15" ? Where are you? If you can, have your local AAA guy do the deed. If not then have him remove the driveshaft marking it so it can be re installed exactly, mark both sets of mating flanges so you can re install like it was. Then you can drive it like normal and have your local sweetie put the D/S back in at home. No harm will be done either to animals or the van using this process. Bag the bolts and wave washers and put the D/S on the floor between the seats wrapped suitably in newspaper, g-bags or something so as not to soil the floor. You could have the local AAA team provide you with a wheels-off-the-ground transport home or to your tire shop. Somewhere down the line consider a decoupler and these problems and the odd tire wear and extra wear on the $$VC$$ disappear. Cheers, Pensionerd. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Donna Skarloken <dskarloken@gmail.com>wrote: > If I have to run a different tire for about thirty miles on the right > front, > how bad is that for the Syncro? > > I've got myself in a situation where I don't have the proper spare (BFG off > road tire vs. regular spare tire), and am not able to get road servicer > (called Les Schwab, expensive plus they do not want to come out at 5:00pm > tonight). > > Valve stem split; this is the second tire that this happened to so we will > replace the other two (and buy a proper spare). > > Thanks for any advice. > > Donna, 87 syncro > |
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