Changing a Tire...How many do it themselves

How many trucks have you seen with a spare tire mounted to a rim?

 

too much work

I've only seen spare tires, especially useful if super single, since roadside service usually only has regular available

yes, with glad hand adapter

 

My truck, I would consider it. Someone else's truck, no way. On an outside rim have a big enough block of wood to drive up on. With the proper tools (long enough tire irons) truck tires come right off the rim. Oh yea you still have to seat the bead.....

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I would do none of this. I just call my company and they send someone out. Never a problem as we run good tires and take care of them (small company)

Schneider and Knight....sit on hold for two hours and the wait 3 or 4 hours for some jerk off too show up and like you ruined his day on purpose.

Now a question for some of you...just curious why you pull over onto the shoulder of an interstate when you blow a drive or a tandem? That's pretty stupid and places lot's of people at risk. Turn on the 4 ways, slow down and get off the road.

 

I've changed my own tires on the roadside before but never one mounted to a rim, and it was only outside tires, not insides as that would require an impact and removing the lugs/rims which is too much work and I did not carry a jack or impact. An outside tire is easy if u have a pair of vice grips, some motor oil and a 4x8 to drive the inside tire up onto.

But I have not had to do this since 2005

 

This is why I would consider running super singles. A air/hyd jack is wary enough to carry and the wheel wouldn't have to come off of the hub.

It can be seated with starter fluid and a lighter *BOOM*

 

But now you are carrying a jack, and a spare tire. So you can take off some of that weight savings all the guys with SS brag about. Plus when a SS blows out, the rim usually winds up trashed too.

 

Yea those SS's are pretty big. I'm starting to see them on the roads now. Just like we knew we would eventually. When a SS treads itself apart that tread is the size of a barrel, might as well be because people are going to do some crazy stuff to avoid them.

I have limped the short few miles too get service as soon as I have pulled up too the garage far to many times to ever consider super singles. Consider? I should say want...never bought a truck tire in my life and I never will.

 

I've done it before, quite a few times. Don't know how feasible it would be to keep the equipment on an OTR truck... not every tire you have to replace is going to conveniently be an outside drive or trailer tire. It's really not that difficult if you have the right equipment to do it with, but if you didn't know what you were doing beforehand, I'd strongly advise against it - you can tear up a good tire very easily, as well.