Rewind to Sunday, the 2nd.

I had just left whitehorse, Yukon and are pleasantly tooling up the highway. Everything's fine and dandy. I concurred with the wife's request to stop and spend the last 7$ canadian you have on some sodas, since it's not enough cash to bother converting once you get back to alaska. The roads are pretty icy, but the scrapers have grooved them and I was comfortable driving. I had already slowed down to 20 mph just because I knew it's icy and was about to make a turn off the main roadway. I started to turn and the truck continues heading straight... straight off about a 3 foot dropoff since its a raised roadway. Takes out the front left foglight, and gear in the bed takes out the toppers front window but doesn't break the rear cab glass.

Get out, look at the carnage, toss the bits in the bed, and drive it out of there. Upon further inspection at that time, nothing seems out of place other than missing a foglight now.

Tires were wearing on the outside of the tires up front on the way down, so I decided to take it into the shop to get it aligned. They do their pre-alignment inspection and find:

The front diff Output shaft seals are leaking
The boots for the upper and lower ball joints are torn
The front shocks are shot, the right front shows leakage
The Right rear axle seal is leaking
There's a possible leak at the left rear brake banjo fitting
There's a tranny leak somewhere in the vicinity of the inspection plug
The Front diff's input shaft seal shows some seepage
The sheet metal, front quarter panels to be exact, need to be realigned from frame flexing. Frame looks good and not visibly bent in any way.

Now, here's the thing... I actually want to do the right thing. If it should be a insurance thing vs warranty thing, I'll go with the insurance and take the hit on the deductable. If the parts shouldn't have gone out from a single incident like that, then I'll go talk to the local dealership, since they're going to be looking at the tranny and why it limped with no power adders, going through the provincial park in upper BC going to whitehorse. Lots of mountain pass roadway on the route.

Should all of this have happened from one incident like this, or should it have been able to handle it? I haven't jumped it on purpose or even actually driven it offroad harshly. The one FAST anything I have done offroad is shown in my one video that I have posted here, and that was through a 6" deep mud puddle just for show. Everything else offroad has been under 10 mph, typically 5 mph going through varied terrain.

Looks like maybe a "hungry" shop (although possibly really effiecent)

Leaking should be fixed, seeping should be cleaned & monitored, shocks are factory installed broken (ha,ha), torn boots on any greased part is common, & I've never seen perfectly aligned sheet metal.

Could it all have occured in an accident? depends on the generousity of your insurance adjuster/inspector. There are many reasons to deny claims, both real & imagined.

You never stated mileage on the vehicle, which is important regarding leaking /seeping claims.

34500

Looks like maybe a "hungry" shop (although possibly really effiecent)

Leaking should be fixed, seeping should be cleaned & monitored, shocks are factory installed broken (ha,ha), torn boots on any greased part is common, & I've never seen perfectly aligned sheet metal.

Could it all have occured in an accident? depends on the generousity of your insurance adjuster/inspector. There are many reasons to deny claims, both real & imagined.

You never stated mileage on the vehicle, which is important regarding leaking /seeping claims.

Hungry shop? It's the shop on post. They don't work on the truck, I work on the truck there. They just happened to find all this ****.. they also don't make any money off of finding stuff wrong with my truck... I buy the parts elsewhere, and they get to help me do it unless i have to have a real shop do it.

Hungry shop? It's the shop on post. They don't work on the truck, I work on the truck there. They just happened to find all this ****.. they also don't make any money off of finding stuff wrong with my truck... I buy the parts elsewhere, and they get to help me do it unless i have to have a real shop do it.O/K Well, I guess they are just really effecient then, that's generally not a quality commonly found in civilian populations (could always use techs that thorough in my shop from time to time).
Let the Ins.adjuster have a peek before doing anything, he's going to make a determination regardless of how you or anyone else feels about it, but he's definitly going to want to see it before it's apart. With that low mileage, I feel there is a good chance he will include/authorize any leaks for repair, replacing 4 ball joints for torn boots is another matter.

With that mileage I would recommend - Clean the seeps & monitor, repair the leaks, replace the torn boots only-providing components aren't worn (boots will probably tear upon disassembly anyhow), replace shocks (you'll be much happier)