Wheel balancing

nickjaxe said:

When breaking the bead...go all around the bead in small chunks...putting lube in the gap as you go.
Nick.

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That's a good tip, and something I was doing wrong at the start. I was thinking I just needed to get the bead over the ridge in one place, and it would 'fall off', but I then discovered that rotating the tyre a bit certainly helped it go a lot more easily. The other 2 were a *lot* easier than the first one I did, and I'm confident the fourth will be just as easy now I know what I'm doing.

I have never needed a Landrover wheel to be balanced in near 50 years.

If your trying to inflate just kick the rim into the tyre....and when your airline is on gentle pressure on the side of the wheel the rush of air will plop the bead outwards.

I presume you have a compressor.

"there's a reason that tubeless rims evolved to include the ridge"
You would think so would you not....tubed rims dont have them....silly inst it...it a tubed tyre has a rapid deflation....it will behave just like a tubeless tyre.

I think one reason for the ridge was that they feared tubeless tyres would have a sudden deflation if you kirbed them and knocked the bead over. How much of a problem that is I have no idea.

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Oooo a screw driver will damage the rim edge and possible the tyres bead.....not good.

Judging by the way he was scraping his shiny allow around on the concrete, he wasn't particularly bothered about damaging the rim edge! That really made me cringe.

The one thing he did that might have been useful was to put the soapy water around the bead before trying to remove it. I guess there's an argument that until the bead is broken, the water isn't going to get anywhere where it'll help, but it probably won't make anything worse. I used proper tyre lube when refitting the tyres, and that did help the bead move a lot more easily. His method of breaking the bead wasn't too dissimilar to jacking up the Landy with the foot of the jack in the sidewall...but with less control.

The biggest difference between I saw here, however, was that his tyre (tire) is a LOT softer than the mud plugger tyres I had/have. The sidewalls on mine were *really* stiff (particularly the old ones), and it was a lot more of a challenge to remove/refit than it was for him. Next time, I'll make sure I'll buy tyres with a softer sidewall.

They are like buses, none for ages, then two. I quite like this one:

rob1miles said:

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What a nob. Wish my bike tyres were that easy though

rob1miles said:

They are like buses, none for ages, then two. I quite like this one:

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Now, *that* is neat. That could well have saved me quite a bit of time if I'd thought of that.