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Post by Haines Garage on Nov 12, 2015 23:33:47 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 5:03:45 GMT -5
Good video, HG! Thanks for posting! A few thoughts...... First, Your right, a sawzall is a good way of removing a tire that is no longer usable.... Second, Tire shop wouldnt break the bead.... That is BS.....WTF? Whole danm country is scared of a law suit.... Third, unless you have bead breaking hammer...  Your pissin' in a Texas tornado trying to beat an old tire off, and stand a good chance of the hammer being bounced back into your head....It hurts.... Don't ask how I know.... If you don't want to destroy the tire.... It really takes pressure right next to the bead to break it, Why, you ask? If you apply pressure away from the bead, the rounded shape of the side wall will cause the bead to want to twist into the rim, actually gripping tighter, that is what keeps you tire on the rim under side-load conditions and hard turns. A good way I've found to break an old tire is to find a heavy or stout immoveble object and use you trusty-rusty HI-LIFT jack to break the bead. You can try the rear bumper of your pick-up, but often that's not enough... Heavy tractor, trailer, pipe-rail fence, beam under a deck or things like one those big, curved bollard rails next to the pumps at a gas station will work..... Or even better, Hawky can just bring his Kubota over and use the loader bucket........ |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 5:17:58 GMT -5
Nice video. Sweet work boots.
That's about what we did on my combat rims back in the day. I can't believe the local guys wusses out on that. Was it because the tire was so old?
Two years ago when I was doing the WC tires, I tried everything I could think of to break the bead. I did the farm jack trick on the front bumper of the Dodge. Didn't work. I even placed a massive piece of wood up against the rim on the tire and used it as a ramp. I drove the WC up the ramp on the tire. That didn't work. In the end, I took it to a semi truck tire shop and had to beg and plead with them to do five tires. Eventually they agreed.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 6:05:29 GMT -5
That's about what we did on my combat rims back in the day. I can't believe the local guys wusses out on that. Was it because the tire was so old? Scared of being sued in because the rim is probably old and little rusty... Here's one we ran into... Back in Sept, while we was in in Colorado, my Mother-in law's old man was there with us. During the day, he would take his JK and Polaris side by side on a little trailer and do his running around, while we was ridin' the Rockies in a REAL off road vehicle. Well anyways, on Friday evening while enroute back to Salida, the phone rang. He was on Methodist Mountain, he tagged a rock with the trailer and bent the bead lip about 2" on the Chi-com rim. He didn't have a lug wrench to fit, no spare and asked if we would assist. First of all, Mountain trails in a long-bed extended cab pick up is not exactly a fun trip, but we found him and got the tire off and took it into Salida. Service station man refused to touch it, told us the rim is bent. (He was a regular Sherlock Holmes...) we explained to him that it was a light duty trailer tire, (should've been obvious),its getting dark (again, obvious), we just need it fixed to get down the mountain. He just said he can't help us and walked away... We thought the hell with this, grabbed the four pound hammer out of truck tool box, had the rim back in shape with about four good hits, and borrowed Capt. Obvious' air chuck when his back was turned and re-seated the tire pretty as you please. Then he comes back out, asks for his air chuck back and then tries to keep MY tire gauge. We had to buy new tires for the WILLIS hauler before we left, needless to say that douche didn't get our business. |
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Post by surveypunk on Nov 13, 2015 6:36:34 GMT -5
Nice video. Sweet work boots. Saw that. A good belly laugh first thing in the morning. JB |
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Post by Haines Garage on Nov 13, 2015 7:46:52 GMT -5
Nice video. Sweet work boots. Saw that. A good belly laugh first thing in the morning. JB You fellas don't miss a thing!!  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 10:55:02 GMT -5
Nice video. Sweet work boots. Saw that. A good belly laugh first thing in the morning. JB Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 14:18:42 GMT -5
The tire shops will not mount a tire with a minimum rim width of 6 inches, on a narrower Jeep rim. Or if you ruin a tire out of a set of 4, and they are worn down , they won't put a new one on since it's taller than the others. You have to buy a complete new set. I have thoughts about this I'd share, but would soon be arrested. LOL, Oilly
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Post by surveypunk on Nov 13, 2015 14:25:26 GMT -5
The tire shops will not mount a tire with a minimum rim width of 6 inches, on a narrower Jeep rim. Or if you ruin a tire out of a set of 4, and they are worn down , they won't put a new one on since it's taller than the others. You have to buy a complete new set. I have thoughts about this I'd share, but would soon be arrested. LOL, Oilly Buddy what owns a shop near me will take a perfectly good tire off a rim and replace it with a flat, worn out, cracked , and otherwise trashed NDT if I ask him to. JB |
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Post by athawk11 on Nov 13, 2015 14:33:59 GMT -5
Way to go HG! When there is a will there is a way.
As JB mentions, the trick is finding the right tire shop. On Willys project #1, I visited 6 places before finding a Big-O that would mess with these old rims and tubes.
By the time I got to project #2, I was determined to do it all myself. Once again, the Kubota solved the tire removal challenge. The tire installation challenge was solved by watching a couple YouTube videos.
Done, and Done!!
Tim
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2015 18:59:39 GMT -5
I sympathise with you guy's. It's all about the capital system. They just want to sell four tires instead of two. I'm talking about a two wheel drive car and winter tires. Awful funny that I drove two wheel drive cars for more than 50 years with grips on the back and smoothys on the front. Now they want to sell four tires!
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