hi I'm Karl Erik, so we're out here at Tier one group I'm with Chad Morman the
head driving instructor. Now out here they do a lot of really really awesome
or steer vehicle repairs and one of my personal favorites because I DB tires a
lot while I'm out off-roading is how to rebead a tire that's when the teeth when
the bead has come off of it. Chad, you've got a neat technique of doing
this with starter fluid once you tell us a little bit about
So like Carl was
saying we're going to basically be using some sort of fluid to reseat the bead on
the tire there are other videos out there that you can see of it but there
are some considerations you need to take into account especially if you're doing
this downrange one of the main ones is is if we look at the core that goes into
the valve stem so where you put your air into your tire if we have time and if we
can't we want to try to remove it one is once we do this a lot of the times this
will blow out and if you're not carrying a spares then you're going to constantly
lose air pressure out of your valve stem two is if I do it in there once or twice
then this red ring that's on here is nothing but rubbery to end up burning it
up and then will constantly get an air leak out of the valve stem it can be
taken out with a pair of needle nose pliers or let them in something like
that it simply just screws out and screws in so we already have it out of
our tire yep so we've done a couple of different tests on different fluids that
can actually reseat it we tried this is just simply starting fluid which works
kind of the best got carb cleaner which works good we've tried gasoline
hairspray and some of those other things they just don't create enough of a
combustion to reseat the beads especially when you start talking about
your bigger off-road thick ply wall tire and stuff like that but it simply is
spraying some in there in a certain way lighten it and then letting it repeat so
we'll kind of go through that now so the first thing you need to do is
when I come up here you can see it's already off the bead all the way around
I want to break the bead to make sure I get some of this inside of the tire now
how much is too much if your tire is bouncing off the ground that's too much
it doesn't take a whole lot you're looking at two to three seconds burst
inside for a tire about this size if you put too much in there it can make a tire
jump if you're standing over it it hits you get hurt it can mess up the insides
of the tire burn the insides of the tire up if you have too much in there so
we're simply going to break push down on the bead spray some in there once we do
that we're going to spray a half moon around and then I'm going to take a tail
and lead it out and off to the side reason being is I don't want to light it
over this if I don't technically have to you can do this with the tire still on
your truck okay just jack it up do the techniques we're
about to do and then light it and it will be seated on the truck that way
you're not taking it off but we got it off here for simply being able to
see it a little bit better so without further ado we'll go ahead do
the steps. Is that good with you Carl?
- Yup, you want me to hold it, though?
Go to this side, so the camera can see it a little better.
Alright so two three seconds
three inside good once you've got your foot off, take your foot off we're going to
Halfmoon it around from there all I'm going to do is draw a tail out take the
cans to the down off to the side light it if it doesn't rebead I'm going to
come up and step on it rebeads and now it's sucking the air in sucking it
out you will see it concave here in just a second and that's when it's sucking
the air in and a big misconception about sucking this air in is everybody thinks
well I'll take the core of the bow stem and put it in there now and I'll have
enough air pressure to drive on. Well that's not really the case one is the
air dis escaping when you're trying to catch it is very very hot burn up your
hands a lot of the burn gloves up stuff like that it's not worth it once you do
this you do still have to have a method of reinflating your tire
alright got anything else?
that's awesome again this can work anywhere like mentioned you can
actually do this on the tire or do this to the tire while it's on the vehicle
great great technique we've done this hundreds of times yeah I actually have
one where we were downrange ended up getting so many flats in the
tire too much stuff in it the way I didn't have enough plugs or no amount of
plugs I would have had would have fixed it so we de beaded the tire I filled it
full of sand packet full of sand re beaded it and then simply made my own
they provide a run plan that's awesome awesome hey now you've seen the video
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