I shut down the shop and was out the door at 1:30:banana: I'm about 1/3 the way home on the farm roads and feel the Crewzer pulling to the rite, but I'm coming up to a gas station so I pull in. Front passenger tire is almost on the rim, so I fill it up, and deside to head straight for home. 5 minutes later I just turn on the highway and it's pulling again, so I stay in the merge lane and take the next exit witch is the slow goat trail but has alot of gas stations and I fill up again just before it's on the rim. I drive along and it's pulling again, gas station #3. 5 minutes later I barley make it to gas station #4, and then gas station #5 . So I leave #5 and have to turn rite on the next street and I'll make it to #6 and I'll make it home, RITE?....WRONG!:banghead3: As I turn onto the next street...BOOM!:banghead3:, And in fear watch my hubcap enter the oncoming lane of traffic, no oncoming cars saw it, slowed down etc, and some how it missed getting run over and went into a shoping malls bushes unhurt. I can't leave the car where it is but a 1/4 mile up is a friends house, so with hazzards on I limp on the rim into his driveway and get out just starting to phone a taxi when his wife opens the door, she wasn't working today, and my buddy wasn't working also and he's minutes from home I don't wait long and my bud drives me home, we buzz up to my garage, I unlock and open the door...Oh Sh**, the F******* house alarm:banghead3:, I make a path to the house, get in turn it off, and while I'm talking to one person at the alarm company via my cell letting them know it's a false alarm while the house phone is ringing and it's some one else at the alarm company asking me WTF, give us your verbal code or the police are coming.....well atleast I know the service I'm paying for is working and that got sorted out So we load my floor jack and a spare, and my socket set to do the lugs and all should be fine, RITE?... NO!. OK, so now we are lauphing about the BS but when we get back to the car my bud some how drops the floor jack and sqishes his hand, he's not hurt so I'm lauphing...then as I'm walking my socket set opens and is all over his driveway:banghead3:...and my bud was the guy, "Yee who lauphs last......." So THEN, the car is to low to get the jack under it, his lovely bride keeps the house and yard so spotless...ya think we can find anything to drive the car onto, no!, so after a lot of searcking I fiound in a garden a chunk of concrete and drove the wheel up on that. Oh, and now that I'm home....my spare is slowley going flat!:banghead3: Now the back of my wagon is a freeken mess, driving it on the flat killed the tire..look at the side wall, but at least no tread seperation and fender damage witch is most likely what would have happened, had I stayed on the highway. Where was I intending to go after work this early Friday?....the tire shop, notice the brand new FOMOCO rims in the back, my honeys brand new winter tires arived and I was going to get them installed...ain't gona happen today, Sh** I'm not leaving the house perioud anymore today F***!!!
I believe you have just nominated yourself for todays Dumb A$$ Award. Twitt points, as my sister calls them. Why didn't you have that tire checked at garage #2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or even 6? It's a man thing isn't it? It's funny how things start going wrong and then just keep going wrong the harder you try to fix the first thing, isn't it? Sure can be a test some days
I got her home, and if worst came to worst, I got it parked in a safe locatoin rather than....I would have had to be ......towed
That was punishment from the working stiffs that had to stay late today and work tomorrow well at least you can laugh about it now!
The most important thing is that you got yourself and Cruiser home safe and sound, eventually. Did you ever find out what caused the leak?
You can get a tire plug kit really cheep at any auto parts store. I got one yrs ago and stashed it in my garage workbench drawer. Last week I noticed a rear tire looking a little low on my truck while cutting grass, then forgot about it. Later that evening happened to be outdoors and it was almost flat. Had it off the truck, the 2 inch screw removed from the tread, plugged, filled with air and ready to reinstall(had put the spare on since I wanted to make sure my plug was going to hold, had to go out early next AM) within an hour just before it turned dark. Got to thinking I could have saved even a few more mins just reinstalling same tire but this was my first time plugging a tire from a kit. I probably plugged a hundred tires when I was a kid working in the gas station though. A kit and a portable air compressor in the vehicle and you're set I'm thinking.
I can relate to that, Fat! I have had many days like that. Come to think of it........most of my days are like that.
Its a good thing you didn't leave work at 10:30 am the story could be much worse Look both ways tommorrow before you get out of bed!
Old tire, very old tire. lots of tread but old, the tire was a Sears brand and I'm sure Sears stoped having there name on tires 10+ years ago. While it was sitting on the rim I noticed alot of large dry cracks where the tread meets up with the side wall. I'm sure thats where it gave out as I couldn't find a puncture anywhere. The tire is done, even if the age cracks were not there the short distance I babied the flat on the rim destroyed the side wall. But where I was, if I stoped....the traffic I would have messed with, the police would have had me towed for sure
Bad Day at Tirerock Sorry about your tire problem. IT happens! At least we can all laugh about it now. Old tires with cracks are just accidents waiting to happen. We just scrapped our 1977 motorhome with six large RV tires having only 1000 miles on them, from Illinois to here. But they'd been sitting in our new location here in Florida for 17 years. No visible cracks or any noticable damage. Still basically "NEW". We possibly could have gotten $25-$30 each for the rims-tires. But I think they'd only been good on an off road farm type vehicle at most. (Couldn't break the large lug nuts loose!) We ended up paying $8 each when scrapping the chassis. Got a feeling scrap place will sell them. Get some new tires on that truck and take another day off early to have fun. ----------After you pay for the tires!:banana:
im suprised a farm wouldn't buy the whole running chassis off of you. i have seen them make orange baskets out of some strange crap (espescially in lake wales) . if it runs...its long, and can haul or be made to haul a 20' basket of oranges to the plant they use it!
