WTF: Found 2 alum wheels.....

[Gabriel]

So I was hauling off a load of tires to the landfill like i do every week. I'm always on the prowl for things I can use and I spy 2 aluminum ATV wheels. 12" with 110mm pattern.

.....Some people shouldn't be allowed to touch anything more complicated than a crayon!!!

They put bolts all in the tire....used 2 inch screws through the rim and into the bead.....AND they filled the tires with dirt and expanding foam!!!!!! Seriously....fackin' DIRT!!!!!!

I believe I can save them and put them to use with a good bit of elbow grease but they will forever need tubes because of the holes. I think I will fill the holes with epoxy or something and sand it smooth, then paint.


I HATE stupid people and their STUPID ideas!!!!


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[oldskool83]

prib used for ice riding. throw the tires away keep the rims. every 4x4 out there used 4x110 wheel pattern, even yamaha

[Gabriel]

Ice riding? I'm in Tennessee brother. It's 50 degrees outside. LOL!!!

If i had to hazard a guess there was a LOT of beer involved in this engineering.

[BarnBoy]

Hey man, gotta get yer money's worth outa them tires lol. It's pretty stupid, but hey, if someone wants to wreck their own stuff I don't loose any sleep over it. It's your gain, if they didn't do that they wouldnt be in the dump.

I say get out the TIG welder and fill them holes, and tube it. You'll be good to go.

[Gabriel]

I totally agree with Bun Boy ........i mean Barn Boy ........Gabe.............i think it`s the most interesting post i`ve ever read !............don`t jew tink boys ?

You heard it here folks!!!

I'm the most interesting man in the world!!!!


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[floydechoes2000]

I've seen a lot of hacked crap but that's right up there in the top 5 lmao!

[Gabriel]

Yeah, and do you realize just how frickin' long ti took to do it? God!!!

[350for350]

Seems to me like it would have been cheaper to buy some new tires.

[fabiodriven]

prib used for ice riding. throw the tires away keep the rims. every 4x4 out there used 4x110 wheel pattern, even yamaha

So tires bolted to rims at bead filled with tire sealer and dirt sounds like ice racing wheels to you? Where do you come up with this stuff oldstool?

[Gabriel]

Only ice racing you see us rednecks out doing is seeing how fast we can fish a beer out of the cooler.

[Gabriel]

Oldtool used to run dee`s down around Saragosa.........comedic genius........sue your plumber Oldstool !!

Like Tony Saragosa? That fella makes a chin strap look nasty.

[Scootertrash]

So tires bolted to rims at bead filled with tire sealer and dirt sounds like ice racing wheels to you? Where do you come up with this stuff oldstool?

I was going to say the same thing.

Those are snowmobile track studs.


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Filling the tire with dirt adds weight much like liquid filled tires on tractors and large fork lifts, but then you can't seat the bead with air. Lube up the tire bead and rim with grease, oil, KY or whateva your favorite lube is, and you can use the screws to pull the bead tight to the rim.

Just because the tires were found in Tennessee doesn't mean that's where they originated from. ;)

Lastly? NEVER, I repeat NEVER underestimate the ingenuity of redneck engineering, and yes, there's plenty of rednecks up North too.

YMMV

Carry on............

[Gabriel]

and yes, there's plenty of rednecks up north too.

Ymmv

carry on............


unholy blasphemer!!!!!!!!!!

[Scootertrash]

unholy blasphemer!!!!!!!!!!

:D

Thank You! Thank You!

My Mother-in-law, may she rest in peace, was from Paintsville Kentucky, a true self admitted Hillbilly and damn proud of it!

[Gabriel]

Well.....WTF?

Sometimes, certain paints do not like one another and they just don't get along. Rustoleum Iron gray and Rustoleum spray bedliner are obviously two of them.

This turned out really shetty. .......or did it? Do we sandblast and try again or embrace the suck and claim it was intentional. Two tone with a chain lightning effect...
Hmmm..

Like this post if I should leave it and run it. If I leave it, I think I will put them on the Goblin. It's a facked up pile of crapola anyway. Dislike if I should repaint. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've also decided to since I'm running tubes, I won't bother filling the holes. I'm gonna use self tapping sheet metal screws to make little chrome looking studs. Just grind them smooth on the other end and use a red locktite to keep them in place.


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[oldskool83]

I would of filled the hold with weld before ever painting the rim. Your going to get slop into the seats of the beat.

[Gabriel]

No, Like I said...and I just finished doing it....I put a larger self tapping screw in the hole with red locktite. I had to use a ratchet to do the final tightening and they are TIGHT. They ain't coming out. Ground the bead side smooth. All good now. It looks like a lot of the other custom wheels out there with faux bead lock bolt heads. If I do decide to repaint them again, I will just sand blast them too and paint everything. ....or I could replace them easy enough. Dirt in the bead won't be an issue anyway if I run these on the Goblin. It will be for suburban sneaky sneaky riding and that means asphalt and manicured lawns. LOL!!

[Arky-X]

Gives the wheels character. If you are looking for show quality then no. It's a good tenor look.......ten or twenty feet away.
In the design world they would call that "patina"

[Gabriel]

It would be interesting to know just what happened. I sand blasted and etch primed these...gave them 24 hrs. Scotch brite and 3 coats of paint....gave them 24 hrs. Used the spray bedliner and it looks like I sprayed them with wd40 beforehand. Strange.
I did it all in a heated shop too, so it wasn't temp related.

[Scootertrash]

Sometimes spraybombing can be a paint in the arse

[Gabriel]

I've had really good luck in the wintertime. Summer months with the humidity...not so much. I have wires hanging from the ceiling directly over the wood stove. Get the wood stove rolling and you can dang near do a baked enamel...LOL!!
Seriously though, I have actually got the parts so hot hanging over the stove that the paint flashes and I have to strip it and do it again.

Not sure what happened this time. Spray bed liner usually covers ANYTHING. I've used it a lot over the years. This is the first time it's crapped out on me.

[tripledog]

Sometimes spraybombing can be a paint in the arse

... It isn't like he rectum. On a more serious note, spraying a lacquer based paint over an enamel based paint can cause a crackled effect. Great for creating an aged patina on wooden furniture, not so much for refinishing wheels.

[Scootertrash]

I've had really good luck in the wintertime. Summer months with the humidity...not so much. I have wires hanging from the ceiling directly over the wood stove. Get the wood stove rolling and you can dang near do a baked enamel...LOL!!
Seriously though, I have actually got the parts so hot hanging over the stove that the paint flashes and I have to strip it and do it again.

Not sure what happened this time. Spray bed liner usually covers ANYTHING. I've used it a lot over the years. This is the first time it's crapped out on me.


It was a pun Gabriel, not a mis-type ;):lol:

T-dog caught it, like always. Putting a pun or double entendre in a post is to T-Dog is what the Bat signal is to Batman!

[tripledog]

It was a pun Gabriel, not a mis-type ;):lol:

T-dog caught it, like always. Putting a pun or double entendre in a post is to T-Dog is what the Bat signal is to Batman!

I'll be here all week...

[jb2wheels]

Like this post if I should leave it and run it. If I leave it, I think I will put them on the Goblin. It's a facked up pile of crapola anyway. Dislike if I should repaint. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've also decided to since I'm running tubes, I won't bother filling the holes.



I don't think those holes will cause air leaks.

Run ugly wheels on ugly ATV. Sounds like a perfect match.