A "blow out" of a thanksgiving trip!
Part 1.. We had our first blow out on the road last week. (We were on I-75) Not too much damage down below, maybe because I stopped immediately as I knew exactly what had happened and I was only going...
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I never even thought of using the stabilizing jacks to help from the sway. It was really moving when those big rigs would pass. I don't know if I would use them to jack it up, but, I should have used them to "stabilize". I did drive up on my 2x8's, but even when it was almost high enough, it was just seemed too unstable, so one more 2x8 would have made it higher than I liked it... that was more slop than I wanted to deal with, maybe I was being a whimp!
I may buy a smaller floor jack that is easy to bring with us, the one I have at home is way too heavy and big to travel. I will also add my jack stands to the list, since I had to have both tires off to repair them, I didn't like my 30 foot Trailer just hanging out on the truck's bottle jack for a while.
I usually take pride in my tire changing times.. Kind of like the old man in "A Christmas Story" when the kid curses when he looses the lug nuts... I will figure it all out, this was just a first on the side of an interstate, so I was nervous, and with 2 young kids, I really didn't want anything stupid to happen.
I may buy a smaller floor jack that is easy to bring with us, the one I have at home is way too heavy and big to travel. I will also add my jack stands to the list, since I had to have both tires off to repair them, I didn't like my 30 foot Trailer just hanging out on the truck's bottle jack for a while.
I usually take pride in my tire changing times.. Kind of like the old man in "A Christmas Story" when the kid curses when he looses the lug nuts... I will figure it all out, this was just a first on the side of an interstate, so I was nervous, and with 2 young kids, I really didn't want anything stupid to happen.
