Inner tube on a dented rim?

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ashleywood.ash

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Hi guys
I dented my right m which made my tyre go flat. I have removed the tyre and tried to knock the dent out but can't get it all out. Would there be an issue do you think with fitting an inner tube.
I know a new Tim is only £40 but don't really want to spend £40 if I can help it as need the money elsewhere.
Cheers
 
i always thought fitting an inner tube to a tubeless tyre was a big no, no

seeing also a tubeless tyre is rough inside and can rub against the inner tube and if the inner tube is punctured i think the air loss is quicker

plus 1 what @neilly has said , simply not worth the risk , is the sake of £40 worth putting u , ur passengers or other road users in possible danger

not sure the ins company would be very happy if they found out
 
ashleywood.ash said:
Hi guys
I dented my right m which made my tyre go flat. I have removed the tyre and tried to knock the dent out but can't get it all out. Would there be an issue do you think with fitting an inner tube.
I know a new Tim is only £40 but don't really want to spend £40 if I can help it as need the money elsewhere.
Cheers
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Try again with a bigger hammer !
 
In addition to what the other guys have said, a tube in a tubeless tyre can also lead to pockets or bubbles of air remaining between the tube and the inside of the tyre which can develop hot spots in use and can lead to failures due to overheating too.

All-in-all, either replace the rim or get it to an auto wheelwright for a proper repair. They can roll a steel rim true again quite easily.

As an example, when I had my old Lotus Elan, a previous owner had gone sideways into a kerb and the result was a couple of wobbly wheels. I found a wheel repairer/wheelwright in Cardiff and they went through all five of the wheels, one at a time and sorted each one, cleaned up and repaired the rim edges where the tyre bead sits and also trued up the wheels so that they were no longer buckled. I wasn't pleased with the local tyre place's idea of trying to knock any dents out with a big 'ammer.
 
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ashleywood.ash said:
Hi guys
I dented my right m which made my tyre go flat. I have removed the tyre and tried to knock the dent out but can't get it all out. Would there be an issue do you think with fitting an inner tube.
I know a new Tim is only £40 but don't really want to spend £40 if I can help it as need the money elsewhere.
Cheers
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Hard to know if there might be a fracture in the rim that you can't see, wouldn't risk it in case the whole thing goes bang
 
Ok
I'll get a new rim then.
I didn't think it was that bad a question it's not like the wheel is square, it's a modular and therefore less likely to have cracked it's just dented the lip inwards

Anyway thanks for the input
 
ashleywood.ash said:
Ok
I'll get a new rim then.
I didn't think it was that bad a question it's not like the wheel is square, it's a modular and therefore less likely to have cracked it's just dented the lip inwards

Anyway thanks for the input
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Dolly and a 7lb lump hammer will get it near shape, you could add a little heat to make it more malleable, look it over with a magnifying glass to see if it cracked, not a silly question and if you're on a tight budget (which it sounds like you are) it is perfectly understandable too.

I've been beating steel rims back into shape since I started working on a farm way back when, our 2wd tractors were buggers for getting bent and buckled as they were used for shunting trailers and we had silly high kerbs in the yard and young lads were doing it weekly, lucky enough they were mostly tubed tyres and you just beat em to death for 20 mins and spray a bit of grey primer over the chipped paint and job jobbed.
 
dieseldog69 said:
Dolly and a 7lb lump hammer will get it near shape, you could add a little heat to make it more malleable, look it over with a magnifying glass to see if it cracked, not a silly question and if you're on a tight budget (which it sounds like you are) it is perfectly understandable too.

I've been beating steel rims back into shape since I started working on a farm way back when, our 2wd tractors were buggers for getting bent and buckled as they were used for shunting trailers and we had silly high kerbs in the yard and young lads were doing it weekly, lucky enough they were mostly tubed tyres and you just beat em to death for 20 mins and spray a bit of grey primer over the chipped paint and job jobbed.
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Beaten out many myself,cars, landrovers, tractors, not had any issues.
Ignore the girls! ^^^^^^^^^^^^. :rolleyes::)
 
Ignore the girls! ^^^^^^^^^^^^. :rolleyes::)[/QUOTE]

Same err ive welded/heated & beaten them with sledge hammers back into shape, fitted 100's of tubes in tubeless tyre's...........
I even filled one of my tyres with snow to get me on the move.
Old school boys rule bunch of new age pussy's cant fix nowt :p
 
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