I'm thinking about using a crow bar to take a set of tires off my stock rims so i can sell them seperately... any thoughts on doing this myself?

 

dont doit yourself taek them down to a shop and get them to doit for ya it wil be easier and you will have less chance of damagin your rims. im sure they wont charge ya too much either.

 

careful with the crowbar - you could easily bend the rim or tear the tire bead.

Tire shops don't usually charge very much for removing old tires, especially if you're not asking them to mount and balance new ones. They have a device that puts equal pressure around the circumference of the bead, breaking it evenly. It takes maybe 5 seconds per tire, including the time to put it in the machine.

 

Dude it's like 12 bucks for all 4 tires to be taken off. Go to the ****** shop.

 

Yeah no doubt, im all for saving money, but when I will mess something up. I go the more traveled route

 

Here is how you do it.


First: Take the valve out of the valve stem and let the air out.

Second: Break the bead. There are several ways of doing this. Sometimes they release easy and sometimes not. Lay the wheel flat on either side and use the heel of your boot to press the tire down around the edge of the rim. What you are trying to do is release the tire from the rim. Do both sides.

That was the easy way if it worked.

Hard way

Using an old style bumper jack. Lay the wheel flat and place the front of the jack on the tire as close to the rim as you can. Place the jack under something heavy and use the jack to push the tire down and away from the wheel to break the bead.



Once the bead is loose on both sides get two very large flat screwdrivers. (Two crowbars will work but they are too large and hard to work with). Starting at the valve stem. Insert the screwdriver between the tire and the rim and use it to lift the tire over the edge of the rim. Use the second screwdriver on the left or right to get a new bite and lift another section of the tire over. Alternate the screwdrivers around the tire until you have popped the first side lose. Use the same way to take it the rest of the way off.



You can mount tires on your own also.

Maybe next time I do a set I will take some pics.

 

Thats just too much work when the shop will do it hella cheap. Id say unless you have your own tire machine, just let the shops do it.

~T.J.

 

Heh, i'm taking them to a shop, after 20 minutes of getting nowhere on one tire i gave up.

 

Man, I have a hard enough time getting my Michelin 26" bike tires off their rims... and they're only 4-ply bike tires... I can't imagine trying to pry a car tire off, especially after having done so with a tire machine at school....

 

Man I used to change tires for a living. You WILL damage the rims and the tires if you try to do it by hand. The tire shop will only take like 10 min to take the tures off of all four rims and it will be cheep. If you even knick the tire bead, or side wall you run the risk of the tire exploding on inflation. You will probably have very little luck breaking the beads on an aluminium rim by had just due to oxidization of the rims. I have changed mayn tires in my life and it is usually difficult with the proper macine to do the job. A tire machine (for pasenger tiers) usese a hydrolic ram on a specially designed "blade" to push the bead off of where is seats on the rim.

Any way take them to a f*%& tire shop.

 

Removing automotive tires by hand is a real bitch, but it can be done, I've done it several times, takes bout 10 minutes.

 

anthrax

WILL . Is a strong word. I have changed about 20 sets in my short life and have not damaged any of them. they ranged from 13" to Tractror Tires.


Not every one has a tire shop 5 minutes from home. I do most of my work at my dads place and it is 30 minutes to the place and back, and no one is open on sunday.