"SteveB" wrote in message
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"longshot" wrote in message
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you do realize that a service station would charge you about 5 bucks to
do
this & it would only take about 3 minutes, right?



What self-respecting alt.hr'er would do that?

This is done every day of the world. Truck tires are a bear to install on
the road without a large air line and bead seating ring. Once you get the
tire on and off with spoons, make a couple fast circles around the wheel,
inside the tire, with starting fluid. Up and over the tire to the ground.
toss a match at it, and POOF! the bead is seated. With over the road truck
tires, you still have to add air afterwards. Ask any truck mechanic and
he'll tell you he has probably done this before.