 Kimrn89
Male, 18-29, Europe
 67 Posts
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011 11:42:25 AM
Jeg blir reint nasjonalromantisk av hvor gale vi er. Go Norway! |
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 RuralNinja
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
521 Posts
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Sunday, May 29, 2011 12:39:34 PM
Thats actually a really common way to get a tire back on the bead when you're on the trail or something. |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23998 Posts
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Saturday, May 28, 2011 5:47:33 PM
Its funny kos its true |
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 Sheilakh
Male, 13-17, Southern US
56 Posts
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Saturday, May 28, 2011 2:07:27 PM
My grandpa pulled this trick once, it was amazing, especially since I was like, six. Black magic. |
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 unclelar
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
94 Posts
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Saturday, May 28, 2011 5:49:41 AM
This just set the bead.All you people that think it is still flat because it has no air,well your right! |
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 Student_Law
Male, 30-39, Europe
966 Posts
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Saturday, May 28, 2011 3:20:49 AM
Norwegians FTW  |
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deeplick
Male, 18-29, Western US
234 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 10:50:59 PM
umm, they didn't fix the tire, it will still be flat. They just fixed the bead, as stated by someone else, which will let them air the tire up. Without air its still a useless tire. Trust the guy who worked as a tire boy at the local shop to pay his way through college. I know more about tires then I ever would like to know. |
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 Tacos4Brkfst
Male, 18-29, Western US
564 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 5:47:32 PM
>spray too much, shrapnel.
Hate to be that guy, but stoichiometry says otherwise. |
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 jacobsona29
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
205 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 5:00:09 PM
My dad used to do that. All it does is change the pressure in the tube to put it back on the bead so that you can air it up.  |
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 Skabashas
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1244 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 4:11:21 PM
Whaaaaaaaa!?!???? |
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 mcssls
Male, 40-49, Western US
377 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 3:58:16 PM
yep and people that aren't bright enough to not do that in sub freezing weather with an aluminum rim that spray too much end up dead from the shrapnel |
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D-PAC
Male, 18-29, Europe
22 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 2:55:56 PM
not so special... |
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 human_exile
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
881 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 2:13:04 PM
neato |
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 MeGrendel
Male, 40-49, Southern US
2404 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 2:06:12 PM
@blonc
Most 4-wheeling is done with VERY low tire pressure. Lower tire pressure allows the tire to deform around obsticles. Standard tire pressure for road travel(depending on tire)is ~35psi. Some offroaders will go down to 5psi. This sometimes leads to the bead of the tire coming off the rim.
Once seperated, it's hard to put air in the tire with the huge gap between rim and tire. It can be accomplished with a BIG blast of air, but that's not available on trail.
An alternative, is to spray it with highly flammable spray (ether for carb work), and light it...the 'woosh' will re-seat the bead, and it can then be re-aired to where they want it with compressors on the vehicle.
They also make Bead Lock tires so that you can run low pressure without risking loosing the bead.
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 xCYBERDYNEx
Male, 18-29, Southern US
4798 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 1:51:15 PM
meh, nothing to see here |
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 honkeylips
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
1422 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 1:41:35 PM
@blonc I used to do this occasionally back when I worked in a garage. It's pretty simple; just spray some ether or engine starting fluid around the rim and throw a flame to it. The explosion of the flame will seat the tire to the rim and usually there is enough air that the tire gets inflated in the process. |
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Ruutzy
Male, 30-39, Canada
8 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 1:24:19 PM
And Greenbastard is right it only seats the bead. You can actually see the sidewalls start to suck back in at the end of the vid and if you don't air up in time it can pop back off. |
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Ruutzy
Male, 30-39, Canada
8 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 1:21:34 PM
It's actually pretty dangerous if you don't know what you're doing and most tire shops won't work on a wheel if they vent some air and smell ether. |
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 greenbasterd
Male, 18-29, Canada
2161 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 1:15:50 PM
heat expands pushing the tire into place then you can successfully add air |
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blonc
Male, 30-39, Europe
127 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 12:53:29 PM
Still... anyone mind explaing how that works for us cellar-dwellers? That was pretty awesome. |
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 MrYouKnow
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
1088 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 12:32:26 PM
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 SilverThread
Male, 30-39, Western US
3361 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 11:56:35 AM
You can wrap a tie down strap around it and set the bead that way too, but this method get's points for cool. |
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 rogue_knight
Male, 40-49, Western US
869 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 10:30:30 AM
Good ol boys git er done! |
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 cobrakiller
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
6864 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 10:16:46 AM
thats how you do most truck tires like that. when we had the tire guy come and change a tire on our trucks when i worked for a delivery company, this always how he did it. he has actually caught his pants on fire a couple of times trying to kick the tire into the correct place if it was awkwardly on the rim. |
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 AngryYouth
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
736 Posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011 9:57:16 AM
Sorcerer! |
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