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Old 01-14-2009, 05:25 PM
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My Truck has a Shimmy

I saw this and fell out of my chair. Thought i would share. Sorry if it was already posted.

This guy ran over a mattress and decided to keep going. The ensuing jumble finally whipped around enough to put a tear in the gas tank, the subsequent lack of fuel is what finally brought this vehicle to its knees.
It had still managed to drive 30 more miles decently with a 60 lb. tangle wrapped around the drive shaft.

This genius complained that the vehicle had a "shimmy" when driving it high speeds.

This is what the dealership found..............




 
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Old 01-14-2009, 05:28 PM
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Good lord! That is a massive mess I cannot believe that drive shaft how did he make it 30 miles with that! What was the truck?
 
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Old 01-14-2009, 05:35 PM
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I got it in an email today that was being passed around.. I opened it up and went " WOW"
 
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How would you not notice that?!
 
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Old 01-14-2009, 07:46 PM
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I still don't see how the drive shaft stayed together will all of that on it or it didn't lock the entire thing down.
 
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Old 01-15-2009, 01:05 AM
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Got a phone call yesterday from a guy who thought his BTS had gone bad. Just because he couldn't go anywhere and did have a shimmy at first. Told him to check his driveline, sure enough, phone rang about 2 min. later. Broke the driveshaft right about the center support bearing, at the u-joint.
 




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