Removal and Replacement

Tire Dismounting and Mounting

Warning: Refer to Safety Glasses Warning (Safety Glasses Warning).


Danger: To avoid any vehicle damage, serious personal injury or death when major components are removed from the vehicle and the vehicle is supported by a hoist, support the vehicle with jack stands at the opposite end from which the components are being removed and strap the vehicle to the hoist.


1. Raise and support the vehicle. Refer to Lifting and Jacking the Vehicle (Service and Repair).
2. Remove the tire and wheel assemblies from the vehicle. Refer to Tire and Wheel Removal and Installation (Service and Repair).

Caution: Damage to either the tire bead or the wheel mounting holes can result from the use of improper wheel attachment or tire mounting procedures. It takes up to 70 seconds for all of the air to completely exhaust from a large tire. Failure to follow the proper procedures could cause the tire changer to put enough force on the tire to bend the wheel at the mounting surface. Such damage may result in vibration and/or shimmy, and under severe usage lead to wheel cracking.

3. Deflate the tire completely.

Caution: Use a tire changing machine in order to dismount tires. Do not use hand tools or tire irons alone in order to remove the tire from the wheel. Damage to the tire beads or the wheel rim could result.

Caution: Do not scratch or damage the clear coating on aluminum wheels with the tire changing equipment. Scratching the clear coating could cause the aluminum wheel to corrode and the clear coating to peel from the wheel.

Note: If the tire is to be refitted note and record the relationship and orientation of the tire to the wheel.

4. Remove the tire from the wheel, using a tire changing machine.
5. Remove any rubber, light rust or corrosion from the wheel bead seats.

Caution: When mounting the tires, use an approved tire mounting lubricant. DO NOT use silicon or corrosive base compounds to lubricate the tire bead and the wheel rim. A silicon base compound can cause the tire to slip on the rim. A corrosive type compound can cause tire or rim deterioration.

6. Apply an approved Lubricant to the tire bead and the wheel rim.

Note: Rim-clamp tire changes are recommended.

Note: If fitting the original tire maintain the original relationship and orientation of the tire to the wheel.

7. Install the tire to the wheel using a tire changer.

Warning

To avoid serious personal injury, do not stand over tire when inflating. The bead may break when the bead snaps over the safety hump. Do not exceed 275 kPa (40 psi) pressure when inflating any tire if beads are not seated. If 275 kPa (40 psi) pressure will not seat the beads, deflate, relubricate the beads and reinflate. Overinflation may cause the bead to break and cause serious personal injury.

8. Inflate the tire to the specified pressure. Refer to Tire Inflation Pressure Specifications ([1][2]Specifications).
9. Make sure that the locating rings are visible on both sides of the tire in order to verify that the tire bead is fully seated on the wheel.
10. Balance the tire and wheel. Refer to Tire and Wheel Balancing (Off Vehicle) (Tire and Wheel Balancing (Off Vehicle)) off vehicle.
11. Install the tire and wheel. Refer to Tire and Wheel Removal and Installation (Service and Repair).
12. Remove the safety stands.
13. Lower the vehicle.