Originally Posted by Bigal389

Is this a common problem when hitting some with a front wheel or does anyone have any ideas on a fix for this?

Originally Posted by Bigal389

Give a little more detail on the home repair!!!

Originally Posted by MudHippy

The strap on the driver's side was looped around the frame rail just to the rear of the UCA and connected to itself with a shackle I put in the loop at it's end. I made sure it wasn't going to pinch on the torsion bar under load by feeding the end of the strap under it and then around the frame rail before putting the shackle on to form the loop there. Then I turned the steering wheel all the way to the left so I could get the clearance needed to get a straight pull on the other frame rail with the chain without it pushing forward on the passenger side tire. Attaching the chain to that frame rail was a little more tricky because there's also some brake lines that run along top of it where I wanted to put it. I fed the hook on the end of the chain under those and under the torsion bar so it wouldn't pinch them when I pulled, and then used the hook to form a loop in the chain around the frame rail. Again I put the loop as close as I could get it to the UCA. I didn't worry too much about the fuel lines running along the inside of the frame rail there, because I figured the chain would be applying the most tension at the top and bottom corners of the frame rail. That proved to be the case, and those lines were unharmed in the process. After rigging it all up and attaching the come-along, I just pulled and pulled and pulled some more. I pulled on it 'till I thought I couldn't possibly pull it any tighter.

Then I took a breather. After which, to verify I'd given it everything I had, I tried one last tug. I got another click or two more tension on the chain, then felt/heard three rather loud pops coming from my lower back. No questions asked that was definitely as hard as I was going to be tugging on anything that day. And I regretted having taken it to that extreme for a couple good reasons. First because my back was aching something fierce at that point. Second, and if you've ever used a come-along you should already know this, it wasn't going to be easy to release the tension on the line. You see the harder you pull on those things, the harder you have to pull to get the release mechanism to activate. I knew this, but thought I still had it under control, and could figure out a way to do so.

And I eventually did. It took some carefully coordinated pushing, instead of pulling, on the handle. Or I would've had to cut the strap, and being the penny-pincher that I am, that wasn't gonna happen unless there was absolutely no other alternative.