Sparky-Watts
Banned
Re: RE: Re: RE: Axle fluid leaking into rear brakes
Some of you may recall my first conquest at pulling another vehicle out of the mud. It was a 3/4 or 1 ton Chevy with a HUGE wooden shed on a trailer behind it. Topped that today with a double header of a different type. Last night on my way home from work, the one dirt road I generally take was being redone. The grader was just finishing smoothing out a load of fresh dirt as I went through. It rained an inch and a half last night and this morning, so on my way home from work today I decided to see how sloppy it was. The first two spots they had fixed were pretty sloppy, and I could see where someone had already plowed their way through, leaving some pretty good ruts. As I topped the hill, I could see a truck sitting kinda crooked in the road about half a mile ahead. Then I saw the Chevy Blazer down in the ditch....buried up to the bumpers. As I got closer, I could see that the truck in the road was a flatbed tow-truck....and it was stuck!! I casually pulled up (in two wheel drive, of course) and asked if they needed a tug. The tow truck driver just laughed, but the kid in the Blazer said I could try if I wanted, but didn't think I could do it since the tow truck got stuck trying to pull him out. One problem: the tow truck was in the way. After some persuading, I talked the tow driver into hooking his truck up to my Jeep with his chains. I tugged him all the way down to the paved road, about 1/4 mile ahead. Then gave him a ride back to where the Blazer was. He hooked up the chains again, and I yanked the Blazer down to the paved road, too!!! As I was turning around to take the tow driver back to his truck, I realized I was still in 2wd!!!!!!! The tow driver was in such disbelief that he paid me $60, and the kid in the Blazer paid me $40. And I never even left the driver's seat!!!!
Some of you may recall my first conquest at pulling another vehicle out of the mud. It was a 3/4 or 1 ton Chevy with a HUGE wooden shed on a trailer behind it. Topped that today with a double header of a different type. Last night on my way home from work, the one dirt road I generally take was being redone. The grader was just finishing smoothing out a load of fresh dirt as I went through. It rained an inch and a half last night and this morning, so on my way home from work today I decided to see how sloppy it was. The first two spots they had fixed were pretty sloppy, and I could see where someone had already plowed their way through, leaving some pretty good ruts. As I topped the hill, I could see a truck sitting kinda crooked in the road about half a mile ahead. Then I saw the Chevy Blazer down in the ditch....buried up to the bumpers. As I got closer, I could see that the truck in the road was a flatbed tow-truck....and it was stuck!! I casually pulled up (in two wheel drive, of course) and asked if they needed a tug. The tow truck driver just laughed, but the kid in the Blazer said I could try if I wanted, but didn't think I could do it since the tow truck got stuck trying to pull him out. One problem: the tow truck was in the way. After some persuading, I talked the tow driver into hooking his truck up to my Jeep with his chains. I tugged him all the way down to the paved road, about 1/4 mile ahead. Then gave him a ride back to where the Blazer was. He hooked up the chains again, and I yanked the Blazer down to the paved road, too!!! As I was turning around to take the tow driver back to his truck, I realized I was still in 2wd!!!!!!! The tow driver was in such disbelief that he paid me $60, and the kid in the Blazer paid me $40. And I never even left the driver's seat!!!!
