Installing Tires onto Wheels
Step 1: Prepare Wheel for Tire Install
- Take your valve stem tool and install all the valve stems into the wheel. Alternatively, push them from the back side with a 6mm Allen wrench—it takes more force but can be done without the proper tool.
- 1.1: With the tire lying flat on the floor, insert the backside of the wheel into the tire bead. Note: This is easier with a slippery liquid like furniture polish or a soapy water solution.
Step 2: Use Tire Scissors to Mount the Tire
- Take the tire scissors composite center and insert it into the backside of the wheel.
- 2.1: Place the tire scissors’ bottom-side hooks under the wheel bead, aligning the center hole of the tool directly above the center hole of the composite piece. Insert the pin through the scissors tool to hold everything in place.
- 2.2: Move the handles outward to start beading the tire onto the wheel.
- 2.3: Once the tire fully passes the bead, remove the centering pin and the composite wheel piece from the tooling.
Step 3: Bead the Tire onto the Wheel
- Prepare the bead lock screws from the wheel set by pushing one O-ring per screw down the threads to sit under the head of the screw.
- 3.1: Turn each bead lock screw into the wheel until the end is just under the inside of the exterior wheel edge, ensuring it doesn’t protrude outward. If the screw protrudes, it risks damaging the tire bead in later steps.
- 3.2: Coat the wheel edge and bead edge with a solution (e.g., soapy water) to ease beading. It can be done dry, but requires much more pressure.
- 3.3: Apply air pressure to the wheel to seat the tire, keeping the tire flat on the ground so the beads face outward (not up and down). Hold pressure until you hear the tire pop—typically twice, though it may not always be loud. Visually confirm the tire is secure on the bead. KEEP HANDS CLEAR OF THE EDGE OF WHEEL AT ALL TIMES DURING THIS TASK.
- 3.4: Once the tire is successfully beaded, remove one bead lock screw to release all air pressure from the wheel.
- 3.5: After the air is fully released, reinsert the bead lock screw and tighten all bead locks completely to seat the wheel.
- 3.6: Inflate the wheel to the desired air pressure.
- 3.7: Repeat Steps 1 through 3.6 for the remaining wheels.
