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| | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 42 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 42 | So it's almost fireworks time, I get in my truck ('57 3100) to go over to a buddy's place to watch the festivities. I'm tooling down the freeway doing about 70, and I get a funny vibration, and then the whole truck goes sideways, which then starts spinning. I end up sliding off the road into the ditch between Vasco and First St. When I left the road the truck started to feel like it was about to roll over, but it didn't, and I came to a stop a few feet from the fence. I thought I was gonna die!! A few people stopped to see if I was okay, I was more freaked out than anything. A Highway Patrolman stopped to see if I was okay, and give me a sobriety test to make sure I hadn't been drinking. Turns out most of the tread on the left rear came off the case of the tire in one long strip. I picked it up! It was an older tire, but it had plenty of tread, so I thought they were fine. I'd driven on much worse before!! Luckily, another of my buddies happened to be going my way, so he stopped and helped me out. After we got it dragged out, I was able to drive it home slowly. I got pictures from my cell phone of the truck on the side of the road! Picture One Picture Two What a night!! Glad no one was hurt!! | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 | Sorry to hear about your mishap, it can sure screw up a nice day. Gotta watch older tires, especially if they are recaps, which sounds like this might be the case. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 191 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 191 | Said I wasn't allowed to see your pics LOL! Glad you and your truck are ok! | | | | | Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,026 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,026 | The main thing is that you weren't hurt or worse. Tires can be replaced, you can't. Glad you are O.K.
Robert C. If it's true what they say, "You learn from your mistakes," I'm a Genius in the making. 1950 3600 | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 341 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 341 | Thank the Good Lord you weren't hurt, take care.
Allan
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1951 GMC 1/2-ton
Two 1953 Chevy 3100 5-window
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 | Wow ....sounds like a ride i wouldnt want !...was that a recap tire ?...to seperate like that musta been ...Glad you are fine ..machines can be fixed Old Bolters cant, if enough damage is done!....Glad ya here to tell the tale | | | | | Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,458 | This week when I was traveling I saw more shredded tires than I think I ever have. I don't know if there is something wrong with modern rubber, or if the DOT hasn't been cleaning up, but there was a lot of it everywhere.
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A lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 | | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,445 Moderator - The Electrical Bay | | Moderator - The Electrical Bay Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,445 | go wipe! glad you didnt roll it!! 
Another quality post.
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| | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 125 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 125 | Glad you and the bolt are fine. Bet that raised your heart rate a bit!  I'm getting a login screen too so not able to look at the pics. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 22 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 22 | living here in Mesa \ Phoenix you can always tell when it it is getting really hot -- tire treads that have seperated from the tire --- littering the freeway
Glad you were ok! | | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 Member | | Member Joined: May 2006 Posts: 256 | Crap...I know the feeling Rabid..Was not in my truck, but blew out a front tire doing 90 on I80 in Nebraska...Everytime i think about it ...I hit a recap that had blown out from an 18 wheeler..instant blow out on my right front..Held tight and got it off the Hywy..glad your ok..and the truck
HURRY UP AND WAIT 55 235 3/4
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 311 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 311 | Man alive! Aren't you glad you spent the money on GOOD parts when you rebuilt the truck? Just kidding. Glad you are OK.
Always get a 2nd opinion, especially if I am the source of the 1st opinion.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 166 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 166 | Glad you weren't hurt! That would have scared the cr&^ out of me.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS "Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." -- Ronald Reagan 1966 Fleetside SWB Webshots | | | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 50 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 50 | nice truck
restoring a 1946 coe wrecker.
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,602 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,602 | You are very lucky. Glad you are ok.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 513 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 513 | i had something like that happen in my 49 3600 one day in the rain, i was doing 45-50 and hit the brakes they pulled and spun the truck around through an intersection i though i was going to roll it. so i second you on the "it scared the holy crap out of me".
but very glad to here you made it safe. are they tires any of the brands just named here in the last few weeks about tread seperating?
1949 Chevy 3600 Flatbed all orginal 1964 gmc 4000 1973 gmc 6000 2005 chevy duramax 4x4 1994 chevy 1500 Trucks are GM and Tractors are Orange "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." - General George S. Patton | | |
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