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Changing a Ural’s Flat Tire on the Road
Filed Under (Ural Repair and Maintenance) by Anthony StClair on 16-05-2008
Want to know how to change a flat tire when you’re on the road with your Ural? Russ and Fester on the Ural Wiki do a quick, photo-rich breakdown of changing a flat tire while on the road. The rear tire got a wee nail in it, so they had to swap it out for the spare tire. This process took them about 10 minutes.
One interesting note that I hadn’t thought of before: If your spare tire hasn’t been used (or at least used as much as the spare), the rear brake may need to be adjusted as the drums may be different sizes.
What you’ll need – good gear and tools to already have in your trunk anyway:
- Spare tire (or patch kit and new tube)
- Tire gauge and pump (in case you forgot to check that spare tire’s air pressure before leaving)
- Pliers
- Cotter pin
- Piece of 2×4 (helps with getting the Ural on its centerstand)
- Wrench
See it for yourself: changing a flat tire while on the road
Those pics are great. Do you have anything on how the spare tire comes off the trunk?
the tire change was one photo short. it forgot to remind to tighten the near side axil pinch bolt opposit end of the axil nut. i have seen these left loose on urals before, even on the one i bought. long as you are foolin with tires, i have also found that urals handle much better if the russian air is drained, and the tires are refilled with our good oregon air.
Dena - look in your tool roll, there’s a wrench with a ring end (36mm), an open bit in the middle (27mm) and an open end (41mm), and the open end has 2 little prongy bits sticking off it. Those prongy bits go in the holes on the screwcap that keeps the spare tire on. Here’s some pics:
http://www.ridethree.com/blog/wp-content/2008/05/ural-spare-tire-wrench1.jpg
http://www.ridethree.com/blog/wp-content/2008/05/ural-spare-tire-wrench2.jpg
Alan - thanks for that reminder about the pinch bolt. I think I remember seeing that in the maintenance CD, but it’s easy to forget the little things like that. When you take out the cotter pin on that, do you pop in a fresh one, or can the current one be good a while longer?
Thanks for the pics. I had Tony at Raceway show me how it works. I’m glad I asked him before I took a screw-driver to it.