[skotup]

jonno_racing wrote:

my beeds are sikaflexed on. i run 4psi now

really? i havnt heard of this 1 b4. Does it do anything? i would have thought the force needed to de-bead the tyre would be greater than the adhesive strength of sickaflex anyway.

[Ben_Sierra]

skotup wrote:

jonno_racing wrote:

my beeds are sikaflexed on. i run 4psi now

really? i havnt heard of this 1 b4. Does it do anything? i would have thought the force needed to de-bead the tyre would be greater than the adhesive strength of sickaflex anyway.

When you run fuck all pressure, it doesn't take much to break the bead...

Besides, if you have Sikaflex, it certainly takes more force to unseat the bead than it does without, although of course eventually it will come away...

[skotup]

fair enough

for the record, i have a new grand vitara, i run new 17x7.5 ford territory steel rims on 265/65 tyres. My mates were shocked when i told them i was at 10psi on a recent beach trip.

[shep]

most people that run sikaflex do so because they have old tyres that have leaky beads

[royce]

shep wrote:

most people that run sikaflex do so because they have old tyres that have leaky beads

x2, sikaflex is a company not a product, the chances of somebody actually getting the sika product that bonds to metal and rubber is fairly remote cause its not well known