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wheel balancing
Written by csury on 8/21/2010 at 03:12 am

Seating the bead was the toughest part of the whole exercise. The tire had no
problem holding air and inflating, but a foot-long part of the tire bead on each
side of the tire just didn't want to pop over the bead seating hump on the
inside of the rim. Soaping the bead and rim didn't help. I tried deflating and
recentering the tire on the rim prior to reinflating, but that didn't help
either.

My solution was to inflate the tire to about 70 pounds, pour some liquid dish
soap into the part of the bead that would not seat, deflate the tire to let the
soap work down a bit more between the bead and the rim hump, then reinflate to
70 pounds and wait a few minutes. After 2 repeats of this, the bead on one side
of the tire was fully seated. After 2 more repeats, the tire bead on the other
side of the tire suddenly popped into place, spraying dish soap all over my
pants.

Then it was just a matter of dropping the tire pressure down to 34 psi for road
use and washing off the tire and rim. All that soap on the tire made for real
easy clean-up.



--- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "Dave" <shotcoy@...> wrote:
>
> csury: Thanks for the report on wheel balancing and the car tire. Did you have
any trouble seating the bead on the car tire? How many psi did it take to seat
the bead? Glad to hear you are enjoying a smooth ride. Enjoy fun & safe riding!
Dave "YT" Hoover

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