Little trick I witnessed was on the Gibb River Road in the Kimberley of Western Australia. We were trying everything we knew to get a Toyota tyre to ‘pop’ onto the rim (tubeless) that was from a tourist 4X4. Tried chain and chain dogs, wire and strainers, let a weight down on it. Being on a cattle station the old air compressor wouldn’t give us the spurt of air we needed. Nearest town was four hours drive.
An old Aboriginal stockman was rolling a smoke and watching. He bet us for a six pack of beer that he could get the tyre to ‘pop’ onto the rim so we could continue to inflate it. We took him up on the offer. He finished rolling his smoke and hung it on his lip. He walked over to a petrol can and tipped a portion into a tin. He walked to the tyre and threw it in then lit his smoke and threw the match into the tyre. (We ran as we thought he had cracked in the heat.) Within a flash the tyre was ‘popped’ onto the rim with a few pound pressure to boot!
We always laughed about the next time the tourist got new tyres what the tyre man would have thought of this tyre with the soot and a match coming out of it.
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