David_Dewey wrote:
You can see the rim damage in your pictures, didn't you notice the wave in the rim before? You might be able to deflate the tire and put a hydraulic jack against the base of the rim there and 'tweek' it out, but I think you may have to demount the tire and rework the rim. May take heating the rim to get it to move. A friend of mine did all my rims, made a plywood center to check the rims for being round.
Of course I noticed it before, I'm not blind. It was assembled when I originally got it, so I assumed a wheel came out of it, so a wheel will go back in it. Anyways, I pulled the valve core and aired the whole thing down and did a bunch of negotiating with my big sand hammer and managed to get the wheel to mount to it without scratching the rim up too badly. Thanks for the tips, those are some pretty decent ideas, especially the bottle jack one. I'll have to try that next time I have a weird one like this.