As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I hate changing tires, no not the nuts off the hubs, which is bad enough, but the actual tire changing as it is hard work, unless you have an expensive machine.
This though is the Junk Yard Guy's method, more to stop leaks as this is not tire changing, this is rim sealing and it is million dollar knowledge.
So JYG sold us this trailer, little boat tires on it and the one was flat, away from the hub, the valve leaked, he fixed that and it went flat in 3 days. I was just glad it went flat in 3 days not the 3 hours we were hauling stuff home in the trailer.
So I put the spare on................flat as the world too. As we needed this for a lawn mower and things to be moved, I was frowning as I had already put in ah hour's work for nothing, and now I was looking at 35 bucks a tire to get the flat out.
The alternative is poor orphan girl and JYG's method of dealing with flat tires which are flat due to the rim not sealing and air leaking out that way. This is more common now than ever on those damned aluminum hubs. Zelda has a flat like that, and we took it in, and it still leaks. That was a professional and they still did not do it right.
So what do you do?
Take the tire off, and then what I was Inspired by the Holy Ghost is instead of like the Mexicans who put a 4 x 4 on the tire and then drive on it with their pickup which is hard on tires, I take a farm jack. whether it is a high lift, an old "green jack", or I would think a small hydraulic jack would work. For me I have a tractor which I put the jack under, and the tire under the jack, and I jack it up with the jack base close to the rim. I stand on the opposite rim to balance and this will break the seal or bead sticking the tire to the metal rim.
Yes you need to have all the air out of the tire if you are Darwin. For that matter if you are Darwin at all, do not do this and hire it done. He reason I have to do things this way, is I can not afford the cheap tire changer from Harbor Freight and I do not have a garage with a cement floor to put it in either as so many of my readers are dead beat brats who think whores still go for 25 cents on the street corner.
So you have to break the bead on both sides which makes no sense as why would a leaking tire still be sealed this tight but they are.
Ok JYG cautions NO DUST or debris in the tire as that hinders the seal as you are wheeling them around on his dusty road. Makes sense.
Now here is JYG's million dollar fix, he takes unused motor oil and wipes the inside of the rim with an oiled cloth and does the same on the rim of the tire. You carefully put air in to bulge out the tire rim to make contact with the hub rim. (Sometimes this is a chore as on the spare for this trailer, as you need sometimes 50 to 80 pounds of pressure to get enough air in the tire to make it bulge quickly and I have a crappy air compressor so that is the challenge being poor.)
And once the tire rim is in contact with the outside rim, you can fill it up to the specs.
This saved me 70 bucks which I could not afford. These tires have little wear, but are old and cracking, as they are pre China made, they will probably last another 50 years, as I'm not pulling this thing across country.
That though is how you seal aluminum rims the JYG way and as Jimmy who we were helping is still driving his old Dodge, the oil seal did work on the old tires put on there.
Again, there is all these vax zombies going to appear, you are going to have to at least know how to fix the rudimentary stuff.
Nuff Said
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