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Advocate III
- 5,584
- First Name
- Michael
- Last Name
- Rose
- Member #
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20990
- Ham/GMRS Callsign
- W7FSB
- Service Branch
- US ARMY Retired
I keep up on my tire maintenance and stick to terrain that doesn’t kill tires as much, so the last time I actually had to break my bead was 4 years ago when the tire shop refused to find the leak on my brand new tires and fix it... so I dug out the highlift, and broke the bead, then I grabbed my handy 14” pry bars and the highlift handle and pried the tire off the wheel. Getting the new tire back on the wheel is actually quite easy. Block the outside edges of the tire up in two locations, lube the tire bead up with some axle grease found under your rig, set the rim on top of the wheel, place the highlift jack pad into the center of the wheel and press the wheel into the first bead, then just pry the other bead into place. Now comes the hard part... sealing the bead to the rim... my preferred and go to meat hood is taking a ratchet strap and wrapping the tire tread forcing the bead onto the wheel... usually this works, if not... more grease and make sure the valve stem is centered between a sealed area of the beed as you fill the tire. All in all I can take a tire/wheel assembly off an axle, swap tires from wheels and put the new tire/wheel assembly back onto the axle in under 10 minutes with the right air compressor.Silly question , when and why was the last time you had to break a bead with a hi-lift ? And after the bead was broken how did you get the old tire off and get the new one on?? And for if some weird reason you did have a spare tire why wasn’t it on a rim already?