Posted by Gary Mitchell on September 29, 2014 at 07:13:08 from (207.119.117.173):
This may be old hat to most of you but I learned something the other day. I had to mount a pair of 13 inch 38 tires on some used rims I had. Rather than use liquid soap mix like I usually do, I took a bar of Ivory soap and thoroughly coated the lip of the tire that contacts the rim, both sides. I had cleaned up the rims and painted them. When I put air in the tires they both slipped onto the rims at 7 pounds of pressure. There was enough of that $ bar of soap left to mount another 3 or 4 tires. It was way cleaner than the sloppy mess I have sometimes and I didn't scare myself with a lot of pressure in an old tire. The only snag was when my brother called me when I was getting the second one ready, my dog licked half the soap off it.
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