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Do Not Buy Venom Tires They Are 🗑️

7 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A short how-to/demo by Mike Melton showing mounting of Venom Power tires on American Truck forged wheels while criticizing the Venom brand. The speaker demonstrates lubricating the wheel and bead, mounting the top bead on a 24x14 forged wheel, and discusses balancing and road-force measurements (noting a current road-force of 37 pounds and a target/spin-down prediction to 33). The video frames the Venom Power tires negatively and emphasizes care during mounting to avoid tearing the bead.

Questions this video answers

24 x 14 (one-piece American Truck forged wheel).

33 x 14.5 - 24 (spoken as '33 by 14 and a half 24').

37 pounds of force (speaker says current reading is 37).

33 pounds (speaker predicts spinning down to 33).

Chapters

All right, here's the tire that we always tell people to stay away from. So the brand is Venom Power. So we're gonna be mounting these things on these American truck forged wheels. It's one wide wheel, 24 by 14. So the size we're gonna be mounting up is a 33 by 14 and a half 24. So as you can see, he's lubing up that whole wheel. You want to make sure that whole wheel is lubed up so it slides on there real easy. You want to make sure you lube up that rim flange right here real good. That way that bead seats properly. Make sure you get plenty of lube on top of that bead also, so you don't tear the bead and it helps the seat being a reverse mount, first beat goes on there real easy. So let's go ahead and show you how easy it is to mount this top bead. All right, let's go ahead and mount this top bead. That easy. All right. So because of how big this lip is, we're gonna have to static balance this wheel. Not the way we like to do it, but this wheel, you have to do it that way. Now, you see how wide this tire is? It's barely gonna clear that hood coming down. All right, so we got the LT on. Road force is on. Now let's bring that roller down. Now we got that roller off. Right now it's at 37 pounds of force. Prediction, if we spin it down to 33, which is a little bit below the thresh level. So let's go ahead and fix that up.