I took my truck out to a local trail with some friends and everything went well until we were about to leave. There was a 3 foot mound of dirt shaped like a ramp. And i decided to all out haul ass over it.

Well i jumped about 4 or 5 feet in the air, the truck nose dived and there was alot of noise. Went further down the trail and i noticed that it was hard to turn left or right without the tire hitting the fender wells.

Well, IM not really sure what broke under there. The front is still independent suspension. Im thinking maybe a blown strut or something? Nothing looks bent or ĊĊĊĊed up that i can tell.

I will post some pics of the damage. Please not the axle was already broken and removed prior to this. And also i have a 6inch lift with 35" mud kings.

 

as low as that front end is sitting I would imagine you did some sweet damage to yours struts. ouch. bet that was fun but its gonna cost yuh.

 

anoter picture

 

This is the same strut on the passenger side where whatever is broken.
Notice anything out of place anyone?

 

This is the driver side for comparison.

The only thing i can see that looks different from the other, is that upper A arm thing shuved way up on the driver side.
And then that little red thing on the strut itself is alot higher on the pass side than the driver side.

Any help would be appreciated, would like to fix this myself instead of paying to do it.

 

owch, wouldnt worry about shocks, but uh....you kinda uh umm...
DOH!

 

congrats, you got ya self a 3 wheel drive! (4x3)

 

holy bat wings robin you snapped an axle shaft. congrats. i wanna do that, uh uh uh not fair.

 

one of the struts looks highly compressed to, were you still on the gas when you landed?

 

Lol, i snapped the axle shaft a couple months back, Ran through some rutts way too fast. Snapped it like a twig, ITs the most annoying thing ever with the axle flopping around in there after it breaks, constant clangging noise going down the road.
I put a new axle in, but it was a reman. and unfortunately that broke also. As u can see.

Havent had time to mess with that, but the new problems are making time, since its my daily driver and I cant even make turns without my tire killin the fender.

 

Owiee. Didn't know that a-arms could go up that high.

Pass side: the spring is all the way down at the shock mount. If you're lucky, only the spring seat is broken and you just need a new one. Wouldn't know what else is busted until you take it apart.

Driver's side... um.. uh...

 

I did a quick check its definatly the strut, the hit must of broke off the tabs/ring that hold the bracket for the spring to seat on. Its hard to explain but I highlighted the area in red its should be located much higher.
See in my pic its the silver thingy (spring seat) for a better term
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...41764902yDHgsk
Also hard to tell with all that mud is the top ball joint broken off of the A-Arm ? Kinda looks like it may be is why its so high up nothing holding it down plus the spring in now fully uncompressed thus the sagg

 

Wow, good job WT< its so obvious now that i see it, haha.
I cant remember if i was on the gas or not when i landed bigblue, might not have nose dived if i stayed in it? i dunno.

Good thing my buddy can weld, this shouldnt be too much of a bitch to fix.

THanks for all the quick posts. I definately owe you guys.

 

WT speaks the truth, get ya a spring seat and an axle and get her back on the road!

 

Haha, back OFFroad is more like It!

 

Looks like you bent the lower control arm

 

wash it...

you might be able to find out what is wrong with it with out all the mud on it...

 

i agree with Bruce, my control arms dont level out like that outboard of the shock mounting, you need at least one control arm, mabe two
if you would like, i can take a pic of mine and post it for comparison