09-01-2008, 03:33 AM
I was up at the berry today (Sunday), drove from Salt Lake without a drop of rain, nice. Somewhere between Heber and the berry I blew out the inside bearing on my rear axle (tandem axle), the smoke coming from the wheel was a good clue. Hub wasn't hot so we launched the boat, fish now-reality later[crazy]. Fished untill the wind drove us off about 3pm, still not a drop of rain. I boated seven cutts all in the slot but one was a very fat 19", when I saw the girth I thought for sure he was over the slot.
Now for the fun part, jacked up the rear axle, took the tire off, rigged up a chain to hold up the leaf spring but keep it from being weightless to avoid 'rocking the cradle'. One tire on one side, two on the other side. With the added weight to the one tire on the front axle it showed that it wasn't holding enough psi. My buddies went back to their camp to get a small compressor, nothing at the marina to pump up tires. When they came back they told me that it was non-stop rain and hail most of the day and the ladies wondered why we were still out on the water. Hmm, not one drop of precip on the boat, must be my lucky day...stopped at Checker in Heber. They had the bearing I needed but not the axle ring, dang. Back to SLC, started raining in Parleys and the wash up from the rain was terrible. I couldn't see 100' in front of me let alone keep an eye on my single tire. However, it hardly slowed anyone down. I was surprised to see people behind me doing 50 mph. I was going slow just to be safe. On my way up Parleys Summit I had a Dodge pull up beside me, he made sure I knew he was there and then gunned it blowing black smoke all over his $70k wakeboat (little man syndrome, when you were on the side of the road at the bottom of the canyon with your hazards on it was me who honked. Of course a 1ton Duramax can pull a boat faster than 50 mph, aargh I hate people [shocked]. I hope you read this.) and then it started pouring down. It looked like someone poured laundry soap on the interstate there was so much froth from the water running down. It rained the whole way home, bad.
Wheh!!! I'm done venting now, thanks for listening. What was this about anyway? Something about atleast I wasn't the only one who had a bad day?
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Now for the fun part, jacked up the rear axle, took the tire off, rigged up a chain to hold up the leaf spring but keep it from being weightless to avoid 'rocking the cradle'. One tire on one side, two on the other side. With the added weight to the one tire on the front axle it showed that it wasn't holding enough psi. My buddies went back to their camp to get a small compressor, nothing at the marina to pump up tires. When they came back they told me that it was non-stop rain and hail most of the day and the ladies wondered why we were still out on the water. Hmm, not one drop of precip on the boat, must be my lucky day...stopped at Checker in Heber. They had the bearing I needed but not the axle ring, dang. Back to SLC, started raining in Parleys and the wash up from the rain was terrible. I couldn't see 100' in front of me let alone keep an eye on my single tire. However, it hardly slowed anyone down. I was surprised to see people behind me doing 50 mph. I was going slow just to be safe. On my way up Parleys Summit I had a Dodge pull up beside me, he made sure I knew he was there and then gunned it blowing black smoke all over his $70k wakeboat (little man syndrome, when you were on the side of the road at the bottom of the canyon with your hazards on it was me who honked. Of course a 1ton Duramax can pull a boat faster than 50 mph, aargh I hate people [shocked]. I hope you read this.) and then it started pouring down. It looked like someone poured laundry soap on the interstate there was so much froth from the water running down. It rained the whole way home, bad.
Wheh!!! I'm done venting now, thanks for listening. What was this about anyway? Something about atleast I wasn't the only one who had a bad day?
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