Don't trust your wheels to any tire shop. The machine they use to
turn the wheels while removing the tire will ruin the spokes. It has a
small bar that wedges between the spokes that is actually ment to wedge
itself into the lug nut hole. You don't have to break the bead on a wire
wheel it comes off like a bicycle tire. For the cost of a garage changing
two tires you can by a set of tire irons yourself. The original tool kits
often included tire irons. It really a DIY task.
...Art
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Editors, Molecular Vision wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> Hello list!
>
> Thanks for the advice on turning the engine in a Sprite and on how to
> recondition wire wheels.
>
> General consensus on turning: Jack up right rear, put car in 4th, turn
> wheel to turn engine (plugs out). Runner-up: tension fan belt and turn
> generator.
>
> On wire wheels: send them off to Dayton or DIY, but use tire shop to bust
> tires off rims and later, to put tubes and tires back on and balance.
>
> Thanks again. I always feel like the mouse fo the
> lion-with-thorn-in-paw-and-mouse story on this list. I have no idea when
> I'll ever be able to return the favor, but will if I can.
>
> Jeff
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> Jeff Boatright '65 Sprite Mk III (funfunfun)
> Editor-in-Chief, Mol. Vis. '47 Cessna 140 (in pieces)
> http://www.emory.edu/molvis '87 Horizon (full cab pick-up)
> http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~jboatri/sprite/sprite.html
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