K-n-L Country Farms
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I'm sure everyone here has experienced a flat tire and really dreaded it when it came to the rear tire's inner tube needing replaced since they can be quite labor intensive if they haven't been removed for a long time.
We have an old fashioned pneumatic tire machine but not an easy job having to lift a rear tire up on it and then rotate it while breaking the bead and so I figured out if we laid the tire on the ground, put 1 or 2 2x6's from the ground up to bead of the tire, drive the truck up on the 2x6's, and then using pry-bars and a sledge that we can break the bead down but wow... the tire we're working on right now was bonded to the rim and so had one heck of a time breaking it down.
Well after we got it broke down and ONLY pealed the bead FROM ONE SIDE up off of the rim, we reached inside and could feel all of the crusty rust. This rim must have been this way for quite some time since we could feel a piece of rubber that had been placed around the inside of it to help prevent the inner tube from getting damaged by the prickly rust.
My question, what all ways are there that can be used to prevent the inner tube from getting a hole in it from the rust. I know we can reach in to scrape the rust as much as possible to minimize it effects on a tube, and can also use part of the old inner tube to lay down inside the rim to help cover up the rust thus give the new inner tube something smooth to press against but that can be a bit difficult to place in the new inner tube without disturbing the initial piece of tube. Has anyone gone in a blued (gasket maker) the inside of the rim? We have used it on rims around where the bead seats itself for radial tires to seal but never tried using it this way not to mention how many tubes of gasket maker would be needed to cover such a large rim that is a 28"
We have an old fashioned pneumatic tire machine but not an easy job having to lift a rear tire up on it and then rotate it while breaking the bead and so I figured out if we laid the tire on the ground, put 1 or 2 2x6's from the ground up to bead of the tire, drive the truck up on the 2x6's, and then using pry-bars and a sledge that we can break the bead down but wow... the tire we're working on right now was bonded to the rim and so had one heck of a time breaking it down.
Well after we got it broke down and ONLY pealed the bead FROM ONE SIDE up off of the rim, we reached inside and could feel all of the crusty rust. This rim must have been this way for quite some time since we could feel a piece of rubber that had been placed around the inside of it to help prevent the inner tube from getting damaged by the prickly rust.
My question, what all ways are there that can be used to prevent the inner tube from getting a hole in it from the rust. I know we can reach in to scrape the rust as much as possible to minimize it effects on a tube, and can also use part of the old inner tube to lay down inside the rim to help cover up the rust thus give the new inner tube something smooth to press against but that can be a bit difficult to place in the new inner tube without disturbing the initial piece of tube. Has anyone gone in a blued (gasket maker) the inside of the rim? We have used it on rims around where the bead seats itself for radial tires to seal but never tried using it this way not to mention how many tubes of gasket maker would be needed to cover such a large rim that is a 28"