I now have used all of my 9 lives.
The other day we deicided to swap tires. These are working trucks, not
things from a junk pile. My 53 F900 11-20s to go on my 54 F800. The
F900 tires are new Be advised Im not mounting or dismounting just
swapping the whole thing. My son & I put the inside on, I standing on
one side holding the rim in while my son on the other side was tapping
the spacer thats all both of us remember that thing blew at least 500 feet
it went straight down the driveway. I have heard of these horror stories,
usually when they pump them up. Wife said the house rattled. I shook all
day had nightmares all week. These are 3 piece Dayton type. Now Im all
done deadly afraid after hundreds over the years I have changed. Next
time my tactic is to let the air out of them, put them on the truck, THEN
put the air in, and if they let go they will blow into the leaf springs.
Im just trying to spread the word be very very cautious fooling around with
tires and rims that was a close one for both of us with death.
Please remember this if the rim dont kill ya the explosion will make you deaf.
Sam

 

Glad you and your son are alright!

 

Having worked on and around heavy trucks most of my life, I too have had that experience. It is never good when one decides to give up. I had a good friend killed by a tire explosion many years ago, the worst thing about it was he had the tire leaning against the outside of the safety cage when airing it up. Before going out on my own, I worked in several different truck salvage yards. I like to think that I have saved 2 lives by making others pick a tire up and roll it into the nearby safety cage, and both rims separated soon after starting to air them up again.
I'm glad the you and you son are alright, it could have ended with disasterous results.
Jeff

 

Glad to hear you're ok. Thanks for the warning!

 

Having witnessed a tire blow up and split a mans head open (he lived) I can relate. You and your son are very lucky and I'm very glad to hear that you both are ok.

thanks for the tire reminder
Bobby

 

Holy Sh@t !!!!!!!!! Glad you are both ok. Near death experiences do have a tendancy to interfere with sleep for a while.

 

Glad you guys are OK.
A lesson for all of us Ol Ford Truck guys, even if all ya got now is the dainty F-1's, ya might be helping some one or get one of the bigger Trucks someday.

 

i hate to be gory ,but i had a buddy of mine ,Brian ,who worked at one of the tire stores whose name shall not be mentioned , and he had a slight issue as the store did not have a cage . i went to his funeral three days later and they done what they could to make him presentable as the ring took off part of his cranium and brain . I WON'T GO NEAR A SPLIT RIM NOW AND WILL NOT OWN ANYTHING WITH THEM !!!!!!!

 

Bigjob Glad to hear you and your son are OK When things calm down for you, please see if you can get a picture up of you rims. I am a little confused now about my own rims. They are on a 54 F-750 they are spoke wheel type with demontable rims. Are these ok.. If you need tosee a picture of them, go to my gallery

Thanks

Love your son!

JimG

 

If you have the Dayton "spoke rims" those are fine

 

Good that you are ok. I have been around long enuf to have known a guys that lost their arms, hands, and one with many busted ribs. A good thing OSHA finally stepped in to mandate the cage and other safety requirements, but this did not apply to the home shop or tire owner only the employers and tire dealers. One of the mandate was to ALWAYS remove the valve core when refilling the tire so that the air can escape fast if the ring is not set right and is going to come off. The other is a must: ALWAYS use the air chuck that locks on to the valve and has a 5-6 foot hose extension so you can stand back fron the wheel while airing it up.
As a side note, in 77' I replaced all the tires on all the fire pumpers and ladder trucks for the Denver Fire Dept and was not allowed to chip the red and silver paint on the wheel or the rings. No machines were used so I had to be very careful. 6 or 10 tires per unit, 2 units per day, no injuries, just 1 nicked wheel. BooHoo DFD.
Be careful if you must do this kind of work yourself.
Jon

 

I wish more people would heed the warnings about these wheels. Truckdog, Dumptrkr and I have been harping about these wheels for years. Most of the time I have posted the dangers of these wheels I usually get at two posts from someone who blows off the danger by stating they have worked on them for years and that they're only a dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Many guys think that if you wrap a piece of chain around them while inflating that's good enough, it's not. I have never experienced this type of failure myself, thank God, but have read and heard enough stories to realize the danger.

Bob Job, along with everyone here, I'm glad no one got hurt.

 

Well, that does it. I got 4 17" twopiece rims for my 1950 F-3. They look real good......but now I'm really scared.
Guess they gonna be scrap, Know I'm looking for some nice one piece wheels for it.

 

I will absolutely chime in here on this too!

The 2 piece splits should not be on the road at all.

If the 3 piece (rims with a separate LOCK-RING) are in the least rusty DON'T USE THEM!

I have the 3 piece lock-ring type wheels on my F-600 that I bought from Les Schwab Tires They are rebuilt. THey condemned my 2 piece splits and said even if they weren't rusty they STILL couldn't mount tires on them ....cage or NO!


I'm sure glad you guys (or anyone else) weren't hurt!!


Everybody BE CAREFUL out there!!!

SAFETY

Here's another one!! http://www.nclabor.com/osha/etta/haz.../MultiRims.pdf




Cheers,



Rick

 

This was way too close, I heard warnings about these rims but this incident is something else. It does not pay to take such a big chance with your life or health.
So if we can afford to play with old trucks we can afford safe rims......