GoFastRacer
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Posted: May 01 2019,5:43 am
Post # 9201
That sucks sorry to hear that, have any idea why it overheated, broken impeller chunks maybe. Lucky on the tire though, I had one come apart on my dually going to the river, took out the exhaust pipe and the fender you park it on concrete for long periods of time.
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
Phoenix, AZ Posts: 24,296
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Posted: May 01 2019,10:57 am
Post # 9202
Not sure yet on the cooling issue. Possibly the pickup tube between the bottom and upper half's of the drive didn't line up. Trailer parks on concrete. We were talking last night and these tires are Carlisle's not quite 5 years old. This is the first set of radials I put on it. I'm considering going back to bias ply.
GoFastRacer
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Posted: May 02 2019,5:39 am
Post # 9203
Parking on concrete for long periods is the worst thing for tires, I lost a brand new set of Michelin's on my dually in a little over a year because of that, they had less than 2000 miles on them., when I went back and told them what was going on an old tire guy asked me where did I park it, told him beside my house on the driveway then he told me about concrete, he said if you park on concrete for a long time without moving it put pieces of plywood under the tires, later a friend told me he went through the same thing and was told to put wood under tires while parked, also keep them covered to keep the sun off helps too.
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
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Posted: May 02 2019,1:23 pm
Post # 9204
The sun thang I knew about, but haven't heard about the concrete thing. guess I'll put it up on a couple 2x6's and see what happens. Still not sure if I'll go back to the bias ply's or replace them with radials again.
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
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Posted: May 03 2019,8:23 am
Post # 9206
Well, Got the lower half of the drive off last evening. The pickup up tube fell out. I got it back in place and ready to put it all back together. Probly get that done over the weekend. Will fire it off on the hose to make sure we are all good to go this time.
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
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Posted: May 06 2019,9:26 am
Post # 9208
It was. Got it all back together Saturday morning and fired it of . Came up to temp and held. I didn't see any issues and it ran as normal. Hopefully I didn't hurt anything. Will know better once we can hit the lake in a couple weeks. I also cut a couple strips of plywood that I had and put them under the tires after I got the trailer off the blocks. We will see what that does. Still not sure what I'm dong with tires. Definitely not doing Carlisle's.
GoFastRacer
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Posted: May 07 2019,5:43 am
Post # 9209
I've never used Carlisle before but I've known some that did and they didn't care for them much. Actually the best thing for tires is to take the weight off them completely, friend of mine made some stands for his so they were only about an inch off the ground and made covers for them, tires lasted a long time.
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
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Posted: May 08 2019,5:30 pm
Post # 9211
Got buried at work. Have a guy going on vacation for two weeks so I get to cover. Been spending the last two days running reports. And still have probly two more days of it. I'm ready for a relaxing vacation.
GoFastRacer
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Posted: May 09 2019,5:26 am
Post # 9213
Quote (BigDog @ May 08 2019,5:30 pm)
Got buried at work. Have a guy going on vacation for two weeks so I get to cover. Been spending the last two days running reports. And still have probly two more days of it. Â I'm ready for a relaxing vacation. Â Â
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
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Posted: May 09 2019,12:24 pm
Post # 9214
Quote (GoFastRacer @ May 09 2019,6:25 am)
Quote (BigDog @ May 08 2019,5:25 pm)
I thinking about doing something to get them up off the ground. Wish I had my machine here so I can make some covers for the tires.
Where's the machine, thought you had it..
My machine is at the folks house all wrapped up. I don't have any outlets in my garage to plug it in. Even though I was just thinking(I know, Not a good thing) I should go get it and squeeze it in the office for now.
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
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Posted: May 09 2019,12:28 pm
Post # 9215
Quote (GoFastRacer @ May 09 2019,6:26 am)
Quote (BigDog @ May 08 2019,5:30 pm)
Got buried at work. Have a guy going on vacation for two weeks so I get to cover. Been spending the last two days running reports. And still have probly two more days of it. Â I'm ready for a relaxing vacation. Â Â
It's called job security. Â
True. Took me 4 days to get caught back up after DS. Now they are crying they have to much to do.
GoFastRacer
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Posted: May 10 2019,5:11 am
Post # 9216
Quote (BigDog @ May 09 2019,12:28 pm)
Quote (GoFastRacer @ May 09 2019,6:26 am)
Quote (BigDog @ May 08 2019,5:30 pm)
Got buried at work. Have a guy going on vacation for two weeks so I get to cover. Been spending the last two days running reports. And still have probly two more days of it. Â I'm ready for a relaxing vacation. Â Â
It's called job security. Â
 True.  Took me 4 days to get caught back up after DS. Now they are crying they have to much to do. Â
GoFastRacer
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Posted: May 10 2019,5:13 am
Post # 9217
Quote (BigDog @ May 09 2019,12:24 pm)
Quote (GoFastRacer @ May 09 2019,6:25 am)
Quote (BigDog @ May 08 2019,5:25 pm)
I thinking about doing something to get them up off the ground. Wish I had my machine here so I can make some covers for the tires.
Where's the machine, thought you had it..
My machine is at the folks house all wrapped up. I don't have any outlets in my garage to plug it in. Even though I was just thinking(I know, Not a good thing) I should go get it and squeeze it in the office for now. Â Â
Well, that's one reason to put outlets in the garage.
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
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Posted: May 10 2019,9:41 am
Post # 9218
There is one outlet that I have been using as I need it to run things. But I don't trust it to plug my machine in to after what I have already found and pulled out of there. I also have a feeling it may be tagged on to an outlet just on the other side of the wall in the living room.
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
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Posted: May 12 2019,5:03 pm
Post # 9220
Talk about turn of events and interesting day of racing. Yes I said day. We were about half way to Tucson Friday afternoon when we get a call telling us that due to the rain that looks like hitting Tucson. We will be doing a double header Saturday. Thankfully we had no issues and were able to complete both race's by 6:30 pm Saturday. We were almost packed up when we had a bad rain storm hit. We were soaked to the bone. Went to the hotel for the night and came home sunday Morning. Car counts were down big time for all the groups. Probly weather and Mothers day related.
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
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Posted: May 14 2019,3:01 pm
Post # 9222
Yea it was a good day. A lot of hustling to get everyone through so were not there after dark. One thing that was nice is to not have to bust a$$ to get home sunday, even though we got up and hit the road. We walked in the door about 12:30 sunday afternoon. Then me and couch had a long conversation while working the remote all afternoon.
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
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Posted: May 14 2019,3:04 pm
Post # 9223
Been busy as he!! at work the past two days. Still need to get tires for the trailer so we can hit the lake for a test shake down hopefully Sunday morning. I really don't want to wait for the weekend after Memorial weekend. and I don't want to be on any water way Memorial weekend. I want to make memorial weekend a lazy weekend. If it gets done it gets done weekend.
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Posted: May 15 2019,5:34 am
Post # 9224
I hear ya on the long weekend, gonna be a zoo out there. But, if you get to do a test run this weekend better do it early morning before the winds start up, not gonna be warm either.
BigDog Not Float'n Enuff
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Posted: May 15 2019,11:47 am
Post # 9225
All I want to do is a quick shake down. It may be a little chilly, but I need to get it done. Get on the water early and get off before too many of the Yahoo's get on. Then I will feel better to hook and go when we want to float or get out of town.
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Lucky on the tire though, I had one come apart on my dually going to the river, took out the exhaust pipe and the fender 
you park it on concrete for long periods of time. 
I'm ready for a relaxing vacation. 
