DIY Straightening a bent alloy rim in your driveway
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- čas přidán 19. 04. 2015
- This DIY video shows a procedure used to carefully take a dent out of an alloy wheel. The dent was on the inside of the rim and the final result was not dependent upon any scratches or other blemishes in the rim. If that is a concern to you, you should use a heavy rubber mallet instead of a steel hammer. The rim did not crack, it is pretty near perfect shape and does not leak air anymore. Be safe and use gloves so you don't burn yourself on the hot rim.
2 years later owner reports tire balanced easily, does not abnormally wear tire, rides smooth and does not leak air.
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I’ve been watching diys all morning but this one here has to be the funniest 🤣
When he drops the wood and just gives'er !! 😂😂😂😂 Made my day lol
Yes!!!!!!!
Made my monday morning
Buddy went to townnnn
Bambam lol
🤣🤣🤣 I had to PAUSE ⏸️
Nice. The truck parked on the boards holding down the tyre and acting as an effective vice/anvil was the best bit that really will make a difference when I start beating on mine in a few minutes. Cheers Lads. thank for sharing... xxx ;-)
Looks like a good job to me. Big thumbs up and thanks for the ideas👍
Good job, very creative, and very economical. Thanks for the idea.
Beautiful work
The proof of the pudding is in the eating and apparently it balanced well and keeps the air. To harden aluminium alloys you incure more than 10% deformation. Like you normally do with a dent, but you can also just hammer on it and it gets the same effect, smaller grains and less ductile. That is why you quite correctly heat it to aneal the metal to get larger grains and more ductile material. A hydraulic jack is more controlable than a sledge. The easyist way to make a support for the jack to fit the rim, is some mortar in a plastic bag inside the rim and leave it overnight.
Hitting a hardened hammer with another hardened hammer is dangerous and it may explode almost like glass and throw splinters all over the plase.
A+ for effort and initiative
Banging 2 hammers does nothing. Thats just a myth. Was tested on myth busters! Glass lol
@@JB-tb1zr sure sure tell it to someone who lost an eye to that
*place*
It's a ball pein hammer, that's what you do with ball pein hammers
Love it! Can't wait to try this
graceful precision smack!
Awesome video guys. I doubt they did this before but they has knowledge and specialy characteristics of matterials had to work with.
I have since acquired an oxy/acetylene torch. If I had a do over, I likely would heat it up with the new torch to reduce the amount of banging.
I don't know why there are so many negative comments. I commend you because you got the job done lol. I Fixed my bent 26 inch chrome wheel yesterday with a large hammer, wood block, and a hydraulic jack. It's not perfect, but my truck rides 10x smoother now. Good job
Matthew Mckinney I was thinking about using a jack but how did you do it
Thats the whole reason im watching this. Bent 26s FML
this is how i fix my rims, i got one right now needed to be done,i will video it and post it....
This video make my whole week
caveman voice: Heat & Hammer best hack of all time!!!!🔥🔥🔨🔨🔨
This is not the best way, but anyway it works. You are weakening the aluminum and causing minor cracks by meeting it with the iron hammer. Smashing it with the wood is the best way, as the wood absorbs the hit. And final thing , the rim is straight to the eye, but not on a machine,and it wouldn't "roll" good on the road.I mean if it's a front your steering wheel might vibrate etc. This is one of many ways to do it , but wooden block and bigger hammer are needed. Had fun watching overall. :D
thanks for the constructive feedback.
Isn't his rim alloy
The wood seemed to disagree
@@mrdiyguy123 never hit a hammer off another hammer. High risk of flying shrapnel
@@davidoff59 that's a myth
I've done it with a 20 on jack between two formed wooden blocks. works great. No banging needed. just pump the jack until you get the movement you want.
Nice.
Thanks for the thermometer advice 150c° check
very difficult to do this task without the proper tools. But, You did It.
Excellent vid
I get what you tried to do, but it would've been much easier to clamp down the wheel and use a big adjustable wrench to straighten the edge of the rim. A dead blow hammer and a body form would've worked much better to round out the inside section, too.
I learned even more watching your vid. Thanks. Subbed/Likie
That looks lovely 😁
That escalated quickly. Found same size dent on the inside of front RHS style 66 BMW wheel yesterday. Hopefully not to expensive to have someone fix it.
Thank you this video helped a lot
Where can i get a thermometer like yours ?
Question : Anyone had any experiences in working on chrome wheels ? Can you heat it up at all without turning the chrome blue ? What's the best approach in fixing dented chrome wheels?
If it's the wheel face then it always needs a refinish after. I know chrome likes to flake off.
I love the way you check the temperature of the rim so many people just heated up and start wailing
My dude is tryna kill that rim with that hammer
Good job
You did well removing the bend, however the inside bead where the rubber tire bead meets the aluminum wheel needs inspection and possibly a rasp file or emery cloth rubbed completely around the repaired area otherwise mounting a tire on an uneven and rough surface e will surely create a slow leak that will empty the air in your tire in a couple days!
In my case, the rim did not lose air after the bend was straightened but I agree what you say is good advice.
great craftsman
When in doubt pound it like a mad man always does the job
Did that balance out good and work ok? Because I'm trying to straighten one myself.
Yep. No problem since. Whe balances and holds air.
yikes!!!! now put on a wheel balancer, and see how straight it is! love to see that.
is this rim correction? :)
Precision BASHING! 😂😂😂 ahhh perfect lol!
Fantastic.
I gave you a 🖒 to keep it even at 264 with 🖒 up & down
Bangbangbang!! you Will go back in to shape 😭
Sir if you don’t mind what kind of tool are you using for the rounded edge
It was a piece of hardwood that i cut to fit the curve using a bandsaw. It was a good idea but unfortunately the wood broke up before the dent was removed.
I just hammered without heating the bent rims of my van and of my wife's sedan ... they become less bent but not perfect though.. I will see if they will run well on the road
How'd it go
Lmfao...
*tries to use perfectly cut wood as a base to properly fix the rim*
*drops the wood and procceeds to HULK SMASH*
Totally wreck yr rim in under 2 mins 😱😱😱
@@janes-e378 in the vid I watched, the rim was already screwed by hitting something (took 1/2 sec). Lol
Yeah he probably spent 2 hours making that pretty finger trap.
This comment had me laughing out loud 😂
thanks need that
flinstones repair 101
Very true. Like they would on a remote 4th world road stranded miles from a hammer, or common tools or skills
Pretty damn good
They make a micrometer for that that way you know your wheel is true but I guess if you're doing it yourself and to shade tree job hey you get what you get right LOL I'm just happy to see it didn't crack on you because most of the time they do when you hit them with a steel hammer
Queen need this kind of scrapyard hammer man alloy wheel repair
Where did you get the rounded wood block? if you remember
I made it on a bandsaw. I was a good idea but unfortunately broke apart with the pounding.
Next time use a bottle jack and use that wood for the base of the jack.
A scissor jack with those 2 pieces of hard wood would have made it look better with less damage, but this is not a show car and it worked so who cares. Good job and better than paying a professional $100 or more to fix a rim that is barely worth that.
Thanks for the feedback. I will definitely try the scissor jack method next time.
Yep! Heat and 3 tonne bottle jack work magic! Shop wants $125 minimum to bump out 3/16 pothole dent in my $150 rim.
Good ideas guys, I was thinking that a hydraulic press type configuration with that rounded jig would work, but that bottle jack stuff sounds easiest
😂 omg, too funny! Use an air or hydraulic jack and slow pressure to avoid this comedy sketch.
Good idea!
such a woeful repair.
Your autocorrect must have been active. It is spelled "wonderful".
I just back over the pothole about 35mph and it fixes it everytime
Best solution imho.
This man is a visionary.
Just seeing this i throw out some advice to add to this use copper mallet
2:37 He said f that wood 🤣
😭😭😭
Thanks for posting. This made me realize that it's more work than I care to do. I'm too lazy. Oh and is that a Scion TC wheel?
Joe Young thanks for the feedback. It was a Ford focus
Question is if it'll still drive smooth with no bumpy ride.
our boy does not hesitate, yep, it took just one drop...to go full power on the 2 pounds monster...I feel so much better about some decisions that I made in the past... lol
Can you do this with the tyre on?
Yes provided you don't heat the rim enough to melt the tire.
mr diyguy123 Thank you mate appreciate this 👍
Ima get my hammer an torch. Bet I fix that dang wheel of mine!!
Dumped my bike and it slide the front tire into a sign which left a small dent in my front rim, shouldn’t be too hard to fix.
Wonder if you damaged your tire smashing it down with that wood board?
It stii seems fine after 16 months
the sidewall flexes a lot harder during mounting and dismounting. its fine
Use a hidraulic jack instead of hammering...
How many people have a hydrolic jack compared to a hammer?
@@golfish8589 The type of person who would tackle this kind of job would have a hydraulic jack, 100% of the time.
When he started hammering away I fucking lost my shit.😂🤣☠️
A little crude with a sledge hammer and the end result shows. Rather than a sledge hammer, stabilize the back side of a bottle jack against the rim opposite the bend with a similar piece of wood, heat the area with the bend and gently use the bottle jack to apply even pressure to bend. Its a far more elegant approach that is much easier to accomplish the same task.
You are absolutely correct. My method worked... but was crude.
look out videos on what happens when you hit two hammers!
I think we used a old tube instead of the wood and it fixed it
now is perfect
I would not try this on my motorcycle wheel.
+Bill P91311 good advice. i would not try it on a motorcycle wheel either. I suppose taking more risk with a car is acceptable.
I have this awesome method for this. I go on eBay right? I then click on a used wheel for sale and buy it. TAAAA DAAAA wheel looks like it was never bent 😂
Hahahahaha. That looks all right!!! Next time use a 2x4 and beat that instead of metal to metal.
Ah.. the get a bigger hammer theory...
its quite cheap to get it rounded again at a proper shop...! lots of potential issues w this approach. ideally, don't use low profiles...! This is also the very real issue, that once heat treated to re-round a rim, the rim will be structurally weaker.
Go on Ebay. You’ll be surprised how cheap you can buy a rim. My Lexus rim is $600-700 at the dealer. I got it for $90-100 on EBay used.
I have a 2013 jetta gli and all 4 of my rims are bent and it's $95 per rim to repair 😭😭
Luke Hoisington lol just get new rims at around $100 each on the low end ones. Decent ones around 130-140 each.
Luke Hoisington that’s cheap to fix mine just 1 rim they wanted 200 and it’s a 80 dollar rim so might as well fix it myself
@@ianbreyes recent stories before covid 19 report 50% of families cant afford a $400 repair bill
TIM Flugaur-Leavitt what’s your point?
@@ianbreyes if it was a $4000 dollar not 400 repair. Whould you try the repair yourself. Or is that still within your budget?
Should people who cant afford 400 repair skip their next rent payment or just not eat for a month? You make the call.
Did you know 20% of children in the US live in poverty?
is that a permanent solution or temporary?
Permanent
With bunch of grades of sandpaper, elbow grease and patience can remove all those scratches maker look like new
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dam u killin dat po ole rim lmfao
I would do this 😂😂😂
😂😂😂👌 that hammer made my day
This video should be called “cowboy smacking the shit out of alloy”
No Mercy on thats its man 👌👍
lead hammer bro
Shows the some of the inner hammering and none of the outer where we would need to see thanks
I have a feeling we're gonna end up with a nice cozy bonfire 🔥 long before the rim is fixed lol. JK 😜. I'll bring the marshmallows:)
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LMMFAO THIS SHIIIT CRAY
Should've used a bottle jack and bent it smoothly instead of pounding on it.
Anyone else waiting for the woodpecker to make an appearance 🤣
would anyone dit this to a Car, especially on the front, and drive with your kids in it ??? Hill Billy Central.
Is this a joke ?
Don't choose brain surgery as an alternative career. 😂
Is it absolutely nessesary to heat an alloy rim for a small lip straitening? I need to do a repair on a chrome plated rim. Second oppinons please.
By heating it, you make it a lot more malleable and less likely to shatter if you beat on it. The issue is that if it's already bent, the rim probably has a lot of stress there and makes it weaker, kind of like how if you fold a piece of sheet metal back and forth it will eventually come apart at the bend.
Stick to heating it if you value the rim.
Zer0- Thanks for the advice. And that's a good way to describe it.
Is it me or someone whispers’ its only inside of the rim lol
For a rim you are just going to mount on a farm implement and not exceed 20 mph, I guess this would do.
I could have told you to screw the wood. Unless your gonna use a portapower.
He's cold-working the material so it's actually getting stronger in that area due to grain alignment. The problem is that area of the rim also becomes more brittle so it has less impact absorption. No biggie, just don't hit the curb in the same spot on the tire next time. LOL!
You are absolutely correct. I wouldn't want to bend it back, then correct that bend, then correct it the other way for the very reason you mentioned.
@@mrdiyguy123 The benefits of taking Material Science 34 years ago at Annapolis. It's actually one of the few classes that I enjoyed! Haha
Should've used a hydraulic jack and constant pressure it saves the surface of the rim
Famous last words Yeah it should be all right watch this lol
a small spring clamp would go a long way...
I can only imagine the damage done to the radial part of that tire after being pancaked and twisted into oblivion, holy shit. Lmao