The amazing bulging billet grille!
 

Ok. This one just plain defies explanation. See if you come up with an answer because this stumped me.

I went to Ceres today. (15 min. down the freeway) When I got to where I was going (work) I walked by the front of my truck. I did a doubletake, gasped, and cussed. My billet grille was bulging out! :eek: :eek: The thing looked like someone had pushed on it from the backside making it bubble out! I cussed again. :mad: WTF??? This happened on the freeway? Air travels the other direction! I thought maybe my core support colapsed somehow, but I popped my hood and it was fine! I hadn't done any work on it in the past couple days putting pressure on it. I simply pushed on the front and shoved it back in. Looks perfectly fine now.

If someone can explain this I think you deserve a prize. Thoughts please!

ttt

Let me guess.............it's a AL grille.
All I can think of is AL expands quite a bit when it heats up.
If the two sides of it are flat against (with no clearance) the sides then it has nowhere to go but out.

The thing is it wasn't hot at all. It was 80 that day and the grill has been through 110 degrees this summer w/ no problem. I was also on the freeway, so cool air was going through it.

Couldn't tell you then..........sorry

This is just an odd occurance or something.

VERY odd at that!
Right up there with crop circles and the such.

maybe someone tried to forcefully remove (steal) your grill but couldnt so moved on to the next truck?

mike

You did`nt happen to stop suddenly ( prity girls can make us do that)

It must have been aliens! - This happened on the freeway - 95% sure

maybe you were abducted. is there any unexplainable lost time? anal probing?

What did I do Tuesday? Hmmmm... - no anal probing! I only let them take me everyother week. This week wasn't theirs so... I dunno. :rolleyes:

haha you talking about the ricer aliens or the ones with slammed 76 chevy crewcab dulleys

i think the hampster wanted out of the engine compartment...better check its restraints

Damn, Another 5 minutes and I would have had it.:D Just kidding. It is odd though, are all of your bolts still tight or are they loose or missing?

Nope. All screws still there. Hasn't done it since but seriously WTF?

dude, just smack that dern hampster and get that bowtie back out on the open road. it'll all work out in the end...