Loop the eye end of the cable over the bolt you fasten the wheel down with and that will give you an extra hand to pull the other end of the cable with to dismount and mount the tyre. A little bit of candle wax or a soap bar will also help.
Actually a spray bottle of soapy water or a brush in a jar of your scraps of bar soap works great for tire changing, a spray lube works too but leaves more of a mess to clean
I use the screw jack placed upside down between the trailer hitch and tire to break the bead. Use a wood spade bit and a power drill to operate the jack.
Nice video but im sure if you tried it on a larger tire im you'd be at the tire shop. Today's tires are much stiffer & in no way you could do this(I've got over 30 years experience in this). But for the small sizes like 12,13 & 14 inch sidewalls that are flexible this is great
That's for damn sure. I've got an actual TIRE MACHINE and I can't do larger low-profile tires without two friends helping to keep the tire down in the groove. And there's no way I'm spending another $1200 to get the additional arms required. I just made damn sure I kept that in mind when I bought my next car. It was astounding how few cars on the lots today come equipped with anything less than 19" rims. Even saw a few 21's and 22's during the test rides. It's ridiculous. You get a shitty ride, the tire shops crush you, and it drives your gas mileage down, but everyone wants bigger wheels today.
Just REMOVING a single 275-65-20 tire from the rim with a manual changer that I got from HF was more of a workout than I wanted to do... I'm pretty sure that if you factor in all the beers that I drank during that process, it cost more than going to a local tire shop to have it done... Maybe it is just an issue of "technique"... If so, I failed...
Another clever tire changing tip. Thanks! I loved the bead breaker made from wood. If you have a spare vehicle, you can break the bead by placing the tire on its side, laying a wooden plank over the sidewall but not the rim, and driving a car up onto the tire to break the bead.
Or you can just lower the vehicle with tire under the rotor/drum - as long as you don't have a flimsy brake dust shield that would get bent. a foot long 2x4 helps press down on a larger area to more easily break the bead.
I like the wooden build, wood being soft and giving it is a good solution for tires removal. He should still use soapy water. I like his innovations but I think a standard old school manual tire changer would be more effective for tires of that size. The real struggle comes with larger tires and load range E tires.
Genius for an infrequent DIY home gamer. Minimal tools with that cable. The rim clamp in a vise can be just wood and bolts. The wood bead breaker station is excellent.
Very impressive and ingenious! It's downright robbery what they charge to mount a tire and balance now compared to a few years ago. Even if you mount the tire yourself some places want $20 to balance one wheel. Used to be $9.95 per wheel for a mount and balance.
@@billkea7224 No, but I can only imagine. The problem with taking them someplace else is they always screw it up. One place that did 4 new tires for me had some trainee or something and mounted the tires with the 'alignment dots' all over the place. You could tell by the balance job too. They weren't happy when I told them to re-do it. Guy said he never knew what those were for.
Something I haven’t seen before finally; I actually learned something and I can easily modify for my situation/ as roadiez noted, some tires would be too much for the method but still worth knowing and practical for most people and most tires in everyday life - if you have massive tires it should be expected you’re probably not going to be able to change them yourself with some quick hacks and you’re gonna need some stout equipment. Great video👍🏻like that you left the parts where it took some effort and manipulating rather than editing it to look like there was no work involved!
This reminds me of what i saw/learned back in the mid 90s…saw this method was used to install the rear/front windshield glass on a car of that and predates that era.
With your talent, I think you can easily make and add the additional hardware to dismount the tire conventionally. But nice trick, Just like installing windshield rubber.!
That my friend is very clever, would have never thought of that one, perfect on a motorcycle with alloy rims and tyre pressure sensors would substitute using jumper cables when touring, thanks for sharing 😃👍
very good method, still I might take in consideration that will work great with tires from old cars. with new car models is a must to be careful not to perturb the TPM sensor with the wire rope.
COOL! Thank you. I never thought of using the small diameter wire rope method of removing and installing tires. It's very similar to the method of removing bicycle tires using the old school too we called "tire irons" which are now made of plastic (nylon I guess). The wire rope is thin and just manipulating the tire into the hub a bit so the bead is loose makes it easy to pull the wire rope around and remove... or install the tire. Genius!
This was excellent. The cable won't damage the rim unlike the metal bars that come with the cheap tire changers. I also like the bead breaker you made out of simple framing lumber. Would this wire method also work if you found 3/16 in cable without the vinyl coating?
Smaller diameter wire rope can be used to make it easier to get the tire bead over the rim but the smaller wire rope will need a loop so you have a good grip when pulling. You can probably buy inexpensive 1/8" or 3/16" nylon coated cable with loops on each end as part of a kit to secure inexpensive bicycles.
Nice video! I remove the Schrader valve, put my tire on a piece of carpet and use a short wooden ramp put as close to the bead as possible and drive up on the ramp to break the bead. Or sometimes I use my large vice to do the same. .I then use long tire irons to finish the job.
That is a cool bead breaker! Hope this is just for demonstration purposes - the cracks in the sidewall are not pretty at 547. Unique method but cheap tire irons and a little soapy water makes it easy.
The bead breaker was really cool. But, that wire rope technique is too much work and requires anchoring the wheel. I'll stick to my plastidipped tire iro s. Thanks for sharing!
I really like that bead breaker, I will be checking out that one after this comment, I understand the potential of using the wire cable especially if I wasn’t in my shop, but it looks like a bit of a hassle, I would definitely do this if I only had 1 or 2 tires to do, but if it was a full set I would rather use the manual stand or tire change machine.
Just when I thought I knew a good way of removing a tyre,,someone comes with a better Idea.Great stuff..PS next time try leaving the tyre and rim on the car.