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Old 02-14-2008, 11:54 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Metal clamp/band around outside of rim on inside tire?

Hi all,
I took my '93 E-350 IDI down to Pep Boys this AM due to a slow leak from the left rear tire. Couldn't find anything wrong, but when they went to pull the tire off the rim once they got the bead broken you could see a this metal band that was clamped around the rim, looks like it wrapped around the rim and had a bolt on one end that attached to a nut on the other and would be drawn tight kind of like a hose clamp. The clamp part interfered w/ getting the tire completely off the rim, so they just re-seated it and put the wheel back on. Pretty sure this was an ex government vehicle at one time. Nobody I've talked to has ever seen/heard of anything like that and I can't think of any reason for it.
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i think its a cheap way to "fix" a damaged bead on the tire

my dad worked for general tire in the 70's and they did this a lot
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