welcome back to steve rob reviews today we're gonna we're gonna take a look at an idea that
i've had for a long time on implementing a way to prevent your rims that you store underneath your
pickup truck now how many of you have pickup trucks and you got this rim the spare tire is
underneath the back of your bed and it sits there for years and years and years and if you live up
north like i do with all the salt it just corrodes the rim right to pieces fills the rim full of uh
gravel and dirt depending on where you uh live and if you're going off road at all
but it just fills it full of dirt and corrodes the rim to the point where the first place i've
noticed that it corrodes is around the bead and you'll see how it'll go underneath the bead the
rust will continue until you've got a slow leak so i decided to try something i want to have some
feedback here these guys let me know what you think i'm going to give you a real good close-up
of what i'm doing here and you let me know whether you think this is a viable idea because of course
i'm not using this on road you know like all my tires and everything else i'm just trying it out
on the spare tire and i've tried it out on one of my trailers for up north that i use going
back and forth into the bush so i'm going to show you the products that i've used and the reason
why and you let me know if you think this is a good idea or not because in my experience well
i've seen my share of spare tires that drop down you know if you get a flat tire on your pickup
truck well first of all most of them don't have any air in them because they've never put any
air in them for like 10 years and if you live in the north where there's lots of salt guess what
it's so corroded that uh well you couldn't leave any air into it if you try it anyways because uh
you know the rim is just destroyed from all the salt that's sat up there for years so let's take
a look at this and see exactly what i'm doing and whether it's a good idea and whether you think
you would implement this idea too because i'm trying it out here let's see what you think well
let's just take a look at the first product on the right it's called rush check and for all of you
that live in other countries well i only use this type of rust check it's called coat and protect
and uh a similar product that is just as good is called fluid film but the reason why i like
this one is i find it it dries a lot better and it's half the price compared to uh fluid film but
on the left hand side is just your regular black silicone that you would use outdoors
you know for caulking and if you take a look in between the both of them at the bottom you'll see
that's the lock cylinder that goes in the back of a pickup truck to prevent anybody
from stealing your spare tire i guess i don't know exactly who would but uh the only thing
i do to them when i get a new vehicle is i put some silicone paste or silicone grease around
the gasket that goes all the way around there because there is a gasket to keep the dirt out
and in my experience over the years well the first time you try to take that out it is so tough to
get out and now they don't even give you a real key on a vehicle it's like one of these keys that
you kind of slide out of your key fob and that key don't look that durable to me compared to
an old-fashioned key so you really want to make sure that you have some kind of a lubricant going
around the seals so you can actually pull that thing out if you do get a flat so let's take a
look at the rim and see exactly what i've done using these two products and the reason why
so here's the rim after i've sprayed it i sprayed this yesterday so i let it sit there for 24 hours
but the first thing i did before i sprayed it was apply the silicone caulking all the way around
the bead that goes from the tire to the steel rim and that's where
all the corrosion happens and i'll just wipe a little piece off here so you can see
you see right there i'm just wiping it off here and i wanted to leave it there to see if it
reacted somehow to it but it doesn't it doesn't react at all to it and here we've got just the
black silicone sealer i applied it all the way around and then i smoothed it out with my finger
and let it dried now of course you can see on the top right there i can put down 45 psi
because the tire when it was shipped to me from the factory
was the same as all the other tires 35 psi the rating on this tire goes up to 45 psi so of course
i put 45 in there and i put a uh just a yellow chalk mark that'll stay on there forever it's
tire chalk and every year when i check the tire pressure i know exactly how much to put in right
so when you're taking a look at your your spare tire the first thing like i said before is this
is where the corrosion all happens right in here right on the bead but another spot that
i found was just incredible by helping my friends that couldn't even get their spare tire out from
beneath the vehicle was there's a cone that goes in here now imagine this is inverted upside down
because this is what you'll see from the bottom of your truck now i already sprayed the inside
as well like the bottom side and i put the uh the sealer in there as well but there's
a cone that goes in here that lifts it up and holds it tight to the bed
i've seen where that cone is rusted in there so bad that you actually need to have a hammer with
you to pop that back out because it's rusted so bad to the inside of your rim also all the bolt
holes here that go through or the studs for your wheels i've seen them completely covered over with
corrosion and dirt and gravel and mud and you name it because you see how this is all opened up here
you're going down a road and all the gravel the dirt and everything will go in there bounce around
and settle right on the bottom here yeah i've seen it so bad here where you can't even mount your
tire because there's so much stuff on the back side on the inside and this will help with the uh
with the adhesion of all this stuff trying to stick to your rim you know and especially the salt
it'll repel the salt now i've used this product for at least 20 years and i will not have to
reapply this i could take this rim out and say two years and just wash it all out this product will
not wash off a lot of other products like rust preventative products they'll all wash off this
here will not wash off at all and it won't stay sticky and gooey on your hands and that kind of
stuff now when i first install it in the truck now yeah i'm gonna have to put some rubber gloves on
then after i mount it up in the truck i'll spray the hub on the outside as well i've already
sprayed the uh the ratchet mechanism that lifts the rim all the way up to the truck including
the cable that goes in there so this is the idea behind this and i am i am positive that there is
no problem putting this silicone sealer between the metal rim and the rubber tire
to seal it all the way along so it just doesn't have a chance for the moisture to get in here and
just rot out the rim and cause a leak well thanks for joining me here today leave me some feedback
let me know what you think about this idea and like i said i've implemented on one of my rims
on my tires up at my camp where i have a trailer that goes back in the bush all the
time for firewood and the one thing i noticed is yeah the inside not the outside but it's the
inside that just packed with all kinds of mud and corrosion not the outside as much but you know
when you think about it preventing the corrosion from starting you know it i think is a good idea
uh you know like this is a spare tire so i mean it has been balanced i don't know if i've
disturbed the balance or not but you know for the amount of time that i would use a spare tire
um you know i really can't see that being a problem and if you're wondering you know why
is this atv here well it's not my atv a tree jumped out in front of my buddy's atv and boom
so i'm straightening out the frame and that's the project for the day here but uh i think this is a
viable option for people that you know buy a new pickup truck or use pickup truck and they they
pull down the spare tire and they see how corroded it is well at that point would you do right all
you can do is try to prevent it from being more corrosive i would say that if you pull the rim
down and it's that corroded i would just spray the product instead of the silicone sealer i'd spray
this product or another rust proofing product to slow down the corrosion because once it starts
well you know all you're going to do is embed you know the corrosion on the rim oh so
i don't know i think it's a good option leave me a comment down below and let me know what you think
and i will take this spare tire out in the years to come and show you you know as time
progresses because i guarantee you in the middle of the winter you know like when it's you know
20 and 30 below it's just crusted full of ice and salt and everything else in there
plus when i put 45 psi in there if i were to go out at minus 30 and check the
the pressure i'm lucky if i've got 30 to maybe 32 pounds so as it gets cold yeah the pressure will
drop so that's why i put a little extra pressure in there as well so thanks for joining me here
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do and uh follow along as time goes by and see how these experiments actually work out cheers