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Greetings All,

Does anyone know if Packard made or used a special tool to help get the chrome rings off the wheel and assist putting them back on?

I've done it a couple of times and it is truly a miserable job and one person doing it was jumping on the side walls and the my newly chromed ring while trying to reseat it.

Thanks
Gene

I see no tool for that purpose listed in any of my Packard special tool catalogs of the era. If there was a special tool it may have been provided by the maker of tire service equipment.

Gene,

I have a set of motorcycle tire removal tools that I used to remove the chrome ring. Before use of the tool I wrapped some gorilla tape around the end of the tool which seemed to help not chip the paint on the rim. Still had some chipping but not to bad.

Also I found and read to use dish soap in the aid of slipping the tire onto the rim

I had to do tire removal a few times because of a bad batch of whitewalls. Very frustrating after having a nice paint job on the rims.



Good luck with yours and hope this helped

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Thanks for the info, I'll check into the motorcycle tools as the tools I have didn't work very well.

Thanks for the info.