Sorry to see this, glad no one got hurt. Take the wife out for dinner and tell her you love her, I'm sure she feels awful. Good on you for not killing someone, I would have had to take a vacation.

One of my buddies almost killed me like this, he was backing his truck up and his foot slipped off the clutch... he jumped on the brake but nothing happened.

 

That's how I crunched a friend's classic car back in high school.

 

What finally convinced me to stop "right legging" it was reading about somebody firing up their plow truck to warm it up,
slipping on the ice right when it started and running over their left leg.

Glad nobody was hurt. A coat of paint on the garage door and nobody will notice.

 

I read posts about guys with manuals wanting remote starting and bypassing their neutral safety switch. They must really trust their parking brake.

 

I always park with the truck in gear, but I'm almost borderline OCD with checking to be sure it's out of gear if I'm starting it and planning to get back out.

If I'm triggering the relay under the hood when needing to turn the engine over while doing engine work, I probably check the shifter 5 times before I'll even take the cover off the box.

 

I read on the internet that Ford owns Cummings....

Nice work on the house, I feel your pain. I bed surfed my 86 F-350 thru the corner of my dad's garage while moving stuff in the bed one morning. I had started it and backed it in and somehow left it in Reverse with the P-brake on. The 460 overpowered the brake after a bit and I took out the corner of the garage. Fortunately the building stopped it as I jumped out and attempted to get it out of the building, My Dodge, on the other hand, probably would have brought the whole building corner down.

Fortunately, Mom's Benz and my GTO were in the other two stalls and went unharmed......

 

Nice Write up..... and a great stress reliever as well as your workout..



Tell the wife that she has to be really nice to you from now until next year a the same time...

Breakfast in bed
Backrub after a good workout


Daily..... maybe twice a day....

 

Remote start will start truck in gear with parking brake set no problem. Been there.

 

Hey guys, this is the wife. After my husband read me your "replies" we did have a good laugh about it. I would like to add an additional apology to my list of feau pas yesterday. Sorry for the word "cummings". I learned a whole lot of lessons yesterday but that one came later in the day.
Thanks, the sore, demon truck whiplashed wife.

 

As I often tell myself whenever I goof things up, "well now, if it had to go bad, it´s a good thing it didn´t go any worse, yep, could have been much worse than that."

That´s a nice one to remember.

Glad you´re just sore and whiplashed, could have been worse.

Slev

 

Dear Lovely, sore, demon truck whiplashed wife...So glad to hear you were not injured severely....people make mistakes and then hopefully we learn from them, I bet this is one you will never forget as it must have been terrifying knowing you couldn't stop that demon on it's rampage.

Now life would be grand if we all could learn from each others mistakes, but sadly that isn't the rule others here are bound to repeat it. Lets hope it has as happy an ending as yours did

 

Hey, we ladies do wacky things once in a while. We got a long way to go until we catch up to all the things guys have done. Glad your fine. And totally laugh about the whole thing, the only thing we can do after assessing the damage and getting through. That's life


As for the Cummins fax paus, that's a running joke around here. Hope I wasn't too hard on you. No ill intention meant.

 

Doesn't really matter. I've seen more than one trucks' starter or solenoid short out and activate the starter with no one anywhere near them. One was an older dodge wrecker. I was sleeping upstairs, over the bay where the truck was parked, in the middle of the night. I heard the starter activate and thought the boss was going on a call, which in and of itself was rather odd as the reason I was there in the first place was to take calls so the boss didn't have to. A few seconds after I heard the starter I heard it fire up... then a building shaking 'crash' as the truck plowed down the overhead door. It went across the street, mowed down a fence and ended up in the side of a greenhouse. I caught holy heck for that one. He was always pounding it into my thick skull to park things in neutral, just for this reason.

 

My father had a saying:

Smart men learn from their mistakes.

Wise men learn from other's mistakes.

 

I remember a few years back one of our members telling how he and the wife were traveling and parked in front of their motel room. In the middle of the night he heard his truck start and it came through the wall into the room with them.

Electrical short almost got them killed...Dodge had a recall over that stuff way back when....