Homebuilt SxS

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Figured i should put an update on this since I havent in a while. I have been messing with it a little and riding it some around the house.

Mainly I have been fighting with my tires trying to keep them aired up and seated. These tires are blems. They were made for a foreign country and not to DOT specs, but they didnt sell well. They are a cool size and tread, but 1 of the beads is out of spec (too large). So the bead hump on the wheel wont keep the bead seating.

After trying multiple glues/adhesives/epoxys/etc. I decided i just needed to beadlock the failing bead.

Problem, so noone really makes a wheel in the size i want/need for a reasonable amount. I would really like a 15x4/5 alum double beadlock. Method can make them for $250 per wheel, which would double my investment. My steel wheels were currently heavier then i liked, but finding cheap alum in this size is also hard. So I surely didnt want to do a weld-on beadlock to add that much more rotating mass.

I decided to use screws to beadlock to offending side. I used a similar method to what Inchworm gear used to sale. I was wanting to run a tube in conjunction with this, but after struggling with the skinny tire/wheel/tube setup for a few hours I tossed it aside.

Here is a pic of the screws in the wheel:



as you can see, they dont go into the tire but create a barrier preventing the tire from coming off the bead. While doing this, I siliconed both the beads, and siliconed the screws. This kept the tires from leaking, but i threw in some slime for added measure.

On the front 2 tires the screws are on the inside bead, and on the outside bead on the rear 2 tires (just happened to be how the tires got mounted on the wheels).