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Subject:Re: Putting on tires: three hands
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:28:59 -0700

You must have a smaller center hole in your rims than I. Here, when the
rim is hanging from the hub, all the holes in the rim sit below their
corresponding holes in the wheel.

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Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 08/28/2012 09:27 AM, Edward Maglott wrote:
> I stick the wheel on so it's center opening is on the hub, then rotate it
> and the hub until a wheel hole lines up with a hub hole on the right side.
> (I'm right handed.)  Then I just hold wheel with one hand, you don't have
> to hold it up, the hub is carrying the weight.  Once you get that one bolt
> in, rotate wheel so that hole is at the top.  Then all the other holes are
> pretty much lined up.  It's pretty easy.
>
> Edward