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I'm sometimes simply AMAZED that I somehow survived my youth! SOMEONE must have been watching out for me, cuz I did a lot of things that should have had me pushing up daisies LONG AGO! You and me both. I finally convinced myself that if you give the Lord enought shots at you, sooner or...

Split rims scared the bejeepers outta me even back when I still thought I was immortal. I never had a lock ring blow off. However I did refuse to re-inflate a few after I fixed them because the lock ring or rim was in bad shape. I'd put them back on the truck, give the driver the air hose, and...

Heh....its worse. I was a tire monkey in an earlier life. I was an engineer until recently, and I did write some specs. But deep down inside, I'm just a simple country boy try'in to do my best in a complex technological environment Regards Jim

I worked in a truck stop tire shop for five years. Dismounted and remounted a lot of 20" and 22" tube type, semi truck tires on flat based, lock ring type wheels. The correct terminology is "multi piece rim" not "split rim". In the true split rim type the lock ring was a complete ring...