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The spoil of my toil. I got around 30psi in the tire and the bead seated on the lock ring, but the ring wasn't seated well. I sledged it one more time and it seated. I let all of the air out of the tire to relax any tube wrinkles and the ring came out a bit, but once aired up again it is firmly...

It sounds like I have 2 choices, put the ring back on as best as I can, flip it over well chained, and air it up, or drive 4hrs and get a new rim that hopefully I won't tweak the lock ring when breaking it down... Or the third choice would be to put the ring back on and flip the wheel and pull...

I've been offered a free rim/ring that's 2 hrs away. Unless I can find something closer I'll try to get it this weekend. Btw, a family friend was killed when a split rim split a few years ago. Very sad, he was airing it up on the truck when it let go. I chain them when I can, always stand to...

It isn't in the frame, but it is chained in 4 of the 6 holes and the sides of the lock ring are under the engine hoist that is sitting on the tire pulling up on the rim.

I am a bit paranoid that if it doesn't seat and comes apart I will be out the $35 I spent on the tube and the cops will probably show up from the bang. I see a lot of pictures where the ring is fully seated before airing up, and just want to make sure.

I spent the last 3 hours trying to install the lock ring on my spare tire. I had a rim w/o a lockring, a SS member sent me a lock ring for postage and I finally got around to putting it together. I cannot get the ring to seat at the end, I have beat on it so much I think it's done for. I can get...