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Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on November 02, 2003, 10:24 PM:
…..on the service graph to make a phone call. Let me tell you how I came to that conclusion. I got a late start today due to too much time fooling around with this darn keyboard and screen. I was just looking for a wide spot in the road so I could make my first stand of the day when I hear this noise coming from my truck, it wasn’t the engine it was going with vehicle speed. It seemed like it might have been drive line, but I hadn’t done anything too crazy. I got out and did a quick look around. My right rear tire was flat, no big deal right? Well, when you buy a new truck make sure your lug wrench actually fits you lug nuts!!! I had a 13/16 and needed a 7/8, I even tried beating it on with a rock with no luck. A quick look at the ol’ cell phone and it says no service, now I have a habit of watching that darn thing, so I have an idea where the service is available, and the phone said roam just a few miles back. So I slung the shotgun over my shoulder, grabbed my liter of mountain dew, a half a bag of peanuts and began my quest to make a phone call. I was thinking no big deal, walk down here a little ways make a call and make a few stands while I wait. Just like I remembered, the phone said roam; I hit the call Gregg button, nada, not happening. I could see a pretty good hill just a little further; I climbed to the top of that and still not going through. Finally, after walking an hour I got Gregg’s phone to ring but it only rang once before the line went dead. I tried a time or two more and couldn’t get through. It is now nearly 1:00 pm and a long way to go to where I knew my phone worked. I put my head down and started walking, I guess you could say I took the hiding the truck deal to the extreme today, but I never blew the call.
I know that we have discussed leaving your guns in the truck before in situations like this. I am a firm believer now that that is the thing to do. I got driven by twice while packing that shotgun, of course I wasn’t desperate yet and didn’t do any waving, I was sure I was going to get though just over the next little hill. But in reality, it looked like I was hunting. I decided to ditch the shotgun in the brush and mark it with my GPS. Twice more people drove on by, by this time I was getting tired, but I was approaching a dairy farm, but before I got there a fellow coyote hunter and Ford Technician, stopped and asked if I could use a ride. The answer to my prayer came at about 4:45, he was heading back to the city that starts in N. Ogden and ends somewhere near Payson, Utah. They had just finished their second trip ever trying to call a coyote. They got me started talking about coyotes asking questions faster than I could answer them, some of which I’m probably not qualified to answer. They not only gave me a ride to cell service they took me all the way to my exit, where I met up with Gregg and we went back out and salvaged my truck.
Things could have been a lot worse had they not come along, I had just over an hour of daylight left and it got cold after the sun went down. I’m all stiff right now but damn glad to be feeling it. I hate to imagine what a night out there would have been like.
By the time they dropped me off, they had me so wound up talking about coyotes that I had forgotten what they had saved me from. I don’t feel like I expressed my gratitude well enough. They really got my butt out of a sling. Just thank you and a hand shake doesn’t seem like enough.
We exchanged e-mails and phone numbers, and I will take them on a hunt and show them how I do it. I just hope they learn what little I do right and ignore the rest. I wish I had a sure thing honey-hole to take them too, but we all know about the sure thing and a coyote. I’m thinking I will leave my guns home and let them do the shooting if there is any to be done.
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on November 03, 2003, 07:35 AM:
Yikes... Definitely, not a fun way to spend the day. "BTDT", as they say.
Glad it worked out okay for you!
This brings up a question for our distinguished panel... I'm wondering, how far have some of you guys driven on a rim (the flat only lasts just so long, then it's nothing but the rim), on how bad of a road? Obviously, you can't get anywhere on a road that's very bad, but hard packed washboard gravel, you can go pretty damn far on the rim. I think the farthest I ever drove like that was about 35 miles - about evenly split between gravel and blacktop.
- DAA
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 03, 2003, 03:21 PM:
Wow, what an adventure. You're going to remember that for a long time, and tell it often.
I once lost three lugs, not the nuts, the actual lugs were also gone. Had been driving all night on a washboard road, and didn't even notice, until I hit some pavement. Took several hours of work, afterwhich, we drove about 400 miles on four lugs @45 MPH...I had one spare but the splines were shot on the drum. (never let those dipshits at the tire store torque your lugnuts)
I once drove about 50 miles with a bad hole in the sidewall. I plugged it with a whole wad of that gummy cord. It popped out,the minute I got to a town and pulled to the curb. That was the second flat of the day, that Utah shale really plays hell with tires. Both tires had to be replaced in Ely.
Never had to drive on a rim....yet.
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on November 04, 2003, 06:41 PM:
The thought of driving on the rim made the first cut of choices, and by the time it really started looking like it was the thing to do it was too late. There is a 4 way on board now, but I’m thinking those custom wheels would look a lot better on someone else’s truck.
Some of my friends say it is an excu….eerr reason to buy an ATV. Maybe they are right.
Leonard, I have seen rigs come into the shop on the hook with no lugs, some people have taken the time to find the wheel, and others just come on in without it. Looked like a scary ride to me.
Posted by Jack Roberts (Member # 13) on November 04, 2003, 08:28 PM:
I went 40 miles across the sage trails last week with a flat front tire on my dirt bike. It did not hurt either tire, tube, or rim, but it sure did steer weird. I just took it easy and kept my weight to the rear.
Jack
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on November 05, 2003, 05:02 PM:
Wow, Bryan. Better you than me, man. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
When I got rid of my 4X4, I took the advice of a mechanic buddy of mine who suggested I go for the 4X2 and put an ATV in the back. Glad I did. Much funner riding for help than walking.
I had the same kinda thing happen to me last winter. I was on callout for EMS one evening and I had to run to a small berg of a town about eight miles away. I was on my way home, in uniform, on I-70 and had the front passenger side tire blow out. I bail out, jack the truck up, get the bad tire off and discover that the spare rim doesn't fit the lugs on the pickup. Called my dispatcher and had a tow truck dispatched hot. Luckily, I didn't get paged out but man, was I ever puckered up there for a while. Nowadays, I carry two spares, extra belt, chains, two jacks, and a toolbox full of coolant, brake fluid, clamps... all manner of crap I'll never use since I have it with me. As far as driving on a rim, my rims are $300 each, retail thru Ford, and my tight ass will walk a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG way before I waste one of those. Then again, I'm rarely a mile from a house anywhere.
Either way, glad you made it out okay. More importantly, did you try to sell a PREDATR to either of those guys that saved you??? Just kiddin'!
Posted by JoeF (Member # 228) on November 08, 2003, 06:59 AM:
I'll second the idea of never letting the tire shop goons over-torque your lug nuts. I just re-learned that one a month ago - so tight that my puny impact wrench wouldn't break them loose.
A second hard learned lesson:
If you have aluminum wheels take the time coat the surface that mates with the steel hub or drum with anti-seize compound. Those two dissimular metals can bond very tightly once a bit of corrosion starts. I once had to abandon an almost new vehicle (<10k mi.) overnight because of this problem. That's not the only time I've seen aluminum wheels stuck on a drum.
A $20 air bomb and a $7 plugging kit don't take up much room.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on November 08, 2003, 07:29 AM:
Gee whizz, Joe. I thought you died, or something?
Good advice, though. Getting stuck sounds so tame, once it's over!
Good hunting. LB
Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on November 08, 2003, 09:24 AM:
Probably the most embarrassing part of the whole deal is I have more dollars tied up in tools than I paid for the truck, and the only tools I had onboard were the ones shipped out with the truck.
Had I had that air bomb and plug kit that Joe mentioned, I would have been able to walk much better on Monday. I see the aluminum stuck to drums and rotors all the time, some of those tings are very stubborn.
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