I'm putting new rubber on the 16" Firebird rims. All goes well but the last 3-4" of the bead won't pop on. It is holding air and everything but I have 45 pounds in there and the first two won't pop for nothing.
Ideas???
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
Lubed with tire mounting slip soap. Went on nice and all, rest of the bead popped nice, both back beads went on nice but both front ones leave a couple of inches about 1/4" from the edge not pushed tight.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
I haven't tried removing it and starting over, just broke the bead and retried. It seems it will happen anywhere on the rim, depending on where I pull up to make it seal.
Just trying my third one, we'll see how that goes in a minute.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
I'm not familiar with new mounting. Can you flip the whole thing upside down and use the air blast on the side you are having problems with so that it pops first? .......or...more lube? You lube both the tire and the rim, right?
The rims are the original rims, they are not new and the old ones were fine.
I am thinking I might put all four on the car and drive the car a bit, very slowly to see if they'll pop. I'm not sure whether to have 45 pounds or 20 pounds to do that. Low pressure would flex the sidewall a lot more than high pressure.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
Good luck.......hope you get it figured out. I've never tired that idea. I think I have inflated to more psi, but it was many years ago and can't recall for sure. Don't do anything unsafe.
vaguely i recall that we used to fill without the Schrader valve in, till the tire seated then let the air run out as we threader the valve in. 100 lbs is what it took sometimes, remember safety goggles and gloves
-- Edited by Stephenzone on Monday 28th of March 2011 09:22:19 PM
Next three took almost 55 pounds and one played the waiting game with me! Almost 10 minutes later while I was balancing the others, bang, we're off to the races.
Thanks for the help guys.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
I wasn't having any trouble getting air into the tire. The bead sealed right away, that was the funny part. It was sealed at 5 pounds but the last few inches one random spot around the rim wouldn't pop the final ka-bang for nuttin'...
One I got them installed, I took them out and "tested" them...
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars (now converted to a "factory" 4 speed)
next time air up with valve cores out