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Here’s my problem. Stupid me went 4x4 in my STOCK!!! Explorer and got stuck in a swamp kind of creek thing. I don't really know what is but basically flooded grass. Its winter, about -13c and about 5 in of snow. So I broke through the ground and the wheels are in ruts and spinning freely. Ground level is the frame. How do I get out? What I have available to me is a Kubota L2800 (Ruffly the same weight if not alittle heavier then the truck) with plow and Front end loader. I have a 3/4 ton come along and a 2 ton hoist. Lots of chain, no straps. I am a one man show with no help. I have tried hooking a chain to the frame and the tractor and pulled from behind the truck and got nothing but spinning tires. I have tried lowering the...

Hello all. As the member who this phrase was coined after, I believe we have enough members now to start making an actual board and sub-division of Serious Explorations. Therefore, I must lay down a few rules for the nominations and elections. 1. Anybody can be nominated that is a member of the roll over posse. 2. As a member though, consideration for election must be based on a few simple factors. 2a. Stupidity-Ie, getting hammered and trying to do doughnuts in a wash. Who was that? 2b. Ammount-Ie, number of times that any one person has had at least two wheels, of the same side of the vehicle, off the ground for more than, oh let's say 30 seconds. 2c. Dedication/Damage-Ie. The amount of damage sustained to the...

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whats your worst ticket been? how fast were you going and in what zone? just curious....

So as you all know from here My truck met up with a tree. So here begins the front end rebuild proses. Day One, the start: Little messed up? Us fixing the Core Support and it worked! Got most of it! Ok come to find out the oil is fine, The Radiator is cracked down both seams but that is a $400 fix all said and done for me. The frame is fine, Have my dad look at it in the afternoon and tell my mom I am keeping it. Please keep an eye on this thread for updates I need the moral support! :salute: Cheers!

What a shame..... :( Mach vs. Explorer Wreck

Well, there I was minding my own business, gruvin with the newly fixed AC vibe. It felt so good, I decided to treat the Turdle to an oil change, and get some lightbulbs for the house. A good shakedown run I thought. So, off to wally world. I got some general tsao's chicken from the deli, some synthetic oil, a brand new Motorcraft filter, found some 67 watt bulbs, man, everything was going well. Even the check out clerk had wit this time. I had just washed The mounty and was thinking how good it looked as I walked toward it. I noticed a new Van had parked next to me, so, I carefully backed out.I continued backing , making a reverse u turn so I could go the other direction out. I checked to the right, nobody coming, gave it...

Yes it is true. Someone down here has gone and done the deed. Everyone is fine, but the metal sure isn't:roll::roll: it was an awesome end for end--so I give it a full 10 out of 10 on the scale If you are planning on coming to the bbq tomorrow you will find out the details, until then, we are under the sheets on this one.

I am home now from the hospital. Not doing too well. This was terrible. Took a quick minute to post these. Will explain more of this terrible accident later.

I was on vacation this week towing our 23' trailer with a 2007EB 4.6L. I had just under half a tank left and it was only 60km to the next town. Well towing at 8.5mpg quickly moved that fuel gauge! The gauge was on E and I was watching the driving computer in the dash telling me the distance to empty. 10 miles (Okay, should be close), 5 miles (hmm, where is that station?), 3 miles (how am I going to explain this to the wife?), we crest a hill and there is the station!! As I am slowing to make the turn the computer switches to 0 miles left. I make it the pumps and start pumping. The manual states the capacity is 85.2 Liters. I pumped in 83.9 Liters!!! I must have been seconds away from stalling. After that I filled up at 1/2...

Title speaks for itself. Only permantent damage so far is a dent in the driver side door and I think I shorted my tranny temp gauge. Power everything is working properly, tranny shifted weird coming to a stop all the way home, but should be fine. You can see in the pics the water line on the back of the hatch area. That line crossed my open window when I went through the deep part, I definitley got wet. There is a vid but I don't know how to post them. I'll email if people are interested. Byrd

List of damge -Bent frame, gas tank pushing into the rear drive shaft -Bent wristed radius arm -Bent rim, tire still holdig air -All but three windows -Roof colapsed about 1 to 1 1/2 feet -Broken front Panhard bar, still salvageable with parts. -Drivers side rock slider -Not a straight body panel with the exception of the unscathed rear hatch. -Drivers door no longer closes after being pryed open. Everything else is good. Just need a new frame and body to transfer all the parts over. Didn't even break any lights. Here's the story, as usual, as with my previous roll over, it is not very exciting. Driving dow a fire road at about 20 mph, I reached over to grab the CB mic from the passenger floorboard. I drifted right as...

So i'm doing my front brakes on Saturday. All is going well. It is, after all, disc brakes. Not like the old days when all four corners were drums. This should be easy, right? Wrong!! All went well. Or so I thought. I did the front brakes without a hitch. Ex was off the jack stands and ready for the road test. I decided to clean up before the road test. While I was cleaning up I found one of the new pads by the driver side wheel. My first thought was that the idiots at the factory put an extra pad in the box, right? There is no way that I reassembled the driver side without installing one of the pads. I mean come on, no way. Well, I'm an idiot. Not only did I forget to install one of the pads, I didn't tighten the...

...I got rear ended by a lifted Hummer...The guy said he fell asleep in traffic with his foot on the gas and woke up after he hit me... ..I didn't have my camera as I was running 1 cabinet out to Riverside at 2 in the afternoon...At 2:30 while stuck at a sigalert on the 91 @ Kraemer, the Hummer hit me but good...No warning and I didn't see it coming...:( ...The dash popped out, but everything else was secured...I just removed my floor jack and tall jack stands so I could haul this cabinet....I was wise enough to stow all the rig bags behind the front seat... ...I went to the doctor last night as the back of my head hit the seat so hard, it actually compressed the padding and hit the metal in the seat...This left a knot and an...

Not too proud of this one, but it's my responsibility to inform y'all of the demise of an explorer.....especially if it's mine :( I was coming home from a weekend of wheeling up in Hazleton PA at Paragon with Lizardtrac, Doug and Das Frem when I took what I thought was the exit for 83 South....it *USED* to be, anyway...now it's the Express lane with no exits and no signs to tell people! I was really tired and trying to figure out how far out of my way I'd have to go to turn around when Blackjack launched over a really rough section of this Jersey-wall-lined-concrete shoot called an express lane. Somehow lost control of the wheel and he took a really hard left into the wall, then proceeded to 'ping pong' off the passenger side...

I'll get a full story up soon. Just got back. Short story - the car infront of me rearended the car infront of him, came to a dead stop while I was going 60mph. I swerved, couldn't get out of the way. I dont think damage is as bad as it looks, but my car is in SC and I'm in VA. No one was hurt, my gf wasn't wearing a seatbelt and she was ok (and yes, I do yell at her all the time to wear her seatbelt).

Wow 2009 has not been my year! So my Limited is now dead. I was hopping it would not be totaled but it has been. Last night I went over a big hump in the road and I had just took the weight out of my back end. I fish tailed long story short I met this nice guy named Tree... Yeah totaled. I might buy it back and rebuild it my self, not to sure yet only time will tell! ###k I have been freaking out. There is a RARE chance it might not be totaled but I don't see that happening... :( Oh well what can I do? I will just take off all my everything and put then on another one! Is that looking at the right side? Can Rick change my Screen Name to take in a account my new truck? If I do end up with a new one? Damn! Ugh! Oh...