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How To Change A Flat Tire
By Stephen Bucaro, Fri Dec 9th
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Few things are as inconvenient as getting a flat tire. It canmake you late for an appointment, and when you do arrive, youare either frazzled or filthy from the experience. If you don'tknow how to change a tire, the experience is made much worse byhaving to wait for someone to come to your assistance. Most women couldn't care less about the workings of a motorvehicle and how to change a tire. Unfortunately most modern menare as helpless in this respect as most women. I refer to menwho can't change their own flat tire as, pardon the expression,"girly-boys". In this article I will provide simple instructions to prepareyou for the inevitable inconvenience of getting a flat tire.Anyone can easily change a tire, even a woman or a girly-boy.But first lets talk about how to avoid getting a flat tire inthe first place. One way to get a flat tire is when a nail or other sharp objectpenetrates your tire. In the old days this would cause your tireto go flat within seconds. Today's modern steel belted radialtires usually just develop a slow leak when penetrated. Even ifnot penetrated by a sharp object, a tire will gradually lose itsair pressure. The way to avoid the inconvenience of getting aflat tire is to check all your tires air pressure regularly. Today's modern steel-belted radial tires bulge out at the side alittle even when they have proper pressure, so you can't tell byjust looking at them if they have proper pressure. You need touse a tire pressure gauge. Gauges come in two main types. Onetype has a rod that comes jetting out at the end. The other typehas a dial. In either case you use the gauge by removing thelittle plastic cap from the tire's air valve and quickly pushingthe valve end of the gauge onto the tire valve. You will get a little "hiss" when you do this. If you did itcorrectly, the gauge will give an accurate indication of thetires air pressure. Sometimes it takes a little practice to getan accurate reading. Compare the reading you get with themaximum psi (pounds per square inch) written on the sidewall ofthe tire. Car tires usually have a maximum of 32 psi. Full sizelight truck tires can have a maximum of 80 psi. If the air pressure is too low, there is a risk of the tirebreaking lose from the wheel. This would cause dangerous rapiddeflation of the tire. When a car tire's pressure gets belowabout 24 psi you risk rapid deflation. If the pressure is toohigh, there is a risk of the tread separating from the stealbelt. This can also cause rapid deflation, but usually it justgives you a very bumpy ride. The way to avoid getting a flat tire is to check the airpressure in all your tires regularly. By "regularly" I mean atleast once each month. By "all your tires" I mean including thespare. It is very common for a person to remove a flat fromtheir vehicle just to learn that their spare is also flat. If you find one of your tires has low pressure, you need to pumpit up to the proper value. Air pumps come in two main types. Onetype has a cord with a plug that goes into your cars cigarettelighter. The other type has a cord that plugs into an AC outlet. The cigarette lighter type has the advantage that you can carryit in your car and possibly re-inflate a flat tire at the sideof the road, saving the messy job of changing the tire forlater. The disadvantage is that they work very slowly and candraw down a cars battery. The AC power
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cord type has theadvantage that it can fill tires more quickly, but it‘srare to find an AC outlet at the side of the road. Possibly the most important thing to know about tires, is whatto do if you get a flat while speeding down the expressway. Themost important thing NOT to do is slam on the breaks! This is acommon cause of roll-overs. Just let your foot off the gas andlook for a level area at the side of the road to pull off. People that don't know how to change a tire frequently keepdriving on the flat tire, in search of a service station, untilthe tire is totally shredded. Then instead of paying ten dollarsto fix a flat, they have to pay a hundred dollars for a newtire. Fortunately after you use the information in this article,you won't get caught in that situation. To fix a flat tire you have to jack up the car and replace theflat tire with your spare tire. Unfortunately many people don'teven know where the jack is, and some don't even know how to getthe spare out. Don't wait until you're stranded by the side ofthe road to start looking for your jack and figuring how to getthe spare out. In the old days, the spare tire and jack where always in thetrunk of the car. Now with mini-vans and SUVs, vehiclemanufacturers have become very creative with hiding the sparetire and jack. Below is a list of places where you might findthe jack. - in the trunk - under or behind the seat - hidden behind apanel - under the hood Below is a list of places where you might find the spare tire. - in the trunk - under the vehicle - hanging on the back of thevehicle - hidden behind a panel Go out to your car right now and locate your jack and sparetire. You may need to locate your owners manual first to learnhow to locate and use your specific jack to change a flat tire.It's better to figure it out now rather than waiting untilyou're stranded by the side of the road. If you have never jacked up your car, now is the time topractice. As mentioned earlier, the vehicle should be on levelground. The jack usually needs to be positioned at a "peg" or"slot" under the chassis near the tire to be removed. At firstdon't jack the car up so high that the tire leaves the ground.Just jack it up to take most of the weight of the car off thetire. Then use the lug wrench to "break" the lug nuts lose. To breakthem lose you have to turn them counter-clockwise. Breaking thelug nuts lose might take a little muscle. If you left the bottomof the tire on the ground, this will help by preventing the tirefrom spinning or the vehicle from rocking. "Breaking" the nutlose means loosening it enough so you can get it off easy, kindof like a jar with a stuck lid. Just break them lose at thispoint, don't remove them. If you're not strong enough to get the lug nuts loose, now isthe time to find that out. It is also not uncommon for a tiremechanic to over-torque lug nuts, or strip treads so the lug nutcan't be removed. To get the lug nuts off you may have to use"leverage". That is, make the handle of the wrench longer, forexample by putting a pipe over it. In any case now is the timeto learn about problems with getting the lug nuts off - not whenyour stranded at the side of the road. After you have broken the lug nuts lose, jack the vehicle uphigher. Jack it up just high enough so that the tire leaves theground. Then remove the lug nuts and the tire. There are two types of spare tires. You are lucky if you have afull-sized spare. Most cars today have a "space- saver" spare. Aspace-saver is thinner than a regular tire. The space-saverworks like a regular tire, but there are two things to be awareof. First, space-savers are rated for only 50 mph. They areintended just to get you to the service station. Second, the airpressure requirement for a space-saver is usually much higherthan the regular tires for your car. Make sure you keep itfilled to the proper pressure. Next put the spare tire over the lug studs and put the lug nutsback on. Start the lug nuts with your fingers to make sure youdon‘t cross treads. After you have the lug nuts started,use the wrench to turn them on all the way. After the lug nutsare all the way on, jack the vehicle back down until the tiretouches the ground. Now you can torque the nuts down tight. There is always the question; how tight do I make the lug nuts?There is actually a specification (which tire service personnelusually ignore). For example; 95 ft. lbs. as indicated on atorque wrench. But for the average person without a torquewrench, it's a matter of feel. You want to tighten the lug nuts tight enough so that you areconfident they won't come lose while you are driving, yet not sotight that you can never get them off again. Don't be a superman and tighten them until you strip the threads or break thestud. Just make them tight enough so that you are confident theywon't come lose while you are driving. It's a matter of feel.After you have tightened the lug nuts, remove the jack. Fix or replace the flat tire ASAP. Murphy's law number 66 statesthat if you don't have a good spare tire you will immediatelyget a flat tire. Fix or replace the flat tire on the nextweekend if you can't do it sooner. If you don't know how to locate the jack, access the spare, andreplace a tire on your vehicle, I suggest you go do it right nowfor practice. If you are prepared and confident, getting a flattire will be a minor inconvenience, rather than a bad experiencethat screws up your entire day. ----------------------------------------------------------Resource Box: Copyright(C)2002 Bucaro TecHelp. 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