Nearly had to clean my shorts yesterday on the way home from work. Had a front drivers side tire blow out on my ford F-250 7.3 which grabbed my front end at 70 mph and was dragging me towards the cement barrier. Had some dumb sum b!tch just barely behind me in the left lane as I was being jerked over into his lane that would not back off. Geezus, you'd think seeing a big truck flying across lanes with rubber flinging off and enough smoke to blind 3 lanes for about 50 yards the dude would get a hint he might not want to be there!
Got her under control before piling up into the barrier and changed the tire out. I never realized until right then just how fast 70mph plus was until you're standing right next to it praying to gawd no dork loses control. The tires are 4 years old, Michelins. Bought them from Discount tire with warranty. Had not just good tread but great tread on them too, low miles. Replaced all 4 and got one of them free so I rolled out of there with $849.00 burning up my account. Did some bad damage too. Bent the heck out my fender next to the front door and broke the vacuum assist line for the front end 4 X 4 locker.
Anyone ever replace that line? How tough a job is it??
Here I'll make this long story a little longer. Changing out the tire, without much room to work with as I was pretty up close to the barrier, was one hot miserable job. Fortunately for me I learned a long time ago when you get a flat in those big trucks the bottle jack will NOT fit under the axel!! How dang stupid is that anyway?? I also carry a small floor jack in the truck with me but because the rubber of the tire was rolled towards inside I couldn't get the jack up close. I found a spot, started lifting the truck, I'm mean started sinking it into the HOT asphalt and THEN lifting the truck but it wasn?t very safe. I then took the bottle jack and was able to just clear enough to jack the front end up between the 2. Sunk the bottle jack in the hot melting tar too!Heck it was only 140 plus degrees on that asphalt!
Ok? fast forward. Got the tire changed out and the darn spare was soft. Threw everything in the back of the truck and babied it off the freeway and NOBODY would let me over. I had to force people to let me get over to the next exit. See you Utah boys and girls aint the only ones with tards!!
Never had a front flat/blowout at 70mph before. That was a first for me and one I don't ever want to have again! speacaily in the middel of a hot day!!
GBA
Got her under control before piling up into the barrier and changed the tire out. I never realized until right then just how fast 70mph plus was until you're standing right next to it praying to gawd no dork loses control. The tires are 4 years old, Michelins. Bought them from Discount tire with warranty. Had not just good tread but great tread on them too, low miles. Replaced all 4 and got one of them free so I rolled out of there with $849.00 burning up my account. Did some bad damage too. Bent the heck out my fender next to the front door and broke the vacuum assist line for the front end 4 X 4 locker.
Anyone ever replace that line? How tough a job is it??
Here I'll make this long story a little longer. Changing out the tire, without much room to work with as I was pretty up close to the barrier, was one hot miserable job. Fortunately for me I learned a long time ago when you get a flat in those big trucks the bottle jack will NOT fit under the axel!! How dang stupid is that anyway?? I also carry a small floor jack in the truck with me but because the rubber of the tire was rolled towards inside I couldn't get the jack up close. I found a spot, started lifting the truck, I'm mean started sinking it into the HOT asphalt and THEN lifting the truck but it wasn?t very safe. I then took the bottle jack and was able to just clear enough to jack the front end up between the 2. Sunk the bottle jack in the hot melting tar too!Heck it was only 140 plus degrees on that asphalt!
Ok? fast forward. Got the tire changed out and the darn spare was soft. Threw everything in the back of the truck and babied it off the freeway and NOBODY would let me over. I had to force people to let me get over to the next exit. See you Utah boys and girls aint the only ones with tards!!
Never had a front flat/blowout at 70mph before. That was a first for me and one I don't ever want to have again! speacaily in the middel of a hot day!!
GBA
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