Probably, had to do something similar for a kid who's car had a balljoint go out to get his car out of the road in an apartment building. Ruined my movers dolly but he was happy to give me the cash for it vs paying attention lot more for a tow truck.
There’s no way he drove on it at all. My bet is it broke and the tow company used that as a way to maneuver it into the closest parking spot available.
Most definitely could have drove it like that, at least just getting off the nearest road, 2wd and still have one wheel to steer. A tow company would have picked up the front end and you can see the marks from the dolly rolling. Seems like it would have been harder to push a truck into the spot without lifting the front vs just driving it. I drove a pickup with the same damage onto a trailer using a floor jack on that corner and a guy holding the handle straight.
This fits here, go over 30 miles an hour and you will have a problem here, hit a pothole and your in for a very bad day....but, got their Chick-fil-A....
Too bad, it looks like a decent truck that is going to get FUBAR very soon
This is a design flaw extremely well known in the 1st generation Toyota Tacoma (1995-2004), 3rd generation Toyota 4Runner (1996-2002), 1st generation Toyota Tundra (2000-2006), and 1st generation Toyota Sequoia (2001-2007). Basically Toyota's entire light/medium duty pickup truck and SUV lineup from 1995 to 2007 (with exception of the T100, but that's kind of a footnote due to low production numbers).
The lower ball joints are designed in such a way that they're held under constant tension rather than compression, so when they finally reach the perfect level of wear, the slightest wrong nudge (a bump, a shudder, even turning the wheel) will rip the ball joint from its socket, causing the wheel and hub assembly to fold underneath the vehicle, almost always taking the brakelines and CV axles (if 4WD) with them. I've seen a few instances where the failure happened at speed and ended up taking out the fender and door panels.
I would say a broken ball joint by the tire angle. He couldn't have driven that thing very far, or fast.
Good call, it's a first gen tundra. LBJs going out is a very common problem.
Lynden B. Johnson? So this is Operation Rolling Thunder.
Lady BJ’s going out.
Probably, had to do something similar for a kid who's car had a balljoint go out to get his car out of the road in an apartment building. Ruined my movers dolly but he was happy to give me the cash for it vs paying attention lot more for a tow truck.
There’s no way he drove on it at all. My bet is it broke and the tow company used that as a way to maneuver it into the closest parking spot available.
I'll bet your right, especially backed in.
Most definitely could have drove it like that, at least just getting off the nearest road, 2wd and still have one wheel to steer. A tow company would have picked up the front end and you can see the marks from the dolly rolling. Seems like it would have been harder to push a truck into the spot without lifting the front vs just driving it. I drove a pickup with the same damage onto a trailer using a floor jack on that corner and a guy holding the handle straight.
This fits here, go over 30 miles an hour and you will have a problem here, hit a pothole and your in for a very bad day....but, got their Chick-fil-A....
Too bad, it looks like a decent truck that is going to get FUBAR very soon
I feel like those castors would explode before they got up to 10mph with all the weight haha
Yea, questioning how they even got there....
Probably put it under there for the day and are going to try to get to work in the morning lol
Someone want to do the math to figure out how many thousand rpm’s a 3” diameter wheel is spinning at 40 mph?
4,500
Is that all? I was guessing it would be up around turbo speeds.
Think about it this way—regular people can throw objects at 40mph, so you can probably get a caster up to that speed by smacking it with your hand.
r/TheyDidTheMath
3” * pi =9.425”
40 * 5280 * 12= 2,534,400 inches per hour
2534400/60=42,240 inches per min
42240/9.425=4,482rpm
And that’s the car 6 feet away from your family at 75mph
I had one break going down the street in my S10, of course during rush hour.
r/OopsThatsDeadly
Those bearing would explore, literally, at about 20mph
Ah, the 'ol 90s/00s Toyota truck LBJ failure.
This is a design flaw extremely well known in the 1st generation Toyota Tacoma (1995-2004), 3rd generation Toyota 4Runner (1996-2002), 1st generation Toyota Tundra (2000-2006), and 1st generation Toyota Sequoia (2001-2007). Basically Toyota's entire light/medium duty pickup truck and SUV lineup from 1995 to 2007 (with exception of the T100, but that's kind of a footnote due to low production numbers).
The lower ball joints are designed in such a way that they're held under constant tension rather than compression, so when they finally reach the perfect level of wear, the slightest wrong nudge (a bump, a shudder, even turning the wheel) will rip the ball joint from its socket, causing the wheel and hub assembly to fold underneath the vehicle, almost always taking the brakelines and CV axles (if 4WD) with them. I've seen a few instances where the failure happened at speed and ended up taking out the fender and door panels.
Chick Fil A - of course
Lower ball joints are a scam sold to you by big auto
Sigh
Exhibit A on why safety inspections are a good thing