Bad decisions make great memories...eventually.

[TexasJack]

I learned I want an even bigger fire extingsher. My fire was caused by one of my accessory circuits. All fused but they were all the cheap wiring looms supplied by various vendors. Moving forward I will build my own. Stuff burned too far to determine exactly which one caused it. I already knew that Halotron is the way to go with an extinguisher. But I will say once my fire was out I had no mess other than the charred wires. Had I used a chemical unit that I'd wadger most carry, I would have a corrosive mess under the hood.



I generally wheel rocks at 11-13. Gone as low as 4psi in snow. No issues with the bead yet with OEM wheels and various MT tires.

I never heard of Halotron till you mentioned it above. I have 2 extenguishers mounted in my 80 series and I doubt either are "clean". Looks like I'll be replacing them pretty soon!

 

[White Stripe]

It seems like there is a lot of opinions on airing down. I am no expert but these are the variables I can think of that would affect airing down. The weight of a vehicle, a heavy vehicle will require more air in the tires. Size of the tire, rim, width of the rim, sidewalls are you running 2 ply or 3 to six ply. I had a rock crawler with 38" swampers with 10"x 15" bead locks and aired them down to 4 psi. Compared to a weighed down expo rig with light all terrains you might not want to go below 20 psi. Some people like beadlock wheels, but most are not dot approved. If you pop a bead, jack the tire up put a ratchet strap around the tire in the middle of the tread so that the bead seats and air it up. I have done this many times with a pos autozone cigaret lighter plug in air compressor. Also bring tire plugs in case you get a tread puncture, if you tear a side wall and are out of options you can use tie wire and tire plugs to sew it up to get you to the pavement this works better with bead locks because you can take the tire off. I always air down because I like the Cadillac ride and better traction. When I get back on the pavement I air up. If some one else has something to ad please do I am probably forgetting something.

One thing about airing down without beadlocks is that if you do a fairly difficult trail it will ruin the tire balance and you need to get them balanced again. One time as a experiment I marked my tire to rim relationship then went to the trail, aired down and went wheeling. When I was done, the rim had rotated 180 degrees inside the tire on both rears. The fronts did not rotate in the tire. Each wheel had 5 or so ounces of weight on the rim, but since the rims spun in the tire, no that weight was in the wrong spot. Made for a rough drive back home, thus I finally went to beadlocks cuz I got tired of balancing my tires and plus I could air down more.

 

[Jason hansen]

Good point, knowing that your tire balance could get thrown off could save a person from chassing vibration issues. Now I have a good excuse to get beadlocks.

 

[2fpower]

I do not have bead locks so I never air down below about 16 LBS. It makes the ride softer and the Toyo MTs have really thick sidewalls so I don't worry too much about popping a bead when aired down. I have an ARB compressor under the hood as well as a compressor that is part of a jumper battery so I have back up on the compressor and battery. Never leave home without it! It also allows me to air back up more quickly as I use both the ARB compressor and the jumper battery air compressor. One on the left, one on the right....and it still takes a long time.

no beadlocks here either. Running on stock toyota rims. Have wheeled for years at 12psi with no issues. Even had one of my stauns set wrong and wheeled for entire weekend at 8psi. Never popped a bead.

 

[MDarius]

Damn...you pressed the SPOT button and it didn't send? You guys must have been pretty freaked out!

In case you missed the edit, I learned that my SPOT tracker subscription had expired and my device wasn't registered on the system. I'm eating humble pie after bad mouthing them, but this is about lessons learned, so, there you go.

 

[bluecruiser]

In case you missed the edit, I learned that my SPOT tracker subscription had expired and my device wasn't registered on the system. I'm eating humble pie after bad mouthing them, but this is about lessons learned, so, there you go.

you'd think it could tell you that from the device and/or offer an emergency renewal at a premium price. Glad you guys made it out without real issues.

 

[TexasJack]

I think Dean Martin said it best (and I am paraphrasing):

Making good decisions is based on experience!

Where does experience come from? Making bad decisions!

 

[JLH911]

I would be piiiiiiiiissed...or dead.

This issue of "failed subscription renewal" appears to be a common thing with these type of satellite devices. I was considering a DeLorme InReach and read some of the reviews left on Amazon. Wow. These units should be equipped with some sort of light indicator that would warn the user that there is no service on it.