Beadlocks. Anyone using them?

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Mr Noisy

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I'm thinking about fitting weld on bead locks to my 15x10s.

However, I can only justify single locks on the outer rim. I do not want to change to 16s and I do not want to change the rims, cos 10" ready to lock alloys don't seem to exist.

Does anyone know if fitting outer beadlocks solves the problem or do you still get issues with the inner bead popping off?

Just looking for info/experiences please, if I'm gonna spend 225 quid it's either gonna be beadlockers or a handbrake conversion!

Cheers, sam

P.s. Running high pressures is no fun!
 
Yes, that's what got me thinking about it again. I was thinking of doing it as prevention, but then priorities took over as usual, then at the weekend I decided to drop to 12.5 psi and popped a tyre half way through the day. Was down a gully so took about an hour and a bit to remove and reinflate.

It felt better on 12.5 psi than 15 psi which I have run a number of times without problems, seemed to have more grip, better adaptation to rocky terrain, and the Tyres cleaned themselves better.

Its a shame beadlocks are such a big deal, cos they would be very handy!

Cheers.
 
should have took a tin of lighter fluid with you,quick squirt into tyre and ignite it,but mind your eyebrows. never done it myself but have seen it used to good effect. we get loads of punctures at work,waste management,lot of site work and landfill work and the guy that does the tyres uses a 'cheater' to pop the tyres back onto the rim. its an old air tank from one of the wagons with a nozzle welded on and a 90 degree tap to release the pressure. works a treat.
 
3.5 efi said:
we get loads of punctures at work,waste management,lot of site work and landfill work and the guy that does the tyres uses a 'cheater' to pop the tyres back onto the rim. its an old air tank from one of the wagons with a nozzle welded on and a 90 degree tap to release the pressure. works a treat.
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****in ell... hope he's got a long length of hose between the ball valve and the tyre valve. :eek::doh:
 
3.5 efi said:
should have took a tin of lighter fluid with you,quick squirt into tyre and ignite it,but mind your eyebrows. never done it myself but have seen it used to good effect. we get loads of punctures at work,waste management,lot of site work and landfill work and the guy that does the tyres uses a 'cheater' to pop the tyres back onto the rim. its an old air tank from one of the wagons with a nozzle welded on and a 90 degree tap to release the pressure. works a treat.
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They're great bits of kit. I've had one used on my truck a couple of times.
 
G-man said:
summat a bit like this
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Ahh...

I thought from the original description he was using an air cannon to inflate the tyre as normal (although probably removing the valve core) but stood with his hand 2" away from the tyre! :doh:

Yes I can see how that'd work now - no chance of over-inflating the tyre as it's not physically sealed... in jeanie arse :p
 
aye same principal as the ether/lighter fluid trick and just as dangerous lol, one of the trainers where i did me apprenticeship saw a lad have his hands and face sliced off inflating a truck tyre, the rim fractured and the tyre blew out....... as the bead was setting, the silly prat didn't have it in a cage, he lived on life support for 6 weeks before he body gave up
 
G-man said:
aye same principal as the ether/lighter fluid trick and just as dangerous lol, one of the trainers where i did me apprenticeship saw a lad have his hands and face sliced off inflating a truck tyre, the rim fractured and the tyre blew out....... as the bead was setting, the silly prat didn't have it in a cage, he lived on life support for 6 weeks before he body gave up
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Exactly why i thought it'd need a long hose... so you could stand round the other side of the wagin.

Lad I used to work with was thrown 4-5m by a truck tyre exploding and he was only just walking by the poor sod... fortunately he was thrown in a direction where there were no obstacles and no shrapnel hit him so just landed on the floor with big ben chiming in his noggin.
There was a lad in the local garage killed instantly by a JCB tyre about 12months before though, apparently the fire service had to retrieve his body from the roof structure.:(
 
3.5 efi said:
should have took a tin of lighter fluid with you,quick squirt into tyre and ignite it,but mind your eyebrows. never done it myself but have seen it used to good effect. we get loads of punctures at work,waste management,lot of site work and landfill work and the guy that does the tyres uses a 'cheater' to pop the tyres back onto the rim. its an old air tank from one of the wagons with a nozzle welded on and a 90 degree tap to release the pressure. works a treat.
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