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Update from hell!
Buy a full float, the tire will never come off with a broken axle they said. Well, taking my trailer to a welding shop to convert from pintel to 2" ball hitch the 55's driver's side rear tire flew past me with the hub on fire. I skidded down the road into a store's driveway losing sight of the tire on fire. The rear axle was on fire as well, so put it out I ran up the hill looking for the tire, mean while traffic comes to halt and people are yelling for me as they were putting out the fire on the tire. At this point I'm in some kind of disbelief, so a young guy says He'll bring the tire back down to my truck, as I turned around to the truck a group people are all around it putting out another axle fire that started back up. That was the worst of the day. So many people stepped up and helped me throughout the day, I couldn't have gotten this far without them. The guy who put out the axle called a roll back and let me take it to his yard, he builds hotrods. He also took me to the u haul yard to pick up a van, so I can tow home my trailer. The roll back guys knows a hotshot in town and he is hauling the 55 minus a wheel, home. Nobody was hurt, had some body damage and a lot of rear axle carnage.
Right now I don't care what exactly happened, just glad nobody got hurt and I'm headed home in the morning. The 55 will get home Sunday.
On a brighter note, the rollback driver was the same guy who picked me up last week when it first started. One of the guys helping at the accident offered to take me anywhere in town I needed to go. He's a Toyota guy, shows me his arm tattoo of the Toyota symbol. I'm so grateful to all those people going out of their way.
I'm going to relax tonight and head out in the morning for home.
Buy a full float, the tire will never come off with a broken axle they said. Well, taking my trailer to a welding shop to convert from pintel to 2" ball hitch the 55's driver's side rear tire flew past me with the hub on fire. I skidded down the road into a store's driveway losing sight of the tire on fire. The rear axle was on fire as well, so put it out I ran up the hill looking for the tire, mean while traffic comes to halt and people are yelling for me as they were putting out the fire on the tire. At this point I'm in some kind of disbelief, so a young guy says He'll bring the tire back down to my truck, as I turned around to the truck a group people are all around it putting out another axle fire that started back up. That was the worst of the day. So many people stepped up and helped me throughout the day, I couldn't have gotten this far without them. The guy who put out the axle called a roll back and let me take it to his yard, he builds hotrods. He also took me to the u haul yard to pick up a van, so I can tow home my trailer. The roll back guys knows a hotshot in town and he is hauling the 55 minus a wheel, home. Nobody was hurt, had some body damage and a lot of rear axle carnage.
Right now I don't care what exactly happened, just glad nobody got hurt and I'm headed home in the morning. The 55 will get home Sunday.
On a brighter note, the rollback driver was the same guy who picked me up last week when it first started. One of the guys helping at the accident offered to take me anywhere in town I needed to go. He's a Toyota guy, shows me his arm tattoo of the Toyota symbol. I'm so grateful to all those people going out of their way.
I'm going to relax tonight and head out in the morning for home.
