biketampa

I have a tubeless ready tire. Not running tubeless yet. Previously installed on tubeless ready wheels. Most times when I installed I would hear the standard "pop" when the bead set. I recently got a new set of wheels which are also tubeless ready. When I put the tires on the new wheels I did not hear the pop sound. I did notice the front wheel looking wobbly which I was told can indicate the bead not being set. So I deflated the tire, put some soapy water around the bead, and inflated again. I heard a soft pop but not the loud pop. But the wobbling is gone and the line around the rim edge on the tire is all even so it looks like it's set.

Is the pop always heard when mounting on tubeless rims? I assume these tires are installed fine now.

Dan Burkhart 

You usually get a pop but not always. The odd time, it will just kind of ease into position and still be fully sealed. It there is no wobble, and no air escaping, you are probably good.
In these cases, I will over inflate and let pressure off to the desired value just to be sure.

biketampa

yeah. I pumped up to max psi on the tire and then let pressure off. I am just using a regular floor pump so no compressor to get a fast push of air into the tire.

WizardOfBoz

The tire should be concentric with the rim. If you follow any line on the tire around the rim and find that the line is not a constant distance from the edge of the rim, or that the line disappears under the rim, your tire is not seated properly.

I put my tubeless tires on without goop, then add goop using a syringe and tube after I've seated the tire. Under this paradigm, I have the rim and tire wet with soapy water when seating the bead. If the tire is installed dry, or if worse if it has little bits of dried (high friction!) goop on it, it may have a hard time seating.

But if the tire rim is true and the tire itself is wobbly, start over and seat the tire properly. Which you did.

I think you are good to go.

seb1466

It can depend on your brand of tubeless tyre and rim too. As an example WTB use a different diameter at the bead seat compared to Stans. That is why you often hear/read comments regarding relative tightness and difficulty fitting some new tubeless tyres. As long as you have a compatible tubeless tyre and rim combo you usually get a pop. Of course if you have non-tubeless rims and fit tubeless tyres then you generally don't get a pop.

Helpfully there is now a new ETRTO Standard for tubeless rims and tyres so there should be more compatibility in future with new designs.

AnkleWork

Based on your post, I guess "no." HTH