Fixing a flat!

[Harry Moon]

With flat # 2 I was killing myself trying to jack up the back of my loaded truck with the original screw jack. Had to be all authentic right. Garage pulled a floor jack over so they wouldn't have to bury me on the side of the road.
Flat #3 with my new bottle jack, didn't have enough travel so I blocked it up with the wood block then lowered and shoveled a load of gravel under the jack and lifted it clear.
I now have a bigger bottle jack with enough travel to lift the truck up from rim to a fully inflated tire.
Tubes, that cheep Chinese tube was only half the weight of a decent North American tube!
Put a dab of grease on the threads of the red nuts it will save you grief and some sweat if you are doing this without an impact gun.
Remember your right nuts from your left nuts!!
If you hear the air-brake hose let go and you hear that escaping high pressure air-hose... remember very quickly you don't have air-bakes and get your speed down as fast as you can. It will take all your strength to drive strait at 1 mph to get to a safe place but you'll end up in the bush's or worse if you ignore that sound.
1 and 5 were slow leaks detected over time. 2 and 3 city speeds and got slowed down but 3 did put me into the middle lane with the right front down to the rim in under 5 seconds.
4 was lucky in that I just stopped after a long fast downhill on the highway....