A friend of mine just text me that he went to a tire shop to get his tires mounted and they told him they can't because the sidewalls are to stiff. he is trying to mount them on 12 inch wide rims. anyone have any thoughts. He said they had a 3" wide ratchet strap on it and 2 "bead seaters" and still had no luck.
37x12.50-16.5 military goodyears
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Wwildman
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If he is near raleigh or garner I could help
blasterr1
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its all i can do to get them to seat the bead on a 9.75 rim. when i tried them on a 12" rim, i left the tires outside all day, and then used starting fluid........all was well till i started melting valve stems!!!! either way, i never got them to seat on a wide rim.
good luck
good luck
sweetk30
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thay are made specificly for 8" rim. i had fun getting them on my 9.75 with 1 huge semi tire blasters from big truck shop. once on thay are fine tho.
no way would i install them on a 12" wide rim. thay will look vary ugly and he will also burn the centers out from them being crowned bad.
here is pics of mine on 9.75 wide. the side walls are almost dead stright up and down no real bulg out or sucked in.
no way would i install them on a 12" wide rim. thay will look vary ugly and he will also burn the centers out from them being crowned bad.
here is pics of mine on 9.75 wide. the side walls are almost dead stright up and down no real bulg out or sucked in.
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DemonDave
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If his tire shop can't get them on he needs to find a different tire shop. I ran both the 36x12.50 Goodyears and the 37x12.50's on a set of 16.5x12 Welds when I had my Super Dookie. Had little trouble seating them (tires were warm from sunlight) with a cheetah tank and a standard air hose, no ratchet straps or starting fluid or anything crazy. I also had the joy one day of changing one just across the long cridge going into nags head, seated with brakekleen in a gas station parking lot, with the wheel still on the truck. I assure you, it can be done. Wish I had a better pic of them on the truck but they actually work quite well on a 12" wheel. Though airing them down for any reason, ever, would be a bad idea.
