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Swap Skid Steer Tires and Incorrect Lug Nut Installation

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Prepping for the First Blizzard of the Year & we break down in the middle of the Storm 4 k video

What happens here

Using an impact wrench, remove the lug nuts from one of the solid rubber demo tires on the Volvo skid steer. Once all lug nuts are off, carefully remove the heavy tire from its hub. Each solid rubber tire weighs approximately 224 pounds, so proper lifting techniques are crucial. With the old tire removed, position a new winter-specific tire onto the hub, aligning the bolt holes. Hand-tighten the lug nuts onto the new tire. The video explicitly shows the lug nuts being installed backward (flat side facing the rim instead of the bevelled side). The importance of proper lug nut orientation (bevelled side towards the rim) is highlighted as a mistake that leads to equipment failure later in the video.

Goal: Replace solid rubber demo tires with winter tires, demonstrating proper vs. improper lug nut installation.

Tools and materials

  • Impact Wrench Milwaukee — Removing and tightening lug nuts
  • Lug Nuts — Securing the tires to the hub
  • Socket Set — Fitting the impact wrench to the lug nuts
  • Solid Rubber Demo Tires — Tires being removed
  • Winter Tires — New tires being installed

What they say

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there okay so each one of these tires weighs about 250 ish pounds here so got the man handle these suckers off of here yeah when I'm putting these lug nuts back on I do it like how you do it on a you know a truck or a car kind of star pattern things just so that guarantee everything's seated up how it's supposed to be so so what you don't see happening is although Sam has putting the lug bolts on in the right pattern he's actually flipping them around so the he's putting them on bass-ackwards a lug bolt has a beveled side and a flat side and one of the mistakes that's going on right now is he's putting a flat side up to the rim the beveled side has to go into the rim that's what snugs everything up you're gonna see what happens when you put them on the wrong way in just a moment we didn't catch

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