Sunday :: 14 March 2010 :: 07:14 PM
286 days to Christmas!
Remote Spare Tire Pressure Check And Fill Hose
$12 Hose solves problem of checking Spare Tire air-pressure.
The hose is 5 feet long and has a female Schrader fitting on one end and an 1-1/4" long threaded male Schrader fitting on the other end of the hose. Making the hose this long enables me to lower the wheel and tire to the ground and slide it toward me allowing easy hook-up and un-hooking of the hoist chain and hose assembly.
I lowered the spare tire, attached the female end of the hose assembly to the spare's Schrader valve stem. I coiled the excess hose into the well of the wheel and cranked it into its stow position.
I have the Big Tow package on my 4X2 2005 KC. I drilled a hole in the mounting bracket for the electrical socket used to attach the trailer's hook-up plug, and mounted the male Schrader fitting using a hex-nut.
Using wire ties, I secured the hose run to the tubular hitch member.
Using this extension hose enables me to check and fill the spare tire as easily as I do the other four tires.
Random Humor: Only In Alaska
The day after losing his wife in a diving accident, a man answered his door to find two grim-faced Alaska State Troopers.
"We're sorry to call on you at this hour, Mr. Wilkens, but we have some information about your wife."
"Tell me! Did you find her?" the man cried.
The troopers looked at each other. One said, "We have some bad news, some good news, and some really great news. Which do you want to hear first?"
Fearing the worse, an ashen Mr. Wilkens said, "Give me the bad News first."
The trooper said, "I'm sorry to tell you, sir, but this morning we found your wife's body in Kachemak Bay."
"Oh my goodness!" said Mr. Wilkens, overcome by emotion. Swallowing hard, he asked, "What's the good news?"
The trooper continued. "When we pulled her up she had two five-pound king crabs and a half-dozen good size Dungeness crabs on her."
Stunned, Mr. Wilkens demanded, "If that's the good news, then what's the great news?"
The trooper said, "We're going to pull her up again tomorrow."