Hauled the top drive to the border yesterday

[mjhaverkamp]

What a trip that was, left out at 5 a m and got back home at 10 p m, pretty much non stop driving. Had a couple of glitches, when my buddy backed the truck off of the trailer it rolled all the way across a busy gas station parking lot, he just missed three different vehicles, I did not know what to think, he gets out of truck screaming '" no #@#@@##@! brakes " the outfit that did the conversion somehow drained all the brake fluid out of the brakes and did not refill, that was near disaster. Our rancher loaded the truck up on his trailer and took it across border and on to the ranch for us, only other glitch was an accident near Ballinger, they had the road shut down, we went cross country down gravel roads and jeep trails and finally got around it, probably delayed us a good hour or better, anyway we are headed down to Mexico Thursday for a week of hunting, hope the bucks are rutting by then.

[Cropduster]

You have more guts than me. Good luck on you stay in Mexico.

[backbone]

Sounds like a heck of a trip already. Good luck on the hunt

[Gunner97]

Good deal. Was it tagged/inspected? Where did you cross with it? Heading down the 13th for a week or so. Good Luck.

[BolilloLoco]

I would have a serious talk with the guys that drained the fluid. That coulda ended real bad.

[mjhaverkamp]

Good deal. Was it tagged/inspected? Where did you cross with it? Heading down the 13th for a week or so. Good Luck.

Yes it was all legal, he was bringing it across at Eagle Pass, he had his nephew who is an American citizen drive it across.

[mjhaverkamp]

I would have a serious talk with the guys that drained the fluid. That coulda ended real bad.

No kidding, the throttle also stuck wide-open, thought it was going to blow up before we got it shut down, thank God it was not in gear when that happened, we would have made the news, I can see it now, " hunter crashes through border barricades in run away top drive hunting truck " lol. Thank goodness my rancher has some mechanical talents, he said his previous lease guy had a top drive for 10 years that he kept going, he told me " I fixie "

[Mexico]

Good luck!

[Old Blue]

Sounds crazy.glad it turned out good

[stevieray54]

If your brave enough to cross in to Mexico, why need breaks. It makes all the challenges,that make memoirs

[Abcdj]

You and the boys have a safe trip. Send pics!

[Atfulldraw]

We had a similar experience with an old top drive at the ranch this weekend.

One of the first (a 1979) didn't make the stop as scheduled....

Thank goodness there was a 2014 Chevy in front of it to catch it

The brakes got reworked this morning from the master cylinder back, new lines and all.