runnin' rich

[dale_johnson13]

Well, last night was pretty frustrating, and I wore my a$$ out changing a tire of all things.. I got two new tires yesterday and didn't start putting them on until about 10pm, now don't give me a hard time about taking 5 hours to change 2 tires because i wasn't JUST doing that, I have 8 kids and had to get a bottle for this one change that one answer 50 questions for my little helper ( my 5 y/o girl is an aspiring KLR mech.) OK so by 1130 I had the front tire DONE, was pretty easy, now the rear that's where I had the problems, started out when I went to that out the valve stem and my little plastic valve stem tool from the slime stripped, then had to look for my little jewelers screwdriver that i used as a valve stem tool.. ok got it out now to start jumping in the tire, I used both feet in all combinations of how you could push that damn thing down off the bead in combination with the tire irons, soapy water .. You name it, I tried it.. NO Luck, so I finished off the bottle of blue label Schmirnoff I had and tried for another hour, still no luck, ok I am getting pretty pissed now, where's my Dremel, push the tire down as much as I can and start sawing with my dremmel at the "Bead, sparks go everywhere as i busted it, pop there it goes, ok now it should be easy right? WRONG, now i have one side off but can't get the other side off now.. So I pulled the tube out and just started hacking away at that tire with my dremmel pop got the next one.. huck that tire across the garage.. New one goes on without a hitch, took about 65psi to pop the bead on my new rear Kenda.. Put both wheels on the KLR it's 330 am i am beat.. get up this morning and and straighten the rear wheel out, tighten everything down, off to work I go.. What a pain in the ass, next time I will splurge the 8 bux to let some shmoe do it at chap for 8 bux.. Dale Tired at work

[JAMES2]

You're not experimenting with Methane Power, are you? Are you sure that the smell was coming out of the bike?

> he said it smelled like I had a gas leak. Really strong gas smell coming

out of my bike. I inspected the tank, petcock, lines and carb and there are no visual signs or wet areas anywhere. >

[David Kelly]

"dooden" writes:

> Well I have an idea, yet to attempt it however, > > A Large "C" Clamp should provide enuff squeeze to pop the bead, > simular to a bench vise I suspose, but alot cheaper to buy.

Having tried that in the past the clamp slides off when you try to pinch the tire carcass. If the clamp is big enough you can put it thru from the spoke side so when the tire slopes the C in the clamp hits the inside of your rim and holds the pinchers in place. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@... ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.