I wanna tell you all a small tale of woe I had 2 days before Christmas.
I had just moved house with my fiancée and the gq handled the constant loading and reversing driveways like a champion being constantly loaded and unloaded including a trailer.
As a celebration we took a trip out to glasshouse to have some fun with mates,
Again the gq with standered 4.2 na diseal and standered lift was a work horse and only 1 shameful event involving a 80seires having to snatch me out.
A few days later I was called by a mate to help lift a motor so off I went like a true mate, I felt a small vibration doing 110 on the highway and when I was less than a km from his house going around a roundabout the vibration got bad shaking the wheel and peddles, but before I could pull over and check I heard a bang the front left corner of the gq dropped and I had that awkward moment on seeing my from wheel overtake the vehicle.
Luckily this happend doing very low speeds and not 110 on the highway
The damage was minimal just the dust guard bent, and left quarter panel probably damaged beyond repair.
All 6 heel studs had stripped, the mag was surprisingly allright.
I had to tow it to my mates place ( 100$ for less than a km up a hill and me with 65 bucks on me after paying bond and giving the misses money for food) try to track down new studs at 430 on a Saturday afternoon( parts stores failed me) luckily a mate had a set of gu hubs laying around and gave me the 6 studs and wheel nuts. And like a true mate after I assisted lifting the motor as was the original plan, we spent a few hours in full sun and 30 odd degrees, replacing the buggered studs.
I would be screwed if it wasn't for fellow 4x4 mates the one with the gu parts I met 3 days prior on a tracks.
The morals of this story is
1. Look after your mates one day you WILL need there help ( be generous with you beer and allways pay your debts even I they say no)
2. Allways check your wheel nuts perticuly after 4x4ing
3. Have RACQ it's cheap and can get you out if trouble(I learnt the hard way)
And finaly any noise that sounds new or strange, pull the F over.
That might not applie for the older more experienced boys but I'm young and this if my first 4x4.
This has been a big lesson for me and hope this dose not happen to anyone else.
Reply With Quote