Yeah one big over load or a collision could tweak the frame enough to make it wonky.

 

dont mean to jack ur thread there 4.7 but i wondered if when they put the cage that consists of probably close to a thousand pounds of steel in the back of the van if it might have caused the problem. that could very well be the problem with your furd. it may have had to heavy a load on it and tweaked the frame.

 

This is my guess:: From the get go, I said the frame was probably "bent". The guy driving it, my direct supervisor, said it wasn't driving like that last he had driven it, which was at least two months ago (a multitude of different people can drive this truck on a day to day basis, the hardscape crew, the landscape crew, and the pool crew all use different trucks on different days). So, the truck definately hasn't been wrecked, at least in the past 3yrs.

Im guessing that, while having the trackhoe or something like that behind it, one of the other guys went flying down the extremely pot-hole riddled road, messing something up. With enough weight behind it, and enough speed/holes hit, is it possible for the frame to bend?

We got home today, Im DAMN glad I won't driving that thing, specially for 3+ hours. It was all over the road, looked like it was drifting around the curves (mainly left hand curves). Get on the brakes hard at all, got squirrly as hell. I don't get it, and it ain't exactly my problem. I just know I ain't driving that thing!

Thanks for the suggestions though guys. My guess is its a bigger problem than worth fixing......

 

yeah if i was ur boss i would dump that thing asap!!!

 

Bummer. I want a conclusion! ha ha

Im willing to put my money on one failed component. Maybe something is tweaked beyond its service limit but if you can figure it out and replace it...you will have a straight driving truck again.

The way you describe 'drifting,' points me to something in the rear suspension....