benno_84
9th September 2010, 11:44 AM
Hi guys,
Just a funny story from the weekend. My wife and I decided to go for a bit of camping trip, it rained all weekend and so the camping wasn't much chop. On the way hope we were tearing through some reasonably rough roads about 200km from home when suddenly I heard a bit of a noise coming from the back. I jumped out and under the truck only to find that my 'hot dog' which admitedly was a little dodgy had completely come off and was no where to be seen, the rear part of the exhaust which heads up over the rear diff was also completely of the mounts and just dangling in the wind!
Well we tried to get the thing out but we didn't have the clearnance in the rear to get the pipe over the diff so we secured it (with zippy ties and a few other bits!) and drove to a nearby farm.
After a bit of wild jacking (using a tiny little scissor jack and some blocks of wood) and some expletives we managed to get the pipe of. It was then a very noisy 200km home with the tale pipe in the back seat! Lesson learned, fix your exhaust before it falls off. :redface:
Lloyd
Just a funny story from the weekend. My wife and I decided to go for a bit of camping trip, it rained all weekend and so the camping wasn't much chop. On the way hope we were tearing through some reasonably rough roads about 200km from home when suddenly I heard a bit of a noise coming from the back. I jumped out and under the truck only to find that my 'hot dog' which admitedly was a little dodgy had completely come off and was no where to be seen, the rear part of the exhaust which heads up over the rear diff was also completely of the mounts and just dangling in the wind!
Well we tried to get the thing out but we didn't have the clearnance in the rear to get the pipe over the diff so we secured it (with zippy ties and a few other bits!) and drove to a nearby farm.
After a bit of wild jacking (using a tiny little scissor jack and some blocks of wood) and some expletives we managed to get the pipe of. It was then a very noisy 200km home with the tale pipe in the back seat! Lesson learned, fix your exhaust before it falls off. :redface:
Lloyd