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My Horror of mounting a 2 piece rim
Like cornbinder89 said in another post respect is a big part of it you also have to pay very close attention to everything going on when working with these rims. I had 2 or 3 tires mounted and maybe 50 psi in them and I started this one. I had a bad feeling about this one in the first place even without the tire and tube on it I couldn’t get the rim spread out right that’s why I was working on this one today. I got the tube and the tire on and set the ring. I put air in it and wasn’t happy with the way the split to lined up so I let the air out and tried to spread the rim out more and put air back in it got about 50 psi in it and the split started to move in and spread apart at first I tried to take the value stem out then thought back to all the horror stories and told myself to just get the hell out of the way and pray. I don’t remember seeing much but there was a loud bang the side of my hood came out of the rafters and landed on the floor next to the tire. I walked out of the garage just as my wife was walking out of the house asking me what the hell happened of course I down played it told her I blew a tire not that big of deal she knew it was more than that she said I was as white as a ghost. She still doesn’t know exactly what happened to this day. What did happen was the ring shot off the rim like a rocket went through the rafters knocking the hood down and hit the roof braking 2 boards and landing on the rafters. After that I let all the air out of the other tires I had mounted. Heard all about how lucky I was how I should use different rims we all know the old C-30 wouldn’t be right with different axles and hubs plus I already bought tires. Now I had to find a new rim and a safe way to get air in the tires after finding a rim getting the rest of the tires on the rims and all the brakes, axles, hubs and everything else ready I put the rims on the hubs and that spread them out so the ring could not come off and they were safe to air up. With this type of rim I will never take it off the hub again while there is air in the tire and I will never put air in the tire without them being on the tub and would advise anyone the same. It doesn’t take much for one to come apart and it can happen to you trust me it did. I don’t know the exact name of the type of rims but here are some pictures of what I have on my truck and some of what it ended up looking like after.