Well that's some bullsh....

"itschrome" (itschrome) 09/19/2016 at 21:33 • Filed to: None

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Naturally this was after a brutal day at work as well. On the way to the fiancées parents house in the ghetto, on the main ghetto ass drag. Heard it puncture and with no good place to stop where i wouldnt be harassed by fucking bums. God damn it. Guess the snow tires are coming sooner than planned...

cluelessk > itschrome 09/19/2016 at 21:38

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Looks like it’s pretty much time for replacement anyway.

Could of been worse.

itschrome > cluelessk 09/19/2016 at 21:50

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yeah and aint that the truth. I was hoping to wait a few weeks till i shelled out the money for winters though.. I’d put my 18's on but that rubber is shot also..

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > cluelessk 09/19/2016 at 21:50

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Such as the time my Dad bought a set of new General summer tires for his Merkur. Put a big rock through one of them shortly after and discovered they no longer made them in the size he needed. Still have the 3 good tires in the rafters.

Urambo Tauro > itschrome 09/19/2016 at 22:00

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If you have a plug kit, you might be able to get a few more weeks out of it before jumping on those snow tires. Of course, whether or not that’s worth your time is totally your call. *shrug* I’d try it.

Die-Trying > itschrome 09/19/2016 at 22:54

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plug n go.............

itschrome > Urambo Tauro 09/19/2016 at 22:56

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That was my first though but its deceptive how big that thing is. I think its past the ol plug n go. The tip touches the ine side of the wheel so it about 3 inches long and wider than the baze looks.

itschrome > Die-Trying 09/19/2016 at 22:57

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Thinks its just a tad too big.

Urambo Tauro > itschrome 09/19/2016 at 23:03

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Oh dang. Yeah, I guess it’s hard to get a good sense of scale here. So any idea what that piece of metal is/was?

Die-Trying > itschrome 09/19/2016 at 23:09

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the spot where it makes it through the tire might not be too big, or you could double up on the plug................

i just hate dealing with the tire shops. they almost always try to refuse to fix whatever tires i take them. try and upsell me new stuff. even had one refuse to re-mount the old one. they REALLY dont like it when you remount it yourself in the parking lot, with a hammer and bars, and then set the bead with wd and a lighter........

itschrome > Urambo Tauro 09/19/2016 at 23:16

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given I was in the ghetto, either a shive or a peice of scrap that fell off a junkies truck... We’ll find out when they pull the fucker. Once i settle on the replacement. Which fuck off for timing as for the first time in years I have -$2 to my name, thanks to having just locked 3k in a CD as the start of our wedding fund, another few k into another CD as a hold over towards the down payment on our house and I had to spend 3 god damn grand on my future sister inlaw’s fucking wedding because the misses was her maid of honor, and only person in the wedding party so we had to pay for ALLL the bullshit... fuck her.. any ways timing, it’s a bitch, good bye blizzacks hello what ever junk I can find for cheap.. I haz a sad now..

Busslayer > Die-Trying 09/19/2016 at 23:36

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Yep, I’d give this a shot. Plugs work and you can use more than one if necessary. They will last a couple months easy, probably will last the life of the tire.

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > itschrome 09/20/2016 at 00:00

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I picked up a 1/2 inch bolt in the work car last month. No biggie right? Oops, spare’s no good either. Nursed it back to the barn. Thankfully I know how to mount and balance a tire on a wheel.....

JRapp: now as good as new again > Die-Trying 09/20/2016 at 16:45

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I feel like there’s a good story behind this...

Die-Trying > JRapp: now as good as new again 09/20/2016 at 17:34

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yeah, i had gotten something in the tire, and i was in town, so i just wanted the thing mended(patched)............ now in their defense the tire was partially bald, and MIGHT of had some dry rot cracks(been a while since it happened) , nothing major. been a while. anyhow, they take the tire off the rim BEFORE they tell me that they wont work on it. tell me the nail is too close to the edge, and cant patch it. i argue with them for a while and tell them its clearly in the tread.

you can argue with people who own a business. just doesnt do any good.

they told me that they DID have a tire in nearly that size that they COULD sell to me and mount for 40? or 50? dollars........ i wasnt going to spend $40 on some old tire, when all i had come in for was a patch...(i might of had $10 to my name)...... about this time the guy is telling me theyll put the spare on so i can take it somewhere else. they take a look at the spare, with all its steel belts hanging out, and try and tell me that they cant put that on it either............(as if they think they have me trapped there)

SO.......... i take the tire, and the rim out into the parking lot and mount it MYSELF............. basically you take the rim in one hand, and throw it down into the opening of the tire. you want it to make it in about half ways, and be sure that the rim is facing out. then you take one of your trusty prybars, and pry the rim into the tire, while hammering on the bead where it is caught. you just kind of chase it around the bead till it falls on the rim. then you stand on the tire, and classic lever the front onto the rim. then to save some time, wd and lighter the bead. had some air ready with a cheater hose.(its a section of 3/8 fuel hose about 25 feet long, that has air chuck on both ends. if i need to i can steal half the air out of A tire)

AFTER i had gotten myself back to where i was when i had first been when i pulled into the shop, i plugged the tire myself.

i have had more than a few run ins with tire shops telling me they wont fix my tires, but this was the worst. i dont like dealing with them, so i usually just plug my own tires these days so that i dont have to.

JRapp: now as good as new again > Die-Trying 09/20/2016 at 20:54

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Thank you for the story. Never seen the WD/lighter fluid trick in person, only on video. I’m always amazed by how well it works, dangerous as it may be. And not many people these days know how to mount a tire the old fashioned way. That art seemed to have died out with inner tubes, save for the off-roading community maybe. I’ve helped mount plenty of inner-tubed tires back in the the old country (read with a heavy foreign accent), but there you rely on the pressure from the inner tube to mount the bead of the tire as needed, from what I remember.

Die-Trying > JRapp: now as good as new again 09/20/2016 at 21:18

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yeah, wd, carb cleaner, brake cleaner, starter fluid........ they all work. best bet, is to spray a nice little bit inside the tire, and put a trail down the face of the tire towards the tread, that way youre not real close to the “action”. and dont look directly at it. then be ready with the air hose. the fire inside the tire stays lit until it either runs out of air or fuel. if it runs out of air, the tire could fall off the bead........could.............

i’ve gotten to learn a lot of life skills from the “old ones”

these days the kids all think that you have to have the store bought machine in order to mount or dismount tires....... it helps..........