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wheel balancing
Written by shotcoy on 8/22/2010 at 03:59 am

csury: It sounds like wisdom, good judgement, perseverance, and patience paid
off in your attempts to seat the bead on your car tire. Mine seated at 71
psi(after attempts at 50 & 60 psi had failed). There are many "tricks" you can
use to help you get it seated. Many have used/swear by ky jelly(believe it or
not) as a lubricant. We used pine-sol as a lubricant on mine. Polishing and/or
buffing the rim bead also helps. Applying your choosen lubricant to both the
tire and wheel surfaces also helps. Warming the tire in the hot sun(or some
other safe method)can also help. Best of luck with your new tire/ride!! Enjoy
fun and safe riding!! Dave "YT" Hoover

--- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, csury@... wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> --- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "Dave" <shotcoy@> wrote:
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> > 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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