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Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels [Re: Genealex] #143147
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And off it is!

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Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels [Re: Genealex] #143148
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Trim off what's left of the valve on the outside of the rim so you can pull the rest out from the inside.

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Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels [Re: Genealex] #143149
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The tube, ready to be fitted

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Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels [Re: Genealex] #143150
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The tube inside the formerly tubeless tyre. This view of the rim shows that once you get the tyre to budge it'll slip off quite easily.

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Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels [Re: Genealex] #143151
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Again slap on some glass cleaner or soapy water to make the rim slippery so that the pressure inside the tube can push the tyre back into place again.

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Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels [Re: Genealex] #143152
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Pump the tube until the tyre is seated properly on the rim again, you will probably have to release pressure to get it down to the proper level.

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Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels [Re: Genealex] #143153
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And presto! Two Catrax wheels that hopefully won't let me down in the near future. But at less than €30 including postage and all in all less than two hours work to pull the cattrax apart an reassemble it I think I can't go wrong. Thanks everyone for your input, especially Tony for your link to http://www.buggywielen.nl, very helpful people at that shop.

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Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels [Re: Genealex] #143154
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Now the air can move freely out of the tyre, it's time to break the bead. This means unseating the tyre from the rim. You do this by applying downwards pressure on the sidewall of the tyre as close to the rim as you can. Put both knees on the tyre and use your thumbs to push down as hard as you can.

If things get tough this is a quick way to break the bead http://www.webbikeworld.com/t2/bead-breaker/motorcycle-tire-bead-breaker.htm


I change my own trailer tires this way too - I've found another way to break the bead - sometimes very stubborn on smaller tires. Take a car ramp, the type that you drive your car on to work underneath, and place the vertical edge on the sidewall of the tire/wheel (as the tire lays flat on the ground). Drive you car up the ramp until the bead lets go. Voila!


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Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels [Re: Jake] #143155
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steel on rubber will break the bead with a car's weight behind it on a short ramp
another way is with softer material and a longer ramp. like a 6foot length of hardwood 2x4, or softwood 2x6. lay on tyre and then slowly drive up wood until weight of car breaks the bead


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Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels [Re: erice] #143156
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steel on rubber will break the bead with a car's weight behind it on a short ramp
another way is with softer material and a longer ramp. like a 6foot length of hardwood 2x4, or softwood 2x6. lay on tyre and then slowly drive up wood until weight of car breaks the bead


Never broke or tore a bead this way...but then again, I didn't care since I was changing the tire.


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