How To Get Riding Mower Tire Back On Rim Tire Came Off Rim Easy Fix Tire Won't Air Up Won't Inflate

The band clamp on the tire is key and it's safe. I've seen the "lubricant spray/lighter/explosion" method and that looks like a great way to get a helicopter ride to the trauma center. I keep spare tires on rims on hand so I can get back to work quick and use this fix later. Good video - thx!

My semi-old rear-engined rider tires wouldn't stay inflated and on the rims. Tiny 4.60x4 front and 7.5x6 rears. My fix: $26 worth of TUBES. The S&H was half as much as the new tubes. 7 years now, no flats, no falling off the rims, no $100 worth of new tires (with S&H). Since rear engines are rare now, the tiny tires are hard-to-find and pricey. My local tire shop guy turned me on to the tube idea.

I remember as a kid, watching my grandpa wrap baler twine around a small tire, then tighten it up by twisting it with a screwdriver to push the bead out. That's the sort of thing a good grandpa will teach you. Next video, teach us the "flammable aerosol and bic lighter" method. Or are there already too many of those on Youtube? 😁

Great tip that works well. For me, I've never had to remove the valve core and have re-seated my lawn tractor tires a dozen times. Yes, I have a slow leak I've not addressed.

Quoted $200 by local shop for repair. This worked for me. Thanks

We once used a strap to seat a car tire and put too much air in before removing it. The strap ended up breaking under stress, and the metal part slammed the guy inflating it right in the "you know where." He rolled around on the floor for awhile in serious pain. A lesson was learned!

I recently bought a new mower tire and took it to the local tire shop to have them mount it. They told me these tires are strapped together for shipment, so they get smashed flat and it is difficult to get them to seat, but they had a trick. They used wood blocks to hold the bead open as wide as possible, then put the tire out on the lot, sprayed it with ether and set it on fire for about 20 seconds. That warmed the tire up enough that they could then get the bead to seat using the high flow pressure tank. I could never have got it seated by myself.

Love the bead buster. Better then the cheap stuff I've been using. A lot of my tires have dry rot, so I end up having to remove one side of the tire and inserting a tube. This is of course a last resort. Would be good if you could do a video on tube replacement. Thanks!

The video IS helpful. I used to have to do this quite frequently with my previous 2 mowers. My current one (Cub Cadet) advertised tires/rims that would resist breaking seal with the rim. I have mesquite trees in my yard, and slow leaks from thorns are a non-stop problem despite many plugs.... But I really don't care, it takes a couple minutes to air up tires no matter how long they've sat flat. Some mowers use garbage tires that will separate from the rim every time they go flat, others use better quality that won't. Research wheels along with other specs when buying a mower...it could save you a TON of time and effort.

Toilet wax ring works as a sealer. Using it and ratchet strap for many years Cheap & easy to find

I used to work in heavy equipment repair, and I used this technique on 50 ton Grove cranes for tires as well. You know, the 7 foot tall ones? I used a 3000lbs come along chain tackle not a strap, but the idea is the same. Squeeze the beeds out to the wheel beed surfaces. Often new tires come in on pallets stacked and crush the beeds together making it hell to install. Then air up. In my case shop air would take better than an hour to fill to 50PSI. So I used a pressure regulator like for a compressor, on my air hose to fill it up. That way I could walk away and not worry about it, and when in was full it would stop. Gotta be smarter than the equipment people!🤔😉

A lot of valuable info. Never heard of bead buster or use regular screwdriver. Lost a zero turn tire in middle of yard. Only had a rope, so made it into a tourniquet by using a branch. Lol worked great.

I tell my customers, tubes are much cheaper than tires. As long as the dry rot isn't all the way through the sidewall and you have good tread, tube is cheapest.

I built tires for 25 years. In doing so, we lubed the flanges with lard. Not sure if this could be used in the same way you are using it. Also, if you ever get into grease with graphite in it, clean your hands with lard. That grease with graphite in it is next to impossible to get off with soap and water. With lard, you are clean in seconds.

We were stuck out in woods no ratchet strap no starting fluid to blow it back up. So we did kinda like your grease trick dug mud outta the creek and packed bead with mud so we could get it back on and outta woods worked like a charm n

Yupp, works pretty good, been my go to method for many years. I remove the valve core and use an plain air fitting with no chuck to get more airflow. Just get everything ready, slip the fitting into the air hose and stick the open end over the valve stem, works great.

I have had the problem a lot over the years. The quickie solution that has worked best (and for the longest) was one that I saw on YouTube about 5 years ago. The ratchet strap was used in the video but I only even used it the first time. After that I did a simplified version. Step one- take the weight off, Step two-clean the tire bead and the wheel where the bead must fit-in, Step three- put a bead of household silicone caulking around the rim, inside and outside, Step four- a squirt if quick start inside the tire, Step five- wave a propane torch at the tire. The effect is FAST. It pops right into place. Step six, add air. The whole job only takes a minute or two. I found that the ratchet strap wasn't necessary as the explosion is so fast.

When I took auto mechanics in 1970 we had an easy to use tool specifically for expanding the bead of a tire. It was a woven nylon tube that had an inner tube of rubber with a schrader valve. The nylon encircled the tire (such as your ratchet strap), was tugged tight then the inner tube inflated. As the tube grew in diameter it tightened and constricted the tire causing the bead to expand. As I recall it worked very well.

Good video. I have had to do that to a number of small tractors, mowers, etc. But the best cure is an inner tube. Tubless tires are more subject to dirt getting into the bead seating area causing air loss. But not so with a tube and the bead seating area doesn't have to be perfectly clean. And the customer's always see it my way.

For slow leaks in a small tire remove valve stem and get a bottle with corn oil in it with a hose that fits over the valve stem.Squirt about a cup or 2 in the tire. Reinstall the inner stem and fill with air and rotate the tire. The corn oil is thick and sticky and works better than slime as slime is not made for slow moving tires as it needs the speed to rotate and do its job.