Aw krap!

[GunnyMack]

So I ran out of #4 brass screws, need 4 to finish a project. Jump in the truck and head for my local hardware joint. As I get on the state highway I hear a strange pop...hmm that's odd.
Then I hear something bounce around the wheel well.
Next thing I know the tire pressure warning starts to flash.
I pull into where I'm headed, tire down to 17 psi. Yup I can hear air leaking. A few choice adult words were uttered.
The guys that run the shop were nice enough to let me change the tire on their loading dock, offered me tools and compressor.
I got the offending hunk of steel out of the tire. It was one handle off needle nose( I guess) pliers!
Well I got one hole plugged, put air in it and still leaking! A second hole right on the corner of sidewall!
Great now I need a tire so $170 bucks later I have the 4 screws I needed, had to get stainless since there were out of brass- talk about adding insult to injury!!!

[Pitchy]

Way of the world, never ends, as they say can always be worse who in the heck needs worse huh.

[fordwannabe]

I usually like finding lost tools...sorry Gunny

[Sixgun]

Gunny,
I was up your way the other day and I had a broken pair of pliers so I just winged em out the window. Glad you found em.

On a serious note, those things suck....be glad you were in civilization........they suck even more when your 20 miles from the nearest gas station as happened to me twice......I carry a full kit to repair tires (as long as it's not a sidewall) including a fairly decent air compressor that hooks up to the battery and not those 10 cent ones that plug in th cigarette lighter.

Yea, I have a spare but it's just no fun 4 wheeling/hunting with a spare that's flat as a pancake.----6

[GunnyMack]

Yes Six I've been in the boonies with tire trouble, along the lines of 150 miles from a tire joint!
Up I Quebec I happened to cut a sidewall on a spruce tree some knuckleheaded canuk cut on an angle. My trying to stay out of a very deep puddle and pungy stake dont add up to much fun!
Now here's the kicker- big deal it's a flat however my jack broke after about 2" of lifting.Being a screw jack and the screw breaks you are about SOL. but one of our group came along behind us so we used his jack and then his jack broke so we couldn't lower the truck- ya cant make this stuff up!

[2ndovc]

Always happens to me when it's 4 degrees out!
The only extended warranties I've ever bought into was for tires and rims. Being in the construction/ restoration world you never know what to expect. it's paid for itself more than once.


jb

[Pisgah]

Look at it this way, GunnyMack -- you went out to get screwed and you succeeded beyond your wildest dreams...

[Sixgun]

Gunny,
On your Canuck trip....yea...Murphys law.

My dad used to tell me that back in the 1930's, when he was a kid traveling with his pop, it was nothing to fix a tire 2 or 3 times going into town 20 miles away.----6

[piller]

It just wasn't your lucky day.

[gamekeeper]

I bought a car last Tuesday only had 36,000 on the clock, clutch went on Thursday. Krap krap krap.

[piller]

Whomever you bought it from must have been hard on the clutch.

[gamekeeper]

Whomever you bought it from must have been hard on the clutch.

A young girl I believe......

[gcs]

Ran over a chuck steak bone once, went through a 12x16 HD tire like a hot knife through butter. Now you know how they killed Mammoths with a stick....