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Rectal Placenta posted:Just think how much easier all the others are going to be now! Hint: they're not
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14 BAR RIFF posted:...but gently caress me Heck yeah, buddy. We're here for all your needs. I'm sure the lads would gladly form a rimjob workgang to bang that one out in a jiffy.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 02:06 |
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Do you have a spare?
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 02:16 |
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14 BAR RIFF posted:Ring still has cleaning left to do but gently caress me Why go to all that trouble when you could have just used little donut spare tires. Fill them with RTV and you never get a flat!
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 02:29 |
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I have forgotten: what crazy insane bolt pattern or reason is preventing Dave from just junkyarding some normal wheels?
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 04:27 |
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I have forgotten: what crazy insane bolt pattern or reason is preventing Dave from just junkyarding some normal wheels? It's a 10-bolt, but what specific bolt pattern it is I have no idea. I don't think there's a lot of consumer pickups that use those.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 04:28 |
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4500/5500 gm trucks and old motorhomes probably use something similar. f-superduties of obs/bricknose were 10 bolt too. as for bolt pattern? i'm unsure. they look drat close.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 04:31 |
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To remove just flatten the tire and drive in circles until the bead rolls over
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 05:17 |
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cursedshitbox posted:as for bolt pattern? i'm unsure. they look drat close. According to the internet, it should be 10 on 7.25" with a 4.75" center bore.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 05:22 |
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Heil Holland. The final solution to the oxidation question
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 05:24 |
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Mmmmm, lubricant. As my grandma always said, "Right when you think you've used too much lube, you've almost used enough."
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 05:49 |
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Raluek posted:According to the internet, it should be 10 on 7.25" with a 4.75" center bore. Are there any 5 bolt wheels that would fit if he cut half the studs off?
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 06:59 |
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Like that's safer than just doing these loving tires
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 07:07 |
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I thought the bigger issue was finding replacement wheels that would fit over the drums
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 07:21 |
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14 BAR RIFF posted:I understand people have their own expenses so I don't make this post cavalierly, or even sunbirdy Also, I've been meaning to give this post a thumbs up because I literally at it. I'm the proud owner of a 2001 Cavalier, and at one point my sister had a 2002 Sunbird, same color even, and getting in her car or looking under the hood was some uncanny valley poo poo. So I totally got that joke and appreciated it immensely. JacquelineDempsey fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Dec 21, 2016 |
# ? Dec 21, 2016 07:49 |
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An old roommate and I had Integraty! ... as in... we both owned almost identical cars. He had a 1990 Integra. I had a 1991 Integra. Same color, and the same front clip mod (JDM headlights)... and making it more confusing, our keys worked on each others cars (but to be fair, the key to my old Civic also worked on his car, and a screwdriver probably would have worked too). We also had similar stereos. I got in his car more than once (and vice versa) and went "wait... wrong kind of transmission". Other hint was his had manual windows, mine had power windows (but oddly, still manual locks on mine). Still wound up taking each others cars occasionally, because at 5am when you're trying to get to work and you've already overslept, you just don't give a gently caress.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 08:00 |
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14 BAR RIFF posted:Heil Holland. The final solution to the oxidation question Edit: Aw poo poo I didn't see you'd already made the joke at the top of your post.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 08:08 |
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Rectal Placenta posted:Just think how much easier all the others are going to be now! Ahahahahahah, easier. By the end of this Dave will be lucky if he still has the rest of his teeth and all ten fingers.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 11:08 |
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That guy in that Roadkill episode made it look so easy!
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 15:07 |
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Vikings make everything look easy.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 16:20 |
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Do the old tires hold air at all? poo poo, fill those loving tubes with slime and take surface streets to Florida. Yeah, it'll take loving forever maxing out at 40mph, but you'll get there before the new tire situation would be sorted, and you'll get there alive.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 16:42 |
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scuz posted:That guy in that Roadkill episode made it look so easy! If Dave had the right tools it would be a lot easier. Seminal Flu posted:Do the old tires hold air at all? poo poo, fill those loving tubes with slime and take surface streets to Florida. Yeah, it'll take loving forever maxing out at 40mph, but you'll get there before the new tire situation would be sorted, and you'll get there alive. That's a great way to end up doing what he's doing now, except on the side of the road in BFE, flyoverstate.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 16:45 |
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angryrobots posted:That's a great way to end up doing what he's doing now, except on the side of the road in BFE, flyoverstate. How is "on the side of the road" any different than what he's doing now (other than being warmer and probably more comfortable)? And even then, he'd do it a couple times, at most... they aren't ALL going to fail.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 16:54 |
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Because on the side of the road doesn't have power or shelter or transportation to get supplies.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 16:58 |
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or a mailing address for extra socks
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angryrobots posted:Because on the side of the road doesn't have power or shelter or transportation to get supplies. You're making a pretty dire situation out of having to potentially change a tire on the side of the road, where the tire change currently involves a bunch of hand tools in the middle of a field, not power or shelter or transportation.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 17:35 |
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Really the only differences doing tires here or somewhere else are out there I won't have an air compressor, the high lift, or a toilet to desecrate
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 18:07 |
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Seminal Flu posted:You're making a pretty dire situation out of having to potentially change a tire on the side of the road, where the tire change currently involves a bunch of hand tools in the middle of a field, not power or shelter or transportation. You're making light of something you have never done.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 18:19 |
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angryrobots posted:You're making light of something you have never done. Driven sketchy poo poo on the road, taking back roads and limiting load on ancient tires? Wrong. Did that. It's an ancient truck, the tires are only one of a dozen failure points. It seems to be a potentially dangerous waste of time to learn how to change an archaic tire/wheel combo instead of getting the truck moving, and at least hobbling it to a tire shop, if nothing more.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 18:48 |
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It doesn't make sense to spend an extra week going 40mph taking the circuitous route and hoping for the best when you can take a week now to fix the tires and know that they won't be a concern. You're probably right about the tires being only one of a dozen issues though.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 18:57 |
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I see I checked in on this thread and exactly the right time
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 18:59 |
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Hell I could just load it all into Dan's truck and be done with it but I want to do these motherfuckers because I want to add to my skill set
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 19:03 |
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I'm with 14. The stubborn spirit sees the logical alternatives for what they are, and makes sure to wave at them as they pass by.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 19:06 |
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Adiabatic posted:The stubborn spirit sees the logical alternatives for what they are, and makes sure to wave at them as they pass by. I'm gonna take up cross-stitching so that I may have that as a cross-stitch.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 19:07 |
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Install a pto driven air compressor.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 19:09 |
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Seminal Flu posted:Driven sketchy poo poo on the road, taking back roads and limiting load on ancient tires? Wrong. Did that. It's an ancient truck, the tires are only one of a dozen failure points. It seems to be a potentially dangerous waste of time to learn how to change an archaic tire/wheel combo instead of getting the truck moving, and at least hobbling it to a tire shop, if nothing more. It may be an older style but its still a lock ring and not a widowmaker split. It deserves extra respect and caution when initially filling but otherwise is just a massive PITA to dismount and mount, and would be a Herculean task to do roadside when it inevitably failed because it's traveling halfway across a continent. And let's talk about that failure. Let's talk about blowing out a dry rotted front at 55mph in a 8000 lb-ish truck with no power steering and newly-repaired untested drum brakes in slippery winter weather, and how quickly that goes really badly. Lastly let's talk about how much any pro tire guy loathes slime or any other tire sealant, and how impossible you would make the inevitable further work on that rim. Especially roadside. Calm your rear end down and let Dave do what Dave does.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 19:21 |
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Do Dave, Dave. Do Dave.
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 19:24 |
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angryrobots posted:And let's talk about that failure. Let's talk about blowing out a dry rotted front at 55mph in a 8000 lb-ish truck with no power steering and newly-repaired untested drum brakes in slippery winter weather, and how quickly that goes really badly. (That's why I said limit roads and speed to 40mph) quote:Lastly let's talk about how much any pro tire guy loathes slime or any other tire sealant, and how impossible you would make the inevitable further work on that rim. Especially roadside. quote:Calm your rear end down and let Dave do what Dave does. I know it's fun to go all war rigggg , but in the first post, the OP said "surface streets, sub-50mph" and a month ago, OP said ExplodingSims posted:Well it looks like you guys are making pretty good progress so hopefully the end is in sight. meatpimp fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Dec 21, 2016 |
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Seminal Flu posted:(That's why I said limit roads and speed to 40mph)
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This Thread Is Good And Tire Safety Chat Is Making It Bad
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