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.
Last edited by Genealex; 06/05/0804:51 PM.
Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels
[Re: Genealex]
#143154 06/06/0806:54 AM06/06/0806:54 AM
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.
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!
Jake Kohl
Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels
[Re: Jake]
#143155 06/06/0808:16 AM06/06/0808:16 AM
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
eric e 1982 nacra 5.2 - 2158 2009 weta tri - 294
Re: Eurotrax vs Cattrax beach wheels
[Re: erice]
#143156 06/06/0809:22 AM06/06/0809:22 AM
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.