Thous shall not...

... use a gas tank skid that attaches to the gas tank.



Guy in a minivan pulls up alongside my motorhome near St. George Utah this afternoon and yells that I'm dragging something behind my Jeep. I stop and take a look.




Then again, without the skid plate, the Jeep might have been a rolling fireball and the motorhome... well, I don't want to consider the possibilites.




One good whack on either Steel Bender or Hell's Revenge on Thursday got me this:


Didn't notice it until the right side bolt in the rear of the skid finally let go.



I decided that the final 110 miles was most safely done like this:






Safely home in Vegas.

Gladly nothing any more serious happened. What brand skid was that?

1. Wow, haven't seen a break like that yet!
2. Good to see that you've made it home in one piece!

I knew there was a reason I own a trailer.

WE still hate you and Mike...
and MAYBE it wasn't an accident:firedevil:
some of us had friends in Utah!!
:sunshine:

I'd say you dodged a major bullet. I'm glad someone gave you a heads up Andy.

--ron

Captain Ron said:

I'd say you dodged a major bullet.

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Don't I know it! It couldn't have been but a few seconds. There's hardly any damage to the skid. And if the bolt on the left side let go first, it would have torn through the filler neck and fuel lines right way. Add sparks from the dragging steel and I would have been flat towing a fireball with purple bumpers.

Pretty scary; glad you're alright, Andy.

TIM

whoa. Glad everything is ok. My skid is mounted independently from the gas tank.