HELP! Tire puncture

[k0ua]

Well here's the update on the DK40 tire. Went over to the neighbor who hooked me up w/ some of his friends who had been in the tire business for a long time. The guys said they'd charge me $100 to come take care of it. What a goatrope it was! The got here around 9:00 this morning, and tried the come along w/ chain process, and they had this air blast thing they called the Cheetah. None of that stuff would get the tire to re-seat. They didn't try the fire trick (thankfully!) After working on this thing for about 3 hours, they finally removed the tire and took it into town to a pro tire shop who charged them $25 to re-seat the bead. They should have done that to begin with. They finally left around 1:00, but stuck to their word and only charged me $100. I figured they would charge me a lot more since they were there for such a long time, and had to end up removing the tire anyway.
I am a pretty small guy, and if this issue happens again, I'll have to call the neighbor to help me get the tire on and off. They were big guys that came over, and the tire was a handful for them. Thanks again guys for all of your hints, tricks, and moral support. Hopefully I won't have any flats for a while now. (By the way, they did just use one of those sticky wick plugs - that was the easy part.) It was the Darwin tractor driver who noticed his tire getting low, and continued to drive it that cause the bead to unseat and ensuing problems!:confused3:

Thanks for reporting back. Glad you got it fixed

 

[Jose G]

you dont have to spray a full can into the tire, just 2-3 touch and its enough... it's not stupid, I did things more dangerous than that in my life. sometime I dont wear my safety glasses while grinding, sometime I dont wear glove while plasma cutting... I even didnt use preservative everytime... not telling you to not be aware of danger but dont over react on something that you can manage if you dont act "stupid"

car shop do the fire trick each time they want to stretch a small tire over a big rim...

anyway, glad you overcome the problem!

 

[MotorSeven]

B7, fyi....if it ends up with a slow leak you will have debris between the rim & bead. Tire goes low or flat and you don't notice it right away. Next thing you know you make a hard turn pulling the bead away from the rim allowing grass, dirt, etc in there. It will never seal properly unless removed, cleaned and re-beaded. Don't ask how I know this..............

 

[J F]

:laughing: (hey, did I miss your rental re-model thread?)