It sounds like the van has gone through some water crossings or been under water. I would take a look at and change the rear differential fluid immediately. Also check the vent to make sure it is working. Loosing a rear axle as one of our members did a few years ago is not a cheap or good thing!
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Bingo. Here's the story. I guess it was about three years ago when a hurricane was supposed to hit St Pete Fl. I have a lady friend on the other coast in Ft Pierce. She invited me over there. I went. Ft Pierce ended up getting more weather than St Pete, but I didn't know that at the time.
The water was getting pretty deep where I was parked in front of her place, so I tried to move to higher ground. I got about two feet forward and the van got stuck. I didn't know it but she had a new pipe for water from the street and the dirt wasn't packed yet. The van's front wheels sunk a little into it and I couldn't budge. I watched as the water rose and rose until it was at the dust caps on the front wheels where the water level stayed.
So I was thinking my joint in St Pete was going to be a pile of trash from the hurricane and the van was gonna be submerged in water also and trashed. Luckily the water receded in Ft Pierce and the storm didn't hit St Pete directly and my mobile home was still standing with no damage.
It wasn't a good night. I thought for a while the only thing I'd have left were the family jewels I would have been holding in my hand. To further demonstrate how hairy the whole thing was, when we went outside the next day a huge palm tree had blown over but instead of it crushing her place with us in it, (mobile home) an oak tree caught the palm before it hit the roof. Unbelievable luck all the way around
I checked the diff. All good there.
Thanks..
The water was getting pretty deep where I was parked in front of her place, so I tried to move to higher ground. I got about two feet forward and the van got stuck. I didn't know it but she had a new pipe for water from the street and the dirt wasn't packed yet. The van's front wheels sunk a little into it and I couldn't budge. I watched as the water rose and rose until it was at the dust caps on the front wheels where the water level stayed.
So I was thinking my joint in St Pete was going to be a pile of trash from the hurricane and the van was gonna be submerged in water also and trashed. Luckily the water receded in Ft Pierce and the storm didn't hit St Pete directly and my mobile home was still standing with no damage.
It wasn't a good night. I thought for a while the only thing I'd have left were the family jewels I would have been holding in my hand. To further demonstrate how hairy the whole thing was, when we went outside the next day a huge palm tree had blown over but instead of it crushing her place with us in it, (mobile home) an oak tree caught the palm before it hit the roof. Unbelievable luck all the way around
I checked the diff. All good there.
Thanks..
Wow. Y'all are making Arizona sound like Shangrilah to me right about now. A community of people that care about their fellow man. Thats refreshing this day and age. I've been wanting to buy some land as a home base in Az, but my family is all on the east coast except for a nephew that moved ironically to Az.
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It's not perfect out here, but I personally have no desire to live back East again.
It is not perfect out here but as small towns back east are having more and more problems the west with fewer people looks a lot better to me. Even the populated areas are a little better sometimes. The warm weather and lack of bugs is an added advantage.
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Ya know what you get out here that you don't get in Florida? Freedom
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