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<blockquote data-quote="tony d willIiams" data-source="post: 1712416" data-attributes="member: 108777"><p>A lot of good advice, I only read the first page.</p><p></p><p>A three foot piece of carpet will make installation or removal easy and keep you drier. Practice during the day and night, sunshine or rain in a parking lot, with and without a flashlight. You will not need the carpet when you have done it often enough. Rubber rings or spiders work well, I usually double them. Buy link and cross link replacements and the tools, cheap insurance. A galvanized feed storage can with lid keeps them in place and out of your way. Carry some tie-wraps to control the extra link(s) when your tires wear a bit, and the dykes of coarse.</p><p></p><p>Start off easy, 2nd gear is fine. Many the time when I am not running chains, in our sedan going to church, and I can move around and past those in chains which are spinning wheels and wearing the chains out.</p><p></p><p>The heavier the chains the better, with V-links or ice breakers. Be sure there is clearance so your wheel well survives. Don't be pennywise, depending on your tires the starting price for 2 chains will be upwards of $150.00. The quick install chains are great in the summer at the store, (a moneymaker for the store as you will be back), the standard last and are easier to install.</p><p></p><p>Keep them in your truck year round. I run fairly aggressive tires and the occasion comes up where I find silt sand in the rain or squirrel holes under the leaves and I drop down a dozen inches or so. The four wheel drive usually pulls me out, low range, all four locked up. I also have 2 sets of 2. Those icy roads can be tricky, my tires are a bit wide for icy conditions.</p><p></p><p>Leave a bit of extra link(s) when 'you' get size them, you want enough to fit new tires when they are replaced. If the seller sizes them you will have exact fit for the wear on your tires.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tony d willIiams, post: 1712416, member: 108777"] A lot of good advice, I only read the first page. A three foot piece of carpet will make installation or removal easy and keep you drier. Practice during the day and night, sunshine or rain in a parking lot, with and without a flashlight. You will not need the carpet when you have done it often enough. Rubber rings or spiders work well, I usually double them. Buy link and cross link replacements and the tools, cheap insurance. A galvanized feed storage can with lid keeps them in place and out of your way. Carry some tie-wraps to control the extra link(s) when your tires wear a bit, and the dykes of coarse. Start off easy, 2nd gear is fine. Many the time when I am not running chains, in our sedan going to church, and I can move around and past those in chains which are spinning wheels and wearing the chains out. The heavier the chains the better, with V-links or ice breakers. Be sure there is clearance so your wheel well survives. Don't be pennywise, depending on your tires the starting price for 2 chains will be upwards of $150.00. The quick install chains are great in the summer at the store, (a moneymaker for the store as you will be back), the standard last and are easier to install. Keep them in your truck year round. I run fairly aggressive tires and the occasion comes up where I find silt sand in the rain or squirrel holes under the leaves and I drop down a dozen inches or so. The four wheel drive usually pulls me out, low range, all four locked up. I also have 2 sets of 2. Those icy roads can be tricky, my tires are a bit wide for icy conditions. Leave a bit of extra link(s) when 'you' get size them, you want enough to fit new tires when they are replaced. If the seller sizes them you will have exact fit for the wear on your tires. [/QUOTE]
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