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Adventures with Big Blue

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beags86 said:
I have always been a fan of the smaller caps. Sounds like you need to just take the plunge and get some new tires. Then painting the rims would be easy.
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Meh. I could get new tires. But this truck saw ~2000 miles this year. I can discern no tire wear. The tires are going to die of dry rot before I wear them out. Why would I take a set of new tires and condemn them to this miserable death? :dunno:

If my usage patterns change, new tires just might make sense. But if I buy new tires, they're going on the CUCV rims. With the hub caps. :deal:
 
The truck is hibernating during the salt season. Whatever I do will be done then. For now I'll be focusing on other projects. Like the CUCV.

Oh yeah...dollars put into unnecessary tires here are dollars that I won't be able to put toward necessary CUCV/Suburban parts. Doesn't sound like the best of trade offs to me. :dunno:
 
GWeakland620 said:
Put the lesser quality on the rear and :burnout:
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Given that everything around me is covered in ice, I'd be pulling super tight donuts. Until I hit something. :doah:


beags86 said:
:burnout: with a 6.2..... Best thing I heard all day!
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Just like anything else, the 6.2 is great at low speed, and not so great at high speed. Starting the burnout is easy, but ramping up the speed is what it would struggle with.
 
campfire said:
The amazing thing here is just how little is left of the Trailblazer. That compartment used to be really cramped (Right, @Larry and @ZooMad75?) And there's just not a whole lot left, comparatively. :eek1:
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WOW! Well, the good news is nobody was hurt and the world has one less POS Trailblazer/Envoy on it! :thumb:Probably a rusted fuel line by the looks of the rear quarter panels. I focking hate the GMT360 platform rigs!
 
Larry said:
WOW! Well, the good news is nobody was hurt and the world has one less POS Trailblazer/Envoy on it! :thumb:Probably a rusted fuel line by the looks of the rear quarter panels. I focking hate the GMT360 platform rigs!
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Truth. Nobody was hurt, and we all walked (or drove) away at the end of it. And I learned a lesson about lending out fire extinguishers. :doah:
 
campfire said:
Truth. Nobody was hurt, and we all walked (or drove) away at the end of it. And I learned a lesson about lending out fire extinguishers. :doah:
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For sure. Actually, being it was a Trailblazer you should have handed them a can of gas and starting fluid to help it burn faster and saved your extinguishers! :haha:
 
Larry said:
For sure. Actually, being it was a Trailblazer you should have handed them a can of gas and starting fluid to help it burn faster and saved your extinguishers! :haha:
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Oh, man. That girl was hysterical enough as it was. I think fanning the flames would have pushed her over an emotional cliff. :doah:

But, yeah, in hindsight I would have rather kept that extinguisher.
 
beags86 said:
I have always been a fan of the smaller caps. Sounds like you need to just take the plunge and get some new tires. Then painting the rims would be easy.

Why do you not drive this truck that much??
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Beags, here is another piece of why I'm not eager to buy new tires. I've had several consecutive sets of new tires that started dry-rotting right away. :doah: The old rubber on the back rims is holding out a lot better than the new rubber I bought a few years ago for the front wagon-wheel rims.


campfire said:
Any ideas why? I have several tires in use that are old enough to have 3-digit date codes (instead of 4) that are holding up to cracking & dry rot much better than my newer tires. And my rigs have all been sitting outside.

Pretty sad when the 20+ year old tires are in better shape than my 2010 Coopers (5 yrs & 15,000 miles and they're throwing chunks of rubber off badly enough to no longer be balanced).

I've repeated these results with several sets of tires. My DD's tires from last spring are already showing cracks, for cryin' out loud. :doah:

Has rubber quality cheapened a bunch in the last decade? :dunno:
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beags86 said:
I have always been a fan of the smaller caps. Sounds like you need to just take the plunge and get some new tires. Then painting the rims would be easy.

Why do you not drive this truck that much??
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And it looks like that last line was added after I replied, so I musta missed it. I have a few reasons why I don't drive the truck, but mostly my answer is IDK. I pulled it off of winter duty after a couple years, because it became apparent that the sheet metal was aging rapidly. :doah: It's not an awesome repaint job (I have a lot to learn yet), but it is still pretty enough that I'd like to preserve it. Having it off the road in the winter means that I hafta own another vehicle anyway, and then it gets into a spiral of boring-yet-practical matters. Why drive the truck when the DD does the job more cheaply? Why bother insuring a vehicle that has no real purpose? And before long it's parked in the barn like the broken CUCV, while I wind up driving other vehicles year round.

The rigs are self-encouraging, though. Taking two cross-state trips with this truck has got me thinking about using it for DD usage again. Will depend on a lot of factors that haven't been decided yet. But it's kinda fun to drive it around. :)

We'll see what happens after the salt season ends. :popcorn:



Oh - buying tires would be much easier to justify if I were wearing them out regularly. So the problem may solve itself if I do start driving it more.
 
Well its not like you need the biggest baddest mud/ rock tire out there. So you could probably get by in the 500 dollar range for tires.

To play devils advocate a bit I'll say if you spent 5 bills on tires you would probably justify driving it more...
 
beags86 said:
Well its not like you need the biggest baddest mud/ rock tire out there. So you could probably get by in the 500 dollar range for tires.
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Yeah, that would do it for that truck. 235/75R15 is definitely a cheap size.

beags86 said:
To play devils advocate a bit I'll say if you spent 5 bills on tires you would probably justify driving it more...
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I don't think so. My current tires are in no way hindering my enjoyment of the truck. So replacing them probably wouldn't make any difference.


Spending that $500 on the K5, OTOH, will produce noticeable results. Come to think of it, that truck actually does need tires, rather than simply having a made-up need to replace good rubber with other good rubber. :P

:haha:
 
I will say this, though. If that truck ever does run into (actual) tire issues, I will not hesitate to replace or repair them as needed. I'm not gonna have that truck stranded for lack of rubber. It doesn't get used all that often, but it is still my backup vehicle, and I intend to keep it ready for instant use at any time. :waytogo:
 
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