Re: RE: RE: Re: 4x4: Can you smoke 'em?

From: |< R |> (krp@netnitco.net)
Date: Thu Feb 18 1999 - 11:18:42 EST


Date sent: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:31:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: RE: RE: Re: 4x4: Can you smoke 'em?
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>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 ZeNel1eac1@aol.com wrote:
>
> > really??????? clorox??????? I have never heard of that! I must be a
> > rookie,.... man I have got to try that!!!! What do you do pour it on the
> > ground rollup on to that spot and punch it?????
> >
> > oh man I'm siked!!!!!! is that what you have to do?????
> >
>
>
> I've never done this myself (tires are too darn expensive for this
> type of stuff!) :-) but I've heard that bleach will eat into
> your tires and reduce their life. So if you do this, be sure to
> wash your tires off really well afterwards.
>
> For those of you who enjoy doing this sort of thing to intimidate
> people, how about a small tank of clorox, a couple of windshield
> wiper nozzles in your wheelwells, and a winshield washer fluid pump
> from a junkyard? Whenever you really want to smoke 'em, just spin
> the tires and hit the switch. I don't know of anyone who has done
> this (which is probably a good thing) ;-) but I do know of people who have
> done exactly this but they use it to spray traction compound onto the
> tires. Now there's an idea I can get behind... :-)
>
> -Jon-
>

The "liquid tire chain" factory option on the '69 Camaro did exactly
that.

|{eith R. Phelps
krp at netnitco dot net

Cat..... the other white meat.



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