jjjr944

Well, the old Vredestein spare was a gonner due to a sidewall bubble, so thought I 'd try to have a little anatomy lesson and cut the tire off. Spent the good part of an hour going at the tire with a jigsaw probably looking like a monkey trying to hump a football.
Got to the stainless braids at the beads and hit the wall. Bosch blades will not do the job. If any of you SOW guys have a die grinder or cutoff wheel lets talk. If not, it's down to tires-r-us I go to see if they will dismount it.. I'm still trying to salvage the wheel.
Enjoy everyone. I still smell burnt rubber----I think.



Jerry
"To the best of my knowledge I’m still banned from the Santa Barbara Zoo because I fed a chipwich to a llama and it died. My defense of, “What am I, a vet? You mean Llamas can’t eat chipwiches?” seemed to fall on deaf ears. As did my pointing out that, unless this was some sort of magical llama, this thing was clearly several hundred years old and it was only coincidence that it died while we were sharing a chipwich. "

xsboost90

you and your obsession with rubber, im really starting to worry about you jerry.

Chris_924s

the things people go thru to save a spare wheel.. GLAD THE STEAK KNIFE WORKED - AND LOOK MA, NO TRIPS TO THE EMERGENCY!..

What am I, a friggin vet?

Sam Lin

Tire shops can dismount the spare no problem.

Sam

nine-44

I used a swazall to cut beads before. I have one here if yuo'd like to GTG ad see if we can get it? Gimme a ring.