"Easy?" tire question
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"Easy?" tire question
I'm not sure if anyone has run into this before but here is my situation. Yesterday I tried to change my front driver side tire from the steel? spare back over to the matching and now repaired tire that I have at home. So I get off all of the nuts and find that the rim has rusted itself to the hub. I tried some physical pursuasion, as well as a generic pentetrating oil but I was unable to get the rim and tire to budge at all.
Has this happened to anyone else? What should I try next? I'm a little bit afraid to take heat to it and I don't want to beat on it much more in case I start screwing up the allignment. Any ideas or miracle products that anyone knows of? Any help would be appreciated.
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93candycane
Has this happened to anyone else? What should I try next? I'm a little bit afraid to take heat to it and I don't want to beat on it much more in case I start screwing up the allignment. Any ideas or miracle products that anyone knows of? Any help would be appreciated.
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Had a problem like yours on my 92 F-150. I took a sledge hammer and slid it over tire and used it like a dent puller. By sliding the head of the sledge hammer against the tire with some power behind it, I freed the wheel. This took some doing with some sweat, but I did not damage any parts. I am sure you will get some other answers, but I was in a bind and this method worked when it had to for me. Good luck.
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So the general concensus seems to be a balanced combination of brute force and luck? I've tried with a block of wood on the rim, beating on it with a mini sledge then turn a quarter turn and continue like that but it wasn't even thinking about moving. Pretty awkward to get under there to beat from the inside though. Anybody know of any products that will eat away the rust that is binding the two together? Let me know.
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From: Ocean Park WA
Croil and the BFH (a millwrights favorite combination) will do it and there is no other way. When you get it off take a sanding drum and a drill and just sand the inside radius of the ofending wheel paying particular attention to the sharp edge and try to give it a little rounding off.
