Tube Liners
 

What is your opinion on installing tube flaps or boots when installing new tires?

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What kind of wheels??

Bob

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Soryy about that. 1941 Ford stock wheels

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Definitely necessary to protect the belly of the tube from chaffing on anything on the drop center of the wheel, like burr, rust, scale, paint chips, etc. A passenger tube requires a thin, supple flap, unlike a heavy truck flap.

For the uninitiated, here's the Goodyear procedure to install:

Make sure that the flap edges are thin and not cut or rough.

Inflate the tube in the tire enough to barely fill out inside the tire. Make sure that the stem is pointing to the side of the tire that faces out, i.e. whitewall.

Install the flap, making sure the the offset stem hole in the flap matches the stem offset. The inflated tube will hold it in place.

Lube the flap with vegetable based tire lube.

Install the bottom bead of the tire.

Connect a valve stem keeper, feed through the wheel's stem hole and gently lever on the top bead.

Make sure that the offset valve stem is on the correct side of the wheel.

Inflate to seat the beads, deflate to relax the tube, and reinflate to operating pressure.

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Thanks, hotrod. Very informative. I will be getting new tires for my '41 soon. The tires have been on it for 15 years. I had a slow leak repaired and there was no liner on it. I will make sure to buy them and have them installed.

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I used duct tape and talcum powder. Working on my third set of tires with the same tubes.

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I installed these liners after chronic flat tires from rough rims after trying every coating imaginable to prevent them. Have had no problems since. http://www.lucasclassictires.com/15-...?categoryId=-1

Or, you can install the wider flap if you want: http://www.lucasclassictires.com/16-...?categoryId=-1