{"id":815,"date":"2016-05-05T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2016-05-05T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:00:59","slug":"collision-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/05\/collision-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision Carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with Monday&#8217;s post, I&#8217;ve got another one for you from the body shop parking lot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-829\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_05_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_05_05_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dodge Ram that must&#8217;ve hit something really hard with the left front wheel. I&#8217;ve never seen this kind of carnage in person.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-830\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_05_02.jpg\" alt=\"2016_05_05_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The body damage isn&#8217;t really too bad, just a bumper, fender, door.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-832\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_05_03.jpg\" alt=\"2016_05_05_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sitting next to it is some impressively mangled machinery. That&#8217;s the left front wheel, plus the front differential and several parts of the front suspension. You can see that all the suspension arms connected to that wheel have just been snapped off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-833\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016_05_05_04.jpg\" alt=\"2016_05_05_04\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides all the broken suspension, the differential is also toast. The case around the right side output is cracked and bent. It must&#8217;ve been quite the hit to cause this much damage.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with Monday&#8217;s post, I&#8217;ve got another one for you from the body shop parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,58,68,70],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-damage","tag-suspension","tag-wheels-tires","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}