Getting a Tire on a Rim

Never fails that when I'm doing some outdoor project, one of my pieces of equipment or tools has an issue.  I've come to expect this and tend do just do things by hand because of my luck with my mechanical items.  Yesterday I decided to take a break from my bathroom re-do and do something outside since it was a beautiful fall day.  I decided to tear out the grass around the front of my shed and put gravel down.  This has been on my list for awhile just to make the area look nicer and to make mowing easier.  I have a ramp that goes up to the middle of the shed and getting into the corners requires use of the trimmer which I just don't get to very often.

I took the truck and purchased a yard of gravel and proceeded to shovel out the grass and top few inches so I could install a frame from lumber I had laying around, lay down some plastic and fill with the gravel.  Pretty physical work but something I could manage.


After finishing one side of the shed, I went to move my tractor and cart and realized one of my tires was completely flat and off the rim.  This required me to jack up the cart (half full) and remove the tire and rim.  Getting the tire back on a small rim is not the easiest of tasks.  I've done it one other time and had to search the web to figure out how to do it.  

The tire has to be on the inside of both sides of the rim before you can inflate it.  It is easy to slide the rim through the tire to get the first side on but the second side is not so easy.  If you just try to pry it on with whatever tools you might have, you just end up going around and around and never making any progress.  The trick is applying a lubricant such as WD-40, dish soap or in my case I prefer Simple Green around the rim of the tire.  You then start to pry the tire on using a large screw driver (they make tire spoons but I don't have these) and then you have to stand on the tire using your weight to keep the tire from sliding back over the rim as you proceed around.  

It isn't always easy to stand on a small tire (like the one from my yard cart) especially when it is slippery from soap but it is possible.  Once you get the tire over the last part of the rim you are ready to inflate.  A few minutes with the compressor and the tire is good to go.  This is the second time this same tire has deflated so after my project, I need to get a replacement but it will hopefully last till I'm done this weekend.

Update: went out to empty the contents of the cart this morning and the second tire was almost flat.  Fortunately it wasn't flat enough that it was off the rim so I was able to inflate and finish my work.  Turns out when I went to the hardware store that they were able to just put tubes in the tubeless tires so it cost me practically nothing to repair. The tires were in good shape so I should be good for awhile.

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