Reply With QuoteCould be worse??? How about this?
We left Saturday to go to Lake Don Pedro for the annual Pig Roast. We were heading out of town on a rural county road & I was following a Honda with a young Asian female driving. I had about 8 to 10 car lengths behind her doing about 40-45 MPH when the light turns yellow at an intersection. SHE SLAMS ON HER BRAKES and you can see the nose diving on the Honda like she is about to go through a RED and she is only about 50 feet from the intersection???
I thought a Yellow light was a caution to slow for the stop or prepare to stop, but not STOP?
Anyway it looked like she panicked at the thought of entering the intersection on a yellow light and didn't know what was coming behind her. I SLAMMED on the brakes & didn't feel enough slowing quickly enough, even with the surges on the trailer so I lifted off the brake & matted it, laid on the horn and went around on the right shoulder/turn lane into the intersection still on a Yellow light!
I think everyone else must have seen us coming cause the light turned red while we were in the intersection & no one jumped the gun and came through to hit us!
DAMN are we lucky, and is that DAMN little stupid FUKKEN Asian gal lucky!!! We could have killed her if we hit her with 12,000 pounds. That surely would of screwed us up financially for the rest of our lives. Would it of been my fault???
And it doesn't end there.
About an hour later we are in crap traffic merging from I80 south on to I580 east and get about 5 miles and hear a loud BAM, & I mean BAAAAMMMM! We limp off the freeway into a bad part of Oakland & listen as we are rolling and hear it as the truck shakes. We find a park-n-ride under the freeway and stop to listen. The motor sounds fine & everything seems fine,so I get out & start looking around to then find the trailer and boat covered in oil. Then I look under the rear of the truck to find a hole in the diff cover, which explains the oil loss.
Well needless to say our day is done & we are not going to the Pig Roast! Hell we don't even know how we are gettin home from Oakland with the boat with a brand new Stereo installed after last weekends theft.
SO I did the MacGyver thing. I pulled the rear driveline out, locked the front hubs and put in 4X4 high range & turned around in the parking lot. I still heard the noise so I knew I needed to pull the cover off the diff and inspect. NO oil & a broken tooth wedged in the carrier that would hit the pinion every rotation. I was able to BEAT the tooth out then put the cover on & beat the hole closed on the cover.
Then we drove 10 blocks through Downtown Oakland with NO OIL in the diff lookin for a parts store & pull into a Kragen. I get the supplies then clean & epoxy the cover and fill with gear oil and hit the road home in front wheel drive. We made it home http://free.***boat.net/ubb/smile.gif safe & sound. What a FUKKEN day. It could have been worse but it still was not good!
So did you have a bad day???
