Rob,
It sounds like the tire, or at least part of it, may have rotated some on
the rim and sort of "bunched up" and the excess made the bulge. On the other
hand, this is hard to believe since the bead section of a tire usually has a
lot of steel in it. I would check to see how stiff the bead section is on
this tire; it may be defective or just a weak design. How much tire pressure
did it have? Drag racers put screws through the tire into the rim to prevent
the tire at low pressure, from slipping on the rim. This shouldn't be a
problem with 30+ psi.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tigers@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-tigers@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of BlueGolfer@aol.com
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 8:12 AM
To: SLaifman@socal.rr.com
Cc: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Strange tire problem
In a message dated 8/27/01 11:00:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
SLaifman@SoCal.RR.com writes:
> t occurs to me that you may be seeing the tire bead sliding towards the
> center of the rim from side forces. In our years the stock steel wheels,
> as well as the after-market wheels by LAT and others, did not have the
> later mandated safety bead to prevent this from occurring at high side
> loads and/or low tire pressure.
>
> A thought to consider.
Well the tire is a 1 year old BF Goodrich Radial TA. The wheels are Sunbeam
Specialities LAT Aluminum mag repros. I'm suspecting the side bead failed or
the rim is bad. Find out when I take the tire back to the shop.
Rob
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