Thanks, best method that I have seen on youtube!. I found a tire with aluminum rim on the curb and just wanted the rim. Ended up cutting off the bead with angle grinder...after cutting both entire side walls with utility knife...waay too much work. I have a scissors jack, but would have to hunt for the other end for jack to push off of. Al rim, at least 10 bucks at scrapyard.
Good ideas and great video! I used to use the front tire of my 4x4 truck to drive up onto the sidewall to pop the bead of tires off. Anymore I'm spoiled and use one , if not both of my front loader tractors buckets to push down and pop the bead. Keep up the great work!
Good day The side opposite of valve stem is the longest on rim & the hardest to take off. I use farm jack & do opposite first , seems to go a little easier. Thanks
I’m pretty handy and totally get the concept of this; HOWEVER, I’m on my 4th tire (changing TPMS sensors for incompatibility) and this SUCKS! I’m using the bottle jack method and found a socket that matches my spinning handle. Without an impact driver, I’m sure I would have the cops called on me by now. Maybe my tires have a firmer sidewall, maybe something else, but it isn’t anywhere near as quick as your video depicts it. I’m seriously debating buying one of the prefab models in case I ever have to do this again. $80 would have been WELL SPENT on my 3-4 hour mark. No matter what I do, regardless of the angle I start at, the jack starts to slide outward to the middle of my sidewall. I applaud your mastery of this, but I feel like you should include the heartache it took to gain that proficiency.
Never thought of using the jack to break the bead on a tire, I usually use a digging spade and a long piece of pipe stuck in the receiver on my truck. ✌🏻
I bought me the Heavy Duty XB-550 BeadBuster. Works Great. I can carry it with me. And it will break down alot of different sizes,car,truck, atv, tractors
I was going to use the wood & 4x4 method, but not only would I need to sweet talk my parent's into borrowing their 4x4, I'd risk damaging my rims. The jack method it is!
great video.. Just would like remind everyone...dont get any part of their body close to the jack should it pop out from under the hitch.. you might be like my uncle whom after being hit in the face with a bumper jack has no facial expressions on the right side of face permanently 😢
I'm wondering how hard it would be to shape the end of an old fence post and then use it with my post hammer like a slide hammer type bead breaker but cheaper. I also might try the scissors jack method.
@@TheDaninator i tried using a 8ft 4×4 wooden post but tires are too thin and keep sliding off and flipping tires, even when I was on, seal wouldn't break!
my jack some how went straight through the tire. but this tire is torn in other places so im assuming its the tires fault or my own. i just couldnt get it off
I am trying this for the first time. but damn, the bead does not want to break all the way around. I tried on multiple sides, but it just comes right back up. I tried jumping on it as while it was compressed. what in the hell is going on? is this some kind of tire from hell?
If you're using a 4x4 and backing up on it, want to be certain the block of wood doesn't hit the rim when you back onto it. Can flip the tire up and cause a crinkle in the quarter panel....shit!
seems like you are lifting the truck with the edge of the rim. maybe put a two by 4 on the bottom tire underneath so you are lifting on that and doubles the breaking power, maybe just let it sit like that a few minutes and wait for the adhesion of the tire to give way and not stress out the rim and bend it .
That's great but you didn't show how to get the tire off using the breaker bars in between the rim and the tire and prying with lots of muscle and force this is the easiest part you can do
i mean its a good method im not gonna lie ill definitely use it but I don't think it will help with a low profile tyre and lets face it nowadays most people use the low profile ones
wow, very nice. worked like a charm. Started with a bottle jack and didn't have enough travel so switched to a farm jack...worked great. Thanks for the tip!
We tried the jack method on an old set of tires today. But instead of a scissor jack and a tow hitch we used an old Bilstein jack from a VW Bus and one of the support beams on the terrace on the backside of the house. It was surprisingly easy. Some of the beads came right off with hardly any effort. Now we just have to get the loose rims out of the tires. I also think there are some tubes in there. It probably says a lot about how old these tires are.
I always had more trouble with the beads than with any other part, though I did invest in a couple of tire spoons at Tractor Supply, the 2 way bend tire spoon is the most important, that and a couple of crow bars, hitting them sideways with a mallet when necessary lets you wrestle them off, and except for balancing, putting them on is still easier.
Smaller end concentrates the downward force on to a smaller section of the bead...In theory, i would have thought it would work better this way, but try it both ways and see...
