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I parked my xm708 on the side of the garage tonight like I usually do parking brake on and in reverse. I had a guy come buy a lawn mower and he wanted to hear the dump run. So I fired it up and guess I forgot the reverse and park brake was not set hard. You know where this is going don't you ? Anyways we hear a loud crash with glass shattering so I run outside and see my dump truck at the bottom of the hill now married to the rear shed ! luckily it hit straight on the bumper and winch zero body dents just broke drivers windshield,door glass, tweaked winshield frame and broke drivers headlight. The shed lost 3 4x4 posts 2 rafters and a sheet of 24 foot steel roofing and a bunch of horizontal 2x4's ! Could have been worse I guess but just a reminder that accidents do happen... sorry no pics didn't want to feel sicker ...

iv had my own woes related to the ebrake. I was yard driving a 37 that had no brakes except the ebrake. everything was fine going forward and using the hand break to slow down. but when i went to back it into a stall I pulled on the handle(like I had a dozen times before) but i forgot that reverse is deeper than first and she over powered the brake and before I could get the clutch disengaged I hit a 8x14ft wooden shed luckily there was no foundation and the shed just slid back about a foot.

the best ebrake fail happened one wet night on the way back from a friends 25 miles away. half way home flying down the highway at dusk i noticed a startling reflection of my 37 in the standing water on the roadside. there was a orange lite blazing bright under my truck. i checked my mirrors there was no one around. then it hit me MY TRUCK IS ON FIRE I put my foot on the clutch to get slowed down as soon as i did the back tires locked. she started going sideways, quickly off the clutch, then hard on the gas to straighten her out. released the hand brake and stretched for the fire extinguisher. by this time I had slowed down from 65 to 30 and the slower i went the higher the flames grew between the cab and box. thinking of the plastic filter and fuel pump I maintained my speed.door open left foot on the running board I reached down and emptied the contents of the extinguisher on the t case and once oil soaked brake band. verifying the light was gone from under the truck i got back up to 65 and carried on home. end result was a better working ebrake and a compulsion to check said brake.

RMS wrote: the best ebrake fail happened one wet night on the way back from a friends 25 miles away. half way home flying down the highway at dusk i noticed a startling reflection of my 37 in the standing water on the roadside. there was a orange lite blazing bright under my truck. i checked my mirrors there was no one around. then it hit me MY TRUCK IS ON FIRE I put my foot on the clutch to get slowed down as soon as i did the back tires locked. she started going sideways, quickly off the clutch, then hard on the gas to straighten her out. released the hand brake and stretched for the fire extinguisher. by this time I had slowed down from 65 to 30 and the slower i went the higher the flames grew between the cab and box. thinking of the plastic filter and fuel pump I maintained my speed.door open left foot on the running board I reached down and emptied the contents of the extinguisher on the t case and once oil soaked brake band. verifying the light was gone from under the truck i got back up to 65 and carried on home. end result was a better working ebrake and a compulsion to check said brake.

pwrwagonfire wrote:

hahahahaha when no words will work

my buddy terry wanted me to share his ebrake woes story..... so one day terry went to pick his kid up from school in the 37. he parked on a steep hill outside the school and got out of the truck. as he was standing there talking to some guy about the truck it slowly started to cog away. click clock it started gaining momentum click clock click clock ever closer to a merc parked behind him . terry ran for the truck and reefed on the ebrake. click clock click clock the truck didn't stop. foot on the brake and the truck stopped inches from the merc. I asked terry what happened to make the truck act this way, he said it was the lock right locker in the rear slipping and gripping. he now carries a wheel chock.

Glad you are ok Ed, that would be downright scary.
Gary

Thanks Guys It sucked but hey its only a rare M37 it is not alive and can be fixed. It's the people behind the wheel or god forbid in front of the truck without a driver I care about everything else can be fixed...