Mike did you have the truck forward or backward on the tow dolly.I ask because I own a dolly and recently had to tow my plow truck.The plow frame prevented me from putting the truck front first.Weight on the dolly.I towed it backward,Got up to speed and the same thing happened.It swayed uncontrollably.Had to keep it under 45MPH.I believe the reason for this is the weight of the truck was trying to climb up onto the dolly,If that makes sense.I think that the majority of the weight has to be on the dolly.Just wondering if this is what happened to you.

 

Sorry to hear about your truck Jeremy. Hopfully everything will work out for you, keep us informed on the progress.

 

There must be a trick to joining the road help network that I am too simple minded to figure out. Just got another attempt kicked back to me by Daemon.

 

Forward Bruce. Read more in the rep point thread.

Mark, stop trying. I will try to contact Alan. You are not the only one having trouble.

 

Jeremy, I thought you moved to Georgia man.

 

Mike, if you get a chance, drop my name, I have been trying to get through, and keep getting bounced as well.
Thank you in advance.

 

We meet while I was in grad school and she an undergrad, and we kind of just grew apart with separate interests, etc... There were no kids, but I must've felt some guilt because I inherited all the debt, while she got the 240 Z!

 

Well, reading about CAT's that throw rods certainly isn't off topic for me, having just traded my trusty old PSD + $$ for a used M-2 106 with a CAT C7, and the 7 gals of oil really got my attention since that's what mine holds. Now I'm getting nervous about trying a pressure box to increase the ICP and get another 30 HP and 140 lb-ft of TQ! I'm also wondering how much cash reserve is required to replace my engine, like you had to do?

 

I was screwed and they knew it. I was in Bluefield, WV, or that is where I was towed to. I was on my way to Buffalo when it happened and had to get there so I just rented a car and continuted my trip. Told them to replace the motor and call me when it was done. I was expecting something in the neighborhood of 10k, so I was a little shocked. They had me by the short hairs and knew it. It will not happen again.

 

As much as I love the 7.3... If I pop another one... 5.9 is going back in. Sorry to hear it and like I said elsewhere... It makes me nervious at 460...

 

Jeremy, I was shocked(to say the least) when Mike called me Sunday, we were another 150 miles away from yall and no easy way to get there.

If you need someone to blame for the motor letting go, blame me, I pushed you to roll the drums on sat. Sorry.

 

Mike Tenn01PSD350 You da Man! You didn't even help me, and I want say thanks! My question is, did you guys see like a billion SuperDuty's heading up the road away from Smokin' ? Did others stop to help? I would have!

 

hey man sorry to hear bout the truck but ill be sticking around to hear what your going to be doing next ill be waiting

 

Uptade a few things here. Spoke with Jody today and he seems to think that it may be PMRs, based on the damage I described, even though my truck was made before the cutoff date. He's seen '99 trucks with PMR's in them and I guess Ford put a few sets out there for testing before '01. I'm going to try and find out this evening for sure what rods are in that motor.

I was supposed to, but the whole thing fell apart earlier this year, so I'm staying here in MO.

No way would I blame anyone. Ultimately, it was my decision to do it. Like I said earlier, I wanted to find out anyway and what broke would have done it sooner or later.

After talking with some people today, I'm at 90% leaning that way. I've got some feelers out and it's mostly going to depend on price and availibility of a CR 5.9.

 

Atleast he had a resourceful man like Mike around to take care of him. Bob there really wasn't that many SDs there we were out numbered by the Dodges but they would have stopped and helped, where they broke down they were a few hours from Gatlinburg..