09-10-2024, 09:57 AM
Honestly, I never thought I would read (3) pages about a flat tire! LOL! (just kidding!)
When you live out in the country on dirt roads, flat tires are a pretty common thing. I get a flat about once a month on something, sometimes more. I carry spares for everything, and keep an impact wrench in all my vehicles just to speed things up. I have my jacks set up to be the same size as the lugnuts on each vehicle so I can use the impact wrench to raise/lower the jack too. They say it's bad for the jack (and the impact) but I don't care; they're cheap in comparison to kneeling in the mud and rocks. Plus, I tow big trailers with livestock in them and having to leave a vehicle parked in the sun with livestock in a trailer can be a costly (very) affair. So, the faster I can get back on the road the better.
One thing which really helps prevent flat tires is mud flaps, especially on the front wheels. My local mechanic kept telling me this, but me being the hard-head that I am, I never listened to him. Then, one day, I got so sick of having so many flats that I broke down and bought a set of mud flaps for the front of one of the trucks. Wow! He was right. All of a sudden my flat tires went down by about 90%. That was all I needed to know, and now all the vehicles have mud flaps on the fronts.
I don't know for certain why this works, but I've been told that the front tires stand nails and other tire destroyers upright for your rear tires to roll over and get punctured. Apparently front mud flaps prevent this, or so I've been told. Seems like magic to me, but it works!
When you live out in the country on dirt roads, flat tires are a pretty common thing. I get a flat about once a month on something, sometimes more. I carry spares for everything, and keep an impact wrench in all my vehicles just to speed things up. I have my jacks set up to be the same size as the lugnuts on each vehicle so I can use the impact wrench to raise/lower the jack too. They say it's bad for the jack (and the impact) but I don't care; they're cheap in comparison to kneeling in the mud and rocks. Plus, I tow big trailers with livestock in them and having to leave a vehicle parked in the sun with livestock in a trailer can be a costly (very) affair. So, the faster I can get back on the road the better.
One thing which really helps prevent flat tires is mud flaps, especially on the front wheels. My local mechanic kept telling me this, but me being the hard-head that I am, I never listened to him. Then, one day, I got so sick of having so many flats that I broke down and bought a set of mud flaps for the front of one of the trucks. Wow! He was right. All of a sudden my flat tires went down by about 90%. That was all I needed to know, and now all the vehicles have mud flaps on the fronts.
I don't know for certain why this works, but I've been told that the front tires stand nails and other tire destroyers upright for your rear tires to roll over and get punctured. Apparently front mud flaps prevent this, or so I've been told. Seems like magic to me, but it works!
