ATC110 Inner Tube Replacement

[Badbmwbrad]

The rear tire is flat because the inner tube valve stem tore out (maybe too little tire air pressure when I was doing some doughnuts last Winter?). I had previously installed a new Duro tubeless tire size 22 x 11 on a bare rim by installing a tube then assembling the rim halves together. Now, the tire bead will not unseat from the rim so I was able to pull out the old tube from between the split rims.

Installing a new inner tube into the tire is going to be a bear because I can't get the rim beads to unseat from the tire. Any tips and advice is welcome. trailpro

[fabiodriven]

First of a your best bet is to eliminate tubes altogether. If you like repairing your tires then keep the tubes, because they fail a lot.

Secondly you must learn to break beads if you're going to be working on your own machines. You can buy a bead breaker tool for fairly short money but they don't always work. Many times I'll prop a plank up next to the bead and drive the front wheel of my truck up the plank then back and forth along the bead where it meets the rim until it is forced off the wheel.

[Badbmwbrad]

Thanks for the bead breaking method. I brought the wheel to a motorcycle repair shop and the owner used his tire machine to break the bead for me no charge. There is an old O-ring between the wheel halves which was smeared with RTV. I'm not sure how reliably that would seal air leakage...