Cedar
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- November 2, 2010
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- City, State
- Portland, OR
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '94 XLT
Hi Guys and Gals,
I'm looking for some encouragement and advice after my 94 Ex got rear-ended by a Kenworth crane/flatbed carrying a load of pre-cast concrete. If you can personally recommend a body shop that can take an honest look at my frame in the Portland, OR or surrounding area please give me a heads up!
I was on my way to MHCC in Gresham and slowed down to stop for a bus with stop-sign out and red-flashers. Before I even came to a complete stop the truck was on me. He locked his brakes up and managed to pull right, impacting the passenger side rear. The guy admitted he didn't see the bus and I take that to mean he didn't see me either...
The insurance already totaled it but it just seems like such a waste if I don't go ahead and get an estimate on the frame and engine tuning to make it roadworthy. The trailer receiver took the brunt of the force creating a kink in the passenger rear frame, rear of the axel and just forward of the leaf-spring bracket. It was enough to flake the paint off. That's the part I'm most worried about.
No air-bags deployed but the inertial fuel-switch was triggered and the seat-back broke (only ratchets all the way reclined). With the fuel-switch reset, the engine turns over but does not idle right, there's extra hum and whir to it and just sounds off (friend says could just be muffler). The brakes were ridiculously sensitive once I got it powered up (I had to coast it down hill into the parking lot no power because of the fuel shutoff and maybe this is because of all the brake pumping?). The main questions I'm going to try and answer are whether I can get the frame trued so I'm not burning through tires and whether anything might have broken in the engine, from there brakes, and sheet-metal/bumper will be absolute last on my list since I'm sure I can find that at the salvage yard.
I grew up in this Ex, been in the family for 18 years, 256k miles. It never stranded me anywhere other than the fruit-stand a few miles from home and it's gotten better with age since I stopped taking it to the stealership.
If you've got any advice about how to choose a body shop, what to watch out for and wisdom of restoring a rear-ended ex/cars, I'm all ears. As for my mechanical abilities, the most involved I've gotten is having replaced the radius arm bushings and brackets last summer.
I'm looking for some encouragement and advice after my 94 Ex got rear-ended by a Kenworth crane/flatbed carrying a load of pre-cast concrete. If you can personally recommend a body shop that can take an honest look at my frame in the Portland, OR or surrounding area please give me a heads up!
I was on my way to MHCC in Gresham and slowed down to stop for a bus with stop-sign out and red-flashers. Before I even came to a complete stop the truck was on me. He locked his brakes up and managed to pull right, impacting the passenger side rear. The guy admitted he didn't see the bus and I take that to mean he didn't see me either...
The insurance already totaled it but it just seems like such a waste if I don't go ahead and get an estimate on the frame and engine tuning to make it roadworthy. The trailer receiver took the brunt of the force creating a kink in the passenger rear frame, rear of the axel and just forward of the leaf-spring bracket. It was enough to flake the paint off. That's the part I'm most worried about.
No air-bags deployed but the inertial fuel-switch was triggered and the seat-back broke (only ratchets all the way reclined). With the fuel-switch reset, the engine turns over but does not idle right, there's extra hum and whir to it and just sounds off (friend says could just be muffler). The brakes were ridiculously sensitive once I got it powered up (I had to coast it down hill into the parking lot no power because of the fuel shutoff and maybe this is because of all the brake pumping?). The main questions I'm going to try and answer are whether I can get the frame trued so I'm not burning through tires and whether anything might have broken in the engine, from there brakes, and sheet-metal/bumper will be absolute last on my list since I'm sure I can find that at the salvage yard.
I grew up in this Ex, been in the family for 18 years, 256k miles. It never stranded me anywhere other than the fruit-stand a few miles from home and it's gotten better with age since I stopped taking it to the stealership.
If you've got any advice about how to choose a body shop, what to watch out for and wisdom of restoring a rear-ended ex/cars, I'm all ears. As for my mechanical abilities, the most involved I've gotten is having replaced the radius arm bushings and brackets last summer.