welcome back everyone I have been looking forward to shooting this video
for a while now so I've had this tool sitting in my toolbox for a few months
and I haven't had the chance to use it until today alright here's what I've got
going on today I'll be mounting up this fresh set of dunlop MX series tires that
rocky mountain sent over which while we're on the subject
Rocky Mountain has the best prices on tires hands down and these tires are
going onto this beautiful set of wheels that I built in the last video so the
tool is referring to is the Baja no pinch tire tool and like I said I've
been waiting for months to try this thing out I'm super excited here's what
Baja provides you with in the kit we've got the push rod this is what hooks onto
the bead of the tire and pushes it over the rim and then the lever and for
different sized axles for different sized wheel bearings so the axle slide
in the wheel bearings just like the normal axle would Purple's for the rear
a pretty snug fit and the blue should be for the front that one fits pretty good
as well so here's a really quick demonstration before I show you the real
thing the lever just screws right onto the axle here and then I'll slide in the
push rod it's pretty easy to see why this would work so well we've got a nice
big handle for some leverage here and as you move the handle it'll push the tire
over the rim let's give it a shot before I get started got to make sure I've got
the rim locks and rim bands into place if you don't have rim bands you can
always use duct tape the wheels are ready to go just gonna prep the tires
and tubes now I prefer to start with the tube in the tire but before I put them
in I'm gonna dump in some baby powder and that'll prevent the tire and tube
from chafing against each other got a good amount of baby powder in there just
gonna roll it around so that way it's spread out evenly the cool part about it
the baby powder makes the tire chain you'd process smell pretty good and now
I'm just feeding the tube into the tire I've always found it's a bit easier to
mount tires with the tube rdn
to get the tubes situated inside the tire I'll add a little bit of pressure
to the tube and then pull the valve stem out getting it nice and settled inside
the tire that way it's not interfering when I'm trying to put the tire onto the
rim and then pulling off the valve stem ensures that there's no pressure left in
the tube I apologize I was calling to the stem so I'm gonna leave the valve
stem core out of the tube for the entire process let's mount some tires already
so I've got my handy tire changing sand which is available from Rocky Mountain
link down below but I'll have to pull out the center axle so that way I can
use the Baja tire tool and as far as the tire mounting Lube I've had good luck
with this llaman lube stuff and yeah it does work on Honda steel all right I'm
gonna begin with the front wheel and front tire first thing I'm gonna check
to see if the tire is directional and it looks like it is we've got an arrow
right here pointing the direction of travel is this way
so if I were to mount the tire like this it would be on backwards so I'm gonna
flip it around first step is to line up the bow stem with the hole on the rim
get have to pull the tube out of the tire a little bit no I almost forgot
there are two nuts here on the Bell stem and I'll need to remove one of them so
there should be one nut on the inside of the rim and one on the outside so for
now I'm just gonna thread this other nut on to keep the tube into place then I'm
gonna do my best to push the tire on by hand that's about as far as I can get it
I'm getting excited to try out this tool now I've been playing with this tool a
little bit just trying to get the tension right
it looks like however far the axle is threaded into the handle that determines
the amount of tension put on the gears here so if you have it threaded in too
far you can see pretty stiff not really wanting to really move much or move
freely and then too loose and it'll just be sloppy and it'll wear out the gears
so before you use the tool at all definitely want to make sure the tension
is somewhere in the middle there I'm gonna thread in the axle all the way and
go about a half or a three-quarter turn out see how that is
feels pretty firm but not loose to the point where it's gonna wear out the
gears and then to lock it in at that tension I'm just gonna tighten down the
allen bolt here it's pretty self-explanatory how this works it's
basically pushing the tire over the rim
aha that is so awesome super cool and of course with any tire mounting you want
to make sure the tube is tucked inside the tire that way there's no chance of
pinching it but with this thing the chances of pinching a tube are very slim
what I'm really impressed with so far is the tool doesn't touch the rim at all so
it's not gonna scratch up your brand-new rims
I've got one side of the tower completely on just seem to get the rim
lock inside of the tire now and how I'm gonna do this is by using a couple tire
levers to pull the tire over the rim lock so that way the rim lock slips
inside and of course to protect the rim I've got some rim protectors here and
these just snap onto the edge of the rim like so definitely not going to hurt to
spray a little bit of lubricant inside here
as soon as I pull the tire over the other edge of the rim lock it's gonna
push the rim lock up inside the tire
just like that and then release the levers and we're in so that should be
the only labor involved with mounting this tire just gonna freshen up here on
the lube before I start on this side so I'm gonna start over here at the valve
stem and work my way towards the rim lock and just to make things go a little
bit easier I'm gonna throw in a bead buddy to hold the tire down while I'm
working my way around
and when you're using this tool you got to keep it down flush against the hub
that way you get the right angle on the tire
and keep your bead down inside the rim this will allow for a lot more space
over here for mounting
as I'm working my way towards the last little bit here just continually
checking to see that the beat of the tire is down inside the rim given me as
much room on this side as possible as with any new tool there's a bit of a
learning process and on that last push I went just a little too far and I nicked
the rim but you know what that's part of it nothing a Sharpie can't fix good as
new I will not be doing that again now I'm gonna pop this valve stem core
back in and add some pressure to the tube just going to add enough pressure
until the bead seats on the rim
looks like I've got a seated bead on both sides all the way around last step
is to set the tire pressure and tighten down the rim lock on front tires I like
my pressure set at 14 psi oh boy we're at like 40 so on the valve stem you
definitely want to run a rubber grommet followed up with a valve stem cap I find
that if you have a nut on there tightened all the way down
it'll restrict a tube from moving around and could possibly rip off the valve
stem inside the tube this is the rubber grommet I'm talking about just slides
right over and then I've got a sweet little valve stem cap here already
scraped up I don't have to worry about scratching that one and then for the rim
lock I'm gonna replace this ugly-looking nut with a red anodized one and it's
always a good idea to apply some anti-seize to the rim lock since these
are susceptible to corrosion
well the front wheel is all done and I'd say she looks pretty good everything
went pretty smoothly except for that little nick which is just minor details
stuff happens all right let's bust out this rear tire
the rear tire definitely went on a lot smoother than the front did one thing I
learned with this tool is you don't want to push the tire over the rim too far
you just want to push it right up to the edge and then it'll slip over the rim
push it any farther than that and you're just risking scratching the
rim overall I'm pretty happy with the Baja no pinch tire tool just like
anything else there is a learning curve to it it'll take a tire to to really
learn the intricacies of this tool it does make the process of mounting a tire
less labor and as they get better with it I'm sure it'll be quicker as well
definitely got a thumbs up in my book to check these things out head over to Baja
no pinch com I'll put the link down below
I'm gonna wrap up the video right here if you enjoyed it make sure you drop a
like or a comment down below and once again big big thank you to Rocky
Mountain and Baja no pinch tire tools for helping out with this video if you
want to see all the parts and tools I use throughout this video check the
links down below and I want you guys to hang in there I've got some big plans in
the works for the upcoming videos I will see you all in the next video later
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