Re: (ET) [SPAM] chnaging tires?

["Chapin, Tim" <tchapin bf umich edu>]

The ET tires are tubeless and have been on the rims for 30+ years.
Chances are you will have a very hard time separating the tire from the
rim.  If you do get them broken down, with a lot of sweat you can get
them off and the new one on.  I fought with a 30+ year old golf cart
tire and rim to fix a rim leak one evening and finally gave up and took
to a tire store.  They had it apart and cleaned up in no time and only
cost me a few buck.  It was a far better deal than messing with the
thing for a whole evening.

Find the tire you want, then take the old and new to your local gas
station or tire store.  Go to a place you normally do business with,
they might do it for free (or next to nothing) to keep you coming back.

-----Original Message-----
From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of Jim Coate
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 1:14 PM
To: Elec-Trak
Subject: [SPAM] (ET) chnaging tires?

Does replacing ET tires (or any garden tractor tire for that mater) need

a service center with the proper tire mounting machines like car tires, 
or is it more like a bicycle tire that a pair of hand held flat bars can

be used to remove the old tire from the rim and get the new one on?

Put another way, would people generally go to Tractor Supply and just 
buy the tire, or go there with the wheel and have them mount the tire as

well?

TIA.


_________
Jim Coate
1970's Elec-Trak's
1997 Solectria Force
1998 Chevy S-10 NiMH BEV
1997 Chevy S-10 NGV Bi-Fuel
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