Select a location to find more products and company information relevant to you.

Menu

Aircraft Tires

Aircraft Tires

Care and Maintenance Tire Care and Maintenance


1. Purpose

This manual forwards information relevant to maintenance and servicing of Bridgestone aircraft tires; new and retreaded. The practices and supporting information presented hereinafter are intended to maximize tire performance and life in service by ensuring appropriate procedure in inspection, storage, and maintenance.


2. Inspection Prior to Mounting

Upon receipt and before assembling with wheel, the tire should be visually inspected for anomalies that may have occurred during transportation. Such as :


3. Mounting Tires on Wheels

The mounting of aircraft tires requires careful attention and adherence to established procedures.
Care should be taken to abide by wheel/airframe manufacturer's instructions for assembling wheels and mounting tires.
Bridgestone commercial aircraft tires are tubeless. It is prohibited to mount these tires with an inner tube unless otherwise specified.

Standard tire/wheel mounting procedure

In general, it is recommended to mount without grease or lubricated agents on the tire bead area. A tire with adjusted balance is stamped with a red dot on the sidewall immediately above the bead to indicate the lightweight point of the tire.
The following step-by-step instructions generally apply for mounting tubeless tires on split wheels :

  1. Make sure that the tire is clean inside. Visually inspect the bead area and wipe them clean with a cloth moistened with denatured alcohol, allow the tire beads to dry.
  2. Wipe the "O-ring" seal of the wheel halves with an alcohol dampened cloth. Lubricate the O-ring seal with a light coat of grease following manufacturer's instructions, if any. Place seal carefully in its groove without stretching or twisting.
  3. Place the tire on the inboard wheel half being careful not to disturb the "O-ring".
  4. Set the outboard half in the tire. Align red-dot on tire with the wheel valve or wheel's heaviest point if indicated.
    Align bolt holes in accordance with manufacturer's instructions.
  5. Install wheel bolts, washers and nuts, tighten in a criss-cross fashion, and torque according to the wheel manufacturer's instructions.
  6. Inflate the assembly to the rated inflation pressure.
    Make sure to do this inflation in a safety cage.
    In case bead-fitting is not appropriate, spray de-ionized water over tire bead area before the inflation.
  7. Ensure "tire rim line" is perfectly concentric to the wheel flange edge on both sides.

Category Link:
Tire Care and Maintenance


Instructions specific to radial tires


Aircraft Tires