Yesterday we were out Coyote hunting and we were chasing one through a field that had about 1.5 ft of snow on it and we were doing about 30mph and under the snow was a lease road that ran to a closed in oil well. We didn't see it and man we hit it hard! We flew over 30 feet with our truck. Literally there was over 30 ft of untouched snow inbetween where we took off and where we landed. After we got to a main road he got out and opened the hood and he noticed that he could touch the passenger side of the radiator and the cap and it was cold to touch. The drivers side was just warm-hot. Any idea what this could be? To get digs on the truck check out the my gallery.

 

Didn't see the road, or the oil well?

So, you're saying you were airborne for 30 feet and landed hard?

Maybe collapsed some internals in the radiator?


phox

 

Wile E Coyote used an acme oil well trap that is designed to catch road runners and instead you found it. Chalk one up for Wile E coyote.
Was it overheating? or losing coolant? If not it may be that the T-stat was just closed.

 

Phox- Sometimes when they shut in an old well the roads were merely just paths throught the fields and the farmer usually seeds right over top of it. Thats what we thought and it sure looked like it to. But I guess in the heat of the moment it slipped are minds that HEY- There could be a real road in here. Yes we hit hard I pulled muscles in my neck/ good thing I was belted in. On the up side we now found out the hard way that are truck dives bad. Gotta love hillbily huntin.

 

Very nice truck - sounds like your beating the hell out of it. Why not use a hunting beater? For me, its just way too much hard earned $ to abuse it.