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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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I've owned my truck since Dec 3rd 2002 and it just tried to kill me today...the throttle stuck open and i was coming up on an intersection...thank god this isn't the first time it happened to me...soon as i noticed the ignition got cut and i hammed on the brakes and pulled it over....turns out one of the little vac hoses i took off from the smog equipment today got caught near the throttle linkage and managed to get jammed in it about 4 blocks from my house.
This isn't looking good....haven't even owned her a month and she already tried to kill me..hehe
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Paul D. '78 C20 Scottsdale 350ci 3 speed with granny gear 14 bolt rearend My trucks are "Car-Guy safe".......which pretty much means death trap in the hands of a normal civilian. |
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driving is in my blood
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Mesa AZ
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Well on my 78, it snapped the front brake line once while off roading [before the drop kit] and it lost brakes on the way home. Thank god for a granny low first gear manual tranny! Throw it in 1st, let go of the clutch and BRRRRRRRRRRR you stop quick
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-78 c10 short/step: 388cid, M20, 5/5 drop, lots more. Playtoy and first vehicle. -98 c1500 x-cab: 5.7L, 17" rims, 5/6 drop, flowmaster, helper bags,NBS rear disk brakes. -02 Suburban 4x4: leveled front -CBR600F4i, CBR600RR, CBR1000RR, and standup skis DISCLAIMER: I cant spell for the life of me. |
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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Tom that is one of the good sides of the fo-siks-phive. BRRRRRRRRR you stop quick. Its really sounds like that too!
My truck only tried to kill me once that I can think of right now. I was trying to make a jump across Thomas near my house. Well traffic was busy, it was a Friday night and a concert was going on at the pavilion just up the street (can't remember who was playing). Anyway I seen a little gap in traffic so I punch it. I get half way across and my ignition module decides it isnt going to work anymore. To make a long story short I almost got hit by 2 euro's racing from the stop light. That would have really really pissed me off.
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You get what you pay for
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Location: Cherryville, NC
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Not my truck, but once a very long time ago, I owned a 68 Plymouth Roadrunner. Coming home from work one day, through a busy part of town. Coming up on a stop light, with a very brand new car in front of me. Hit the brakes when the changed to red and the pedal went to the floor. Let me tell you, for anyone who calls emergency brakes, park brakes, they are full of it. It was an emergency and I damned sure used them. Don't think for a minute if you slam on the emergency brake pedal you won't come to a complete neck snapping stop. I drove 15 miles the rest of the way home using the emergency brake to stop with. I was getting pretty danged good at by the time I got there.
It was a left front brake hose that busted on me when I hit the brakes. Scared the shat out of me before I forget. I've got a million stories I could tell about some of the junk I've drove in my life time. Believe you me, I know what it's like to not have any money to keep a ride going the proper way. I used to live in junk yards searching for good used parts. It's not one bit of fun either. Matter of fact, it is on the sucky side. ![]()
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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Thats makes me think. I really need to replace the rubber brake lines before something happens to me and my truck
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Houston
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Hey Paul -
Drive carefully out there! I need my parts! hehe
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pkbinplano
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Plano Texas
Posts: 370
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Had a 72 Delta 88, backed it up on to curb, blocked frony wheels to pull drive shaft. Pulled shaft and it rolls back. I was under it.
Luckily only rolled enough to pin me not hurt me. Saw my life pass. (no e-brake)
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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lol...your parts are already off the truck Paul
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Paul D. '78 C20 Scottsdale 350ci 3 speed with granny gear 14 bolt rearend My trucks are "Car-Guy safe".......which pretty much means death trap in the hands of a normal civilian. |
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You get what you pay for
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Location: Cherryville, NC
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Man, talk about taking out the driveshaft, poor Tim over at CT knows all about taking out the driveshaft with the truck on the gound. His rolled down a steep hill, across a road, into the ditch on the other side. Bent his frame and put a big hump in the bed. His reese hitch dug in the ground and killed it.
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driving is in my blood
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Mesa AZ
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LOL I feel bad for poor tim, but that story always makes me laugh! Just like the time I backed a single engine 4 person high performance airplane into my truck
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-78 c10 short/step: 388cid, M20, 5/5 drop, lots more. Playtoy and first vehicle. -98 c1500 x-cab: 5.7L, 17" rims, 5/6 drop, flowmaster, helper bags,NBS rear disk brakes. -02 Suburban 4x4: leveled front -CBR600F4i, CBR600RR, CBR1000RR, and standup skis DISCLAIMER: I cant spell for the life of me. |
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My other Love
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Castlegar B.C. Canada
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when I first got my 77 it tried to kill me. It was mad because it still had Bald Bias ply tires on it
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Chanhassen, MN
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I've never had a vehicle almost kill me. It was usually me that almost killed me....
I was 16 driving my mom's Dodge Colt and turned the corner on an icy day and did a nicely manuevered 180 between parked cars on either side of a narrow street. I felt like I was in the ice capades. Ok, so that one wasn't really my fault, but this one was... I was driving my Mazda MX-6 to work one day, a co-worker and I were racing and playing leap frog on the interstate. We get off the free way, I was behind him and we were hauling ass. A rottweiler comes out of nowhere and I hit the brakes on the wet pavement. I locked those brakes up real nicely and did a 360 then ended up in the ditch backwards. My friend saw it in his rearview mirror and was amazed that I didn't do any damage to it. Just a couple of scrapes on the under carriage where I hit the ditch. I felt like a complete fool because I know better than to hit the brakes like that. Tom, you're going have to tell me that plane story sometime. Was that one of your rare dorky moments you were telling me about? ![]()
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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Yeah I would like to hear how you backed a plane into your truck.
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driving is in my blood
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Mesa AZ
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Sorry guys the plane story is off limits
![]() I wll admit it was my fault. There wasent much damage, Plus this was in my aviation class, so it just gave me another project to do [along with making the cobra gunship run]
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-78 c10 short/step: 388cid, M20, 5/5 drop, lots more. Playtoy and first vehicle. -98 c1500 x-cab: 5.7L, 17" rims, 5/6 drop, flowmaster, helper bags,NBS rear disk brakes. -02 Suburban 4x4: leveled front -CBR600F4i, CBR600RR, CBR1000RR, and standup skis DISCLAIMER: I cant spell for the life of me. |
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Catchy title goes here..
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Location: Rockwell, NC
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Thank goodness my trucks have never tried to kill me. I did have an 80 cutlass we dropped a 400 in, that car liked to eat master cylinders. Nothing like going to step on the brake and ................... happened 4 times all new ones, finally got one that decided to work.
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Robert Olson Transport
![]() Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: recent transplant to NC USA
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killin me
my cars and trucks have never tried to kill me, but every so often one bites me cutting me on one of the many rusty parts lol
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I'm back with 2nd truck!
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,775
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When I owned my 74 K-5 Blazer a few years ago it tried to freeze me, electricuted and catch me on fire at different times. On a trip to take some college girl friends home me and a buddy loaded up in the balzer and drove 3-4 hours one way in the cold and snow. The blazer had no heater (core was shot) and had crappy window gaskets (remember whole top came off on this truck) and the back window could never stay up. It was really cold that trip up and back in the same night. Stupid things you do for a best friend that's in love
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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And I thought I wanted a Blazer. What the f*ck was I thinking
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I'm back with 2nd truck!
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Texas
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LMFAO!!! They're fun for sure but I won't get another one to replace a truck.
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BAD BOW-Silverado XST
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Senior Member from Austin, TX
Posts: 6,431
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Try having the throttle return spring break on you. Mine did it two days ago!!
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Overworked and Underlaid
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Flagstaff,Arizona
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my 74 hasnt tried to kill me,the 78 i had before might have a few times but i dont recall and the 78 SWB prior to it i think i tried to kill it myself i hated that damn truck so bad.the SWB did try to kill me a couple times though
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huh?
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Location: Washington, Illinois
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I've pulled a few smoothies in my time...like the time I had my 77 monte carlo wound up out in the country, in the middle of the night. I had the 100 MPH speedo wound back to 0, and BAM! the right front tire blew....luckily, I veered between two telephone poles, through a shallow ditch, and into a field....that car hated me.
My 66 3/4 ton chevy was scary as well. It had a slow brake leak, with a single master cylinder, no floors, no cab mounts, and the left rear upper spring cup (coil sprung) had rotted off. The carb on the little inline was shot, and liked to catch fire quite often too. What a death trap...would lose brakes, and catch fire, often at the same time...lol Luckily, it had a 5.13 rearend gear, so I couldn't really go fast enough to kill myself ![]()
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pkbinplano
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Plano Texas
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My 84 doesn't have a double return spring. Just a single. Maybe thats why its harder than I like it ,to push the gas pedal. Will have to get one.
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