TJ:
This procedure has worked for me. A word of warning: avoid separating
wheel halves when the valve is installed in the stem.
Re-install 3 bolts to hold the wheel halves together. Use a bolt length
of about one inch or more. Spin nuts on fully then back them off about a
1/4 inch. Remove the valve stem from the wheel. Air the tire SLIGHTLY.
The halves will likely separate. Once they separate, completely deflate
the tire before removing the nuts and bolts. NEVER remove those nuts
until the tire is completely deflated.
Paul
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TJ Johnson "FN" wrote:
> I have a PIK20. The main tire was in need of a change, so I took the
> wheel off today, took out the three bolts that hold the wheel halves
> together, then spent over 2 hours trying to get the wheel halves to
> separate.
>
> I am stumped. Light tapping has proves that one wheel half will
> rotate independently of the other, so that seem to rule out being
> corroded together, but the two still won't come apart.
>
> It is a pre-production PIK, serial number 2 and there weren't any
> markings on the wheel that I could see to tell what kind it is.
>
> Does anybody have any thoughts?
>
> TJ Johnson
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