Here’s mine from yesterday, totally my own doing. I was driving back across Fraser on the woralie rd, towing the camper. These days there is often 2 parallel tracks and without exception they are chewed out on the ‘up’ side of the hill and only rutted on the downside so of course I cross over where possible to make it easier on the trailer. I paid the tax yesterday. Heading up, a vehicle appeared just in the wrong spot. I had a little momentum and a choice to make so I hooked left to get back onto the left track. The drop was a little steeper than it looked and I went close-ish to a roll over, not helped by the fact I blew both left hand side tyres off the bead(18 psi). Still pointing uphill and still not stuck I left foot braked (no lockers) and drove it to the top of the hill, eating the flat tyres as I went. It was stinking hot and the sand was dry yesterday and the left side was very low and I had one spare and a perfect hilift jack where we all have them - back home in the friggin shed haha. My mate was following thankfully so he was a great help. I limped over to a dodgy looking little tree and the rear tyre twisted sideways and caught in the leaf spring as I did. I rigged up a stiff leg Derrick with the fork of the tree and another tree behind with the extension strap and winched the front end straight off the ground and up the tree. With some stuffing around we got the bead to reseat using the compressor - great, now I have enough spares for the number of flats I have. The hardest part of the job was finding out the hard way that ford have stupid plastic caps over their wheel nuts and the provided wrench doesnt go over them properly. This could derail any trip. We had an axe and a socket set however. We got enough height out of the rear end to lower the spare and get it out, then used the car jack on a max track jacking the shock mount ( I know), the camper jockey wheel and the camper front stays to lift the rear. Unbelievably as it lifted, they tyre came back to life and started straightening itself. Some shovel work got it clear enough and we even got the bead to reseat. Put the spare away, lower the car, clean up tools..... rear tyre is flat again. Pumped it right up to 60 this time, and it looked ok so we started driving. It held thankfully. So many things went right, we were very lucky and got out of there. The car will go in to get all the sand retrieved from inside they tyres this week and som new wheel nuts and I suppose I’ll buy a hilift jack mount. Happy trails.
(Mind you, I'm not going to check how Ford mounted mine!)
