My front tire lost pressure and came off the rim. After watching some YouTube videos about it, I’m going to head out there with a ratchet strap, compressor and dish soap to try to get the bead back on. Any other suggestions?

Be sure to bring a thermos of Antifreeze

LMAO

It will probably be thirsty work.

My kingdom for a rock auger....

Man those things are nice when you invariably hit a big old shelf of limestone in the middle of some project and no matter where you dig you can't find the edge of the MFer and the shelf is probably 6 inches deep so no amount of hitting it with a pick axe is going to save you.

But you do need a TON of power out of your PTO to really spin one of those us and get them to bite worth a damn. Otherwise you're just gonna hit things pretty slowly and either bounce off or just flat tear through shear bolts.

As for shear bolts - whatever you do, DON'T get impatient and throw a grade 8 bolt in there and try to power through shit. That gets...expensive.

(I mean, you're gonna do it anyway, but don't do it often. Sooner or later you will break something you wish you hadn't...)

Jack. Get it off the ground or you’ll never get it.

I like brake fluid better than dish soap. WD40 or penetrating oil if you don’t want to drop coin on brake fluid.

Personally I want the ether method as long as you video it. ROFL

Backhoe? I think those small trackhoes rent pretty cheap. I live where there is dirt so I don’t have a good solution for you. (No rain, but there is dirt LOL)

Yeah those things take a lot of power. PTO isn’t a particularly efficient application of horsepower anyway. But yeah, tell me you shelled a gearbox without telling me you shelled a gearbox :D

I’D RIPPED THROUGH 8 SHEAR BOLTS AND THE JOB WASN’T DONE YET, DAMMIT!!!

Maybe blaming the bolt was unwise.

And yes, there were a dozen better alternatives and a small trackhoe was easily the smartest one. But that wasn’t the direction we went.

Yeah, I jacked the wheel off the ground just by pushing the loader bucket down. I don’t have water at the lot yet so I’m not going to risk a forest fire with the ether method.

ROFL

It burns quick. It’ll probably just be your eyebrows.

You’ll be fine. Just get the fastest compressor you have. Oh yeah, and if the bead seats get that strap off there quick or it becomes a pain in the rectum and you may have to deflate the tire to get it. I’d like to say that isn’t the voice of experience but I would be lying.

If that doesn’t get it go buy a bead seater.


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Looks like a Benjamin at Home Depot will get you one. They’re worth it when you need one.

ROFL

The last 2 times I had any digging at all to do I hired a guy. Because ain’t nobody got time for that.

LMAO, that was way easier than I expected. I barely put the strap around the tire, figured I'd just try the bike tire pump I'd brought along, and the tire just slid itself right into place with barely any pressure. I'm not sure I even needed the strap.

Shoulda went to Vegas. ROFL