Thread: Dolly Tire Flat
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Default Dolly Tire Flat


"Charlie S." wrote in message
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had the same problem with tubeless dolly tires going flat. Inserting a
tube
is the only thing that fixed it.

I tried getting the tire to bead against the rim with rope and bouncing.
Didn't have any luck. Without a high pressure pump is seems useless.

May try a tire place. Maybe they'll fix it cheap. Would rather go with
tubes. I noticed there are numbers inscribed on the sidewall. Maybe the
Internet or small engine repair shop will have them.

Look for the local tire store that does farm and industrial tires- they'll
have the tubes. 15 years ago, I paid twenty bucks to have the local place
put real (non Chinese or Romanian) tubes in my 40-dollar hand truck. It was
worth it just to watch the 250 pound tire monkey working on the tiny things.
(Had to do it all by hand-way too small for the machine.) Anyway, I haven't
had any lost air since then, and the thing often sits for months at a time,
where it used to go flat in a couple of weeks.

That hand truck was the best 40+20 bucks I ever spent- saved my ass several
times. Much better than the fold-up junk at the home center.

aem sends...