Tire Repairers and Changers

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Job Description

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Key Tasks

• Raise vehicles, using hydraulic jacks.
• Remount wheels onto vehicles.
• Unbolt and remove wheels from vehicles, using lug wrenches or other hand or power tools.
• Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels.
• Identify tire size and ply and inflate tires accordingly.
• Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects.
• Hammer required counterweights onto rims of wheels.
• Reassemble tires onto wheels.
• Seal punctures in tubeless tires by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plugs into punctures, using hand tools.
• Inspect tire casings for defects, such as holes or tears.
• Locate punctures in tubeless tires by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tires in water baths and observing air bubbles.
• Glue tire patches over ruptures in tire casings, using rubber cement.
• Assist mechanics and perform various mechanical duties, such as changing oil or checking and replacing batteries.
• Rotate tires to different positions on vehicles, using hand tools.
• Clean and tidy up the shop.
• Buff defective areas of inner tubes, using scrapers.
• Order replacements for tires or tubes.
• Separate tubed tires from wheels, using rubber mallets and metal bars or mechanical tire changers.
• Inflate inner tubes and immerse them in water to locate leaks.
• Clean sides of whitewall tires.
• Prepare rims and wheel drums for reassembly by scraping, grinding, or sandblasting.
• Apply rubber cement to buffed tire casings prior to vulcanization process.
• Patch tubes with adhesive rubber patches or seal rubber patches to tubes, using hot vulcanizing plates.
• Drive automobile or service trucks to industrial sites to provide services or respond to emergency calls.

O*NET Information

• SOC Code: 49-3093.00
• Title: Tire Repairers and Changers

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