craig333
Riley's Human
I also have the safety seal kit. No comparison to it and one you'd get at an auto supply place. I have used it successfully. Takes a bit of muscle but not hard to use.
My truck has no locker or limited slip so this last time I opted to buy another tire for a spare. I only went from a 245 to a 265 so it shouldn't be too bad if I ever have to use it.
Currently just carry a little cheapie compressor unless I"m towing the Jeep, then I can use the compressor on it.
My old Chevy I had many flats. A combination of being overloaded and buying cheap tires. The flat I got while towing the Jeep was a big part of what convinced me to get a new Truck and Camper. No more overloading and good tires means a much smaller likelihood of gettting a flat.
Had one flat on the Jeep. That was pre detroit locker. Now if I get a flat in the rear I'll have to move a front to the back and put the spare up front since its an inch smaller. Spare still has the nubs on it so it was to spend the money on one the same size.
Caution---check your lug nuts. Was offroad with Jeep once and the rear tire came off, rolled down a hill. I thought the noise was just a u-joint getting ready to fail (carry a spare one of those too). Lucky for me it was group run and another person had spare lug nuts (and that Jeep has used the same size for close to forever).
I also carry a can of fix a flat but just figure if it needs to be plugged its too big a hole for fix a flat.
Oh, one other caution. Make sure your wheel size is fairly common. Not too far from truckee I had a flat with my old truck and camper. I had a spare but it looked like the twenty mile trip might be ten more miles left than it had. In truckee I tried to get another tire but no one there had that size (think it was 16" if I remember). Had to drive on into Reno (out of my way) on a spare I expected to fail at any minute, to find a dealer that carried that size. Btw, on that rig I did wind up carrying two spares, one in camper.
My truck has no locker or limited slip so this last time I opted to buy another tire for a spare. I only went from a 245 to a 265 so it shouldn't be too bad if I ever have to use it.
Currently just carry a little cheapie compressor unless I"m towing the Jeep, then I can use the compressor on it.
My old Chevy I had many flats. A combination of being overloaded and buying cheap tires. The flat I got while towing the Jeep was a big part of what convinced me to get a new Truck and Camper. No more overloading and good tires means a much smaller likelihood of gettting a flat.
Had one flat on the Jeep. That was pre detroit locker. Now if I get a flat in the rear I'll have to move a front to the back and put the spare up front since its an inch smaller. Spare still has the nubs on it so it was to spend the money on one the same size.
Caution---check your lug nuts. Was offroad with Jeep once and the rear tire came off, rolled down a hill. I thought the noise was just a u-joint getting ready to fail (carry a spare one of those too). Lucky for me it was group run and another person had spare lug nuts (and that Jeep has used the same size for close to forever).
I also carry a can of fix a flat but just figure if it needs to be plugged its too big a hole for fix a flat.
Oh, one other caution. Make sure your wheel size is fairly common. Not too far from truckee I had a flat with my old truck and camper. I had a spare but it looked like the twenty mile trip might be ten more miles left than it had. In truckee I tried to get another tire but no one there had that size (think it was 16" if I remember). Had to drive on into Reno (out of my way) on a spare I expected to fail at any minute, to find a dealer that carried that size. Btw, on that rig I did wind up carrying two spares, one in camper.