It's November, we aint no Turkey's, give us Cawfee n Tea

[Major 2]

I hear you Del.... what is worst is they'll use an Impact Wrench, and most (99%) ying yangs pour the crank to them....
If your lucky, they don't strip the lugs.
Another issue is the dissimilar, metals heat and cool at different rates and this causes loosing.... 
We don't have the road salt issue here but we do have salt spray on the coast 

Alum. heads & steel Spark plug threads is another, fine how do you do 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Morning y'all.
Coffee is hot.

'Tis 40 and overcast. High of 54.

Slim

[Arcey]

They city's 'leaders' cut some positions so they'd have more of the producers' money to waste on downtown projects. The 24 hour tire 'n battery guy went the way of the dinosaur. We had ta change tires - with our good clothes on – with the factory stuff what came with the cars. The day crew garage folks would hit the lugs with impact wrenches 'n twist 'em down so tight ya couldn't get a lug nut off with the wrenches supplied by the manufacturers.

I got 'n kept me some Fix-A-Flat. Square mile wise Norfolk ain't all that big 'n that'd get me back to the office or the garage 'n the tire monkeys hated the stuff. Didn't much care what they liked or didn't like. Myownself didn't like changin' tires.

[Major E A Sterner]

I myself always used a torque wrench to tighten lugs on any vehicle I worked on.some of the imports only get tightened to 60Lb/ft and it is too easy to break them using an air gun. Taking them off is a different matter...

[Stu Kettle]

no sign of Del yet this morning - ya don't 'spose he's still trying to get that tire off

I've never had too much trouble getting the lug nuts off, but getting the spare down from the under the box hanger winch thingy is another matter.  Spare rides in the box now.

[Texas Lawdog]

I bought a full size spare at the salvage yard for just that reason. I have a lockable bed cover, so I keep the extra tire back there. Thanks for the Cawffee this morning. It is rainy and the low 60s.

[Delmonico]

The thing is home, I'm sure as busy as the place was, we'll end up on "People of Wal-Mart dot com  Ain't Wal-mart if it does, Pizza Hut/Russ's IGA parking lot, Coddington and west A.  Pictures later, brother texted a couple to Dan, his son, all he's say back was damn.  

Took a floor jack, a 1/2 breaker bar with a truckers cheater bar, two cordless drills, 2 hammers, channel-locks, other pliers, chistles, punches, and end mill and a big crow bar, and a 4 ton come along and a 1 ton Dodge pick-up, non-dually type.  Maybe a couple other things I forgot.

[Stu Kettle]

Took a floor jack, a 1/2 breaker bar with a truckers cheater bar, two cordless drills, 2 hammers, channel-locks, other pliers, chistles, punches, and end mill and a big crow bar, and a 4 ton come along and a 1 ton Dodge pick-up, non-dually type.  Maybe a couple other things I forgot.

A bit more than the average person carries in the trunk.

[Arcey]

Maybe a couple other things I forgot.

You'd had a domaflotchy 'n a whatchamacallit, made from Unobtainum, the other stuff wouldn't been needed.

[Delmonico]

A bit more than the average person carries in the trunk.

This is my little brother you realize, if the 5 hp air compressor hadn't been broke we'd of had that also, and an air chistle.  Decided the torch was too dangerous, despite or because of the close proximity of the fire station.

[Delmonico]

We drilled around the rounded lug nut and chistled/punched/drilled/end-milled engough of it out we got it to finally come off and only pulled the car maybe 2 feet sideways.   

[Major 2]

That does appear to be a bonafied Son of Bit*h of an afternoon..
'nuff to piss off the POPE

While we're cuss'n' mad, I hate the 100 mile BS save A spare they put in the trunk now a days.

[Major E A Sterner]

Thinking that you should have used a bigger hammer 

[Texas Lawdog]

I have an extra tire/wheel for both of my trucks, so it is easier to change out. I also carry a small floor Jack as well.

[The Trinity Kid]

Just get a domestic, Del.....   A Studebaker for instance......Then again, parts for them sucker's hard t' come by.  Just get a second 1 ton truck.  Or a '63 'vette.  or maybe......

--TK

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Could be why they tell ya to rotate the tires every 5,000 miles now. Not so much for the tires, but so's you can keep the lug nuts from chemically welding to the wheels. Ran into that with the Focus my SIL had. By the time the wheel came off, had to have another one($$)

Had to take the Hamster-mobile to the tire place today, Miz nail magnet picked up another one. Right front this time, luckily, it wasn't any further to the outer edge than it was. Might've had to replace the tire otherwise, looked like a type of carpet tack.

Had a Dentist appointment after that. Get to keep'em longer

43 and dark now. Wife was off due to some muscle problems, Doc has her off until Thursday and on relaxers and pain killers. No heavy lifting, at least she gets paid for it

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Can't beat the price for some heavy duty posts. I'm not familiar with electrobraid - will it be hot, or just a tough wire fence?

It is actually copper wire woven into a nylon rope. You electrify it and it keeps the horses in, it also provides a flexible fence line in case they get spooked and run into it.

Del, no wonder you had so much trouble, you forgot the kitchen sink.

[Texas Lawdog]

That really looked like a major problem in removing the lugnut and wheel.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Mornin all, coffee, tea n sausage gravy biscuits.

Off to the polls to vote, this year whoever you pick the voters will be the biggest losers.

[Texas Lawdog]

Thanks for the Cawffee and grub this morning, LIT. The weather is rainy and damp. The City council elections are today. I don't have a good idea of whom to vote for.