Thread: can you tyres

Originally Posted by tony

G'Day All

Does anyone know if you can run 750x16 stealtrecks without tubes....in the process of changing them now so a quick answer would be good I know the army tube them but they look like tubeless

Thanks

What type of rims are they going on?

Originally Posted by tony

G'Day All
... stealtrecks ...

Are these a new pattern tyre for the "oxygen thieves" people were talking about this morning?

Would that mean that the battery landyfromanutherland failed to have would be branded "Stealpower" or "Suresteal" or other similarly enticing name.

Diana

NO... you cant if you could they would have the word TUBELESS written somewhere on them...

if you do run them without tubes they last between 5 and 8000km....

I found that out the hardway when I took my first set into a tyre shop and they fitted them without tubes.. When I blew all 4 inside of 1000km of each other after having them istalled just after a service and having all 4 fail before the next service in the same way I went and had words with said tyreshop who examined the carcases and wanted to know what happened to the tubes when I asked about what tubes I was enlightened to the lack of the word tubless on the carcass remnants (sidewalls were ok but there was gross delamination of the internal belting)

No obvious staking or excessive wear and no, you dont get to blame the batch as they were all from different batches.

Damm thanks guys, I did'nt think so it was more of a foreloarn hope.....


Steelteks That better


Tony

Originally Posted by tony

Steelteks That better


Tony

Nearly !!

I know I should ask the local tyre shop BUT I'm lazy .
Does anyone know of ANY brand of 750x16 that comes as tubeless?
Its a long story but my camper came with splits and 750x16. I have replaced the wheels with Rangie mags and 205s but have lost a bit of ground clearance, and the spare is underneath the A and a leetle low.
Some cheap 750 tubeless would be ideal.
Few of the tyre sites specify whether their 750x16s are tubed or tubeless.
And I know 235x85.16 are tubeless but they are wider than 205's or 750s so what I gain in diameter I would lose in width of the spare.
Regards Philip A

any 750R16 rated tyre should be tubless

bridgestone, goodyear and a couple others come to mind.

eg

http://www.bridgestone.com.au/tyres/...reads/d693.asp

I have been running 7.50R16s for a few years now, originally Michelins (ex-Defender) without tubes on Disco rims. I had no problems with tyre life or general sealing. They were prone to popping beads at low pressures though, mainly on slow rocky terrain.

Last year, I bought a set of 7.50 retreads & supplied 5.5" Defender rims for them to be fitted onto. I also asked them to fit tubes.
The tyre shop asked me I why I was wanting tubes fitted as they could fit them without. I pointed out that the rims were not safety rims & they still said I could have them as tubeless. I insisted on tubes anyway.

I now have the same retreads on Disco rims & I am running them tubeless. As with the Michelins before, I have no tyre life issues & haven't experienced too many bead problems (less than the Michelins).
I've just been out to check the tyres - 2 are marked "tube type", the other 2 don't appear to be marked.


Therefore, in my experience, you could successfully run 7.50R16s as tubeless on safety rims.