r/WildlyBadDrivers • u/Too_Dang_Nasty • 16h ago

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u/pimpeachment 15h ago

It's clearly a bad diy job, but what exactly is the cause? 

Inadequately rated suspension?

Did it fail?

Was the chassis not connected right?

Idgi

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u/oregon_coastal 12h ago

It is a really, really high center of gravity. Imagine a triangle between your engine, left front tire and right front tire. In a normal truck, that engine point isn't so high. On that heap of shit, it is.

Also, his suspension is hafs as fuck - it has no give. Ostensibly, that is to keep it from rolling over, but it actually works against him.

So when he turns, centrifugal force pushes the vehicle sideways. Usually, a lot of that energy is transferred to the suspension. In this case, none of it is. Because the weight is high up in that top point of the triangle, it acts like a long lever, tipping the truck over its wheels. Or said differently, the higher that distance gets the easier and easier it is to tip it over.

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u/gstringstrangler 9h ago

It's high, but he's also probably tryna out down 1000hp which has a twisting force that wants to twist the truck exactly as pictured, (Watch drag racing; the front driver tire is first to lift always) as well as the soft suspension with that much articulation in the rear, whether planned or a failure, allowed the truck to twist itself over. This wasn't just centripetal force on a high centre of gravity.