Northeast Texas

Let's aim for downtown Jefferson at 1pm Monday. I was planning on driving the BMW/EML rig, but first I have to figure how to break the bead on a tubeless auto tire so I can insert a new valve stem. 🙁 I'll try Bud's suggestion of a large c-clamp tomorrow afternoon.

Did you try running over a section of it with the car? Or, put it under something heavy like a car and put a hydraulic jack on the bead between it and the car and jack it up, the tire should compress and come loose before the car goes up. Or............bring it over, I have a Harbor Freight bead breaker. Spray some WD40 or soap solution around the bead.

Well, the unpredictable N-La/E-Tx weather foiled another trip. Forecast was partly sunny and 42F, but the day brought early damp snow and area temps of 30F-34F with potential ice on bridges. Oh well, we'll try again.

By the way, an 8" c-clamp with a couple of plywood "expanders" did break the bead on the auto tire so we didn't have to remove the wheel to replace the leaky valve stem.