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Bayliss Thomas
Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 557 Location: SUFFOLK
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:09 pm Post subject: Don't do what I did |
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Towed out my Eccles last weekend on a 45 miles round trip, thought the towing was a trifle weird with the caravan diving off left or right occasionally. Put it down to the road surface having those lorry wheel indentations throwing me off my chosen line. Out again soon so best check tyre pressures, holy moses only 10psi in each tyre Thats two new tyres and tubes lost twenty psi in each. No wonder it towed strangely.  |
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Fluffle-Valve

Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 521 Location: At my computer in a bungalow in Duston, Northampton.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:22 pm Post subject: |
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My tyres always look a bit soft, but they are running at 35psi....
I always check pressures before I leave to go anywhere with my foot-pump. _________________
Series 3 1972 LWB Truck Cab Pick Up. My daily drive. |
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Bayliss Thomas
Joined: 25 Sep 2009 Posts: 557 Location: SUFFOLK
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Indeed, I always check mine now before a haul  |
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Den

Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 99 Location: Ontario, Canada.
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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:30 am Post subject: |
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One of those moments when you realise truly how lucky you were after. I am so glad you weren't hurt. _________________ Den.
Reporter-"How's it feel to be Henry Ford the Second?"
Henry Ford ll-"I don't know. I've never been anyone else." |
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62rebel
Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 343 Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:23 am Post subject: |
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i purchased a motorhome some 200 miles away and drove it back of an evening; about midnight, some 60 or so miles from home, the right inside rear tire blew out.......... push on? stop? i had no tools; the motorhome was running on the battery alone, not charging right, so if i shut it off, it would not restart........... so, push on i did! i managed to get it to the homestead around one in the morning.... checked the tire the next day, and a strip of it, about 3 inches wide, had left the sidewall... the tread was still there, but i fear it would NOT have stayed put much further.
BTW, she's probably larger than one of your AEC buses.... 33 feet long, eleven feet tall, eight feet wide.... 454 Chevrolet big block engine. _________________ nothing is ever so far gone as to be unsalvageable. see this bolt?..... |
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