Front Tire Popped Off Bead

[Bearsixty7]

I am curious as to how you managed to pop the bead? What tire pressures were you running? Want to try and avoid that happening to me. I usually run the front tires around 21 psi. Maybe I should be running more pressure?

Read your tire sidewall and run the maximum pressure it calls for. That's what I do on my little tractor.

 

[sea2summit]

I am curious as to how you managed to pop the bead? What tire pressures were you running? Want to try and avoid that happening to me. I usually run the front tires around 21 psi. Maybe I should be running more pressure?

Think it was kind of a perfect storm. I hadn't checked the pressure in a while and the other tire was low when I checked after this happened, there was a significant change in temperature that day, then I was turning with nearly max FEL load in soft sand and caught the corner of a half buried cinderblock near the side of the tread/almost the sidewall. Just one of those things. I do make sure I'm checking front tire pressures more, rears still stay very low pressure on mine.

 

[Deere Dude]

Some people claim dish soap makes the bead more slippery so the tire will seal to the rim better. I was at a tire shop and they used a black sealer so I bought a can of that to try in case there was a tiny leak somewhere. This tire seemed to have very slow leaks someplace I couldn't quite put my finger on.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Step one. Be careful.
Step two. Spray carburetor fluid in tire.
Step three. Light a stick.
Step four. Be careful.
Step five. Touch flame near tire so she blows.
Step six. Make sure fire is out.
Step seven. Air up the tire.

Good luck!

Some dude at OSHA just stroked out reading that !

 

[metalbender]

I've done the starter fluid method on atv tires. Interesting to say the least. It does work for those hard to seat tires though.

 

[ruffdog]

I've done the starter fluid method on atv tires. Interesting to say the least. It does work for those hard to seat tires though.

The older I get, the less I like wrestling with those tough stiff tires that just don't quite get close enough to the rim. I'm beat, I'm dirty, I'm sweating so much it is running off me.....it is time for the starter fluid trick. I like it better every time I do it too.

 

[Alan W.]

it's jacked up....the seats are clean and lubed but

i'm a puss. if you were here i'd bring you a coffee and watch!

thx again!

Had we been closer I would have gladly entertained ya
I always have the core out and the air hose attached with the valve off. Most of the time as soon as the explosion cools, the tire will fall back off the seat because its rare one will seat completely with just a shot of ether. So the air needs to go on as soon as the ether goes pop.

 

[mo1]

Compressing the circumference of the tire with a ratchet strap or two with the valve core out and then putting a few seconds of air at 90+ PSI into the tire should seat the beads. Note to not exceed the bead seating pressure seen on the sidewall, generally 35 PSI. I slowly collected a bunch of several inch long honey locust thorns embedded into in the front tires of my 75 HP utility tractor cutting overgrown fields and demounted the tires to pull them out. I successfully used this method with two 1000 pound straps to reseat the beads on those stiff 8 ply tires. Getting the tire back on the rim was much more "fun" than getting the beads seated due to the stiffness of the sidewalls.

Inflating the fronts to the maximum allowable pressure certainly helps with keeping the tires on the rims when using a loader. However, having enough ballast on the 3 point helps even more. The last time I saw somebody roll a tire off of a rim on a tractor was one with a known small leak in the front tire and nothing on the 3 point. They picked up a bucket full of mud and pop went the bead. On the plus side the leak got fixed, they'd managed to get a small piece of a stick wedged in the bead seat to cause the leak, and the stick was easy to remove with the bead broken!

 

[jyoutz]

Remove tire from tractor. Take to tire shop. Take home and re-install on tractor. Job done. Next time add more air pressure.

 

[rademamj1]

Step one. Be careful.
Step two. Spray carburetor fluid in tire.
Step three. Light a stick.
Step four. Be careful.
Step five. Touch flame near tire so she blows.
Step six. Make sure fire is out.
Step seven. Air up the tire.

Good luck!

This method works absolutely perfectly, and seats the tire in 30seconds. Unfortunately, I just don't have the experience or courage to seat the tire on the rim applying this ether method.
I usually just remove the entire rim and bring to a truck tire repair shop just 5 mins down the road. For 10bucks, they coat the rim with soapy water, spray the carburetor ether fluid and pop it's all back on.