Mike Melton mounts 35-inch Nitto G3 tires on a GMC truck to beat a competitor in a tire-mounting speed challenge. He walks through checking specs, balancing with a GripMax wheel-balancer, and inflating with a handheld mini-bazooka, aiming for road-force readings under 7 lb.
I come to work and I go to war every day with my competition. I think he's pretty good at mounting tires. Watch this thing. Look, look, he ain't even going to sweat. I don't even need to give him a napkin. Watch him. I know the haters going to say, man, I could have done that 40 times, man. Look at that right there. We done. All right, now sometimes you got a big old gap in there, so we going to show you how to fix that. The way he's going to use is a mini bazooka. He going to put it in there, they going to inflate that tire. Watch out. 3, 2, 1. Oh man, he messed up. He going to do it again. Damn tires weigh more than his ass does. Looks like we got a set of 35s going on this GMC right here. Let me, let me, uh, show you what we got going on there. All right, so what he's doing, he's double checking, make sure everything's right. He's going, he's going to make sure he's got the right size. He's going to make sure he's got the, uh, the right serial number and the right tire. So right here we're going to do the GripMax MT. All right, here he's doing a set of Nitto G3s right here. Let me show you how this thing zeroed out. But look at that, 7, 7 pounds of road force on this damn— oh, what is that, a 285/50/22? 285/50/22 calling for 7 pounds of force, man. I'm gonna tell you what, what are they gonna do? They gonna ride better than a damn Cadillac.
