(09-11-2024, 11:52 AM)FlyingClayDisk Wrote: I was just teasin' ya'! I knew it was a lot more than just a flat tire.
This was all back around the same time I decided to try mounting my own tires: low profile 235/40/18.
I took one down in the basement one afternoon and let the air out and tried beating it to death with a sledgehammer and this large heavy-duty chisel like tool. That wasn't working out too well, so I grabbed my weight bench and used the metal frame and the scissor jack to try and compress the tire to break the bead - that didn't work either.
I eventually concluded that if it's this difficult it just ain't worth it and it would be insane to not just pay the $20 and spend an hour at the tire shop.
In retrospect, I think maybe removing the metal valve stem core (and not just letting the air out) might've been more crucial than I thought. Maybe air getting trapped inside was causing a problem and making it more difficult than it needed to be.
I kind of knew you were joking anyway (to some extent).
Edit: I got interrupted too much on this one.
