FishingBanter - View Single Post - pre- trip report

**Charlie Choc** · October 12th, 2006, 11:33 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:

Chiseled!? Um, it sure sounds like there was some definite chiseling
going on...if it ever happens again, get a _good_ 4-way and put the
appropriate end on the crossed lug nut and then,

Hmm. Stuck in a rest area and I'm supposed to go 'get' a good lug
wrench? g The nut was damaged, either by the folks who cross threaded
it or by the 1st tow truck driver, and a socket wouldn't grip well
enough to break it loose - and they tried plenty of different ones. All
good roff advice considered, I'll still call AAA if it happens again.
;-) As it was, I still would have had to drive on the spare (not a full
sized one on my wife's Jeep GC) until I found a place to get a new tire
the next day, so I was probably at least as well off in the long run
not getting it changed myself. There was a tire place (JR's) close to
the repair place (Larry's), and I was able to get a good used tire
pretty cheap, so it all worked out.
--
Charlie...