Tires derim

[duanew1]

I got tired of the fight to seat tires on the rim and bought a bead seater on eBay for about $45. I was able to mount a set of turf tires that resisted all other methods of seatting the bead.

 

[Xfaxman]

What type is it?

Pictures, please.

 

[duanew1]

It looks like this. I was able to find it cheaper.
New 5 Gallon Air Tire Bead Seater Blaster Tool Seating Inflator Truck ATV 145PSI | eBay

 

[Snobdds]

I would foam all the tires and be done with it...

 

[the old grind]

My Terramite and skid steer have always sat a lot. One or two tires would leak down in a matter of days if not hours. Rims are 100% rusty surface around bead areas. I've been using Pam 'original' cooking spray to reduce leaks while mounted and raised to spin by hand. On the TM I re-sprayed after 6 yrs and ~120 op hrs. Just used it in the SS and vs losing all pressure in a few hrs it now drops <2PSI/week.

Slime is usually OK but a horrific mess when you demount a tire it's been added to, esp after finding out it didn't work. I'd rather use "Fix a Flat" on a non-highway tire, just have to remember to let out the butane and replace it with air. (canned gas keeps it soft, air-drying lets it stiffen)

I did slime a tube on one of the old H-Ds' 3.00" x 21" Avon rib (my spoke re-lace) and it still holds air after 35yrs. The new formula seems much different. Never again.

 

[aczlan]

My Terramite and skid steer have always sat a lot. One or two tires would leak down in a matter of days if not hours. Rims are 100% rusty surface around bead areas. I've been using Pam 'original' cooking spray to reduce leaks while mounted and raised to spin by hand. On the TM I re-sprayed after 6 yrs and ~120 op hrs. Just used it in the SS and vs losing all pressure in a few hrs it now drops <2PSI/week.

Just get a container of bead sealant, knock the rust off of the rim, paint it with bead sealant and air it up.

Aaron Z

 

[RickB]

Some don't like it but I had the same with a seldom used piece of equipment and a few ounces of slime sealer did the trick...

I hate that crap but found myself using it successfully this summer.
The fun starts when it stops working for whatever reason.

 

[ultrarunner]

I was on the road with the trailer and noticed a soft tire... I just happen to have slime and the truck has a compressor so I was good the 7 miles home.

The next day I noticed the tire was flat... good tire with excellent tread... no sign of puncture.

Turned to be the blasted rubber valve stem... this is the 5th rubber stem in 3 years I have had to deal with... all less than 3 years old... car, truck and now trailer.

So I went to the tire shop and warned about the Slime... the owner said no problem and replaced the stem and no charge and this was not the shop that mounted these tires... but I do trade with them.

He said it really isn't a problem when used lightly...

 

[Jstpssng]

This deviates a little from the original topic, but years ago I worked with two brothers. Nels, the younger of the two had a bad foot from when it went through the rusty floorboards of his brother's pickup when it crashed. His brother said that he didn't really know what happened, they were going down the road and it suddenly veered off into the ditch.

In a later conversation we were talking about tires and he said that our boss had given him a set of tube tires for his pickup; he didn't have tubes but when he put them on the rims and pumped them up they seated, so he put them on the pickup. I didn't say anything, but it was pretty obvious to me what caused that accident.