Driving On Bubble Wrap

[SS Crew]

I was driving back from the Colorado River last weekend and about the midpoint in the middle of the desert it sounds like I'm driving on bubble wrap, pop, pop, pop.

I'm thinking that my tire tread is separating from the casing so I pull over and check all the tires, and they're all good. I check under the truck - I'm not dragging anything, nothing's hanging down, so I take off. As soon as I get to about 40 mph the popping sound starts again. I pull over again and check the engine, look at the trans, have my wife start the truck up and rev the engine...nothing. I take off and it starts up again. It's driving me nuts. I pull over again and climb under the truck (in my new tourist t-shirt that I bought at Badenoch's). I look carefully along the drive line...lo and behold, there is a plastic tag on the driveshaft that has become detached on one end. And it's a heavy guage plastic. As the driveshaft turned, the cetrifugal force would pull the end of the tag out and it would smack the floor board much like having cards in your bicycle spokes. I ripped off that piece of shiznit off the driveshaft and was back on my way. But I did end up ruining my Badenoch's shirt, I caught my shoulder on the frame and it has that greasey, waxy stuff on it. Oh well, I won't have that problem again.

[mcreyaufmiller]

I keep a extra working on the truck t in my box for stuff like that and changing tires.

[critter]

And to think we use clothes pins & cards on the back spokes of our Bikes to get this noise.

[az'03Silverado]

My Grandpa used to have a '74 Dodge Sportsman van that was like a family icon. It had about 300,00+ miles when he got rid of it just a few years back. He overhauled the engine twice and had put about 5 junk yard transmissions in it. It ran like a champ though. But, he always had this blue mechanic's jumpsuit (the Dickies kind) rolled up and tied with twine just laying in the back for roadside repairs. He also had a twin-sized foam pad back there in case he had to spend the night in it somewhere.

[SS Crew]

My Grandpa used to have a '74 Dodge Sportsman van that was like a family icon.  It had about 300,00+ miles when he got rid of it just a few years back.  He overhauled the engine twice and had put about 5 junk yard transmissions in it.  It ran like a champ though.  But, he always had this blue mechanic's jumpsuit (the Dickies kind) rolled up and tied with twine just laying in the back for roadside repairs.  He also had a twin-sized foam pad back there in case he had to spend the night in it somewhere. 

 

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But my truck's only got 30,000 on the clock.

[RipT]

Hope that plastic tag was not part of the drive shaft balancing scheme.

 

Had a plastic fuel tank shield come partly loose on an Exploder that would rub against the drive shaft balance weights only on left turns over 30 mph... boy that took me weeks to find.

[SS Crew]

Hope that plastic tag was not part of the drive shaft balancing scheme.

 

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The way GM is value engineering everything, I wouldn't doubt it.

[dino688]

OHHHH, I read it as"Im driving on bubble wrap" In that point I would have responded me too! its lots of fun....I used the lawmower to drive over a 40 foot roll i found at work one time, they were gonna throw it out. had to put it to use. good times man!

[Cranky1]

In high school, for all the kids that would show off and do the one wheel burn outs and break stands in mommy's car, we would get a coat hanger and wrap it around the u-joint on the drive shaft as they went to class. We would be waiting for them after class, when they went to go home they would be hearing a clicking sound and we would convince them that they blew mommy's tranny.

 

A few of the kids took it so hard, we felt sorry for them and removed the coat hanger for them before they went home. That was 26 years ago. They say what goes around comes around, my 40th B-day, the same guys painted the gas tank and rear diff on my 69 Dart Swinger floresent orange.

 

The moral of this story is: Pay backs are a b1tch and never trust the guys you went to school with 26 years ago....lol.