Lawn mower tire fell off.

Lawn Mower tire troubles: OK my 9 year old Sear's Lawn tractor had a tire fall off today. Nothing new for me. The bearings were gone so I looked around for an old tire with a good bearing to put on the tractor spindle. The only tire I found (flat), I couldn't seat the bead to the rim with my air compressor. The bead wasn't coming into enough contact with the rim.

Redneck memory: I squirted some starting fluid into the rim and lit it with a long handle BBQ lighter. Woomph, Poof, Pop. Tire is now sealed to the rim. Alas, I am now minus a few arm hairs that also went poof!!

[QUOTE=Tyme2fish;518377][B]Lawn Mower tire troubles: OK my 9 year old Sear's Lawn tractor had a tire fall off today. Nothing new for me. The bearings were gone so I looked around for an old tire with a good bearing to put on the tractor spindle. The only tire I found (flat), I couldn't seat the bead to the rim with my air compressor. The bead wasn't coming into enough contact with the rim.

Redneck memory: I squirted some starting fluid into the rim and lit it with a long handle BBQ lighter. Woomph, Poof, Pop. Tire is now sealed to the rim. Alas, I am now minus a few arm hairs that also went poof!![/B][/QUOTE]
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I was always a bit leery of trying that, a ratchet strap wrapped around the tire usually helps seat the tire to the rim and if that don't work I wuss out and take it to the man with a little more experience than me.

I tried the ratchet strap method first and that didn't work. I was very close to taking the tire to my local shop just down the road but wanted to give it just one more try on my own.

Just couldn't resist a little fire and very minor "explosion".;)