Killer Ditch in Waiparous Takes out H2 CV's.

[MDimitri]

Originally Posted by Alan06SUT

How fast did you hit it?

Thats just it...I didn't hit it at all...Greg (H1 Owner) was guiding me through it slowly and we were just taking it easy...he was showing me some fundamentals of off roading...so I literally crawled into the ditch...Gregs friend Jeff is a heavy duty mechanic and has had lots of experience with the H1's and H2's was guiding me through on my right hand side when we all heard was some loud banging!! Well...you can see what happened next.... Greg was really dissappointed at the end result...He has owned 3 H1's so far and has done trials all over the USA and Canada, mega experienced. He figures that this must have been a defect from factory from some time back. The CV housing must have had a fracture in it for some time now...I just can't believe my dealership did not notice any leaking from the boot or housing during my last 50,000 km check (which was about a month or so ago). I ended up replacing the pitman arms a tie rod along with some other front end work...and spending a small fortune in the process. But the biggest scary part was that when Jeff took the wheel cover off the right front we noticed that one of the lug nuts was half off!!! When we pryed off the others they hardly needed any effort at all to remove....now that was scarey!!!! I use the truck every day to and from work and take my two little guy's with me everywhere...don't even want to contemplate what could have happened.