Driver ran over mattress on highway continued driving for >30 miles until debris punctured gas tank and ran out of gas. Driver reported noticing odd shimmy!

 

That is worse than a row of fence wrapped around a PTO shaft on a tractor. Hard to believe you could not feel that one from the original hit.

 

Wow! Were do you even start to take that off? An odd shimmy?........lol

 

Surprised the friction didn't start a fire.

 

It was a woman, what more need be said?

 

How in the world do you NOT stop after you've run over a mattress and didn't see it out back in your mirror after you passed it?

 

driveshaft is just a "little" out of balance. lol

 

The rear view mirror is there for applying make-up not looking behind you.

 

Except that it was a GUY driving a Jeep back around 2007-2008.
Jeep Runs Over Mattress, Develops "Shimmy" From Mass Of Wires, Cords Attached To Drivetrain

 

And you know this because.......................

 

Someone posted it here about that time, said it was an Explorer? Does appear it was a guy, tho.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/8...-mattress.html

 

Brings back horrible memories of laying under a 73 Nova in a field at about 3:00am trying to disentangle what seemed like a gadzillion miles of barbed wire from the driveshaft.


Oh to be young and dumb again (the only real thing that has changed is that I've aged...LOL)


Bobby

 

It makes me wonder why I was worried about balancing my drive-shaft.

 

Because I always mess up my eye liner on the way to work........

 

I'm sorry. That looks to be about 8 or so inches thick. There is no way there is that much room in that tunnel. I cannot believe there wasn't one heck of huge, "new" noise.