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"Rich S." wrote in message ...
"Stealth Pilot" wrote in message ... my last flat tyre took me 2 minutes to swap on the shoulder of a busy freeway. Wow! The next time I need a "tyre" changed, may I call you? :^0 The tires needed to be rotated on my 1987 Ford 3/4 ton pickup. I cleared out the 2-car garage/shop and spotted the truck in the center. The overhead lights were brightly lighting up the work area, the compressor was charged and I brought out the floor jack and jack stands. It took but a few minutes to lift all four corners of the Ford off the ground and secure it on the stands. I popped off all the hub caps and set up the impact wrench. Great working conditions! Dry, warm and pneumatic tools - what more could you want? No buttheads talking on cellphones whizzing past three feet away; just the soothing tones of Rush Linbaugh on the radio, "Talent on loan from Glaxo-Smith Kline Pharmaceuticals". Ten minutes later, I finally had the spare tire down from its hiding place under the bed. "Ooh - my back is starting to twinge already, I'd better pace myself. Where's my Bud?" "Okay - spare's ready, now to spin those lugnuts." Twenty minutes later, I have one nut unscrewed about four turns. It has now stopped turning and no amount of force I can apply will budge it in either direction. I believe it has welded itself to the lug. Before you ask, yes - I wire brushed all the lugs and allowed plenty of time for the penetrating oil to do its work. BTW, the rear lugs have an inch of excess thread beyond the nut to allow for the installation of duallies, so four turns is just a small beginning. The hubcaps and the spare tire went in the truck bed. The jackstands were put away and the truck taken to the local tire shop. That was fifty bucks well spent. He even charged an extra fiver to stow the spare. Ah yes, the lovely 'hide the spare' gimmick. Seeing as how my PU is a 'work' rig not a pussy wagon, I put an in-bed mount in and had the underbed hanger removed (read torched) off (to eliminate rattles). All I had to do after getting the PU was picture myself out in the boonies and needing the spare to decide in bed was the only logical place. Harry K Rich "I'll never go *there* again!" S. |
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BY DEFINITION....
50% of the world's population are of below average intelligence!! Well, at or below the median. Depends on the distribution Ed "feeling hypothetical" Wischmeyer |
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Ron Wanttaja wrote in message . ..
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 10:13:58 -0700, "Rich S." wrote: Ten minutes later, I finally had the spare tire down from its hiding place under the bed. "Ooh - my back is starting to twinge already, I'd better pace myself. Where's my Bud?" "Okay - spare's ready, now to spin those lugnuts." Twenty minutes later, I have one nut unscrewed about four turns. It has now stopped turning and no amount of force I can apply will budge it in either direction. I believe it has welded itself to the lug. Before you ask, yes - I wire brushed all the lugs and allowed plenty of time for the penetrating oil to do its work. BTW, the rear lugs have an inch of excess thread beyond the nut to allow for the installation of duallies, so four turns is just a small beginning. The hubcaps and the spare tire went in the truck bed. The jackstands were put away and the truck taken to the local tire shop. That was fifty bucks well spent. He even charged an extra fiver to stow the spare. Conversely, my brother-in-law was in town last weekend, running his Camaro in the SCCA races. I was visiting him on Sunday when he decided to swap his slicks for rain tires. Took him all of about five minutes for all four tires....all I did was roll the replacement units up and pull the removed ones away. Makes a difference when you do it four or five times every weekend. :-) Ron "Rollaway" Wanttaja Let's be fair, Ron, it also makes a difference when the machine is DESIGNED to be owner-maintained, versus designed to be maintainable only by a dealer with special equipment. Back in the day, I rebuilt the carb for my old Datsun pickup on the kitchen table. I rebuilt the master cylinder in a parking lot. Just like building a model - follow the directions and don't bend the little parts. A friend (Army-trained truck mech) sat on the fender of her 70-something Impala and did the valves on the Indestructible Chevy Straight Six. Feet dangling inside the engine compartment. I helped another buddy weld the frame of his Triumph Spitfire. (He rebuilt the electrical system after it burned. Electrics by Lucas - Prince of Darkness; you KNOW it's going to catch fire at some point. A five-ohm resistor on the schematic turned out to be two meters of wire running from the dash to the bumper and back.) Point being, those were machines designed to be maintained by mechanically-competent owners and shade-tree mechanics, not "factory-trained professional technicians." Nowadays I don't even change my own oil. You can't dump it in the gutter anyway. Corrie |
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