fields_mj
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Well, I've had my new tires and rims on the front of the truck now for almost a month. I had pretty much decided that while I like the General AT grabber 2 tires, I wanted to move them to the rear and put a set of Michilen AT/2 tires on the front. Then it happened. Yesterday I noticed a slight vibration on the way to work. I though maybe a weight had fallen off of one of the new tires. By the time I got to work, it was noticably worse. I checked, and I had busted a tread on the drivers side rear. I was missnig a small piece of tread about the size of a dime. I ordered the other pair of rims, and the tires from TireRack. Unfortunatly, the only warehouse that had the rims in stock is out by Reno NV, so they won't be here until next Wednesday. I figured I would nurse it home (24 mi), and then put the one good rim/tire on that I had pulled off the front. Well, I was about 5 mi from home when the tread let go. Beat the living snot out of the sheet metal on the rear of the bed. The tire didn't blow, so the rim is in good shape. Picked the pieces up off the road, and called my neighbor for a lift. He ran the other tire out to me, and we changed it there on the side of the road. The up side is that now I will have all of the tires and rims out of the way, and this gives me the excuse to get the truck into the body shop and have the drives side door bent back into place (it's sagging a little). The bad news is that a new fuel system will now certainly have to wait until next spring I was really hoping to be able to save up and do that this fall. Oh well, she still runs, and no one was hurt. Although, you'd think that in rural Indiana, on a 4 lane divided (median) highway, folks would actually scoot over when passing a dissabled vehicle. Made me want to chuck my tire iron through the windshields of all those ladies who were too busy talking on their cell phones to notice what was going on around them.