strange story from the summer

[magnethead]

I just remembered about this and thought you'd get a laugh out of it..

During the summer, we were taking our boat to the lake with the dually (as it's our only truck...for now), and about halfway there, they were working on the slow lane of the road (it was going from 2 lanes to 1, we were in the slow lane), so we had to slow down to merge, my dad went to get off the gas, and it stuck, so we wound up going through about 7 cones before my dad throws it in neutral and locks the brakes and hits the E-brake (remember- 7000 pound truck with rear drums doesnt stop well, esp with trailer), and we finally get the truck stopped after hitting about 15 or 20 cones with the trailer sticking out across both lanes (but barely, the other cars managed to stop, unlike us) and my dad kills the engine, climbs out, pulls the board friom the bed, opens the hood, props it out, and starts digging around the carb, and finally pulls a dirt-dobber nest out from under the carb linkage, just as a highway worker walks over. My dad and him talked for awhile, and my dad just closed the hood back up, through the hood prop back in the bed, and we went back off on our way as the highway worker had a puzzled expression on his face.

it was so funny, yet not funny. Thats why theres always half a mile of cones before the workers, for those of use with trailers and 7000 pound trucks. And we have a trailer brake controller on it why (boat trailer just dont have brakes)?

[Russell]

Gotta love that... I've only ever had my throttle stick once, I immediately threw it into neutral and killed it, and stopped, the problem was that the kickdown cam had gotten jammed and when I accelerated, the truck didn't stop accelerating :p

[Mike76251]

Dirt dobbers?
Man....what luck!

I had mine stick once in my '84 but it was because the cruise vacuum modulater had froze up. It was 15f that day!