How to Mount a Tire

[RMpower]

well, thats a great explanation, now how about one on how to get tires off?? i know most beads are hard to break. people have told me to drive a truck onto one side of the tire, but to be carefull to to bend the rim, and that'll break the bead... are there any easier ways??

[insaneracin2003]

the easiest way is to bring the tires and rims to a shop and let them do it for you.well worth the 15 bones a tire.

[hardkoratvmxr]

Dang 15 bones a tire. Here it is only 6 a tire and they will do them in 5 minutes. That is probably the fastest and most painless ways of getting the tire off the old rim

[insaneracin2003]

Originally posted by hardkoratvmxr
Dang 15 bones a tire. Here it is only 6 a tire and they will do them in 5 minutes. That is probably the fastest and most painless ways of getting the tire off the old rim

Im sorry,i forgot to mention that it was a swap(taking off old tires and installing new ones.

[polish 711]

umm u got any ways on how to take over a tire? that would be great considering i need to take off the old ones to put on new tires

[GPracer2500]

Breaking the beads on ATV tires is tough. I've seen several do-it-yourself methods. The most desireable is to purchase your own bead breaker. Home versions are usually manual devices that use leverage to generate force.

I own this one and would not recommend it. It bent the first time I used it. I straightened it but it is now too weak to be used for breaking beads.


Something like this might be a better choice, although I've never used this type:


The only meathods I've seen that didn't require proper tools (i.e. a manual or pnuematic tire changer) involved using the weight of a car or truck. Maybe the safest and best way is to jack a car up in the air and then slide the ATV tire/wheel underneath. You can remove one of the car's wheels and place the ATV tire under a drum/disk brake. Or place the ATV tire under the frame of the car. The placement of a 4x4 piece of wood or similar between the ATV tire and the car can help things along. You'll just have to figure out what spot and arragement will work in your situation. But the idea is to then lower the car down onto the tire to break the bead.

I've seen the weight of a car/truck used for all sorts of "how-do-we-do-this-without-the-proper-tools" situations. Pretty much any jam that requires a hydraulic press can be solved with a car and a jack. Although, it is frequently dangerous and should only be done if you don't have other options. I'm not kidding.

[idontknowwhoiam]

at my old work to get tires on a wheel we used to spray around the wheel with starting fluid light it on fire and bouce it and it would pop right onto the bead

[RMpower]

how the hell does that work? do you let out the air first?

[idontknowwhoiam]

well ya there is no air in it cuz the bead isnt sealed...im not even sure how it works exactly but we did it with skid steer tires and other big wheels

[foxr]

can you not just use some screw drivers to pop the bead? i removed several car tires off of rims with screw drivers. took about half a hour to get 1 tire completly off the rim.