cjsdad

Drove to a work site this morning and made a repair. Heard a weird clicking, scraping noise as I drove away so I stopped a looked under my truck and found this! No idea where I picked it up and never heard it until this morning. I don't normally carry tools to deal with automotive type repairs so I was lucky to find the metal snips. This stuff was wrapped around the pinion yoke and even down in the crevice between the pinion seal and the shield in front of it. I guess I'm pretty lucky it didn't damage anything.

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oldcutlass

Been there and done that...

MDchanic

What a giant PIA.

I've cut surprising numbers of plastic supermarket bags from the same location (compressed into the space between the U-joint and diff), but haven't had the pleasure of wire fence yet.

- Eric

59-59-59

What a cool story. Thanks for letting us know

JOHNNYOLDS442

Well that's a good start to your friday.
Sry to hear.

Olds64

At least it didn't do any damage. I've only ever had to deal with plastic bags.

cjsdad

I gave that plastic fuel tank a good once-over to make sure it wasn't damaged. I imagine if I had not found that it would eventually carve a groove into it and rupture it. That would really suck.

Olds64

ELY442

X2, it was a windy day and I try to avoid a 55 gal garbage bag but it sucked right into my driveshaft/pinion area on my 74 C/S. The hard part was getting the plastic out of the pinion seal area with your bare hands.

CRUZN 66

You were very fortunate to have had the right tool readily available to fix the problem immediately...

oldspackrat

Heard about this a year or three ago. Not sure how to make just the picture appear.



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droldsmorland

[QUOTE=oldspackrat;1013090]Heard about this a year or three ago. Not sure how to make just the picture appear.

Ya that's in the junkyard dogs section here I think. I put it there from somewhere.
The story goes the female driver didn't know she had run over a mattress on the highway. She said the truck just stopped. Ya it stopped alright. It punched a hole in the gas tank and she ran out of gas!
The repair was a new tank and driveshaft. Lucky it didn't explode, don't know how it didn't!

CRUZN 66

Here you go...

tru-blue 442

Yep, but mine was chicken wire wrapped up in a '73 caprice Classic.
Fubar, had to change out the rear end seal as well.