Re: Flat Tire Survey/TODAY 8/25/01 07:30PM - HELP
Funny, I have been reading this thread for the last few days, and have never had a flat...went out to do 20 minutes of brush hogging and got my first flat. Rear tire, filled with calcium chloride (and tubes) and punctured it with a sharp stick. This is a big tire (16.9 X 30) on 15 inch rims.
My question is...what do I do know. The very soonest I can get someone out here is in the morning, Sunday. He also said it would be very expensive (85/hr including travel time which is probably an hour each way. He recommended I wait until first thing monday.
Question is, how much damage is that leaking calcium chloride gonna do in the next 48 hours or so.
I have the hole (which was easy enough to find with the 1" diamter stick sticking out) at the top, so nothing more appears to be leaking out. I have jacked up the tires to take the weight off so it would not go flat completely, but undoubtably some of the CC has leaked outside the tube and inside the rim...should I pay thru the nose and have this taken care of first thing tommorrow. Or is the tire guy right when he says that 48 hours ain't gonna make a difference. He said he would be scrubbing down the rim and washing it before he put in the new tube anyway.
Opinions??!!
Funny, I have been reading this thread for the last few days, and have never had a flat...went out to do 20 minutes of brush hogging and got my first flat. Rear tire, filled with calcium chloride (and tubes) and punctured it with a sharp stick. This is a big tire (16.9 X 30) on 15 inch rims.
My question is...what do I do know. The very soonest I can get someone out here is in the morning, Sunday. He also said it would be very expensive (85/hr including travel time which is probably an hour each way. He recommended I wait until first thing monday.
Question is, how much damage is that leaking calcium chloride gonna do in the next 48 hours or so.
I have the hole (which was easy enough to find with the 1" diamter stick sticking out) at the top, so nothing more appears to be leaking out. I have jacked up the tires to take the weight off so it would not go flat completely, but undoubtably some of the CC has leaked outside the tube and inside the rim...should I pay thru the nose and have this taken care of first thing tommorrow. Or is the tire guy right when he says that 48 hours ain't gonna make a difference. He said he would be scrubbing down the rim and washing it before he put in the new tube anyway.
Opinions??!!