Husker6.5
135' diagonal 16:9HD, 25KW sound!
This occured Friday on my daughter's 2002 Dodge Dakota 2wd. She said she heard a loud screetching sound followed by a sudden lurch to the left as the left front end dropped and it headed into the curb of the median. She was able to keep it fairly straight and brought it to a stop from 45 mph on four lane divided US 34 in west Lincoln. The wrecker driver said he had to use a bottle jack under the lower control arm to raise it up enough to get the tire/rim back up into the wheel well so he could get his lift under the front end. He said the tire was pretty much making a 90° left turn and was folded under the control arm. The only thing keeping the rotor/hub/rim/tire "on" her truck was the rotor was caught in the caliper (it popper the outer pad out of the caliper and snapped the upper pin). I'm heading up to Omaha in a few minutes to U Pull It-South (and possibly North location) to try and find a used knuckle/hub assembly. Their on-line vehicle inventory shows a 2004 Dakota at South and 2 2001's at North, as well as a couple of 2003 Durangos at North and a 2001 at South. Problem I ran into yesterday was all six correct year Durangos for interchange at U Pull It-Lincoln were 4WD, as their computer system doesn't list if 2 or 4WD, damn! Here's hoping that the 2004 at South is 2wd AND has a complete knuckle/hub assembly! $30 if they do! It will get her by for going to her summer job until I can get a pair of new unit hubs to put on weekend after next. What really sucks was we (father/daughter project) were going to put new upper and lower ball joints and end links on this weekend. Guess now I'll be teaching her how to do hubs, too!
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