Two Minute Job!!

[hlb]

Objective. Take wheel off lawn tractor and send for puncture repair. Estimated time. Two minutes.

Block up tractor. Remove cir clip. One minute.

Pull wheel off. Err pull wheel off.
Hit wheel with hammer, and again etc.
Get bigger hammer and drift.
Hit wheel umpteen times.
Add WD40.
Rest.
Bash wheel the next day…..

Take tyre off in situ.
Wire brush rim.
Bash rust off rim.
Paint rim.
Rap with insulting tape to protect new tube. (Previously tubeless)
Attempt to replace tyre in dark. Fail.
Look round farm for farmer or helpers. Fail.
Attach tyre using two hands, knee, foot, head.
Tyre on.

Valve has gone through hole in wheel.
Take tyre off.
Fix valve with washer on, so cant come off.
Refit wheel.
Blow up with electric pump…..Hour later still pumping.
Take off electric pump.
Valve fly’s back through hole.
Remove tyre.
Refit tyre.
Blow up with bike pump.
Aprox 500 pumps later tyre mended.

Time, about three days!!

 

[Nauti Fox]

May one suggest an application of Plus Gas a few hours before the task in hand. Works very well at saving bruised knuckles/fingers/foreheads/toes (please delete where applicable)
Works very well indeed.
Yours, a smug git.

 

[paulineb]

I have a can of squirty stuff in my car as it doesn't have room for a spare wheel

 

[eyehavit]

Hlb, give yourself a pat on the back for mending the tube at all!! When my mowers front tyre needed mending I replaced the tube 3 times with new ones. Each time, despite best efforts to avoid, the tube would knick somewhere getting the tyre over the small rim and go flat. I gave up and took the wheel to my regular tyre shop and asked if they could mend it. 15 minutes later it was repaired and hasn't gone flat since. Apparently they get quite a few like that and have become expert dealing with the small rims. Oh yes, the salt on the wound....all they used were two screwdrivers.

 

[hlb]

Oh. I've got squirty stuff my dear. But dont help with tubeless tyre, when tyre has come away from rim, and only got a bike pump to wam the air in. Explain some one please!! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[paulineb]

ooops sorry Haydn. Didn't realise you were tubeless /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif xxxx

 

[Peppermint]

Re: A Typical Two Minute Job!!

My missus normaly takes the kids and books in somewhere if I say the words "it's only a two minute job".

 

[derekh]

Re: A Typical Two Minute Job!!

if you can afford a lawn tractor your boats not big enough

 

[hlb]

Re: A Typical Two Minute Job!!

?????? Two lawn tractors. Oh and another I left behind!! Oh and One Boat, One Barge for sale, two dinghys, two hoovers and about ten pair of underpants.. Some socks but they dont all match. Sorry I'll ask you to decide my spending pattern next time...... Sheesh!!

 

[BarryH]

Re: A Typical Two Minute Job!!

"ten pair of underpants".......don't you think thats rather OTT. You obviuosly have way too much money. Normal people get by with 3 pairs!