it's Pete the cheap homesteading and I'm in my garage today and I'm working my
x495 John Deere the front right tire all last year was going down and I had to
pump it up and they have to bless tires on the front but I think I'm gonna throw
a tube in and I'll make sure there's no nail stuck in it and then I'll just
throw a tube in it and then we'll be done with it
so let's go
this is my dad's old John Deere lawn tractor and the tire is definitely flat
it's only flat on the bottom though the top looks great
okay so now we're gonna take off the tire okay so that's a 15 mil socket my
goodness John Deere went to the dark side for sure look at that that's easy
should get a jack stand okay I don't see anything physically stuck here does it
we have these Hawthorne's around my property that's great to have him around
examples a little tiny fruit and everything to make gams they would have
been everything but a Hawthorn will just go right through one of these tires like
there's no tomorrow I don't see any sticking it this way but we're gonna
take a right okay so now it gets really stuck around here like it's stuck on
there hard so you gonna have to use a tire sledging you what it means is he
hit here till it pounds off an easier way I found is I try it with the vise
and my if your vise opens wide enough so you can clamp it together and pull off
but we're gonna remove the valve stem can't find the little valve stem remover
but since we're not going to use this anymore
we're gonna redneck it there we go let's see if this vise opens wide enough these
are a little bit bigger than I normally put in the vise okay we'll move it
around a little bit more and then try to get another bite and do the same thing
hopefully those ride itself off so I'm gonna try to get it this is another bite
I started here with the vise you have to be able to work it off the bead and it
is off that is awesome oh goodness okay so now you got the tire
broken off the rim at least on one side the side you're gonna pull it off and
has to be beside with the valve stem okay so then you get your rest
screwdriver and you push down on the tire so it fits farther in the rim here
and you pry up and then you get another screwdriver and you go a little bit
farther and your prop you pull this one out and keep going until you have it off
and for this step I find it easier to put it on the ground okay so now you got
to make sure that there's no nail or Hawthorne or anything sticking through
the tire and the other way to really do that and you got to be careful don't
just stick your hand in there willy-nilly and and end up getting a cut
your hand or anything like that so you got to make sure you go all the way
around the tire and physically feel is anything on the face or on the side wall
that would puncture the tube and this feels that there's nothing in there so
now I'm gonna go get the tube we're gonna throw it in this thing now you
probably think I might just take it off the other side wall well these tires if
you do in the met home they're kind of difficult because there is no step down
here it's gonna be fight the whole way back down the rim and I find it's not
worth it I'd rather just try to give it a little bit of um power and try to get
it in there then have to try to break the bead on the other side if your rim
does have a drop on this side it's not so bad you only have to cool that parts
off but if you have to go any further than that
it just becomes a lesson of utility okay so we're gonna go get the - okay so
there we go look at that it's a fine tube it's made
in Vietnam all good tubes are me
ma'am I guess okay you have to be careful when you are putting these tubes
in that you do not pinch the tube against the rim and when you are crying
the tire on that your screwdrivers don't pinch the tube very important okay so I
like to put the actual valve stem hole closer to me you set the tube in you
have to have a rough idea where this is in orient you don't want to be twisting
the tube or anything like that like a round file so you know it's going to sit
like this inside so now we have a little bit of just plain muscles so I'm prying
this we put our tube down in
and we fish it through the hole okay so now there is valve stem holders but if
you're doing this at home you are not going to have a valve stem holder so we
are going to do this the way someone would do it at home so you put vise
grips you put vise grips on to the valve stem not enough to crush it but enough
to make sure that doesn't fall back into the rim when you're trying to fish it
around
and you keep going around the tube so it's just basically brute force to get
it in and around just keep going till it's fully over and then it's really
important to make sure that it feels like it's sitting pretty much like you
had it sitting it on the outside of the tire okay so I like having the valve
stem pretty much pointing towards me because I find you have less chance of
pinching the tube so what we do is I fish you put your knee here and I do
find it a lot easier to do it on the ground okay so now you don't stick the
screwdriver in far because you got to be mindful that this could pinch the tube
and then you keep going you get another bite and you keep going and keep pushing
down see that okay or keep going right yet Nick
we're almost there there you go so now your luck you don't see the tube caught
in between the tire and the rim so now we're gonna get the depressor all fired
up okay so make sure you're very careful at that stage when you're trying to put
the tire on the rim because nothing worse than pinching the two and another
thing is make sure you don't let that valve stem drop down into the tire
because if you get it half inflated and the valve stem drops down into the tire
you pretty ought to pop the tube to get it off again because you can't take the
air out of the tube so we're gonna pump this up okay it's a lot see
and be careful you don't just pump like crazy mouth air into it and the air
coming out around the bell stems doesn't mean that you have a leak yet because
this is a tubeless tire there's nowhere for the air to go between the rim the
tire and the tube so it's got to come out somewhere
a banty it should stop
you should check what is the my tyre gate
I lost my tire gauge already okay so eventually the air stops and I put my
front tires to both 24 that's about what I do but I always look on your manual
but whatever you do don't like put 100 pounds into the sucker and blow the tire
up and hurt yourself a little bit more
okay I don't let you much there we go right on the money
okay so all the air that was coming around the valve stem is stopped and
it's all pumped up it's ready to put it back on okay so there you go like that
would have costed you minimum 50 bucks but if you live in a really major city
it would have been about closer to a hundred attacks just to put a tube in
and it doesn't take a whole lot of mechanical ability to do that it's all
those little things that can save you money and there is a lot of things you
can do if you're not too mechanical you probably shouldn't rebuild an engine or
something like that you can always learn though but there's a lot of things you
can do little things I could save you a lot of
money so you guys have a good one this job is done