Tire inflating
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Tire inflating
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Tubeless truck tires don't have a ring. The trucks have used tubeless wheels for quite awhile now, although there are certainly some lock ring wheels floating around. The lock ring must be seated with a hammer while inflating, and those darn racks are dangerous because you can't get to the ring to hit it. I can't see if that was a lock ring style, but he was leaning on it instead of hitting it so, either way a rack would have helped him.
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Couple years ago I was at Laguna Seca to chear on Team Corvette and was standing around the Michelin Tire tent where they mount their tires for the teams cars who run Michelin. Tire tech told me another supplier there didn't use a cage when inflating their tires to seat the beads for the race teams they supplied for and one blew up.
He chuckled and said they have some cages on order now.
-G
He chuckled and said they have some cages on order now.
-G
Last edited by George's_Vette; Dec 29, 2014 at 08:41 PM.
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Y'all shoulda seen the Michelin passenger car tire (13 inches IIRC) that they inflated to almost 80 lbs on a steel wheel to see where it was leaking from and dunked it in a truck tank (big thing). Didn't explode. Michelin tire rep said that was a lie, no one could ever do that and not have a phenom explosion. He was wrong.
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