nitrogen filled tires

"The Nolalu Barn Owl"

i have caused explosions inside a tire with starter fluid. it makes a damb good pop....but the tire holds every time. i highly doubt that a little bit of alcohol could even come close to bursting a tire.

when changing a tire in the middle of no where who wants to lug a tire 20 miles to get it put back on the bead just to drive another 20 miles back to put it on.

here is how it's done step 1) empty the air from the tire and place a jack on the tire by the bead and jack it up under a car bumper to break the bead.

step 2) using pry bars or screw drivers remove the old tire. and reinstall the new one.

step 3) spray starter fluid indies the tire. (amount depends on tire size) too little won't ignite....to much won't ignite either, once you have starter fluid in there stand back and spray the fluid through a lighter as a flame thrower....point it at the tire filled with starter fluid ....BOOM !.. it explodes and the pressure puts the tire right up on the bead.

step 4) fill with air to the proper pressure.

and yes there is probably still an amount of unburnt fuel in the tire that could ignite......guess what.......in all my years i've never seen it happen.

I saw them doing this on TV once. It was an expedition in like Alaska or something and they were airing down on the snow, but the cross wind would blow them off their beads.

GMC Gremlin

that was the trek across the south pole.

With all the money they spent on the trip, they couldn't afford bead locks? Or run with inner tubes? It was interesting though, an "Old School" discovery channel show. I think I might have been 11 when I saw it.

GMC Gremlin

Thats how we reseat 16.5 inch tires back on the rim while out in the bush. except we use spray can ether (diesel cold start) and throw a match at it. You learn very quickly how much is enough......... As a matter of fact thats how I and many others I'm sure who change their own 40"-44" tires on a 16.5" rim, seat them. I don't know of any other way to do it myself.

Well, well well. On the news just yesterday was a story about Walmart filling tires with nitrogen.

- Nitrogen has molecules that are 4 times larger than (I didn't catch the name of the gas they compared to) and so the tire tends to stay inflated longer with less chance of *slow leaks*. For tose of us in the Great White North this means that the common aluminum rim /flat tires in the cold weather may be a thing of the past (just me thinking about the possibilities).

- Nitrogen is dryer than air and should pose less of a danger of corroding your rims.

- Nitrogen can be used even during a power failure to inflate your tires.

- Nitrogen is a stable (inert) gas and doesn't attack the tires. They should last longer.

They made absolutely NO MENTION of exploding tires!

-- Best Regards Gordie

I can't quite put my finger on it, but this one doesn't seem to make sense... :)

Not my comment, but I'll explain anyhow...

Nitrogen is in a compressed air bottle at very high pressure (meaning quite a bit of volume), where the air compressor needs power to replenish it's store, unless you have a large tank, which most people do not have. (though obviously most shops do have large compressor tanks).

Big Chris

Moose hunting trip a few years back. Punctured a tire, miles from home and the trip isn't over yet. One service station in town and just as we pulled in the power went out and stayed out for hours. There is only just enough air in the tank to work the tire changer but not enough to inflate the tire -- Damn! I live in a small rural community and power failures are a fact of life here. Sometimes they last for days. to add insult to injury, they chip-seal the roads rather than pave them and the arrow heads they call gravel can claim even a new tire. A 12 volt pump will melt before a big truck tire has enough air in it to go anywhere (ask me how I know).

-- Best Regards Gordie

York!

GMC Gremlin

Re: " Well, well well. On the news just yesterday was a story about Walmart filling tires with nitrogen.

- Nitrogen has molecules that are 4 times larger than (I didn't catch the name of the gas they compared to) and so the tire tends to stay inflated longer with less chance of *slow leaks*. For tose of us in the Great White North this means that the common aluminum rim /flat tires in the cold weather may be a thing of the past (just me thinking about the possibilities).

- Nitrogen is dryer than air and should pose less of a danger of corroding your rims.

- Nitrogen can be used even during a power failure to inflate your tires.

- Nitrogen is a stable (inert) gas and doesn't attack the tires. They should last longer. They made absolutely NO MENTION of exploding tires!

no body has a clue why the use of nitrogen to air,nascar will tell you take two tires and rims of the same, put 40 pounds of air in both of them,set them out in the hot sun for five hours, then ck press in both of them, air will be 80 psi and nitrogen will be 40 psi, nitrogen resists heat

Yes, you are correct. I am just saying what was on TV. Pure-Dee-Simple.

-- Best Regards Gordie