magneticanomaly
Titanium
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2007
- Location
- On Elk Mountain, West Virginia, USA
I run, have run, or plan to run a few old trucks with split wheel rims. I am all battened down and ready to be told that these rims are suicide waiting to happen, but in my own carefully considered folly, I inspect them carefully, take care that everything is properly engaged and only inflate them wrapped in chains (have not made a cage).
I have a lovely 12 lb duckbill hammer and a good collection of the special prying tools or the rims, the two-piece unsplit, the two-piece split, and the three piece. The only kind (that I know of) that I have never cracked, is the kind my 1966 Dodge 400 came with, that splits in the middle of the flat center section. That is not today's question, but in case (I ever have to deal with one I would not mind knowing how to split those, too.
My question is, is there a trick to getting the dang tire-and-tube-and-flap assembly off the rim after the lockring is removed? I suppose they slide nicely off a recently painted heavily talced rim after having been on for a week, but the ones I usually deal with have been on for 10 - 50 years and the rims are rusty. I have gotten quite a few off, but it is a struggle. Destroying the tire and tube is an option, since 6 lug x 7 1/4" BC deep-dished rims are unobtainium while tires and tubes are merely unaffordable, but I'd rather learn a trick, if there is one.
Thanks!
I have a lovely 12 lb duckbill hammer and a good collection of the special prying tools or the rims, the two-piece unsplit, the two-piece split, and the three piece. The only kind (that I know of) that I have never cracked, is the kind my 1966 Dodge 400 came with, that splits in the middle of the flat center section. That is not today's question, but in case (I ever have to deal with one I would not mind knowing how to split those, too.
My question is, is there a trick to getting the dang tire-and-tube-and-flap assembly off the rim after the lockring is removed? I suppose they slide nicely off a recently painted heavily talced rim after having been on for a week, but the ones I usually deal with have been on for 10 - 50 years and the rims are rusty. I have gotten quite a few off, but it is a struggle. Destroying the tire and tube is an option, since 6 lug x 7 1/4" BC deep-dished rims are unobtainium while tires and tubes are merely unaffordable, but I'd rather learn a trick, if there is one.
Thanks!