That was the caving trip we ate all the tort as at the stand in Xilitla.
And got locked out of our hotel for staying out after curfew or some such.
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:20 PM, Chris Vreeland via Texascavers <
texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:
> Yeah, we left your little truck about a mile from Potrero Redondo in ‘95
> when it would go no further, & it was all still there when we got back to
> it several days later.
>
> That was the trip that the Grey Pendejo got its name. The Holly carb on
> that thing was crap & the linkage kept slipping out of low gear rolling
> downhill. The water literally boiled off of my brakes at one of the river
> fords. I was lucky the disks didn’t crack.
>
> Chris Vreeland
>
> On Nov 22, 2017, at 7:35 AM, Charles Loving via Texascavers <
> texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:
>
> Amzing. I drive to the Sierra del Burro with one spare and no wheel locks
> in my 2002 Pickup on Firestone tires that are at least a year old and a
> spare that has never been on the ground and my mechanic says is dangerous.
> So far I havemade three four or five day trips and two out to Alpine and
> the desert out there. Bockbeer is a strange critter but I will soon post
> the new cartoon series the boring adventures of Bockbeer and his estranged
> Sequoia.
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 4:46 PM, David via Texascavers <
> texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote:
>
>> From David Locklear
>>
>> An irrelevant story about tires:
>>
>>
>>
>> I continued my quest today to prepare for a 3 day road-trip into the
>> rural roads of northern Mexico.
>>
>> I went to about 20 used tire shops in search of a very specific
>> all-terrain tire that I wanted for my 18 inch junkyard steel rims.
>>
>> So far I have spent today on 3 tires, ( only installing 2 ) was $ 360.
>>
>> The size is 265/70R18 which is an odd rare size but common on the
>> internet. It is 5 narrower and 5 taller that the street tires pictured.
>>
>> One is a Falken Rocky Mountain ( not pictured ). The other identical but
>> different name, Falken Wild Country, and the 3rd a B.F. Goodrich, all new
>> in never used condition.
>>
>> I also bought the cheap PepBoy's wheel locks for $ 14 that can be knocked
>> off with any sledge hammer, if you hit them just right.
>>
>> I did all of this in Spanish - probably saving about $ 75, but I also
>> spent $ 20 on gas searching for the tires.
>>
>> I am done with work until the 28th.
>>
>> I just have to find some money, and if it ain't in the mailbox when I get
>> home late tonight, then I will have to wait another day to check the mail,
>> and then possibly cancel my road-trip, after all that wacky hoopla.
>>
>> Then there is an ordeal beyond words, dealing with the sweet lady
>> mentioned in previous post. She claims that she is going solo on her own
>> to Monterrey from our house in her P.O.S. car with crappy tires ( yelling
>> in a very loud deranged tone of voice interjected with colorful Spanish
>> words like super-c*brone," and "inutil." ).
>>
>> At the moment, I have 3 functioning spare tires, but I only hope to take
>> one of them.
>>
>>
>>
>> I mentioned about previous trips being clusterph*cks. Yesterday, I
>> finally learned where the tool is hidden on the Sequoia that lowers the
>> spare tire. I also learned that the lug-wrench did not match the lug nuts
>> and that the hidden jack looks like it has never been used and I never knew
>> it was hidden there. I did not even know it had a jack, and the jack that
>> I had been carrying was a tiny one off my old Camry and was probably
>> worthless for changing a tire on a big 2008 Sequoia on the side of the
>> road. I have had this vehicle 17 months and put 65,000 miles in it, I
>> think.
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