Could have been made for the job. Unfortunately that was a very long time ago, and the wood behind the ploughshare is a bit rotten.
If I had the water buffalo it probably originally came with, I might be able to get that to stand on the bead, but unfortunately old equipment like this is often incomplete.
No More Mr Nice Guy: I used the old gate leaning against the wall as a ground anchor, with the lock hasp in the end of the tube replacing the inadequate rope, Axle stand the right way up gives less force concentration but is a lot more stable.
Put all my weight on it, with a noticable bend in the ACRO. STILL wouldn’t budge. Perhaps I could jack up the car and hang it on the end with the tow rope, but there might be too much stretch.
Thought of putting another inner tube in the other end of the ACRO to extend the lever, No More Mr Sane Guy stylee, but it doesn’t fit.
Did you not get the memo about “Cars and Motorcycles” being re-named to “Un-Funny Clowns Who Know Fuck All About Cars and Motocycles And Couldn’t Care Less?”
I thought of using the edge of the brake disk, but the front hub has a splash guard that would probably get damaged and would be a real pain to get off.
Might have worked with the rear hub. Its quite like the common driving on it technique (which didn’t work) but maybe less likely to slip off.
Id bet money a socket wouldn’t have done it on this tyre though.
If I hadn’t got the ACROW lever to work I might have tried that next. Maybe next time, since one doesn’t always have all that junk available
Biological warfare : I have some rather old liquid laundry detergent which seems to have gone off, producing a soapy bacterial (?) slime with brown lumps in it.
Eeuw!
Been using it to clean bike chains, but it seems to work as a tyre lubricant…
