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Finally got off my *** and finished the other two wheels for it
Here's the basics of how I recentered them.
Step 1: Probably the most important step. Remove the tire from the rim/break the bead and a put a block in to keep it from reseating/or do like I did and holesaw a hole in the tire. You don't want a tire blowing up on you. Then cut the center out
Step 2: I broke the bead on the trailer tires ( a bottle jack and a heavy truck works quite well for this), and used some prybars to pry one side off the wheel. Cut the center out
Step 3: I put the wheel on the welding table, and used some scrap steel to set the backspace. Take a bunch of measurements to make sure it's centered, and weld away. Reseat the tire, and fill with air
Here's the basics of how I recentered them.
Step 1: Probably the most important step. Remove the tire from the rim/break the bead and a put a block in to keep it from reseating/or do like I did and holesaw a hole in the tire. You don't want a tire blowing up on you. Then cut the center out
Step 2: I broke the bead on the trailer tires ( a bottle jack and a heavy truck works quite well for this), and used some prybars to pry one side off the wheel. Cut the center out
Step 3: I put the wheel on the welding table, and used some scrap steel to set the backspace. Take a bunch of measurements to make sure it's centered, and weld away. Reseat the tire, and fill with air
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Thanks guys. It is a lowrider right now, but it's a lot easier to work around the smaller tires. I'll have to paint the wheels chrome or gold sometime
Cut apart some old driveshafts this weekend. This is the easiest way I have found to do this.
Grind the weld down
Make two cuts, opposite sides
Cut around the weld, then hammer a chisel into the cuts you made
You'll be left with a pile of drive shaft parts
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Something to consider. You may want to wait until the rim is FULLY cooled until you reseat the bead. Several hours if not overnight. I have seen some bizzare things happen when a tire is seated on a rim that has had direct head applied to it.
The gases that are created build pressure and heat, more heat is more pressure and it could be 30 minutes later but the resulting explosion has flipped over trucks...
Better be safe than dead.
The gases that are created build pressure and heat, more heat is more pressure and it could be 30 minutes later but the resulting explosion has flipped over trucks...
Better be safe than dead.
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For the drive shaft cutting, I use a chop saw, and grind down the weld, just rotate the shaft by hand, and when u get through the weld, pop the end right out with a wack from a BFH.
Than its super easy to pound the yokes back into the tube if needed,
Easy to get strait if you pound them into thee tube, install the shaft, and rotate it by hand to see it its strait. Than weld it when its still installed, so you can get one continuous bead.
Than its super easy to pound the yokes back into the tube if needed,
Easy to get strait if you pound them into thee tube, install the shaft, and rotate it by hand to see it its strait. Than weld it when its still installed, so you can get one continuous bead.
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Something to consider. You may want to wait until the rim is FULLY cooled until you reseat the bead. Several hours if not overnight. I have seen some bizzare things happen when a tire is seated on a rim that has had direct head applied to it.
The gases that are created build pressure and heat, more heat is more pressure and it could be 30 minutes later but the resulting explosion has flipped over trucks...
Better be safe than dead.
The gases that are created build pressure and heat, more heat is more pressure and it could be 30 minutes later but the resulting explosion has flipped over trucks...
Better be safe than dead.
I did hose them off and cool them completely, but in hindsight I should have waited a while.
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have you wheeled on those big claws yet or no? had some buddies run them in 35's on muddy trails and kind of got mixed feelings as to how good/bad they were. uncut the lugs seem like they are too close to me to clean out anything muddy. i guess i mean what good is a 46'' tire if it's a slick and they don't really seem to have good lug spacing for rocks either, but i don't rock crawl.
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