
> doing
> some dent pulling and re-painting...
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> --
>
> Well, a Lexus paint job is going to flake off if the body panel gets
> dented. It does seem strange for that to happen tho....it would
> normally take a wreck (cab whiplash effect) or some serious body/frame
> articulation to get the cab to hit the bed. Definately could have some
> bad cab bushings.
>
> Drew Schofield
> Visit my web page at http://www.angelfire.com/tn/page4drew
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