last night on my way home from work my truck started making a horrible noise from the front left corner. it sounded like a person hammering on a piece of wood. i initialy thought i had a flat and pulled over to investigate. but tires were all fine. so i just drove home with the noise and about 3blocks from my house it stoped. looked this morning couldnt find anything to explain it. any ideas?

 

could have been something that got caught in the tire and then fell out. When I was working in shops I found some crazy stuff inside tires. It probably isn't there is that is/was the case. But if the noise is gone I would have to say give it a good look over again and call it good man.

 

well i figured it out!!! actually not a good thing. So i was driving up to the auto parts store today. as i am coming to a stop at a back road intersection, suddenly i hear booom! im suddenly much lower on the front left, and see my tire flying across the street!!! it missed a couple girls walking home from school by about 3ft, hit a stump and bounced about 15ft into the air and landed on a guys roof of his house! so i had to climb onto his roof with no ladder, to get the tire. luckily a few of my friends were driving by and were able to help me. but took us about 30min to figure out how to get a jack that was suddenly too tall to fit under the frame, down there. but we got it jacked up and put the tire back on (had to take 1-2lugs off each other wheel to tighten it up). but we were able to get it back to my house. luckily no damage was done to my brakes or anything vital. but it bent the **** out of my fender!

 

haha. sorry, but its funny. had an old 60's, standard ford wheel on my 76. was drivin around and i started to get this wobble and a loud "shink shink shink" noise! i was like, great, ive got a flat. so i got out and looked at all four tires. they were all fine. so i got in and drove a little farther and it got worse. so i got out again, and the right front tire was fine. but it was turned at the right angle so i could see what it was. my wheel had cracked!! and was split half way around the bold pattern. the shinking noise was where it had rubbed a half inch off the corner of my caliper. and my spare was showing the metal belts... but thats another story in its own!

 

i had a tire and wheel assy come off once. i was driving down the road and felt a wobble as i pulled over and stopped and was putting it in park the left front just dropped. i got out to find my tire up inside my fenderwell. thank god i stopped before it came all the way off

 

Been there. Coyote hunting last year, just got done chasing one through the field (50-60mph) and was going back to the road. Went through a dip and the left front wheel fell off. Got out and it broke one stud off and the rest of the lugs were gone. I had a set of 80's alum. ford rims on it at the time. Now just run steelies in the fields. Lugs stay tighter easier. They just try to work loose on the alum. rims beating through the fields.

 

I know the stories can be funny to hear, but sometimes they can take a while till the humor hits. I know I went through 30, yes thirty flat tires in one year. It was on a 72 4X4 I had at the time, one of which popped on the interstate at 55mph, on the left front.

Sounded like a shot gun went off, then when the wheel dropped to the pavement the truck went all kinds of wild as the rear end was trying to get in front of the front end! I was in the hammer lane, good thing there was no one beside me as I took both lanes up several times!

The holes were ALWAYS on the corner of the tread next to the sidewall, no matter what brand of tire I ran, and there was NEVER anything found in the tires that caused the holes.

Once I got it slowed down, and over to the right side of the roadway,I rolled the half flat spare about 1/2 mile down the interstate to a garage, who had to put a few plugs in it.

That was in the mid eighties, and I still say my neighbor was stabbing my tires, I just couldnt prove it. I was a young guy, and had one to many keg parties, and the music was always rockin at my place!! (Molly Hatchet was CRANKED)

PS: Yes, I have come to learn to be a more responsible neighbor!! I don't live there anymore, and in the 20 plus years since, I may have gotten one or two flats, thats it!

 

Similar thing happened to me...picked up my truck from the shop and was driving some residential neighborhoods when it felt like I had a flat. Got out to check and everything looked good. But I got a strange feeling and grabbed the lug wrench--sure enough, one wheel had the lugs barely tightened. It was a great shop (their prices were good, they were honest) but there were A LOT of problems like this that I could tell you about.

 

Donuts and powersliding an 80's 4x4 on 38's and 44's will cause a wheel to fall off! It's hell on wheel bearings. Not checking lug nuts on aluminum wheels occasionally will also cause wheels to suddenly pass you.

 

only thing that got really broken is my fender. so now i cant turn left all the way or i have tire rub.

 

You know three rights make a left?

 

sound like its time to bust out the BFH and get some room down there!