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dgv425
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Joined: August 01, 2007
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Location: Renton, WA
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 Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:11 am Post subject: Help! |
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| To any and all, does anyone in the Seattle/Tacoma area have a tow dolly or flatbed? I just bought a 72 standard, towed it about 30 minutes, the tires were going flat. No problem, we thought, just pull over and change 'em out for the two spares we brought along just in case. No go. The lug nuts ON THE FLAT are seized. I figured I would just go back tomorrow and hit it with some penetrating oil, wait a bit and move on. But NO, my truck decides this is a fine time to puke up the water pump. SO, it's Labor Day Weekend, I can't get a replacement, I got a car I just bought in a gas station parking lot 50 miles from home and a truck I can't fix sitting in the driveway. My Dad has a truck with hitch, but he's not interested in spending all day dealing with this. |
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piemat
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Joined: February 20, 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Wish I was, I would come help you.
Have you tried jumping on a cheater pipe? I know its dangerous, but its worked for me in the past. |
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wantsAbugg
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Location: Parkland Wa
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:50 am Post subject: |
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Where on I5 is it sitting. Some places the WHP are really quick to have them towed away like the construction zone in Tacoma.
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Inky
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Location: Tucumcari, NM, USA
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| piemat wrote: |
Wish I was, I would come help you.
Have you tried jumping on a cheater pipe? I know its dangerous, but its worked for me in the past. |
One of the wheels on my '71 Bus had unmovable lugs on it. Tried a lot of things-- even a small impact wrench and they wouldn't budge. Luckily, I had no flats so I drove to a tire place. The guy hit them with his impact wrench, tried again, looked a bit baffled, and then pulled out the big impact wrench he used on truck tires and they finally moved. They weren't even rusty; just tightened so much they could not reasonably be removed. Glad I checked before getting a flat.
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dgv425
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Location: Renton, WA
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, some penetrating oil, wait a bit and then a cheater pipe is what I had in mind. And maybe a few people standing on the bumper for added traction. (no brakes) |
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gfw1985
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Location: Raphine, VA
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| This is why I always carry one of those cheap 10 gal. air tanks when I tow anything. |
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dgv425
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Location: Renton, WA
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Well, the good news is the weekend is over. Money was spent by all, and the problems are all resolved except one. Found a tow dolly, an air tank, and another spare. (My son had to work today so he needed his front tires back.)
Got the the "parts car" home and had to use a 4 foot cheater to pop the lugs on all 8 front lugs. The only problem left is this. After washing off about a (wet)fast food napkin thickness of mold and an inch or so of pine needles in every imaginable resting place on the outside of the thing, cleaning out about a 30 gallon trash can full of garbage and then vacuuming it out, I discover that my "parts car" is in better shape than some I've seen go for 5 or 6 hundred bucks. I only paid 1 Hundred! Now I can't decide whether to let him have the parts or do a resto on it. I'll try to find somebody with a digi-cam and post some pic's tomorrow. |
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