Not the stupidest thing I've ever seen posted, but close.
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Thinking About Replacing Tires At Home
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Les Schwab company in the NW.
I changed enough tires in my life that even if it cost twice what it does now I would pay to have it done. Have changed everything from small 12" equpment tires up to and including aircraft tires that took two men to just lift.
Harry K
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LMAO...Welcome to Usenet! bwahahahaaaahahaa..."but faster or slower is ok" BWA HAAAA HA...
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"...mount 'em yourself and to hell with balancing. I put new rubber on my '75 Caddie every few years...."
Gee-wizz, I wonder why you have to replace tires "every few years"???
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Never heard of them. Are they a big tire store chain? Sell and install tires?
Agree with you. Id never do it myself. Never do exhaust work myself again either. Ha!
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According to DaddyMonkey :
Heh. I just replaced a tire on a trailer, my first experience. Never again...
[I had little choice, since the wheel bolts were rust-frozen _solid_ and I couldn't get the wheel off. The trailer was out in the boonies.]Wish I had thought of that. Fortunately, I didn't wreck the tire.
This works and is relatively easy: Take a chunk of rope, and wrap it a turn or two around the circumference of the tire and tie it off. Then, using a heavy screwdriver or a chunk of wood, do a "spanish windlass" to tighten the loop. This expands the tire against the bead.
It helps to have something that will dump air into the tire _fast_. Ie: an inflater tank.
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Third most famous "Last Words of a Redneck" (right behind "Hey guys, watch this!" and "Baby, grab my Duct Tape")...
"Shit yeah, this'll work..."
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The third most famous is " hold my beer would ye"
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i use a small butane torch. heat up the bolts and wrench off with ease. and if they don't, turn up the heat and melt em off....
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And if the lug bolts are that rusty, and it was sitting long enough for tire to dry-rot, what made you think there was any grease left in wheel bearing? Unless it was real old style where you can pull off dust cap and grease with wheel in place, and you did grease it, you were lucky wheel didn't seize up and fail catastropically at highway speed when you pulled it out of there.
Yet another reason I give trailers as wide a berth as possible on the road.
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According to ameijers :
We tried a torch. And a air-powered wrench (but it didn't have enough pressure to really kick the bolt heads). You can't melt a bolt with a torch like that.
Besides, shearing the heads off those bolts would have made the problem worse. [These were hex bolts, not wheel nuts. Would have left me with shorn off bolt inside the wheel hub. Ugh.]
Only had a couple of Km to go, trailer very light, we went slow, had a chase car watching for things falling off, and the wheels clearly had grease in 'em. Yes, it did have dust caps, but didn't bother visually checking.
Even if the wheel had seized, nothing much would have happened. Very light trailer (a smallish mobile sign), going very slow.
Me too.