My deer-crash saga continues...

[Highsider]

I swear I usually am a very lucky guy. But not this month.
Some of you have read my other thread about last Sunday when the 240-pound, fatso, suicidal doe rammed my truck so hard, I felt my recent alignment was knocked out of the park. So, before I could drive a 60-mile round trip to see a body (any body shop) in to the shop it goes.

So, the alignment guy says my battery was dead and he had to jump it. No way.

He then left the truck running while he was waiting for his spot in the shop and the truck overheats and POW! The top of my stock, 1957 truck radiator explodes!

I popped the hood and the radiator cap is facing me and the top of the radiator is like a tent. That is not right.


The hose outlet is supposed to be level.


It turns out one of the wires for the fan got unplugged during the wreck and the fan never comes on.

- Why doesn’t the 16-pound radiator cap not protect the radiator?
- None of the hoses are new, actually all are at least over 20-years old, so why didn’t one of them burst?

Can't wait to see what is next.