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Old 04-14-2014, 06:23 AM
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Not so much for me. This is my truck. We were on the way to a repair shop to get a leaking wheel seal repaired (had just had this fixed two days prior back home). Seems I had bigger problems I was unaware of untill this happened. It was just a couple inches from coming out all the way which would have been much worse and possibly even lethal had that axle and tires gone airborne into traffic. My brother was following me and saw the axle start to come out. He was laying on his horn, but of course, I couldn't hear it over the Cummings diesel. I did know something was wrong when she popped out of gear, which turned out to be the axle coming out of it's spline, so I coasted to a stop just in time. I jacked up the truck, pushed the axle out of traffic, called the repair shop and requested a flat bed, locked the truck up, and headed back to the flying field to get the Corsair her maiden.

I'm still stuck in Charlotte at my brothers house waiting to hear from the repair shop.

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