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While TDY last week I get the dreaded phone call from the 17 year old. "Dad, somethings wrong with my truck" Swears he didnt do anything.
I'm thinking he decided to set the parking brake as hard as he could and just gassed the crap out of it to get it moving. Took the hard brake lines and parking brake cable out too. Now I get to scour the junkyards looking for backing plates as the bolt holes are destroyed. Any tips on finding them somewhere else?
WOW!! In my 57 yrs I have never seen anything like that!?! WTF?! Never, never ever, even growing up in the rust belt, wow, I would think something else let loose and caused a bind inside, or... like you said he SET the parking brake ALL the WAY! Sorry, good luck with the fix!
I rarely use the parking brake in any of my trucks, all are manuals except my 00 Ex, 02 F350 and 22 F550, and on those I'll use it maybe 4-5x a year, probably same with my old trucks, but as soon as I start to go and notice it's not going, I go DOH! Release the brake DA!
Im a firm believer in the parking brake ever since the plastic clip that holds the shift selector cable to the transmission on my 99 decided to break while parked on a steep driveway.
Nothing in the diff seems to be affected, just the brakes. Hopefully....
Never saw it quite that bad either
I sure would make your 17 year old son help get the parts from the junkyard
He may have been power braking it, trying to get the back tires to light
The E brake has probably been sticking for years
Almost agree about E brake use
I tell people to either use them every day, or not at all
The cables stick either way, it just takes longer if you use the brake every day
Worst thing you can do, is set the brake, and come back to the truck in a month and expect it to release properly
Oh skippy will have to pay for it as well! Brakes were all new last year. I got the full story last night. Posing the truck for cool guy pics up on the mountain. Forgot he set the parking brake. Went to leave and obviously couldn't....Until he put it in 4 low that is. Built 351, 4.56 gears and 4 low made short work of the bolts.
NOW it makes sense
Live and learn, he'll never make that mistake again
I think you can fix it pretty easy
Hopefully the axle flange is okay
Seeing as you need to remove that left side axle
Might want to replace that rear wheel bearing and seal while you are in there
There is a special slide hammer tool that makes replacing those a 5 minute deal
Yep, at that age, my son could break a bowling ball. One day yours will be on this forum telling folks how to fix this!
To be fair, breaking a bowling ball is easier than one would think. I broke one when the zipper failed on my carrier and it fell onto an asphalt parking lot. It put a hairline crack in it that I thought was superficial... yeah when it hit the #2 pin in the second frame it exploded. A 2.5 foot drop and smacking a pin was all it took.
I was taught to handle all my problems myself. Before I had a vehicle, I had to have a job for 6 months, since a job would support the issues that cars would bring [insurance, gas, repairs, etc].
I would have never called my dad. I already know what he would have said which would not have helped me fix the problem. I guess, that is why one of several reasons why I became a mechanic.
On the bright side, he knows how to use the park brake.
I can't say chit
Looking back
All the cars I've wrecked
Spinning dads Monte Carlo around in the canyon when I lost it
Wrecked almost every car dad had
The caddy, the Mustang, ruined the paint on the Monte using steel wool on the paint instead of on the chrome
Burnt the fuse link on the BMW jumping it backwards (damn revenge machine had a red ground wire and a black positive wire)
Best dad ever, forgot all that et al. (and others)
Just read through this since it got teased on the FTE home page. Congrats!
Kids are fun, aren't they?
I have a question that I haven't seen asked here: Is the [Parking Brake] light working?
If not, maybe that needs to get some attention. If so, maybe that needs to get converted to a really bright red LED.
You could even wire up a buzzer circuit with the parking brake light switch and the neutral safety starter circuit that buzzes whenever the light is on and the car isn't in Park or Neutral.
To be fair, breaking a bowling ball is easier than one would think. I broke one when the zipper failed on my carrier and it fell onto an asphalt parking lot. It put a hairline crack in it that I thought was superficial... yeah when it hit the #2 pin in the second frame it exploded. A 2.5 foot drop and smacking a pin was all it took.
Ok, he could break an engineer hammer! 😂
Come to think of it, I did have to put a new handle on it…
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