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Old 03-16-2005, 09:17 PM
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so the question is how many does it take. the answer, 10 plus people and one phone call to bigkid before we got it done.




if you look under the middle finger, that was the problem spot. wouldn't seat right. but a call to bigkid set us rookies straight. btw, the person trying to get out of the camara is slowprocess.
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Damn, John...I would have gotten a haircut if I would have known you took that picture! That thing was a serious pain in the *** until we called Kenny.
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it took alot of psi to seat mine. i think 60? somewhere up there. they SUCK to mount
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LOL, that second pic is great!
Good to know I'm not the only one who does that to **** that don't work right.
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They can be a bitch at first. After a ton of them I got pretty good at mounting em though.
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it took 55psi to finally get it to seat. this is after we took my wheel off my truck and put the et drag on it so we could roll it around. slowprocess had a mini sledge hammer beating it till it kicked back and knocked himself in the gonads, what else, we used massive tire lube. you'd a thought it was a prono flick with all the lube we had going. we kept stopping at 50 psi till we called kenny and he gave us the magic number.
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That NAD shot hurt like hell!!!! It only got one of them, but a sledge hammer to either one or two hurts like a bitch. I hate it when I do stupid **** like that!!!
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I knew yall were mounting tires and knew exactly what you were calling about when you mentioned etstreets. Every set we have ever mounted have taken around 60psi to seat the bead. I was scared as hell as the needle was aproaching 60 on my first set.
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yea, when you read the side of the tire it says do not exceed what, 38psi or 28 psi. anyway, 55-60 is a helluva long way away from those numbers. i found myself on several occasions backing away when the pressure approached 50
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Oh, yeah...John, looks like that whole witness protection program thing I had going is now blown out of the water now. Guess I'll have to move away again before "they" find me.


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