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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: Where is your spare
Since when are plugs not safe?
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Location: Jackson, MI
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Re: Where is your spare
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Plugs in cycle tires are unsafe because as the bike leans, it can cause the plug to "squirm" out due to the contact patch shifting. I don't actually throw out the car/truck tires that I've plugged, but I do break them off the rim and put a patch in soon after the tire was initially plugged. A patch won't pull or back out, and now they have patch plugs that are supposed to keep contaminants from getting in between plies/belts/rubber and screwing up the tire in the long term. |
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Central PA
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Re: Where is your spare
I figure that if I get a flat, then I will take it off the Tahoe (steel wheel) when the wife picks me up! doubt it will fit though (better check)
I don't plan on running one right now... i only bought 4 tires as well!
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The Original HotRod KnifeMaker
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Re: Where is your spare
I am surprised- actually quite surprised.
I drive my truck almost every day and would never consider not having a spare. Guess I will pick up one of the vertical bed mount carriers and bolt it to that inside the bed on the driver's side. It has been several years since a flat on anything but the mower, mower trailer and the wheelbarrows, but I want one anyway. I enjoyed the responses, especially the one about "around my seat belt". Knife makers call that an "organic tool rest", a very important tool for grinding blades ![]() Thanks, everyone. You guys made me smile several times. Just finished my third straight 16 hour day on the truck, finishing the windscreen channel for the installer and some other odds and ends, including a couple hundred feet of wire in the engine compartment. I forgot how much I enjoy the smell of flux-core solder. Picked up my new cowl hood from the painters, hope to have the truck back on the road within a month or so. Will try to remember the camera tomorrow in case anyone has forgotten what primer, over-spray and sand paper look like ![]() Thanks again,
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its all about the +6 inches
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Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: Where is your spare
and I hope the judge throws it out.
Here's the key part.... you said... a LEAKING gas tank... It takes one hell of an impact to do anything to a stock in cab tank... if it doesn't leak anyways. And if it leaks, you're a friggen retarded tool for driving it. |
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Kansas
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Re: Where is your spare
I share a similar attitude regarding the merits of the lawsuit. But that doesn't change the fact that but for the location of the tank this fellow would have survived the accident with minor injuries. The risk may be low but the potential outcome is devastating enough that moving the tank becomes a no-brainer IMO.
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its all about the +6 inches
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Re: Where is your spare
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you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. |
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: RADFORD, VA
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Re: Where is your spare
That's why I like the burb the spare is in the back and the gas tank inside of frame.When I git my 33's it's gonna be a tank.
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Location: Mt Airy, MD
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Re: Where is your spare
Spare?I have plenty laying around the house and my shop.I have onr under my bed,but it`s prolly been there since the truck was new.Seriously,I pulled the spare,this year,from my CheyenneSuper and it was a factory 8.25x16.5 rim and a bias 8-ply...original.
The tank behind the seat is a safe place.We`d have heard about it by now after 30+ years.
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: MinneSNOWta
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Re: Where is your spare
what's a spare???
seriously, none of my trucks have ever been able to accomodate a spare in the stock location, typically due to to exhaust. I usually keep a tire in the bed, which can be removed if need be ![]()
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: High River, Alberta, Canada
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Re: Where is your spare
I throw my spare in the bed, and it has been there for 5 years. I really should buy a lug wrench one of these trips to Canadian Tire, tho.
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: Where is your spare
I've honestly had more problems with patches over the years than plugs. I think I've had maybe one plug fail.
At work, we won't even consider a patch. The boss man goes nuts when you start talking about patches. |
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Hittin E-Z Street on Mud Tires
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Re: Where is your spare
The back tire on my Z71 has THREE plugs in it. I have to go to construction sites and I get all sorts of nails and screws in tires. The plugs have about 30K on them, at least the "oldest" one does. Doesn't leak at all, well no more than tires normally loose a little air over a few months. Just a couple psi or so.
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Hittin E-Z Street on Mud Tires
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Re: Where is your spare
Don't have a jack or a spare.... or even a garage....
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