No Lighter Fluid Needed ❗️
13 Feb 2026 · 0 min

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Mike Melton shows how to seat a tire bead without lighter fluid. Stretch the tire to close the gap, use a large cheater tool to align both beads, then rapid inflation snaps them into place.

Mike Melton shows how to seat a tire bead without lighter fluid. Stretch the tire to close the gap, use a large cheater tool to align both beads, then rapid inflation snaps them into place.
I'm gonna show you how to exactly stretch a tire. So if you look down here, you see how much gap we have, right? So now let's show you how to fix that. Right now he's gonna. He's gonna pick this tire up, so he kind of gives it an even on. On both beads. He gonna take the big cheater. We're gonna blow this thing up. Watch it, watch it. There you go. It's that easy to seat the beads on it when you have the right tools.