Holy festival of lights�... christmas eve bro.
Your spare tire rim still has paint on it!
Yeah, that tire is toast as Karl's reply exposed�

I still have my OEM spare rim and tire. Use it to remove the rear axle nuts.
My normal alloys rims do not allow a socket to capture the axle nut�

Pz

On 2014-12-24, at 7:22 PM, Neil N wrote:

> Please see  (image of tire found in my '88 Westy when I bought it):
> http://tinyurl.com/n9ayc2d
> Still holding air, in my garage, not down by a river.
> Look at the wicked marks on the side wall!    ;)
> Neil.
> 
> On 12/24/14, Phil Zimmerman <philzimm1@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Unless one still carries the original Continental 185SRx14 spare tire in the clam-shell.
>> That's not a failsafe spare part, that's an accident waiting to happen�:-(
> -- 
> Neil n