What do you use to lube tire beads when mounting new tires?

What do you use to lube tire beads when mounting new tires?

 

Liquid soap.

 

Dish soap

 

Bacon grease

 

Tire lube?

 

Soapy water

 

Rendered animal fat

 

Tire lube for lubing tires. Are you trying to mount without a machine?

 

I used dish soap and some water. Got it done.

Thanks

 

Crisco

 

Did you mount that by hand?

 

Yup. Hard as hell. Dismount old and mount the new. I did one, took the other four to Big O tires.

 

Dude you are crazy. Did you have the metal tool they use?

 

Lol oh man. That must of been fun doing that by hand and even if you got all of them on by yourself you'd still have to take it to someone to balance them.

Now let's see some more pics with the new tires!

 

Is that a 255/85 I see? I've been stalking the 255/85 owners experience thread for months. Initial thoughts on power loss, handling, etc?

 

I just about died doing it. lol. I used two Harbor Freight general purpose tire irons. All by hand.

I mounted a LT265/75/R16 LRC Duratrac a few years ago, and that was gravy compared to the Toyo. The Toyo's are incredibly tough. Even the guy at the tire shop commented on difficult it was to index the valve stems with the yellow dot.

They are the heaviest dutiest tire I've ever had.

I'm using balancing beads, so no wheel weights required. Drove down the interstate and it was glass smooth.

The money I spent today was the best I've spent in a long time!

So far they feel real good. Need more time to test, can't wait to get in the dirt!

 

Balancing beads? Now you've got me intrigued. I didn't even know such a thing existed. I looked it up and they seem far superior to wheel weights, especially in snow or mud. I'll have to look closer at these things once it's time to swap out my tread.

The truck looks great with the new tires!

 

Thanks. I'll update my build thread soon and post some comments in there.