At 2am on I-40 I think with 3 horses in a gooesneck trailer and my flexplate sheared in my 1993 W250.Can you say headache! Took TWO wreckers and the NICE folks at the U of Tenn.to put my horses up. I won't get into the rest of the details but what a LONG drawn out pain in the u know what.

 

Belt shredded and wrapped itself around the fan spindle when the truck at only 5400 miles. Required a flatbed to the dealership.

 

205,000 miles, never let me down. Lucky I guess.

 

this really wasnt my trucks fault but i was heading down a street which was beign worked on and they had the lane sooo skinny i had to drive up on a curb and when i came off i had a flat tire, so i pulled into the closest parking lot and put the factory jack under and it wouldnt reach( 35's) so i went to looking for a big block i carry in my truck to put the jack on and couldnt find it. so luckily there was a tire shop two blocks down the road, that i walked to to get a floor jack...wheeled back to my truck, got the tire off, rolled it down to the tire shop fixed it, rolled it back and got her back together( bout to hours altogether. then.... when i was pulling in to my aprtment complex i hit the curb kinda hard in my parking spot and messed the hydroboost all up it just started pouring fluids all onto the ground and then it was down for another day or so....that old truck had many stories....but ill space em out lol

 

My VP44 went out the day after I put the Comp on. 5x5 put too much strain on the old pump, I guess. It was a good excuse to get the HRVP.

 

Does it count as stranded if you don't have to tow it home? I had to replace the ignition lock cylinder in the parking lot after work a couple months ago, that's the first time I couldn't start the truck and drive it since I've owned it.

 

Lift pump died on me week before last. It cost me the $100 deductible and a week without my truck and she's running like new again.

 

In the thirteen years I've owned my heap I've had to be towed home three times.

Tore out the flex-plate hub, broke a couple of teeth off the ring gear, and the busted steering box mount thing.


I'm OK with that.

 

Blew out the rear freeze plug at about the 1/8 mile mark at the drag strip. Needed a wrecker to HotRodDiesels. Not really stranded since Michael sent a loner truck to the drag strip for me to drive until mine was fixed. Only time in two and a half years and 60,000 miles with a lot of hard drag strip runs that I did not get in, start it and go.

 

KEEP TALKIN IT UP !

 

I feel your pain I just experienced the same delema. I was about 80 miles from my house and shut off my truck, went to fire it back up and the darn ingnition would not roll over. I sat there for a good 15 minutes in hair pulling frustration trying to get it to turn over. I nearly snapped my key in half a couple of times. I tried that graphite lubricant but that didn't realy help at all.

The dodge dealer wanted over $200 to replace the tumbler and refit the keys,

Besides that i've never had any mechanical breakdowns, the only major thing I had to take care of was a leaky headgasket. That was no charge from the dealer.

Now, the Blue rig in my sig has had it's share of issues. Within 60k miles it ran through a new lift pump and it had to have the power steering pump replaced at 45k miles. I blame that on the lift and the big ol' tires. And you can rest assured DC would not warranty that.

 

Way back in the early days of this website before I joined I was horse hauling. I lost the ip in Ohio thankfully I was empty but had to spend 3 days at some awful motel. Then I had to walk 5 miles when the center spun out of the clutch in one of the first 5600 conversions done @ Bluemthals. Not real happy about that one but I am over it finally because I didn't even mention the clutch vendor . Several lp's but never stranded cause I always carry a spare.

 

He's the Square Administrator... and he self-actualizes!

 

Failed grid heaters stranded my for a couple of days.

 

Just a lift pump.