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Besides hooking up with TARHEEL and AM GENERAL for Memorial Day, we also had the Deuce in the woods and I experienced my first flat tire.
On Saturday we took the Deuce and the boys' four-wheelers for some trail riding. We had a father and son from church come along.
Then early Monday morning (5am) I took my 2 youngest boys out cause they wanted to. My 15 year old has his permit so he drove the Deuce on the 4-lane bypass around town. No traffic and 4 lanes and did a good job. We ended up at an Ingles parking lot where the boys decided to see how far they could push the truck. About 50' before they quit. Oh to have the energy of youth. We then picked up my mother for breakfast where I heard an air leak. The restaurant wasn't far away so I drove, but on the way I realized the right front tire wouldn't last much longer as it was pulling bad. I parked at the restaurant and quickly got the jack under the axle. BUT, I goofed big time.
I did not put any wood under the jack, nor did I screw the extension all the way up. When I went to actually change the tire after breakfast, I didn't have enough clearance to get the tire off. So... off we went to scrounge some wood to put under the Deuce. All we could find were some OLD railroad ties, but at least we found those. Jammed the ties under the Deuce, let the jack down and extended the jack, but there wasn't room to put a 2X6 under the jack and the tire still would not clear. So more wood under the Deuce. Let the jack down again, finally able to put a 2X6 under the jack and we cleared the tire. So after jacking 3 times we got the tire changed. We found a roofing nail in the tire. I'm glad it happened near home and not later that night when I was on my way to Hickory with AM GENERAL to meet TARHEEL.
Now my tool box on Deuce looks like a woodshop with various lengths of wood to use next time I get a flat.
Brian
On Saturday we took the Deuce and the boys' four-wheelers for some trail riding. We had a father and son from church come along.
Then early Monday morning (5am) I took my 2 youngest boys out cause they wanted to. My 15 year old has his permit so he drove the Deuce on the 4-lane bypass around town. No traffic and 4 lanes and did a good job. We ended up at an Ingles parking lot where the boys decided to see how far they could push the truck. About 50' before they quit. Oh to have the energy of youth. We then picked up my mother for breakfast where I heard an air leak. The restaurant wasn't far away so I drove, but on the way I realized the right front tire wouldn't last much longer as it was pulling bad. I parked at the restaurant and quickly got the jack under the axle. BUT, I goofed big time.
I did not put any wood under the jack, nor did I screw the extension all the way up. When I went to actually change the tire after breakfast, I didn't have enough clearance to get the tire off. So... off we went to scrounge some wood to put under the Deuce. All we could find were some OLD railroad ties, but at least we found those. Jammed the ties under the Deuce, let the jack down and extended the jack, but there wasn't room to put a 2X6 under the jack and the tire still would not clear. So more wood under the Deuce. Let the jack down again, finally able to put a 2X6 under the jack and we cleared the tire. So after jacking 3 times we got the tire changed. We found a roofing nail in the tire. I'm glad it happened near home and not later that night when I was on my way to Hickory with AM GENERAL to meet TARHEEL.
Now my tool box on Deuce looks like a woodshop with various lengths of wood to use next time I get a flat.
Brian
