Is there a better choice of fix a flat. I have seen the slime products, has anyone tried them, or know if they are any better?
Rods are for pussies. I call my " Secrete, strong enough for a man but made for a woman." I carry a spare [tire] but I drive a truck. I think a big reason that a lot of guys don't carry aspare is they don't have room, or brains?
The hubby and I keep the spare that came with the car. We just never took it out. I don't even know how long it would last if we used it, but hey, it's a spare.
I used to carry a compact spare with two differant adapters so I could even change the trailer tire if it ever happened. Now I have the same bolt pattern and no luggage trailer but don't have a spare to fit now.
I carry a space saver spare that I robbed from my newer Corvette. I have never had to use it by my friends have. I also carry a floor jack and every tool I can think of that I might need on the road. I might not know how to fix an issue I might have BUT if the right person comes along that can, I want to be prepared with the right tool.
Don't really know how I could. No trunk and running 750 rears... ribbed dirt trackers up front. Suppose I could weld a mount to the rear spring perch and mount something like a 600 - splitting the difference - to get me where I need to go. Somewhere there is a great picture of Nimrod's car with a ribbed 'Stone mounted on the rear to get him down the road.
I knew a guy with a modified once that had a quick on and off spare tire rack. Around town he didn't carry a spare but if he was going any distance which he did frequently, he threw the spare on it. It matched his rear dirt track tires and was just to get him to a station or a phone. I think a lot of the older cars ( Ts and As) didn't have provisions for a spare at all. They carried patches and s****s and could fix a flat on the side of the road. I've seen old family pictures of summer trips with tires strapped to the roof I'm sure that had a tube or two somewhere. A lot of our cars are just from a different era when things were simpler.
Yeah' I carry one. But check this...I don't carry a flippin lugwrench. Every time I go to grab one up I just forget or get sidetracked. I guess it's that CRS (can't remember **** ) old guy thing!!! What was I just sayin???? O yeah, I'm gonna go get that lugwrench thing taken care of!!!
I plan to have a flip down license plate on the RPU. I will fab up a lightweight rack for long trips to slide into a receiver type hook up behind the plate with spare tire, gas can, and tool box. The bed floor will only be about 5" deep, and will just clear a case of beer (or three)laid flat. Not for until get there, of course.
There is a spare hangin' off the back of my 32 mor-door,,,but I couldn't tell ya if it has air in it or not! HRP
Amen. I admit that half the time around home, I don't always have a jack and lug wrench. People get a kick out loaning you a jack and lug wrench, when they see your car. I know. But I always run with a full size spare. At a minimum, I'd at least find room for a "doughnut" spare and bolt circle adapter, if required. Oh, and sometimes it's a pain, but I always make sure the bolt circles match on my projects, front and back. One less thing to keep up with. If it's a road trip, yeah, I take tools and fix-em-up stuff. Nothing worse than being stranded on the side of the road, knowing you could fix the problem if you had just had a couple of common hand tools. Talk about feeling like a dumb***. On different trips, I've had a transmission blow, a spindle break, and generator lock up and burn the belt right off the pulleys -- not a whole lot you can do when something like that happens. But I had a belt start slipping in the middle of Poedunk, Alabama, and I had to leave a 57 Chevy sitting on the side of the highway. I could've tightened it with a pair of plyers if I hadn't got in a hurry and left that morning without some hand tools.
After all the Macho BS, anyone who doesn't carry a spare has to rely on someone who is prepared to save their ****. John56h asked a question he already knew the answer to, but wanted opinions like the one he got from the rodster? How much space can a multi lug donut take? What is the difference if you are going 5 miles or taking a road trip?
The '37 has a space saver in the spot where the original spare was. of course, with a '37 Chevy coupe, there's room in the trunk for a whole shop full of tools... Slonaker
Wrong. Ts had the spare mounted to the back of the car, and As generally had a spare tire mount on the runningboard/fender. Hot rodders, by their nature, probably rip those off first. And to say that they were from a different era when things were simpler is true -- most of the roads weren't paved yet! I think it's fair to say that the drivers of that era changed plenty of tires while stuck in the dirt.
If I had to go be real pictures of real on the road cars I would have to say that rodders weren't the only ones to pull 'em off or not order 'em to start with. Spare tires and spare tire racks were an option not a given.
I wasn't there, so I have to go by what I've been told. Back in the day, my Father's car club used to carry "***istance cards" that they would hand out to motorists that they had helped. If somebody was broken down on the side of the road, they would stop, offer ***istance and get them running again. The cards basically said "you have been ***isted by The Dragons of Escondido or, later in his hot rod days, The Hunters of Santa Ana and had thier club logo and the members name. I always thought this was kinda cool and a great way to promote the hot rod culture to the regular folks. Personally, I've kind of made it my thing to always stop and offer ***istance when I can...especially to a broken down hot rodder. I can't tell you how many times I've been able to save someone on the way to, or on the way home from an event with something as simple as the right wrench, a piece of wire and clamp or a spare gallon of gas. Pay it forward...you gotta take care of your own!
C'mon, lighten up guys, I was just kiddin'... I would LOVE to carry a spare, but I just can't. There are MANY people on here (like me and Kevin Lee) that are running 750-16 rears on cars that have zero storage space. I carry a good ***ortment of tools and hope for the best. Rich
Patches if you run tubes and plugs if you run tubless. An old hand pump. What else can I say? Mr Lee is covered all he needs is a phone and one of us will be there but you on the other hand are a long ways for a flat.
Here's that picture. Four flats in one Bonneville trip...mostly due to oversized tubes. I picked up a ratty radial and rim off an f150 in Lovelock Nevada (that was on the right front. And after running over a nail in San Jose (almost home) I had to use the flat ribbed frontrunner and a couple cans of fix-a-flat to get me off the highway. I think you can see the nail in the back tire. You can also see from the pic that there is really no room for any kind of spare if you're taking a long trip in a small car.
It's not too good on a "posi" or "trac loc" rearend if you're driving very long with mismatched sized tires too. One more thing to worry about.
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