Kansas City Tacoma Crew - 816/913

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had the gto out last week when it snowed and i hit ice. sideways in a second. had complete stable control right before, no major inputs to cause it otherwise.

 

I've only had a couple of bad run-ins with ice since I moved to MO so far. When @Slashaar and I lived east of Jefferson City our apartment's parking lot was at a steep incline, and I assumed I wasn't going to be able to get my car out for work; didn't really want to try because I had never driven in ice or snow before. They sent Josh home from work early and I tried to cut my thumb off while making dinner, so we had to rush to Jeff in his grand am and on our way back, we slid down the parking lot a bit. Then during our first winter storm this year, 71 was an absolute shit show and around the Paseo theres a slight curve and everyone just started going sideways, I went from the middle lane to the fast lane, and the person in the fast lane tapped me and slid past me on the left shoulder, and ahead of us was just a pile of cars. They handle snow and ice pretty well here in MO though if you give them time. Usually within a day of a storm I've never really had issues with road conditions so I'm thankful for that.

 

well they certainly didnt do much for it today. still drove my gto

but i can say this is the first time ive had trouble with ice in a long time. just the prime situation for it

 

I stayed home today, lol.

Ain't risking my life and truck when its having power steering issues. Hopefully everything cleaned up before tomorrow.

 

dont blame ya man it was a mess out i went out at 11:30 to help a friend that was only a few minutes away took me a long time to get over to him

 

also anyone know of a bracket they make for a tube to mount an awning on? wanting to get another small awning on the back of the truck or just put mine in the back

 

80 MPH down 50 at 7PM in the dark with ice all over. We made it to the hospital no problem.

 

worse ive ever seen was years ago back in the earyl 2000s thats the only one i can say that was really really bad

 

Fingers crossed I resolve my steering today.

 

getting the pump replaced?

 

Nah, small stuff.

Power washed the underbody, gonna buy grease and such for u joints.

/E: holy fuck. Think the wash fixed it!!

 

eyooooooo! I hope that's all it needed, haha. greasing wouldn't be a bad idea when the weather gets warmer though. I need to take my door apart and grease my window at some point; not looking forward to it.

 

That's my plan now. Its turning so smoothly. Oh man. I'm dying. Yessssss!

 

Maybe had some ice/grit/grime built up in the joints and the wash freed it up.

 

well, now you have some extra atf laying around, haha. I wonder what all got up in there

 

Sure do, now whenever Josh needs a change/refill, he can hit me up and I'll have some!

Yeah, it really didn't look bad at all, but maybe looks were deceiving. I was going to tackle the shaft next if greasing up didn't work, lol.

 

Man, I'm so stoked. Drove the truck around some more, went to an closed down K-mart parking lot after a QT stop and slid around on the ice. The parking lot was COVERED solid. No traction whatsoever, lol. Best part was feeling how smoothly I could turn whatever way.

 

Morning everybody.....

 

lol, good afternoon.

How's work?