nuggets
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Are these landy wheels with holes tubed or tubeless or both?
Need to swap me tyres over and my wellers (crapy looking ) are tubeless, will I have to buy tubes to get rolling with these wheels.
I like the look of em and will paint them cream I think, what du ya reckon ?
a think its the tyre thats rated to be tubeless and not the rims ? and i don,t think its legal to put a tube in a tubeless tyre 
bustersbus
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Ain't it summit tae do with the lip on the rim? Ah was told that the normal steel wheels are meant tae be tubed, where as the wolf ones ah've got are tubeless.
But sayin' that who knows when ye look here...
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Ta, will have a look tomoroz,actually. its stamped tubed or tubeless on the rim itself... so you dont have to ask the question here
Wife won't let me paint em black !!
I wanted to paint the roof and rack green to match the body but she sez NO, leave it cream. (to match the wheels)
Its not illegal to put a tube in a tubeless tyre. You are just more prone to punctures.
It IS down to the rim, like what buster said. Put no tubes in tube type rimes, the air will fall out.
I have been told that those wolf rims are tubeless, if they are wolf rims.
How bad are your wellers, and will you sell them?
It IS down to the rim, like what buster said. Put no tubes in tube type rimes, the air will fall out.
I have been told that those wolf rims are tubeless, if they are wolf rims.
How bad are your wellers, and will you sell them?
Its not illegal to put a tube in a tubeless tyre. You are just more prone to punctures.
It IS down to the rim, like what buster said. Put no tubes in tube type rimes, the air will fall out.
I have been told that those wolf rims are tubeless, if they are wolf rims.
How bad are your wellers, and will you sell them?
it might not illegal but it is dangerous as the tube will heat up to the point where it will burst
I have been told that those wolf rims are tubeless, if they are wolf rims.
How bad are your wellers, and will you sell them?
4 like these (second landy in) without tyres, I just don't like em. I'll send you some pics nexy week when I've got the tyres changed and the wolfs painted.
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ah suppose it all depends on what vehicle they are fitted to and the driving style. but if you fit tubes into the tubless wheels/tyres of a hi-performance car that is driven as it was meant to be driven the tubes move around inside the tyre and the resultant friction causes a lot of heat to be built up which the tube was never designed to take.
in a landy driven compartively sedatly it probably doesn't build up to the same extend.
so i was informed by a bloke from yokohama tyres while at a BTCC meet and trackday.
someone had put tubes into his sierra cosworth's tubless tyres and the yokohama dude informed him that it wint safe due to heat build up
bigwill
Active Member
yeh not quite sure about that, i got tubes in my tubless tyres, due to the wheels, they puncture like f**k but after doin close to 10, 000 miles on them they have never burst and its as high performance as a slug!
and yeh its the wheel not the tyre you have to look at to find if you need tubes or not.
That sounds like it makes sense, putting tubes into tubeless rims would cause more problems i would imagine, but not putting tubeless tyres onto a tube type rim, especiially like you say on a landy.
Also, the landy tyres are a lot bigger so will take longer to get hot.
tacr2man
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Putting tubes in tubeless tyres is no big deal, the main thing is to make sure you have removed all the labels and their adhesive from inside the tyre as they will react with the tube and cause it to puncture.
It is advisable not to put tubes into high performance car tyres on the basis that they loose their speed rating and therfore could invalidate insurance , same as repairing a tubeless tyre will drop the speed rating .
If you are getting heat build up in a tyre to the point that it causes the tube to blow then you did not have the correct tyre pressure to start with you will get the same result if you under inflate a tubless tyre.
The rim question is down to if it was a early landrover rim the valve hole is too big for standard tubless valves (but you can get suitable tubeless valves) they do not have the safety hump for bead retention ( at normal inflation pressures not a factor) I have run fwd control rims for donkeys yrs tubeless with bfg MT 235/85 r16 with no probs . Including stayed on rim after running over a star picket on an outback road went right thru tread and sidewall . HTSH
It is advisable not to put tubes into high performance car tyres on the basis that they loose their speed rating and therfore could invalidate insurance , same as repairing a tubeless tyre will drop the speed rating .
If you are getting heat build up in a tyre to the point that it causes the tube to blow then you did not have the correct tyre pressure to start with you will get the same result if you under inflate a tubless tyre.
The rim question is down to if it was a early landrover rim the valve hole is too big for standard tubless valves (but you can get suitable tubeless valves) they do not have the safety hump for bead retention ( at normal inflation pressures not a factor) I have run fwd control rims for donkeys yrs tubeless with bfg MT 235/85 r16 with no probs . Including stayed on rim after running over a star picket on an outback road went right thru tread and sidewall . HTSH
2 sumat 5 x sumat x 16 tyres so will take most 16 tyres, will take camera up tomorrow.are they 15's or 16's?
my wolf wheels are tubed (it says so on the rim)
didnt say he was wrong, speed rating and tyre pressures to suit a racing environment are totally different to road use and landrover type fitment .
Ive clocked up a few years in the tyre business myself jmho
ah sed that
