I don't know if this is with the flow of the thread but..

I drive a paint delivery truck (sherwin williams) and I took the back route up to a little town here in NM. On the way back home I stopped at the only store for miles around. I bought some snacks for the road and as I got back in the truck, something felt weird. I got out and looked, right front tire is flatter than a pancake. Luckily, the lady who owned the store had an air compressor in her shed in the back. I put some air in the tire and found the leak. I got lucky because the leak was in one of the sipes of the tread. The hole was from a nail, I could see the imprint of the head. I aired up the tire again, tried 2 different leak stopping rip offs. Finally, I used some electric tape to stuff into the hole, with the adhesive side facing outwards. It held for a few miles and I found a power line crew on lunch. They had some duct tape and I replaced the electrical tape with duct tape. Lucky, as the friction heated up the duct tape, it held for good. When we went to get the tire repaired, they couldn't find the hole because it made such a good seal. Anyways, all that because I didn't have a spare on the truck. I got lucky that time, I coulda been stuck in nowhere land for hours and hours waiting for a ride home.

 

There are certain places I go that I always take two spares, and thats with OBA and a saftey seal kit... One of them is where we elk hunt, because most flats the group have experiacned are dual flats.. in fact thats how my dad met our hunting buddies, had to borrow a spare.... 70 miles down a dead end dirt road is not the place to get stranded..

normally i just take one, there are only 2 places I can think of where I would take 2 spares...

 

Sentence structure is your friend, Elton.







j/k

Glad to hear it worked out for you

I like to have my spare, provides good peace of mind and helps with the weight dist. like seanz0rz said.

 

get a cargo rack and put that baby on there....(if you like how that looks)

on second thought that might bring the center of gravity higher up on your truck with that size tire...just a suggestion

 

Well
When I get another roof rack
I will also be throwing a spare there
I will also leave one on the rear when i get the tire carrier on back///
I would like to have 2 spares at all times....

 

That is nuts and I usually endorse overkill.
One spare is more than enough. All you need is one AND a repair kit, a compressor or CO2 system and a little bit of know how.

 

See when it comes to me though...
I have the worst of luck...
I was with a friend of mine in his jeep...
Goin down the road, truck infront of us lost his cargo and pipe shattered all over the road, tried to avoid it but blew both tires on the passenger side...
Had to pay for towing and all new tires (since with SUVs and any 4X4 they recomend it...)
Overkill is if i still kep a spare underneath too...
Wow...
3 spares woudl be insane...

 

I don't run a spare anymore. But then where I live, there is almost no wheeling spot that doesn't get near-perfect cell phone reception. We're pretty lucky out here when it comes to that. It would still suck to have a flat, though. instead of fixing it, I would have to wait a while.

 

Well I have to say that if you aint gonna carry spare at least carry a plug kit and pump.

 

Do the rollbar mod and keep it with you all the time...unless you haul a lot of crap.





Fink

 

i carry a spare in my truck, but when i needed it a few months back i discovered that my jack and tire wrench was gone :pat: :pat:

thankfully i was only about 5 miles from a tire shop and it was a slow leak that i found on a piss break shortly after it started

 

I got a flat 3hrs from home after driving 3hrs on gravel I 'turned' onto pavement and ripped a nice hole in my tire. pssssss... wtf.. damnit!

=)

Drove the flat about 200yrds to our destination (insult to injury!). Made camp, had a fun night. Parked the truck, prayed it didnt get jacked or stripped (happens a lot out here) and drove 3hrs back home in a fullsize Chevy, 4guys to a single cab. yea... fun, not.

Got spares, drove 3hrs back in a '87 2wd yota. Truck was unmolested, drove back on a smaller spare tire then got all new wheels/tires a week later.

I never ride without alteast ONE spare and it's always chained in the bed of my truck.

Moral, BRING SPARE TIRES. Otherwise you WILL get burned. =)

 

i took my stocker out and fabbed up a simple mount in the bed. i drilled through the bed and through the little crossmember under there and welded a nut under that. then i got a 5/16 (or maybe 3/16) threaded rod, cut it to length, and welded it to a bent piece of 3/16" steel that i bent with a torch. heres how it ended up so I can have a full-size spare:




now I know thats not help for you 4runner guys but maybe a taco guy is reading this, who knows. i also got a 6' length of small steel cable with looped ends at home depot which is the PERFECT length to run through the wheel and to a hook in the corner of my bed to be padlocked. helps me feel safer

 

im driving with my spare now so far ive ruined 2 tires i cant wait to get money saved up for new tires

 

Doesn't the back end get looser without the weight?