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Well I guess there is a first time for everthing, and hauling for 5 years I have been blessed by the Good lord. This afternoon in the snow/rain mix I loaded my truck and another guys with 35 head of feeder cattle, I was pulling out onto the main road and blew my driver outside rear tire. I had 17 head on my trailer and know that I would not be able to jack the truck up with the trailer hooked. I dropped the trailer loaded and called another boy to come and pick my load up. I was able to drove my truck back to my farm driveway and leav it there and continure to haul these 2 loads. <br>I guess the good thing about a daully is when you get a flat the truck os still driveable with the other wheel picking up the weight of the truck.

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Hey sorry for the bad day man. Just pull a tire and wheel from my trailer and use it. If it fits. I wont be after it until the roads get better. Snowing pretty hard here. :'( [laugh]

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It's good that it happened close to home.<br>It would seriously suck to have it happen in the middle of nowhere in a snowstorm.<br>You're making your guardian angel work overtime again. ;) [laugh]

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Thanks HG, but I dropped my spare this evening when I got back in. <br><br>SH you are right, if that would have happened while I was on the road. I would have been in deep you know what.<br><br>I was only about 12 miles from my house and I had to go right by it on the way to the stockyards, so my buddy was behind me with me trailer and I dropped my truck off in the field as you come into my driveway. I called AAA and they were 3 hrs behind. I was hopeing they would come out and have it changed by the time I got back with those two runs.

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By the way, how is the hub and rotor holding up?

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Greattttttttttttttttttttttt, no problems at all. Saved me about 400.00 do it that way :D

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I wish I would have meet you earlier. You could have saved me a bundle. Now I know who to beg for help. [eyecrazy]

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That is what I am here for ::)

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Plus a good laugh. [laugh]

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Been there done that too....only I wasnt close to anything and it was wee hours of the morning...I now carry everthing needed to change a tire on the road =big jack =large lug wrench =mounted spare for Dodge and Trailer and a air compressor....Ive spend one too many nites along the road waiting for help...the one other tire accessorie I carry now is a set of tire cable chains (hate bein stuck too) [undecided]

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Pappyman you are like a tire center on wheels. You learn from experience. ;)

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Ive learned fast help only comes when you dont need it...when you really need help its slower then molasses in winter and for the $150 I spent for the tire stuff its paid for its self ;D

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[quote author=Cattle Hauler link=board=11;threadid=7872;start=0#75675 date=1039046166]<br>Greattttttttttttttttttttttt, no problems at all. Saved me about 400.00 do it that way :D<br>[/quote]<br><br><br>im always up for saving some cash ;D<br> what happened and how were you able to save some $$ moolah $$

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Cattle Hauler did some break work on his 99. The front hub was stuck too tight to come loose on the passenger side. We eventually seperated it to get it off. He simply took the hub, cleaned it, repacked and pressed it back together. I did the same thing, but was told to get a dealer part. It cost right at 400.00. I am still fumeing over that. Cattle Hauler has done this to the driver side as well. ;)

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lol- <br><br> sounds like the ******* got the best of you there-<br> thanks for the quick reply :)

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I have done both sides that way. There was no way to get the hub out of the wheel spindel with out seperateing the hub. I cleaned with brake cleaner and repacked the grease and used a manually press and pressed the 2 pcs back together. No problems at all<br><br>I did the driver side about 10,000 mile ago and last weekend when I changed the rotors that hub looked great, no grease leak, when I took out the ABS wheel sensor I could see grease still in there. I did the passenger side this same way last weekend.

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I think Ch is Irish. I know his luck is great. Ricki tell them about the pictures. I saw that on a thread a while back. This guy is good.<br><br>Ricki's head is swelling. Need a new hat by now!!!!!

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You know Ricky now that I think about it we could have gotten that peice off so much faster if we had a slide hammer. Was using a couple today to rebuild and old chrysler tranny and it hit me (this would have been perfect why didn't i think of this two weeks ago) oh well live an learn. Maybe it will save ome others some time.

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Justin if he switches rearend and front ends then he will have the same problems I did. SO it wil be handy for then

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Keep a 3' piece of 4&quot;x4&quot; lumber with you for those outside flats. Just drive the inside tire up on the lumber, no jacking involved ;D.

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[quote author=Stormin_Norman link=board=11;threadid=7872;start=15#77129 date=1039284655]<br>Keep a 3' piece of 4&quot;x4&quot; lumber with you for those outside flats. Just drive the inside tire up on the lumber, no jacking involved ;D. <br>[/quote]<br><br>Good idea thanks S N

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Why didnt I think of that. I do that when changing the duals on my 2394. Glad somebody thinks for us around here.

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[quote author=Hired Gun link=board=11;threadid=7872;start=15#77134 date=1039285165]<br>Why didnt I think of that. I do that when changing the duals on my 2394. Glad somebody thinks for us around here.<br>[/quote]<br><br> [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]

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[quote author=Cattle Hauler link=board=11;threadid=7872;start=15#75972 date=1039087289]<br>I have done both sides that way. There was no way to get the hub out of the wheel spindel with out seperateing the hub. I cleaned with brake cleaner and repacked the grease and used a manually press and pressed the 2 pcs back together. No problems at all<br><br>I did the driver side about 10,000 mile ago and last weekend when I changed the rotors that hub looked great, no grease leak, when I took out the ABS wheel sensor I could see grease still in there. I did the passenger side this same way last weekend.<br>[/quote]<br><br> Hauler;<br>I've got a puller that will take the hubs off easy ( usually without seperating the bearing ). After the bolts are out it takes about 60 seconds to pull the unit.<br>A local tire shop here in town call me when they have one of these to pull apart. Their to cheap to but a puller.<br>If you ever have to pull yours again call or pm me. Or any one else around here for that matter. ( it may cost you a cup of coffee or a 5.9 you know ) ;) ;D<br><br> : Eddie : 8)

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Hey Eddie where were you when I called on the phone? And where were you when I emailed you? I went to Lexington and on up to have Tom fix my KDP and I wanted to stop in and have a visit with you. But I could not get an answer.<br>I forget the date but it was a week or two ago.<br><br>Oh Sick, Robert