Replacing Go Kart Racing Tires

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Tommy for Expert Village and we are going to talk about mounting tires. The tires are a little hard to mount at home by yourself but you can do it, you have to use a little bit of lubricant on them to get them on and generally the best way to do it, is to heat the tire up a little bit. Set the tire on the ground, this tire is not very hot, but I'll see if I can get it on. You basically compress the tire here, get it together, put it at the rim, pull the tire over the rim, they're going to be too warm, there, one side's on, compress the tire again, and there is your tire mounted. I'm a little rusty on this, we have a machine and I haven't mounted a tire by hand for about five years, so. You have to make sure that the V-locks are not in place, and then you blow the tire up. Taking the tire off, you have to have a machine to, to break the bead and then generally you take the tire off the same way it came on and then pull the rim out from underneath it. Sometimes you can use some tire tools, these are some tire tools that are made to take stuff off, it basically goes in, and there is a cap that goes around it and you rotate it to get it off. There's a knack to doing it and once you learn the knack it's very easy to do but a lot of people never get the hang of it. I end up changing a whole lot of tires for other people but I have friends of mine that have been racing for a long time and they can mount tires by hand faster than I can. In fact they can probably do two tires to one tire with my machine."