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esanchez
Administrator | Posts: 141 | Joined: 06/06
Posted: 06/08/06
02:32 AM

What are your guys' best trail fix tips? Share 'em here!  


 
CshermanGo
New User | Posts: 18 | Joined: 08/06
Posted: 09/07/06
03:20 AM

LONG LIVE ZIP TIES and DUCT TAPE, they can fix anything!!!!!  


 
4wdtech
Moderator | Posts: 85 | Joined: 06/06
Posted: 10/09/08
02:05 AM

this may seem odd but i always carry extra valve stems for the tires. I actually lost one once while uising a tire deflator that removed the valve to lower the psi. i didn't read the directions first, however, and when i removed the deflator the stem shot off in  to the woods and was no where to be found. I used a valve cap on the valve stem-less tire/rim for most of the day but had to replensih air every hour. At the end of the day i finally stopped and bought a valve stem from a nearby tire shop.

by the way: DUMB GUY tip of the day; if you are too lazy to swap on your spare tire after misplacing a valve stem that results in a flat tire at least consider pulling the valve stem from the spare tire and installing it in the tire/wheel that you lost the stem from and re-airing up. it is much easier than changing a tire and you won't feel like an idiot after someone else on the trail points out this option.  


 
ToyDiesel
New User | Posts: 6 | Joined: 03/08
Posted: 10/13/08
03:47 PM

Ive used a small elect air compressor a couple of times for veh that lost fuel pumps and vapor locked.I tapped into the fuel tank vent line.  


85 Toyota Landcruizer repowered with 5.9 Cummins Turbo Diesel,Inline P-7100 pump and banks cooler,400+ ponys,two 12 in elect fans,5 in exhaust,1in body lift,6 in hanger lift.A boys real ToyDiesel

 
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