Rant. Tires and Dually's
 

WTF is the big deal about working on a dually for tire places?

I have limited time I can be without my truck so i've been trying to schedule getting tires put on. I have 4 new tires, 2 to go on the front, and 2 for the outer rears.

try 1: NTB no problem... wait.. don't have a socket big enough for the front lugs !!!!

try 2 and 3 at local places, all well and good, can do it in the time frame I need 4 truck tires etc etc.. soon as they realize it's a dually.. nope can't do it! takes way to much longer.. and I really don't see how maybe someone can explain? do that many people not grease/anti seize the rims so they have to be beat off? mine slide right off no problem.


I think i'm going to have to not take my daughter to some of her stuff this weekend so I can be without the truck for a day and I hate having to make that sacrifice, if it wasn't full on plowing weather I could borrow someones spare plow truck for a day but that's not an option right now.

all I can think of if sticking the (%*$$# thing on blocks and having someone drop me off with the tires and the tire/rims since I know tire places have no problem doing that..

anyways.. just needed to vent a little

having a dually cummins is nice, but useless when i can't get it to move in bad weather

i think what it is is that it takes almost half a brain to use a tire machine with dually rims. it isn't a piece of cake like a regular rim unless they do it every day. i am in real good with my tire shop, i drive in, take the wheels off, they mount and dismount and i put them back on. that way i know if the lugnuts are put on properly, if anything gets broke or stripped it is my fault.

this just sounds like some people have the case of the lazyass....

edit: also balancing them they have to have a special offset adapter for the balancer to make them balance correctly.

Last time I went to NTB. they put it on the lift and had me use the lug wrench to take the tires off because they didn't have a socket big enough for the front..

thats lazy! but I got one heck of a discount

edit: also had one guy clock the rears on wrong and his boss almost beat him with a wrench. thats was some funny stuff right there.

These tire places should have to change 8 recaped drives on a tractor like I do, then see if they complain about doing a dually pickup.

:nice: agreed. or super singles on a truck with full fenders.

caught a break.

a friend (and member here) who works at a tire shop came over lastnight and took the tires, and helped me pull the ones off my truck and took them to work with him today and swapped em out for me at cost.

currently forgettng his username, but when I remember it he gets a huge thanks from me!

Shoulda gone to a TRUCK tire place, not a car tire place!

That is a no shitter. I have done lots of truck tires by hand, with a bar and hammer. Not fun at all. Thats why I take mine to a truck tire shop, in and out in less than 30 mins.

ive done the 22 and 24.5s on trucks and i would MUCH rather deal with the bigger rims than the little bastards on my truck 19.5s were the smallest i like to deal with not any smaller than that they are a royal pain in the ass

"truck" shop didn't seem interested in doung a passenger vehicle. kinda like the cummins place seems uninterested in talking about a VE pump truck. lol

altho, RV places... I might look into that!

it all comes down to me having limited time to get it done, dealing with bad roads, and the story of the tire places changing from phone to showing up. 10am sure truck tires no prob, 12pm well... maybe we can... 12:05 dually? no!