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If it is only going to stay local, and not many miles a year than I would stay with what it has. Nothing wrong with tube types, other than finding them in stock while traveling OTR. For farm use and local use they are every bit is good as tubeless and tend to loose air more slowly while sitting between use.

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The pictures turned out really nice!

Some fresh paint on the truck's wheels would notably improve the look.

Good luck on putting her into fully operational condition!

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Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012

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Looks like a work horse wanting to work

We (99% of Australians) just put tubless rims on the spiders (daytons) 

This allows the use of 22.5 tubeless that are everywhere in Australia 

This makes them suitable for long distance on and off highway use

 

Paul

 

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5 hours ago, Vladislav said:

The pictures turned out really nice!

Some fresh paint on the truck's wheels would notably improve the look.

Good luck on putting her into fully operational condition!

I'd paint the centers blue and the rings white 

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I believe I’m changing the front tires to tubeless rims split rims are very dangerous. I’m thinking of doing that with mine just the front tires. I used to change them and I was a teenage kid in 73 at 68 . Don’t feel so comfortable.around them … bob

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l'd volunteer to drive that for you but the commute's a bit long. l had a '77 with a 300+, 10spd RR, and a 36" bunk. Like Brocky said, take care of it and it will take of you.    .....Hippy 

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9 hours ago, mowerman said:

I believe I’m changing the front tires to tubeless rims split rims are very dangerous. I’m thinking of doing that with mine just the front tires. I used to change them and I was a teenage kid in 73 at 68 . Don’t feel so comfortable.around them … bob

Lock ring wheels/rims are NOT dangerous, if you know how to work with them. Not having them on the front, but having them elsewhere doesn't make much sense.  

 The amount of energy stored in a truck tire, be it tubeless or tube type is considerable and needs to be treated with respect.

I have thousand and thousands of miles on lockring wheels and never had a "dangerous moment'. I have had blow outs on the steer at 70 MPH with both tubeless and tube type, of the two, type type was easier to handle, the truck didn't want to pull or wander like the tire flip/flopped in gutter of a tubeless did. 

Of the countless lock ring wheels I have serviced over my years, I NEVER EVER had on blow apart. It isn't luck, it is knowing how to work with them.

 Fine, if you want to spend money on new rims and tires, but if your tires are sound you don't "HAVE TO". 

 The Firestone RH-5 deg wheel was a bad design, and the only one I will not have, they have made people think that all multi piece rims are like handling a live grenade, which simply isn't the case.

 When properly handled and assembled, the bead of the tire expands over the lock-ring and forces it into the lock groove, once that happens you could cut the lock ring into sections and it still wouldn't come apart. 

 Far too many assemble, clip on an air chuck and walk/run a way, and if it doesn't explode assume they did it correctly. 

  

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I just worry about age and hairline cracks that you can’t see the front ones. Not sure why I have  explain myself about 60 year old rims beat to death on mostly off road operations…. lock ring is pointing right at you  also don’t feel comfortable working in front of it at all . I’ve never seen one blow apart, but they can do some healthy damage… if you prefer those…. Go for it most of us do not… and yes, I worked at a tire shop and 73 and changed quite a few of them didn’t even use a cage those days….. As far as painting rims, they always look good with hubs black or color of truck.. bob

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But yes, I do remember the lock ring digging into the rim since I repaired a lot of them and as you mentioned, it’s almost impossible to blow apart. Most of us just feel better without them as a teenage kid I used to be able to finish up a tube repair in 15 minutes, that’s time from jacking up to jacking down …. Bob

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My point was while there is nothing wrong with tubeless, and the availability of tires in stock for them far exceeds tube type, there is no NEED to change. If I had tires that were serviceable I would use them, rather than throwing them out and spending money on tires AND rims.

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i only saw one lock ring type rim blow apart. 

in 78 we had a flat on a firetruck. called a local tire repair shop who sent out their top man. as he was airing up the tire with lock ring facing up after pulling the nail and replacing the tube. i asked him why he was not using the tire cage on the back of the service truck he said "i have been doing tires for 45 years and never had one" he never got to say "blow up" as the ring came off,  decapitating him and continued up into the roof of the engine bay. 

that big hole in the lower roof of station one is still there as a reminder to do things rite, or don't do them at all. 

luckily it did not go through the floor of the lounge upstairs, because there was a couch directly above it with two people sitting on it. 

i did many split rims over the years, but always either used a cage with ratchet straps around the tire/rim, or aired with lock ring facing down. ratchet straps around tire/rim, and a machine bucket over the tire/rim.

when you are up to your armpits in alligators,

it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp..

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Man that thing is the bomb… yes TJ that’s my exact point. You never know I have never seen one blow apart. But from what I heard, it usually happens when you’re mounting  it…. Bob

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We have a very low budget tire shop right down the street. I’m going to talk to him and see if I can get some takeoffs already mounted container chassis use the same kind… bob

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I would caution that straps and/or chains are not a substitute for a cage, neither are designed to absorb a blast, straps will be cut like hot butter and chains can become shrapnel.

 The are plenty of videos on the net of a tire coming apart in a tire cage, it is a single use item, they are there to absorb the energy release. BTW tube type and tubeless contain about the same stored energy.

so MRSMACK doesn't have to find a picture and to set other hair on fire:

 

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