what the hell we up to now
as you know we got the pride of the fleet here the ambo now we took it for a drive the other
day about 60 miles for 60 kilometers and it was just tugging a bit for the front wheel
like just tugging so what that is is uh most common thing is air pressure and on the left front
was 55 and on the right front was uh 59 so that four pounds of air will make it want to go so we
got that all evened up but even at that that's too low like they say 65 and then 80 for the
big animal so we're going to keep them about 70 as a as a magic number or 65 we'll put 65 in the
front because see on the front here if you look at the tread you'll see it's starting to take the
it's wearing on the edges right so that's a sign of low air pressure right so we'll bring
them up to 70 and put 70 all the way around and it'll be just good now the other thing we
had was that she had a problem getting air into the right rear or left rear now on the one ton
you have to phase the wheels now phasing the wheels if you look at this hole here you can
see the hole on the other side right and the valve stem on the other side
they had the rim turned so that you couldn't see the other valve steps you can't get
nothing on it so they got to be phased right so that's what we're doing on the other side now
i'm going to tell you the way to do it you can do whatever you want but i'm
going to tell you the way to do it and this is the only way you do it come on over here
okay now the only way you do it is you jack it up with an eight ton jack or a ten anything better
than an eight will work because it's fairly heavy and you put a jack stand under it which you see
down there is a jack stand you never put a body part under it unless you got a jack stand i don't
want to hear the story i don't care put a jack stand under it now when you take it off you always
use an impact gun never use a four-way for one thing i will not even lift the four-way
i don't even waste my time it's too much work it's not worth it go buy yourself a cheap impact that
harbor freight or canadian tire and be done with it because they're only on at 120 pounds
or something so it's not a big deal right so what we're going to do is take the wheels off and then
we're going to pump them up to 70 and then we're going to phase them and i'll bring it now this one
was off so you couldn't see the back valve stem so i'll bring you back when i get all back together
and we'll um show you what it is now another thing too while you're at it a lot of people
get on about tires and all that now all these tires on this amble can go anywhere
yeah you take one out in the front you can take one off the back put on the front but try not to
i'm saying try you might not be able to do it try not to put a patch tire on the front
because it does front turns and it makes the tire work more so don't try to put a patch tire
on but yeah if you blow a tire off the front just take one of the rears and put it back there and
you can run with one tire on the back you're not that heavy there's a lot of times on these here
what a person should do is bump the tire size up all the way around and go down the single rims but
canada is not a single rim down the states they run lots of single rims up here
people don't like it i don't know what the problem is they don't want to do it but you know if i had
a one time i'd run single rims i'll get this all fixed up i'm going to pump the tires up to 70
and then i'll phase it and i'll put it back in and then i'll show you what it looks like
i'll turn it off for a minute that's a compressor it's a stupid compressor
it's i don't know it's right in there with the rest of the compressors but the thing about it
is is that you can put it on and walk away you set the pressure whatever you want and that way when
you do that all the tires are the same you don't have to think about it that's the old guy you know
what you're dealing with you have to take all the pressures up to one where you know where they are
like we don't know what this was we have no idea so right now the inside tire was flat
the outside one was five pounds low that was five pounds low and the other one was five pounds low
now just remember that a tire if it's ten like say for instance you pump it up to 65 pounds
like we did today and we go and measure them next week and the one's 55 that's got a that's
a flat tire end of the story a flat tire get it fixed it's either a leaking stem or a screw in it
or something like that and if it's got 65 pounds and you measure it's got 55 pounds
it won't fix itself i'm sorry i just don't do that so now what we did now took this because it
was out of face because remember the poles right here were right here so you couldn't see the stem
now what i do it's not policy or nothing but what i do is i stagger the stems
so i got one stem here the outside stem i'll put it there now the trick to these tires is
they will tell you what they're going to do don't try to manhandle the tire because it won't work
they will tell you what you're going to do so what you do is line it up where you want it
right we got a stem here and we have a stem down there now so when i took this wheel off
it was like that it was like this
okay you couldn't see the holes so what you have to do is pull it back
and line up the holes and the velcro because i want the belt stem up here
now i'm going to get all kinds of stories lucky it's paula's channel not mine i put copper coat
on the studs okay or oil anything because when you put something dry against something dry
it'll catch right and that's my theory on it and i never lost the tire yet so i'm not worried about
it so but not on the face of this nut because what the nut does is it spins on there right
this spins and it uses friction to hold the wheel that's the trick behind it so don't put
an oil or grease on these but just on the stem right and then you just start them on
right now you always go um top to bottom 180 degrees all the time until they're tight right
now i know this gun will put out close to 100 foot pounds going back on right so i know
roughly what it'll do but you never take that for granted you always torque it with a torque
wrench always always always you never put them on and then say oh yeah that's good enough because
if you get a piece of dirt or something under there
it could change the torque right so you don't want that so what you do is start at the top
bottom
up
bottom
top
bottom
top
and bottom okay
now we're going to check that i know it's darn close i think it's probably around the
85 foot pounds right now but that's because i've done a couple but now look at it see now
you can see the bow stems right so now she can check the tire pressure if you have to
that's the trick behind it just remember don't try to manhandle the tire and don't pick it up leave
it on the ground and roll it and get it where you want it don't pick it up they're very very heavy
i know lots of people that sit on the road wait for ama and they sit there for five to six hours
to get this done well it only took take like half an hour and you got it done but that's up to you
but anyway so i'll put that that's how we're doing there
and that's basically the tires we're going to do the same on the other side
we're going to put them all at 65 and it'll probably make a big difference how it handled
because this side's low so it wants to go this way right so i'll leave that with you i hope you
got something but if you got any questions put them down below and we'll get back here
you