O.T. tire problem?

A couple of weeks ago, I dismounted a tire from a cast aluminum rim that had a very slow leak around the bead. I marked the tire on the rim in regards to balance weights and valve stem. The rim showed some pitting/corrosion on the mating surfaces. I cleaned the rim with a wire wheel and used a rim sealant on it to help seal it. Since I did that, the car pulls to the side away from that tire. Yesterday I swapped front tires from left to right and now it pulls right instead of left. I probably didn't get the tire oriented perfectly to what it had been. Could a little balance problem cause the tire to pull?

Is it a radial tire? I have had tires with a twisted tread pull, but I,m thinking they pulled in direction of mounting. Might jack it up & spin--watch for crooked tread. something must have happened in dismount, I can,t think it is balance. not a tire man, maybe one will chime in.

I would remove the repaired tire from the rim and flip it over are put the rears on the front... BTDT In my case I did not mark the tire and put in on reversed of what it was. Tires have directional memory that's why you don't X the rears to the front.

Balance problem will not cause it to pull. Did you use a tire machine to break it down and remount it?

tire balance has nothing to do with pulling one way or the other.it will produce tire hop though and you feel that in the steering wheel. pulling is a wheel alignment problem in the castor setting. it also can be a bad tire that causes pulling. radial tires used to be bad for that. the castor setting is to compensate for road crown. which is the front and back tilt of the wheel .

You aired the one that you worked on up but the other tire is low. Check the air pressure in the other tire. Or you mounted the one your remove on backwards, like they all said balance is not going to make it pull.

I hate to disagree with you but after 20 years in the automotive alignment business, caster (spelled with an e) has nothing to do with the 'crown' (for all intents and purposes virtually non-existent these days)in the road. It is for directional stability. Each car has its own specification range of caster "tilt". If one side was different from the other it would have "pulled" from the get go. If the camber was previously out of spec and the tire took a "set" then mounting it "inside out", as it were, can cause pile of problems, pulling to one side being common.

I am positive that you have it on exactly where it came off and same side out. Tires carcass normally will NOT outlast the tread these days and a mid life dismount maybe all it took to bring a carcass flaw to the surface. Put it on the rear and finish wearing them out.

what you have going on sounds like a Radial Pull, There is actually a belt broke inside the tire that make it do just what your describing.

As it was snowing when I got off work and the tires were down to 3/32" tread, I had a new pair put on before I came home. They must have been a real hard tread compound, as I know I have got around better with balder tires in a car this size in the past.

To stop bead leaks, I have had good luck using castor oil to soften the bead but you need to clean the rim good also.

I heard that when radials first came out, may have been correct then, do not think it is now. Could be on the higher priced directional tread tires. Over the last 15 years I probaby bought and used over a hundred from junk yards and used tire places. You never know what position they were on, and I have never had that problem. I drove around 150 mile every day for years in stop and go newspaper driving, averiging 2 stops per mile. I was getting as many mile on those used tires as I got from 80,000 mile rated new tires that were totally bald at 12,000, and I was not spinning them starting or sliding them stoping. Just the type of rubber could not take that type of driving. I am driving now on tires bought from parts yards. No problems with anything like that. No way to know if they were on front or rear or left or right side. And as many of the thousands of tires sold that way if there was a problem they could not sell them like they do. And I have switched them side to side with no problems. And one time I had 3 tires break the belts on one day. On that newspaper route I carried 2 full sized spares all the time as uoy would not believe what you would pick up on the roads.