Posted by dave austin on September 26, 1997 at 07:05:51:
In Reply to: Bent wheels posted by Trent on September 25, 1997 at 19:52:13:
: On my '75 Dogde I have a set of 15"x10" American Racing white spoke wheels. They have about 30,000 miles on them and the original tires (33x12.50x15). I recently installed a new set of tires on the wheels and discovered that every wheel was bent! They required 6.5 to 10 oz of lead to balance each one! This truck weighs about 6000 lbs, I have twice hauled 1500 to 2000 punds of gravel in the truck, I occassionally tow a lite trailer, and regularly do some mild 4-wheeling. Does this kind of activity regularly bend wheels??
This happened to me when installing brand new
tires, tubes and flaps on my M37 factory steel wheels.
It seems the tire installers had a very hard time
breaking the bead of the tire, as it was so rusted to the wheel.They used a
sledge hammer type tool to break the bead, and in the
process, bent 3 of my 4 otherwise perfect wheels.
Talk to the guy who mounted them