scary bang! thought i was a gonner

[molitor]

so i was sitting in my truck this afternoon and bang! then clang and nothing, so i shut the truck off. lemme give ya some background first before the punchline though.

my truck has been dying whenever my efans turn on. wasn't sure what was causing it. i did notice my truck was idling at about 450rpms since i swapped back to 1.75:1 ratio rockers. so i pulled the TB off and cleaned it really good, then adjusted the idle screw about 1 full turn. DBC by the way. started the turck and put everything back like it should be. then i turned on the a/c and sat in it for a bit listening to tenacious D.

all of a sudden, bam! clank! truck is still running heart has stopped beating, luckily i didn't soil my huggies. so i immediately shut the truck down and pop the hood, i look around for broken belts tensioners, wrenches stuck in fender wells, holes, anything to indicate i killed my truck.

but i see nothing, this whole time i have my arm up holding the hood open, when i let go of the hood to lean in for a closer look, it falls and nearly hits me in the head, that when i looked over and saw that the spring on the passenger side hood hinge is gone. appearantly it let go after i shut the hood and ba nced around inside the engine comp.

i found it on the ground and after some twisting, got it back in where it goes.

scary, then laughter, still laughing

[567234ta]

[RedHeartbeat]

how the hell did that happen?

[molitor]

i have no idea, i've never known the springs to come loose. on a lighter note, my truck no longer dies at idle when the fans come on!

[danger_ranger83]

[truckinL33]

Watch your eyeballs man! Glad you didn't get hurt at all.

[Red03SilSS]

That happend to my buddies truck one time. We were at my house sitting in the garage just BS'n and all of a sudden a loud bam came from his truck. it sounded like someone hit it with a bat, we looked for about 20 mins and saw the spring was missing.