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Old October 24th, 2021, 10:45 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by dcj13 View Post
I had to resort to that method to seat the bead on some lawn tractor tires that were kinda crunched up in shipping.

Tried all my usual methods first including the ratchet strap and open air chuck.

First couple of tries with the ether I just lit the tire on fire, then I used a bit more ether and hit it with the air compressor at the same time. It seated the bead, but man did it stretch that tire out, I was afraid it was going to burst before I could get the air chuck off the valve stem.

On the lawn tractor it doesn't seem to have hurt anything, but I wouldn't want to use that method on a motorcycle used on the highway.
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