ST. LOUIS — Hunter Engineering Co. has developed a "top-side blast inflation" system called FastBlast that the shop equipment maker said is optimized to seat even the most difficult tires in a matter ...

OWATONNA, Minn. — OTC, a division of Service Solutions L.L.C., has unveiled a line of Tire Bead Seaters, product numbers 5700, 5702 and 5713. The OTC Tire Bead Seaters feature a unique air trigger, ...

Many of us here in magazineland don't run bead-lock wheels. The problem with that is that we still air down when we are wheeling, often to 8 psi, which means we tend to blow the tire bead off the rim ...

Ken-Tool has released the Mega AirBlast, a bead seating tool designed to properly seat the bead of tubeless tires to the rim. The Mega AirBlast has an operating maximum pressure of 165 psi (11 bar) ...

Few workshop jobs swing so violently between smug satisfaction and nuclear-grade despair as setting up tubeless tyres. When they seat first time, it’s pure magic; when they dont ...

The Bead Bazooka, also now offered by Vampa Tire Supplies, delivers a targeted burst of compressed air to seat tire beads rapidly and securely. MIAMI, FL, UNITED STATES, June 27, 2025 /EINPresswire / ...

We usually carry spares. Tires that is. We hope they always remain spares and that we never have to use them. However, there's always the chance you have no spare or already damaged one tire, and now ...

Changing truck tires isn't rocket science. It's a skill diligent technicians can get proficient on in a few days. Since tire service isn't cheap -- because the good shops invest in the training and ...

You’re railing that descent, nailing every line and feeling like a world champ, when suddenly you smash a wheel into a big square-edge rock. Quite literally, you can feel the air go out of the ride.

Technology has an ironic way of solving one set of problems while creating another. When bias ply tires and leaf spring suspensions dominated the trucking industry decades ago, drivers expected trucks ...