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oil pan 4 · 05-29-2017, 10:08 PM

Don't worry about hurting a tire.
When they are bulk shipped from factory they are packed into a tractor trailer then repeatedly rammed with a warehouse tug until no more tires will fit.

I have used a 10,000lb flight line tug to run over the edge of a tire on a split rim to break the bead. Reused the tire, it needed a new tube and wouldn't come off the rim using conventional means.

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