Re: 1972 Sea Ray
Alright everyone so what I day I had, went and picked up my dually out of the shop all fixed, rear end blew out in it and they covered it on warranty all the while they decided to replace all 4 of my rear tires brand new as well. Wow!!
Now for the bad, I went to pickup the boat at 10:30am arrived on site. Turns out one of the tires was in rough shape and low on air. Knowing that I put in some fix a flat and got some air back in it the quick but not effective way and planned to once I got it out of the boat yard to stop at a tire shop around corner and get it replaced. I brought a spare as well so that was a option too. Well a 25' boat and a F350 Dually does not fit well in small quarters so that shop to replace my tire was out of the question. Knowing I was only 20 miles away I decided to hit the free way and take it slow. About 8 miles out that very same tire blew out, go figure right and was one of those I told you so moments.
Stuck on the side of freeway a tow truck shows up and offered to help only to find out that my rim on trailer was a 6 lug and my spare was 5 lug, that part I shot from hip and did not know but the tire was like new. So the object was remove old busted tire and swap my spare tire on the correct rim. He drove off said he couldn't help but offered advice to leave boat on side of free way and take my spare to swap out on my own. Okay that is fine but now that my tire is falling off on the rear axle the front axle was preventing my rim from touching the ground so breaking lug nuts off was not going to happen due to rim spinning.
Screw being stuck on side of freeway so I was near a exit I drove the boat about 2 miles longer into a parking lot of a mall. Sears auto center in there YEAA!!!!, yea then to find out they said basically go screw yourself we are not working on a trailer. WOW really not going to help someone out. Okay I was going to even buy a brand new tire from them so there loss. I tracked down a mobile service guy who eventually even with my help and tools I brought along we lowered air in front tire to allow rim to rest on ground and remove lugs. At that time both tires had to be removed so one could be replaced and other pump air back in. In any case 6 hours later and it is now 5:30pm I was back on the road for only a 10 mile trip left. I got boat home. Below is a few photos of what we previously talked about.
