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People seem to love those things, but I have no experience with them. If I ever saw one, I can't remember it.
I didn't do much to the truck. I checked the air pressure in the tires (in the trailer tires too) and then got an early start on loading up for the weekend's trip.
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I am so jealous of people living where they can just pack up their toys and go riding somewhere local. Every square inch of NJ is paved!
Tell us again why you're still in NJ.
While I can go riding straight from my garage, this weekend I'm going about 4 hours northwest into Nebraska.I am so jealous of people living where they can just pack up their toys and go riding somewhere local. Every square inch of NJ is paved!
Here's something that most people don't know or don't think about (probably don't know). The tire pressure is rated in PSI, pounds per square inch. Just to throw out numbers, if you're running 30 PSI in your tire, that's 30 pounds of pressure for EVERY square inch. If your tire tread is 6 inches wide, then across a 1" wide section of tread, you now have 180 pounds of pressure. The same goes for your sidewalls as well as the tread. Every square inch of sidewall has that same 30 pounds of pressure. I'm not going to try to figure out the surface area of a tire, so here's more numbers throwing. If you have 100 square inches of tire surface (10"X10"), you now have 3000 pounds of pressure. A 10"X10" area is NOT very big when compared to the overall surface area of say a 235/85R16 tire. Now take that 10"X10" area and put it at 80 PSI and you have 8000 pounds of pressure and it keeps multiplying over the whole surface of the tire. To say that you have a lot of pressure on the surface of your tires is an understatement. Plenty enough pressure to break the steel belts when there is some age or imperfection in the tire. Thinking of tires this way, you suddenly gain an entirely new respect for the job that our tires do and how they do it. Modern tires are really a marvel of technology.The red is all the steel cables that were blown out. (Took a lot of force to literally snap and rip those thick steel cables.)
Thank God you are okay and finally got new tires!Well, this wasn't today. In fact, it was exactly a week ago.
I blew a tire.
At 70mph. Surrounded by traffic.
Here's the tire. I took the pic as I sat on the side of the road waiting for someone with a jack.
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Here is a bit of explanation:
The green is all the tread that was blown off.
The red is all the steel cables that were blown out. (Took a lot of force to literally snap and rip those thick steel cables.)
The blue is where the tire split out the side.
And the yellow is where a knife was laying underneath the blown tire.
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I was going down the highway, at a place where traffic gets real close to each other, and there is a lot of jokeying for position, because we are about to go around a curve, and onto a trestle.
Dangerous enough, without blowing a tire. People are NUTS!
Traffic was close in on me, all around. I'm talking less than a car's length ahead and behind and the same traffic in the lane next to me.
I was doing at least 72.
I was in the left lane. Nowhere to go over there, except down a cliff.
When this tire blew it was no "POP". It was KA-BLAAAAAM!!!! People probably heard it for miles around.
It was the kind of explosion that should have send the truck out of control. It lifted the back end up.
But here's the thing.
The truck settled down instantly, and became rock-solid in the steering, and rolling forward. And all that traffic disappeared.
It was like two hands came down. One grabbed the truck, and steadied it, and the other brushed all that traffic aside.
In those situations, time slows down. It's not just my imagination that the traffic 'disappeared'. This happened in a split of a split of a split second, that all that traffic was clear, around me. Vehicles cannot move or brake that fast. They were just gone.
And the truck acted like a hand was on it. Other than the split second of the back end jumping up, a bit, it settled right down, and drove just as solid as if nothing had happened.
I leisurely pulled over to the right, and off the road on the right. Nobody in the way, etc...
I was on my way.... To get new tires.
Waited for the road rescue guy for a couple hours and STILL made it to the tire shop in time to get the new tires mounted.
If I had had a jack with me, I could have save 80 bucks, and some time, and changed it myself.
Last... When the guy jacked the truck up, and pulled the tire off, I kid you not, a really nice Gerber knife was sitting below the tire. The center of the blown tire was sitting directly on top of this knife.
The rescue guy got the knife as a gratuity.
No. Absolutely not. It's not worth the risk.If I pull the header off do you think I’m okay to re use the o rings?
Thank you, I ordered the o rings and everything anyways.No. Absolutely not. It's not worth the risk.
I use a big pair of channel locks to take the oil filter off. One of those chain/vise grip type of filter wrenches may work too.