This is why I deflate tires when I get a real stubborn set of duals, frozen lugs or rim frozen to the hub. AND I avoid using heat and NEVER weld the rims (you anneal them causing them to bend under load). I only use a small propane gas torch when removing stubborn lug nuts. Lots of penetration oil too. A sledge hammer with a 3 ton jack custom rigged with chains to help keep tension on the rim can get a frozen rim or duals off the hub. And you wont damage your tire or rim.
In a high tech plant they make you wear your hard hat everywhere, with the exception of when you are in your office, or during a meeting. Most plants also make you wear a reflective vest, if there are any forklifts in the plant, or traffic in outer roadways around the plant. In the morning when you put your hat on, your hair gets kind of damp from the heat created. So when he went to make the video rather then messing with his hair he just put on his hard hat and did the video.
Question - does anyone know if this only apply to steel wheels or does the same happen with aluminium wheels - question raised by a very experienced mechanic???
bought a 1ton dodge cummins a few weeks ago a 96.. all the lugs were frozen on i let the impact gun go full hog on a few of them for minutes with no help.. thats after a full nights soak in pb blaster, tried the breaker bar and snapped the drive off inside the socket.. ended up heating every lug with the O/A torch and rattling them off with the impact.. and i mean heat them cherry red melting the nuts a little any less heat and they wouldnt budge.. the fronts i did 4 at a time to minimize bearing and caliper heating the backs i did all 8 one after another.. tires on and inflated, not an issue at all.. yet this video holds a torch for 2 minutes and the tire explodes? whats the difference because i was heating lugs and unavoidably the rim for upto 10 minutes at a time
@perolito83 The heat source for the second part of the video was a chemical reaction in the body of the tire, not the air chamber but the tire itself. I am smart huh? If you had listened to the guy you would have been that smart as well.
It looks as if being involved in the safety game makes you very cautious - why is he wearing his hard hat whilst making a video ?? Dread to think what personal protective equipment he wears when he has sex - or is it just not worth the risk.
