1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

I mean for reals

 

I was thinking about you the other day and how much shit you find in your tires. Is there something unique to where you live? I've only had to plug 3-4 tires in over 20 years of driving. But I'll admit I'm not regularly inspecting every tire for nails. Unless one looks low.

 

That is some super bad luck right there. Black cats must turn around so they don’t cross your path.

 

I think you should probably include which vehicle this is for someone's sake

 

That looks awfully suspicious to me. I've seen it before where some putz will wedge a nail behind a tire so when you back out of a parking space, for instance, it drives the nail into the tire and because you are still rolling the nail then bends over. You got enemies?

 

Daughters car. Doubt there’s subterfuge afoot here.

 

Just lucky I guess

 

Not really related note, but reminded me of this …

The guy who has been failing to pay my $5,500 bill (going on 7-8 weeks now) for wiring up his food/drink establishment (the same tech that’s enabling his business/keeping him in business) had an 8hr power failure that took out all his refrigerated goods this week. Freak incident with isolated impact, just his place and a building next to it, and it happened 1hr before he closed, on the exact day he promised he’d pay me. (Spoiler: he didn’t pay me, and this might’ve cost 1/4 of what I billed him in damages)

Not that @KNABORES has karma gunning him down, but I just got a chuckle out of reading your comment because man, the universe has a way of sending certain shit towards people, though I don’t think it’s always clear why. I know why in my specific case, though. Just don’t have the heart to tell him.

Hopefully I get paid this week. Friendship is on the line, and I don’t think he realizes anyone else would’ve charged him 3x-4x what I did to do similar quality work.

 

Man, as a dad of a daughter, I hope there isn’t mischief afoot. One of my biggest fears as a dad.

 

I believe the universe sends me these flat tires because it knows I can handle them. Sparing the helpless masses from such maladies. I’m grateful for the ability to easily repair them at home with little cost and minor inconvenience to me.

 

I always chuckle at work because we have tons of hi profile lab coolers and freezers, a morgue; with ZERO redundancy!!!! I guess it’s not really THAT important……

 

In the winter (since Texas has mild winters usually) I like to drive ve with no AC, the rear window open, and the passenger window cracked. Not sure if it makes any difference in MPG, but I like it.

 

So how much did they have?

 

Damn car people thinking trucks need to be cars

 

That's a neat tidbit!

I know I can crawl under my Tundra for an oil change, without pulling up onto ramps or jacking the thing up.

 

A morgue, you say?
Interesting. I thought you worked at a college. But maybe they could have a curriculum for morticians and coroners, etc.

https://youtu.be/2GOGS1MjhkE?si=dEAuKkx4kujKUQXv

 

A hospital is attached, that morgue is actually part of a body donation type thing, for science, yeah!

 

There's a morgue in the hospital that I pickup OT at. I've never been inside, but I have had to escort the mortician to a body a few times. Just to the hospital room where the life escaped their shell.

 

Agriculture is also a huge part of the college, so we have a huge farm and meat lab for butchering and food safety type stuff. A buddy of mine also developed a whole system for aqua ponics that they still use today

 

I was just about to ask about a hydro garden before I finished reading your post

 

Did you plug or patch?

The last flat tire I had was on my two-axle trailer. I put on a spare and plugged the tire while my wife mowed a yard. The hole was so big I had to use two plugs but it's holding so far.

As a rule, I pick up and dispose of every nail, screw, or other sharp metal I find in the road or parking lot....."that's a flat tire right there!"

 

My buddy grows dank hops up in Colorado using the same system.

 

Plug

 

That was my guess. I've seen my father patch tires but that was decades ago. It's just too much work!

Remove wheel from car/truck, take the tire off the rim, spread out the sidewalls, rough up area, apply glue, put on the patch.

Plug and Go for the win!

 

Plug is quick, cheap and easy. Patch is probably superior though. The patch with the pull through plug even better. I don’t have a bead breaker for 17” rims. And it is a bunch of work to do. These have road hazard, could have taken it to get it fixed, just didn’t have time to do it this week.

 

I’ve seen I before but @APalmTree showed us all a cool trick in camp at T2Eesss using your jack and the hitch to pop the bead loose

 

The 2004-2006 Toyota Tundra with the Limited trim has the highest ground clearance of 12.3 inches while the 2023 Toyota Tundra with the 1794 Edition CrewMax 5.5' Bed 3.5L trim has the lowest ground clearance of 8.5 inches.

The data is accurate for mine. I’ve got 1” taller tires than stock, and it’s almost 13”.

 

Same here.

 

I would think a patch would be better.....

Dad made a lever-sort of jig that would break a bead on a wheel. He still has it and I've used it. It's a lot of work though and one has to be careful on an aluminum wheel, not to mar it. I've seen him use it many times but that was the 1980s? I used it once about 2004 but that's it.

Time is our most precious item also....