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Thinking About Replacing Tires At Home
All: My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I buy new tires online and replace them myself, however, I've never done this before and I'm curious if others have and if so, if they can either: a) recommend against doing it myself; or b) tell me that it is a good idea and suggest where I might learn more on how to do it. I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found the definitive set of instructions yet. Thanks for your advice in advance. Steve |
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"mooseshoes" wrote in message om... All: My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I buy new tires online and replace them myself, however, I've never done this before and I'm curious if others have and if so, if they can either: a) recommend against doing it myself; or b) tell me that it is a good idea and suggest where I might learn more on how to do it. I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found the definitive set of instructions yet. Thanks for your advice in advance. Steve The real trick to new tires is the balancing once the new ones treads are on. My brother ordered a set of tires off the web for his Honda and then when they were delivered marched down to the local tire dealer and paid them to mount and balance. Still cheaper and done right. |
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mooseshoes wrote:
(Smartass sarcastic modes OFF, I swear!) My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I buy new tires online Dood -- *online*??? As in "I'm going to pay shipping charges for tires" ??? I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found the definitive set of instructions yet. That's likely 'cause to do it without killing yourself in the process, either literally (from a flying tire iron or exploding tire) or figuratively (physically wearing yourself out) it takes some tools and know how. People hesitate to give you directions for a procedure that can put you in the hospital. Thanks for your advice in advance. Buy them at WalMart, let them mount and balance them for you. There's no way it can cost you substantially more than your shipping costs & risk to life and limb. -- So if you meet me, have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste. Use all your well-learned politesse, or I'll lay your soul to waste. |
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mooseshoes wrote:
All: My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I buy new tires online and replace them myself, however, I've never done this before and I'm curious if others have and if so, if they can either: a) recommend against doing it myself; or b) tell me that it is a good idea and suggest where I might learn more on how to do it. I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found the definitive set of instructions yet. Thanks for your advice in advance. Steve Yeah, do it all the time. Love the free shipping deal when its available. Take them down to the local tire shop; check around and you'll find someone to mount and balance the whole set for less than $50. You can't buy the tools necessary to safely do the job for that price, and they'll dispose of your old carcasses too. -- Grandpa Koca - SAHD for 6 - Keeper of the Perpetual Kindergarten My opinion is neither copyrighted nor trademarked. It is price competitive. If you like, I'll trade for one of yours. |
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"mooseshoes" wrote in message om... All: My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I buy new tires online and replace them myself, however, I've never done this before and I'm curious if others have and if so, if they can either: a) recommend against doing it myself; or b) tell me that it is a good idea and suggest where I might learn more on how to do it. I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found the definitive set of instructions yet. Thanks for your advice in advance. Steve The mail order tire stores will ship the tires to a dealer they have an agreement with to install the tires. You can find this information on the tire store's web site. I've ordered several sets of tires from Tire Rack and have had them sent to installers on their list and to installers not on their list. Of course, you would have to have an agreement in place to ship to an installer not on the tire store's list. As far as price goes, I've almost always found the online prices to be better than the walk in stores. You have to pay shipping, but do not have to pay sales tax. I did get a store to match the Tire Rack price, but they didn't have the tires in stock, so I had to pay shipping and sales tax. If they had had the tires in stock, I would have had to pay only sales tax plus the matching price. Still, it was a good deal. Check tirerack.com. David |
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mooseshoes wrote: All: My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I buy new tires online and replace them myself, however, I've never done this before and I'm curious if others have and if so, if they can either: a) recommend against doing it myself; or b) tell me that it is a good idea and suggest where I might learn more on how to do it. I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found the definitive set of instructions yet. Thanks for your advice in advance. Steve They make non powered tools for that, you just need to use a lot more muscle and lots of slippery gooh so that you don't damage the tires when you mount them. Don't know if you can save money or not by the time you buy the tools and then find out that your vehicle needs dynamically balanced tires. If you have a good nationwide or area wide outfit like Les Schwab in the northwest, you get free flat repair, free rebalancing, free rotation, minor cost for road hazard insurance, and no effort. |
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ya gotta be kidding us, right?
(please see last paragraph for my true comment... otherwise, please read full post for tire removal/installation) The tuff-est part of removing a tire is whats called "breaking the bead"... that's where the tire meets the rim/wheel. With the wheel off of the car,and laying down flat on its side, downward force has to be pressed on the tire near the rim (bead). There are TWO beads per tire, inboard and outboard. I give you my best wishes! Do you see where I'm going with this? NO? --- okay After that you'll need help. Insert a prybar between the rim and tire and pull the tire over the rim. A SECOND prybar will be needed to do the same. One person holds the first prybar as the second person whales on the first prybar with a big ole' hammer and 'works' it all the way around the rim. Your gonna have to do this 8 times. (4wheels X 2 beads=8) Do you see where I'm going with this? NO?-- okay... You should replace the valve stems because they're cheap insurance for leakage. There's a special tool that 'threads' onto the valve stem that pulls the old stem out, and installs it the same way. It cost about 20-25 bucks. If you don't have one of these special tools, you can cut the old stem off with a razor/knife from inside of the rim area. Just cut the 'fat' part of the old stem on the inside of the rim as close as possible. But, re-installing the new stem will be the trick... because your going to have to use a pair of pliers, or something to pull the new stem through the hole WITHOUT damaging the new stem. Cutting it will mean certain air pressure loss, and soon, tire failure. Do you see where I'm going with this? NO? -- okay NOW is the time you've been waiting for... installing the new tires. I'm not sure of your vehicles age, but sometimes cleaning the rim where the bead of the tire meets the rim is good insurance too... use a stiff wire brush. Clean it all the way around (4 rims x 2beads = 8) There is also a chemical called "bead sealer" that will help insure the bond between tire and rim. Installation is about the same as removal. Two people, two pry-bars, big hammer... BUT WAIT!... you're going to need some rubber lubricate... liquid soap will work just fine. Spread it all around the new tires bead. There's usually a small dot on the outside of the tire... sometimes red, yellow or white. Align that 'dot' with the the valve stem. Good luck and my best wishes! Do you see where I'm going with this? NO? -- okay Assuming you now have your new tires installed on the rims, without totally destroying them, how are you going to inflate them? I have seen rock-crawlers and artic guys inflate tires by spraying starter-fluid inbetween the bead and rim, and then "flicking-there-Bic" --BOOM!-- (I didn't say this .... Don't try this at home kids, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, I guess). Do you see where I'm going with this? NO? --- okay Then you have to balance the wheel assembly. Again my best wishes. There IS a special tool that rest on a pendulum, with a bubble gauge much like a carpenters' level. You place your wheel assembly on-top of the balancer, and then 'tack' wheel weight onto the side that the 'air bubble' is on... it cost a few hundred (US) dollars and is VERY primitive. Do you se where I'm going with this? NO? -- okay With all of the modern technology present today... paying an automotive technician fifty- bucks to mount and balance your wheels is very, very cheap! |
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Buy them at WalMart, let them mount and balance them for you. There's no way it can cost you substantially more than your shipping costs & risk to life and limb. Not only that but if you have any problems with the tires you can go to any WalMart store for an adjustment. I replaced the tires on my Jeep, which I tow behind my motorhome, in California. One of the tires went bad in North Carolina on a trip. Went to the nearest WalMart store and they replaced the tire and charged me $1.95. I didn't even have the invoice with me. All the information is in their computer. Don in Tracy, Calif. |
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"George E. Cawthon" wrote in message ...
mooseshoes wrote: All: My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I buy new tires online and replace them myself, however, I've never done this before and I'm curious if others have and if so, if they can either: a) recommend against doing it myself; or b) tell me that it is a good idea and suggest where I might learn more on how to do it. I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found the definitive set of instructions yet. Thanks for your advice in advance. Steve They make non powered tools for that, you just need to use a lot more muscle and lots of slippery gooh so that you don't damage the tires when you mount them. Don't know if you can save money or not by the time you buy the tools and then find out that your vehicle needs dynamically balanced tires. If you have a good nationwide or area wide outfit like Les Schwab in the northwest, you get free flat repair, free rebalancing, free rotation, minor cost for road hazard insurance, and no effort. Yep. I use Schwabbies and have since they opened a local shop. For the services you get I will pay the little extra over on-line and avoid all the hassles. They have even fixed flats for me on tires I never bought from them. Just changed PU winter tires last year as they were -way- down. They checked the puter and gave a rebate for warranty on them. Harry K |
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Not only that but if you have any problems with the tires you can go to any WalMart store for an adjustment. I replaced the tires on my Jeep, which I tow behind my motorhome, in California. One of the tires went bad in North Carolina on a trip. Went to the nearest WalMart store and they replaced the tire and charged me $1.95. I didn't even have the invoice with me. All the information is in their computer. My problem with Walmart is the local one didn't carry some of the tire brand/models I wanted Can Walmart order ANY tire you want if they don't normally carry it? |
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mooseshoes wrote: All: My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I buy new tires online and replace them myself, however, I've never done this before and I'm curious if others have and if so, if they can either: a) recommend against doing it myself; or b) tell me that it is a good idea and suggest where I might learn more on how to do it. I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found the definitive set of instructions yet. Thanks for your advice in advance. Steve Have you ever changed a bicycle or motorcycle tire by hand? If you don't mind hard, frustrating work and busting a few knuckles, it is possible to remove & mount a car tire using only a set of tire irons and something to hold the rim, but I can't imagine why anyone would want to. And you would still need to have the wheels balanced afterwards, though you could use soemthing like "EQUALS" instead of conventional wheel weights. For the $10 or whatever a tire dealer charges for mounting & balancing, it's really not worth doing it yourself, unless you have access to the same equipment a tire shop has. I wouldn't be so sure you could get a better price online, either, especially after shipping & handling is added. -- Larry Wasserman Baltimore, Maryland |
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This hole "tire balancing" routine is another scam! Most tires today are
made to a higher standard than "in the old days". Buy 'em on the web, mount 'em yourself and to hell with balancing. I put new rubber on my "75 Caddie" every few years and it runs like top. Maybe a little wobble at certain speeds, so I avoid those speeds, but faster or slower is OK. Save your money. "Harry K" wrote in message m... "George E. Cawthon" wrote in message ... mooseshoes wrote: All: My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I buy new tires online and replace them myself, however, I've never done this before and I'm curious if others have and if so, if they can either: a) recommend against doing it myself; or b) tell me that it is a good idea and suggest where I might learn more on how to do it. I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found the definitive set of instructions yet. Thanks for your advice in advance. Steve They make non powered tools for that, you just need to use a lot more muscle and lots of slippery gooh so that you don't damage the tires when you mount them. Don't know if you can save money or not by the time you buy the tools and then find out that your vehicle needs dynamically balanced tires. If you have a good nationwide or area wide outfit like Les Schwab in the northwest, you get free flat repair, free rebalancing, free rotation, minor cost for road hazard insurance, and no effort. Yep. I use Schwabbies and have since they opened a local shop. For the services you get I will pay the little extra over on-line and avoid all the hassles. They have even fixed flats for me on tires I never bought from them. Just changed PU winter tires last year as they were -way- down. They checked the puter and gave a rebate for warranty on them. Harry K |
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"mooseshoes" wrote in message om... All: My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I buy new tires online and replace them myself, however, I've never done this before and I'm curious if others have and if so, if they can either: a) recommend against doing it myself; or b) tell me that it is a good idea and suggest where I might learn more on how to do it. I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found the definitive set of instructions yet. Thanks for your advice in advance. Steve This is Turtle. You just picked a money saver ideal that calls for a lot of work and very little savings. You would have to have a lot of tire trouble to justify doing it yourself. Also if you do it yourself you will not spin balance your tires and that alone will get you to change a bunch of tires with low mileage on them. My local tire place competes with any internet tire places as most do. They charge $5.00 to pull tire and break it down and fix leaks, $7.50 to put on any new or old tires and spin balance it , and $235.00 put on 4 Cooper Truck tires R-225-16" / 6 ply , spin balanced and put on. Car tires are cheaper with 4 Cooper R-185-14" 4 ply , spin balanced and put on for $145.00. To get the quality of the spin balancing and machine installation with no rips in the tires will get you for about $2,000.00. TURTLE |
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"Joe Fabeitz" wrote in message .. . This hole "tire balancing" routine is another scam! Most tires today are made to a higher standard than "in the old days". Buy 'em on the web, mount 'em yourself and to hell with balancing. I put new rubber on my "75 Caddie" every few years and it runs like top. Maybe a little wobble at certain speeds, so I avoid those speeds, but faster or slower is OK. Save your money. An out of balance tire will wear unevenly besides causing a vibration throughout the car at certain speeds. |
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Yep. I use Schwabbies and have since they opened a local shop.
What is Schwabbies? Im starting to get like you..... i.e. start buying tires from same place I have them installed vs buying online and having the shipped to me then hauling them to installer. In the past....Ive bought several sets of tires from Tire Rack and had them installed locally. But the last set i bought I just printed off what tire rack wanted for the and took to local dealer and asked if he would match the price if I bought from him. He agreed so i bought a set thru him and had him install them. |
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"George E. Cawthon" wrote in message ...
mooseshoes wrote: All: My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I buy new tires online and replace them myself, however, I've never done this before and I'm curious if others have and if so, if they can either: a) recommend against doing it myself; or b) tell me that it is a good idea and suggest where I might learn more on how to do it. I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found the definitive set of instructions yet. Thanks for your advice in advance. Steve They make non powered tools for that, you just need to use a lot more muscle and lots of slippery gooh so that you don't damage the tires when you mount them. Don't know if you can save money or not by the time you buy the tools and then find out that your vehicle needs dynamically balanced tires. If you have a good nationwide or area wide outfit like Les Schwab in the northwest, you get free flat repair, free rebalancing, free rotation, minor cost for road hazard insurance, and no effort. There are a lot of repairs the average person can do by themselves and save a lot of money, but mounting tires sure isn't one of them. Plus, even if you mount them, which is a bitch, you can't spin balance them. If you buy them online, Tirerack has a list of installers throughout the US that they will drop ship them to and they will install them for a reasonable fee. |
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Chet is right-on-the-money!
What are you gonna do if you screw-up your tires when installing them? Please pay a tire company to install your tires.... they have insurance, and proper equipment. If you screw-up your new tires, you have to eat it. Regards, Dave |
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No-name twit wrote:
My problem with Walmart is the local one didn't carry some of the tire brand/models I wanted Can Walmart order ANY tire you want if they don't normally carry it? Geez. You have a hangup about what brands of tire you put on your car? Never mind. Pay your shipping charges and break your neck trying to mount them on the rims. You deserve it, idiot. -- So if you meet me, have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste. Use all your well-learned politesse, or I'll lay your soul to waste. |
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"I-zheet M'drurz" wrote in message ... No-name twit wrote: My problem with Walmart is the local one didn't carry some of the tire brand/models I wanted Can Walmart order ANY tire you want if they don't normally carry it? Geez. You have a hangup about what brands of tire you put on your car? Never mind. Pay your shipping charges and break your neck trying to mount them on the rims. You deserve it, idiot. well, actually yes. my car requires z rated ones, and when i to in to buy racing tires, walmart doesn't carry them. so yes, the question as to whether walmart will order the racing tires i need and just mount/balance them is pertinent in some cases. |
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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:11:20 -0700, "Charles Spitzer"
wrote: "I-zheet M'drurz" wrote in message .. . No-name twit wrote: My problem with Walmart is the local one didn't carry some of the tire brand/models I wanted Can Walmart order ANY tire you want if they don't normally carry it? Geez. You have a hangup about what brands of tire you put on your car? Never mind. Pay your shipping charges and break your neck trying to mount them on the rims. You deserve it, idiot. well, actually yes. my car requires z rated ones, and when i to in to buy racing tires, walmart doesn't carry them. so yes, the question as to whether walmart will order the racing tires i need and just mount/balance them is pertinent in some cases. See if you have a Tire Kingdom in your area or close by They claim to be able to get any tire at the cheapest price. |
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"Joe Fabeitz" wrote in message
.. . This hole "tire balancing" routine is another scam! Most tires today are made to a higher standard than "in the old days". Buy 'em on the web, mount 'em yourself and to hell with balancing. I put new rubber on my "75 Caddie" every few years and it runs like top. Maybe a little wobble at certain speeds, so I avoid those speeds, but faster or slower is OK. Save your money. Not the stupidest thing I've ever seen posted, but close. |
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Rick Brandt wrote:
"Joe Fabeitz" wrote ... This hole "tire balancing" routine is another scam! Most tires today are made to a higher standard than "in the old days". Buy 'em on the web, mount 'em yourself and to hell with balancing. I put new rubber on my "75 Caddie" every few years and it runs like top. Maybe a little wobble at certain speeds, so I avoid those speeds, but faster or slower is OK. Save your money. Not the stupidest thing I've ever seen posted, but close. LMAO...Welcome to Usenet! bwahahahaaaahahaa..."but faster or slower is ok" BWA HAAAA HA... -- So if you meet me, have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste. Use all your well-learned politesse, or I'll lay your soul to waste. |
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Joe wrote...
"...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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Les Schwab company in the NW.
Never heard of them. Are they a big tire store chain? Sell and install tires? I changed enough tires in my life that even if it cost twice what it does now I would pay to have it done. Agree with you. Id never do it myself. Never do exhaust work myself again either. Ha! |
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gotcha!
"I-zheet M'drurz" wrote in message ... Rick Brandt wrote: "Joe Fabeitz" wrote ... This hole "tire balancing" routine is another scam! Most tires today are made to a higher standard than "in the old days". Buy 'em on the web, mount 'em yourself and to hell with balancing. I put new rubber on my "75 Caddie" every few years and it runs like top. Maybe a little wobble at certain speeds, so I avoid those speeds, but faster or slower is OK. Save your money. Not the stupidest thing I've ever seen posted, but close. LMAO...Welcome to Usenet! bwahahahaaaahahaa..."but faster or slower is ok" BWA HAAAA HA... -- So if you meet me, have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste. Use all your well-learned politesse, or I'll lay your soul to waste. |
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According to DaddyMonkey :
ya gotta be kidding us, right? 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.] Installation is about the same as removal. Two people, two pry-bars, big hammer... BUT WAIT!... you're going to need some rubber lubricate... liquid soap will work just fine. Wish I had thought of that. Fortunately, I didn't wreck the tire. Assuming you now have your new tires installed on the rims, without totally destroying them, how are you going to inflate them? I have seen rock-crawlers and artic guys inflate tires by spraying starter-fluid inbetween the bead and rim, and then "flicking-there-Bic" --BOOM!-- (I didn't say this .... Don't try this at home kids, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, I guess). Do you see where I'm going with this? NO? --- okay 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. -- Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them. |
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DaddyMonkey wrote:
Assuming you now have your new tires installed on the rims, without totally destroying them, how are you going to inflate them? I have seen rock-crawlers and artic guys inflate tires by spraying starter-fluid inbetween the bead and rim, and then "flicking-there-Bic" --BOOM!-- (I didn't say this .... Don't try this at home kids, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, I guess). Third most famous "Last Words of a Redneck" (right behind "Hey guys, watch this!" and "Baby, grab my Duct Tape")... "**** yeah, this'll work..." -- The real Tom Pendergast [ So if you meet me, have some courtesy, aka I-zheet M'drurz [ have some sympathy, and some taste. Accept no substitutes! [ Use all your well-learned politesse, $1 to Mick for the .sig ---[ or I'll lay your soul to waste. |
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On 7 Sep 2004 21:37:05 GMT, "I-zheet M'drurz"
wrote: DaddyMonkey wrote: Assuming you now have your new tires installed on the rims, without totally destroying them, how are you going to inflate them? I have seen rock-crawlers and artic guys inflate tires by spraying starter-fluid inbetween the bead and rim, and then "flicking-there-Bic" --BOOM!-- (I didn't say this .... Don't try this at home kids, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, I guess). Third most famous "Last Words of a Redneck" (right behind "Hey guys, watch this!" and "Baby, grab my Duct Tape")... "**** yeah, this'll work..." The third most famous is " hold my beer would ye" |
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"Chris Lewis" wrote in message ... According to DaddyMonkey : ya gotta be kidding us, right? 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.] Installation is about the same as removal. Two people, two pry-bars, big hammer... BUT WAIT!... you're going to need some rubber lubricate... liquid soap will work just fine. Wish I had thought of that. Fortunately, I didn't wreck the tire. 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.... -a|ex |
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"127.0.0.1" loopy@localhost wrote in message link.net... "Chris Lewis" wrote in message ... According to DaddyMonkey : ya gotta be kidding us, right? 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.] Installation is about the same as removal. Two people, two pry-bars, big hammer... BUT WAIT!... you're going to need some rubber lubricate... liquid soap will work just fine. Wish I had thought of that. Fortunately, I didn't wreck the tire. 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.... 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. aem sends... |
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According to ameijers :
"127.0.0.1" loopy@localhost wrote in message link.net... "Chris Lewis" wrote in message ... According to DaddyMonkey : ya gotta be kidding us, right? 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.] Installation is about the same as removal. Two people, two pry-bars, big hammer... BUT WAIT!... you're going to need some rubber lubricate... liquid soap will work just fine. Wish I had thought of that. Fortunately, I didn't wreck the tire. 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.... 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.] 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. 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. Yet another reason I give trailers as wide a berth as possible on the road. Me too. -- Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est It's not just anyone who gets a Starship Cruiser class named after them. |
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