Good afternoon Colin,
Ya well I'll wait until the canola he combined arrives at the farm before I start being thankful!! To be sure it was nice but it would have been nicer had he let us know so I could have saved some time switching headers and taking a combine road trip.
So, the tire has a boot on it and the new fender liner is in place! Sort of happy. The most interesting thing was finding the culprit responsible for this whole fiasco still in the back part of the fender!! An, about, 4 inch by 1/2 inch threaded do-hicky! Seeing this thing now I'm lucky that the non-tire damage wasn't worse than just the cracked fender liner (in like 4 places!) and that it didn't shoot through some of the bodywork itself!!
The guys at the local tire store (would have used them but they don't sell Nitto's) were interested in such a wide tire ("what's it off of??") but showed me the damage to the tire - a fairly major puncture. This was before I discovered what caused it. So nice to know it was not a tire failure. But still a disappointment.
The tire changing experience was sort of fun, as much as something like this can be fun. I was really happy that I had the presence of mind that when the towing company was backing the car off the deck I had them place a 4 by 4 inder the flat tire. I couldn't get my floor jack under the car at first but I got out the air compressor and it was a race between teh car going up and air hissing out and trying to get the puck and jack in position. In the end I won but is was the rate of hissing air that at first made me realize how big the hole was!
Removing the innder fender liner actually sort of scare me as I was worried about getting everything back tucked into the right areas. I was smart in that when my cousin was doing some work on a truck I saw him taking pictures with his phone and so I did the same thing in case I needed to refer to how things went originally. Lucky that I did nto have to refer to them. It was actually harder to get the fender liner out I found than to get the new one in place. Probably the only time I've ever used a 7 mm socket too!
So as much as I'd like to take the car for a rip I'll wait until tomorrow or Friday when it is due ot be warmer.
Still no call from the other tire store about my "missing" tire yet today................
But honestly I'm actually kind of happy that I'll be able to drive it to the tire store when it does arrive, or to just put it into storage after the oil change and washing if it doesn't get here before the snow gets too deep!...............
Here is a YouTube link with some pictures I took:
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Cheers,
Garry
