Guest Tin Soldier Posted July 25, 2003 Share Posted July 25, 2003 During the flooding and everything was going on I was driving down a dry road when it collasped under my back tire. I was doing maybe 35mph. I didn't puncture the tire or hurt my wheel but the place where my lift mounts to the bottom the car bent back like half an inch. You see the rear block at an angle (I will get pix). It was tracking really hard too. I went to a local tractor repair place and we hooked a chain up around the side of the rear and used hydrolics to pull it back into place. The block is still at an angle but now the wheel is only back 1/8 of inch instead of 1/2. Drives better. Just upsets me that I can smash thru mud and jump bridge and stinking dry road gets the better of my suby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thesubarukid Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 maybe the bridge jumping weakened it, and over time, it caused it to bend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tin Soldier Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Probably more like the huge rust hole that I found in the unibody that had more to do with it then anything. Going to try to weld a frame under the car to hold everything together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thesubarukid Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 yeah, that could do it as well... Good luck and let us know how things go with it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Caboobaroo Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 heh stupid roads....and stupid rust. Whoever invented rust should be drug out into the street and shot, lol:rollin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest baccaruda Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 rust doesn't destroy cars, physics does! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GeneralDisorder Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 Specifically - I believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics comes into play. It's commonly known as entropy. In laymans terms it means something along the lines of: "The tendancy for order to decrease inside a closed system". "Oh - now we see the violence inherent in the system!" - "you saw him oppressing me didn't you?" :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: HEHE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bbbs53 Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 Hi, just out of curiosity, who's lift kit was it, or was it your own? Bradd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tin Soldier Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 It's one from pkdavis. Nothing happened to the lift. It's the darn subframe of the car that gave way. I don't even thing the bolts got bent. Tell me, when you have 3000 pounds of car travel roughly 40 mph, what kinda force is that going to put on the tire when it hits a 3 foot hole all the sudden? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thesubarukid Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 its going to hit with the force of 3000 lbs traveling at about 40 mph:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: Sorry, couldn't pass that one up:lol: I don't know an exact figure, but thats a bit of weight that was dispersed evenly over four tires, and now only three, and at a moderate speed like that hitting a hole that size i imagine could do some damage (blown tire maybe?). Was the hole three feet deep or 3 ft wide? Why, what happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tin Soldier Posted August 13, 2003 Share Posted August 13, 2003 Oddly enuff the hole was just as wide as my tire and ruffly 2-3 ft deep. I thought it blew the tire at first, but it just knocked half the air out of it. I had it check and it's not leaking. Car makes a terrible noise when making left turns so it musta screwed up the bearing or something pretty bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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