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Its hot everywhere. My King Ranch project is going very slow. I can't work all day & come home & work on my truck. Have a great week everyone. Stay cool.
Hey Mike, Mitch, and all, haven't stopped in in awhile, mostly hang out in the 6.7 section with Rigtrash n others , sorry.
Umm, not much to relate here, working like a dog, son's football season just started, hotter than the 7th layer of hell out there, just put new MT's on the BlackBeest....
new rear brake pads, wiper blades for the rainy season, air filter (teach me to ignore the hood latch, damn thing was almost sucked inside out, lol) but the truck's been just flawless, gets compliments everywhere I go, love it
Shopping for shocks....prolly hit up the Rancho Shocktober promo for some new 9000's....
I might be "grown up", but it could be argued I'm not that "mature" sometimes...... y'know, my inner boy comes out and I can't help but enjoy a good time, and relay the story later. And even moreso when it involves doing a good deed/helping a fellow redneck out/southern hospitality, whatever ya wanna call it, and still even moreso when I get to brag on my truck a little, lol y'all just hang on, I'm getting to it....
So, story goes: Tuesday evening, my son's football practice got cancelled due to lightning, which usually comes with rain, that of course they would've played through, but the lightning is the big thing, so we all load up to head home. My wife met me at practice in her truck, I usually go straight to the park from work. She's on the road ahead of me, I round a sharp curve and she's pulled over across the road from an old CC7.3 F550 stakebody setup for welding, laying deeeeeeep down in the ditch on the other side. She's motioning for me to pull over and try to help this guy out, his nose was still just barely enough onto the street that someone coming around the other curve coulda gotten into him, and as a born in the south country boy, we just love to get involved in these opportunities to help. Let's see if some pics show up:
So that'd be where he lost control, crossed the center line, and slid down into the ditch. Of all things, his shifter broke as he was leaving the sharp curve behind that photo (it'll be pictured later) and the resulting sudden missed gear change coupled with the wet roads, is what I think slid him out.
Right about in the middle there, is where he came to a stop
In the background is that sharp curve mentioned earlier.
It was deep too, lol
I was concerned about the wet roads being an issue, and boy were they.... I had never used 4Lo in my truck before, but figured now was as good a time as any. I manually locked in the front hubs, but not knowing I still needed to pull the 4wd **** out to lock the rear diff (thought it did that automatically in 4Lo- not so) I selected 1st gear and, using a chain he initially had tied off to his front bumper, I just proceeded to spin a bit, I couldn't get anything done using it.
It must've been glorious, I was smoking the tires and bouncing everywhere trying to get this 15,000lb pig up outta that ditch, but my wife and her friends were too busy working traffic safety to get any vids
So I gave up on that chain and pulled a 4"x20' strap out of the back of my truck and shackled off for some "snatching" action. This was even more fun
His truck was dead in the water, the incline was so steep, and I guess he was low enough on diesel, that he couldn't get his truck to start, so I was doing all the work myself. But damn my truck didn't mind.
I got him moving down the ditch finally, couldn't get all the way out right at first, so a school speed limit sign was flattened in the process, oops, sorry, lol
Which caused me to check up, trying not to take it out, but unfortunately there was no other way, so back to smoking and snatching I went and finally pulled him all the way up onto terra firma, just as the local LEO arrived to scold the poor guy a bit about making all this fuss. His battery or batteries were so low I ended up pull-starting him once we got back on the asphalt, and the ole 7.3 finally clattered to life without a fuss. He actually struck up an arc using the equipment on the back to repair his broken shifter, lol! and was able to drive on home, as far as I know. The ole boy was over the moon, just couldn't thank me enough, and was blown away at the pulling power that SD showed. The only "casualty" woulda been my hitch pin, as it now resembles a wet noodle, and I had to maul it a bit to get it out of my receiver.
But I was happy to help, threw my strap back in the bed and headed on my way. I took all these pics yesterday morning after the roads had dried up, unfortunately no "live action" pics or vids
So anyway, lesson learned: 4Lo DOES disable the advanceTrac, but does NOT automatically lock the rear diff. Maybe if I'd locked in the rear diff, it wouldn't have been so difficult, but it might also have not been as much fun
Hope y'all enjoyed my little yarn, it was a hoot, a good 20-30 minutes worth of fun.
07-27-2014, 10:02 PM
, sorry. 
