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- Peter
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A tiny rock took out my TRD Off Road stock Michelin LTX Trail tire.
This Saturday, doing the Diamond Creek Road in the Hualapai Nation at the Grand Canyon:
https://www.arizonahighways.com/diamond-creek-road
a 20 miles rugged, graded, gravel road to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and to the Colorado River.
Tires at 33PSI. Warning about 2/3 of the way to the river to immediately check tires, right rear tire loosing air. It went flat in about 30 mins.
No service at all in this area or in Peach Springs in the Hualapai Nation which is where the road starts. Didn't want to put the spare on in case I ended up losing another tire too.
Used compressor to fill the tire to 48 PSI and drive it out back to Peach Springs. By Peach Springs, it was at 26 PSI.
A very helpful driver of a bus that takes people from Peach Springs to the river for rafting trips and rafting pickups called his neighbor 12 miles away who has a small shop in tiny Truxton, AZ. We re-filled the tire again and I followed him to his shop in Truxton. We found a small leak in the middle of the tread. A small rock got in between the treads and punctured the tire at the base edge of the middle tread. He plugged it and we were on our way, but too late to try the road again and get to the Colorado River. Very disappointing.
This Saturday, doing the Diamond Creek Road in the Hualapai Nation at the Grand Canyon:
https://www.arizonahighways.com/diamond-creek-road
a 20 miles rugged, graded, gravel road to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and to the Colorado River.
Tires at 33PSI. Warning about 2/3 of the way to the river to immediately check tires, right rear tire loosing air. It went flat in about 30 mins.
No service at all in this area or in Peach Springs in the Hualapai Nation which is where the road starts. Didn't want to put the spare on in case I ended up losing another tire too.
Used compressor to fill the tire to 48 PSI and drive it out back to Peach Springs. By Peach Springs, it was at 26 PSI.
A very helpful driver of a bus that takes people from Peach Springs to the river for rafting trips and rafting pickups called his neighbor 12 miles away who has a small shop in tiny Truxton, AZ. We re-filled the tire again and I followed him to his shop in Truxton. We found a small leak in the middle of the tread. A small rock got in between the treads and punctured the tire at the base edge of the middle tread. He plugged it and we were on our way, but too late to try the road again and get to the Colorado River. Very disappointing.
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