We all could have been killed, by exploding tires.

[Mike]

Not sure if this should have went in tech or here, but check it out....

Im sure you all remember hawk but back a few years ago, he popped the bead of his tire back on with starter fluid.....

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hJFNuNoVfg[/ame]


Bad idea... Watch this video from firestone, very dangerous shit, that tire could have exploded . People have died from this...

Not much heat was applied to the tire. But the heat inside the tire chamber is not from the heat from the rim, its from a chemical reaction inside the tire itself. The chemical rxn caused the air in the tire to heat up and explode almost 2 minutes later...

Check the video, crazy stuff..........


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBUVzgCHHuA[/ame]

[Trailer Ray]

dude i watched that vid the other day and was like " fucking sweet". also i love how this guy is wearing a hardhat as if a 400 pound camera is going to fall on his head

[Burton58]

we should also wear water wings while eating soup but life is a risk

[CumminsJeep]

meh, do what you gotta do to get home

[hippie metal]

setting a bead with and then pulling the S-Valve from the stem to let it drain and applying heat to a truck tire with 90 PSI are two COMPLETELY different things. Nobody was in any danger

[Buffalo Phil]

[hippie metal]

x2

[Ruepart Hoaxley]

long as you vent it properly and don't wear a hard hat in fear of the tv camera youll be good

[CumminsJeep]

When i tried to mount my hummer 36s for the dodge I used like half a can of starter fluid and the fucker still wouldnt expand enough. those are stiff ass tires tho. all it did was set the tire on fire. My buddy ended up mounting them with one of those cheetah inflators

[Mike]

if you watch the video, it didnt matter the tire had 90 PSI. It can happen at 8 psi. There is a chemical reaction inside the rubber compound that creates heat as a bi-product, which thus expands the air in the tire and explodes.. Look how quickly the temp and air pressure rose. It was climbing pretty fast. It wouldnt really matter if you started at 8 psi or 90 psi, the pressure would eventually climb high enough to explode the tire.

Also in the video the guy explains a scenario where a guy knew that this reaction would happen so he pulled the valve core to relieve the pressure and the pressure built so fast that it exploded anyway.

[Bigbike]

I just mounted the three A/T on rims at my house with the starter fluid method, its been a month or so and they havent exploded yet.

[Trailer Ray]

I just mounted the three A/T on rims at my house with the starter fluid method, its been a month or so and they havent exploded yet.

dude i had a rediculously stubborn lugnut today and long story short i got so pissed that i just torched the whole stud off the wheel. lol i didnt think about this video. but my 33s are on my soft 8s under my jeep and noone is dead

[Magilla]

dude i had a rediculously stubborn lugnut today and long story short i got so pissed that i just torched the whole stud off the wheel. lol i didnt think about this video. but my 33s are on my soft 8s under my jeep and noone is dead

should of put a breaker bar on it, pushed it into the ground and drove which ever way would of loosened it

back if its drivers side forward if passenger side

[Trailer Ray]

should of put a breaker bar on it, pushed it into the ground and drove which ever way would of loosened it

back if its drivers side forward if passenger side

i tried that man, pounded some small sizes on it with a big breaker. if that wouldve worked i wouldnt have had to torch it.

edit: it was one of those terrible fucking two piece cheapo lugnuts that just stripped and stripped to nothing.

[Magilla]

that sucks