how to reseat the bead on the trail

[swynx]

Went snow wheeling in the blues. Buddy just follows his GPS down old logging roads.this one road ended up having no exit. Full of stumps.and no place to turn around. My buddy on 35s with 35s and lockers barely made it in and nearly got stuck turning around. Guy with 31s with rock locker follows trys to turn around. Locked pushes him off the road into a tree. So we were winching him away from the tree when his tire caught a stump we couldn't see and pulled the tire off the bead.

We left the tire on sprayed it with starting fluid lighted it. It worked... for 5 seconds then went flat. Couldn't get it to work after that. Took the tire off put a strap around it. Stood on the rim and aired it up.

Why wouldn't the starter fluid method work more than once?

 

[ridgerunner]

Pull the valve core and use a CO2 tank (5, 10, 20lb bottle) to fill up the tire very quickly. The CO2 should help to seat the bead a whole lot better than any air pump or air tank. U may have to strap the tire and work like hell to hold the air long enough to seat the bead but CO2 will get the job done like no other method. Not sure why the starting fluid wouldn't do it a 2nd time.

 

[RonD]

My bet would be that something was caught in the bead, so you were not getting a good seal the first or second time.
Piece of wood from stump would be most likely.

Strap and jumping on it shook whatever it was loose

 

[86 slo-vo]

The starter fluid only works if you have air to put in the tire as soon as it pops on.

The air cools back down and will suck the bead right back down.

Watch some video's on it, you'll figure it out.

 

[swynx]

After the first time we couldn't get it to pop. The fluid would just burn away.

 

[kunar]

After the first time we couldn't get it to pop. The fluid would just burn away.

the inside of the tire was full of the exhaust from the first time. not enough fresh air/oxygen

 

[swynx]

I wondered about that.this happened cuz the guy went to 5 psi with 10.5 wide tires on a 10 inch rim.

 

[rangerbum]

Might have bent the wheel slightly too. I bent one of mine and when I put new tires on found it impossible to seat the bead. I fought it for a while, then inspected the tire bead for damage. Then inspected the wheel, and found a bend that didn't allow the entire tire bead to contact the rim and seal up. A little heat, a few whacks with a 4 pounder against a 2x4 on the side of the rim, and it was strait. Seated first try after that.