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**JDNSW** · 5th January 2007, 06:18 AM

Back from my Christmas trip to Melbourne. (But away again, probably next week, but only for about a week.) Only problems are I have again got an oil leak from a cracked weld on the pan of the front diff, lost a lower shock absorber bush on the bottom of a rear shock absorber in the last fifty kilometres - and I blew a front tyre just south of Colleambally between Jerilderie and Griffith on the 3rd. I think the problem may have been that the tyre went soft due to a slow leak and I did not notice it because of a thirty knot crosswind pushing me in the same direction.

The only vehicle that passed while I was changing it was a white Defender heading north- and it did not stop! I hope it was not anyone from here. Not that I needed any help, but it would have been friendly. Took about twenty-four hours to get a new tyre in Griffith - it seems that 7.50 tyres are getting less common.

John

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 5th January 2007, 07:28 AM

Welcome back!

pity about the tyre,,
maybe you were lucky to get away with only buying one---

**JDNSW** · 5th January 2007, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Welcome back!

pity about the tyre,,
maybe you were lucky to get away with only buying one---

For a change it was not a nearly new one, but one that was near the end of its life! Last couple of tyres I've wrecked have been near new.

Another interesting point was that the tyre in Griffith was $30 cheaper (just going to the first tyre place I found) than the same tyre a month ago in Dubbo (ringing round for the best price).

John

**Bigbjorn** · 5th January 2007, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Took about twenty-four hours to get a new tyre in Griffith - it seems that 7.50 tyres are getting less common.

John

John, lucky you were in a closely settled area with good services & not far from major cities. You lived in Longreach. Imagine how long it might have taken to get one up to Winton or Longreach or a remote area. Minimum two-three days, maybe four or more. In the fifties and sixties, our trucks often were laid up for weeks waiting for parts to come from Brisbane, Sydney, or Melbourne.

**JDNSW** · 5th January 2007, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

John, lucky you were in a closely settled area with good services & not far from major cities. You lived in Longreach. Imagine how long it might have taken to get one up to Winton or Longreach or a remote area. Minimum two-three days, maybe four or more. In the fifties and sixties, our trucks often were laid up for weeks waiting for parts to come from Brisbane, Sydney, or Melbourne.

In 1966 I drove with four Landcruisers from Alice Springs to Brisbane - we did our first tyre about a hundred miles from the Alice - and the first place we could get a 16" tyre of any kind was Mt Isa, by which time we had no spares left between us and were driving with crossed fingers.

John

**shorty943** · 6th January 2007, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by JDNSW

In 1966 I drove with four Landcruisers from Alice Springs to Brisbane - we did our first tyre about a hundred miles from the Alice - and the first place we could get a 16" tyre of any kind was Mt Isa, by which time we had no spares left between us and were driving with crossed fingers. John

Did a tyre refit, whilst working in Alice 1980. Truck coming down from Darwin, low loader float, had blown 39, (yes, that is right) 39 tyres, on a trip down to Cooberpedy. All were 7.50x16LT, emptied our stock, in one hit. Let's go back to non-pneumatics I say. Good old solid rubber, let's see them deflate on us.

Shorty943.

PS, welcome back John.

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