I don’t understand how it costs more than the whole manual tire changer with built-in bead breaker that they just brought back… now in black with rubber to prevent scratches.
My tire changer broke trying to break the bead on some tires, had to reweld it together, this seems a lot stronger i'm definitely going to buy this soon
It's interesting that the portion that hits the tire doesn't have the angled bit the changer does. If the changer's not angled just right it just slips off the tire. I learned you don't want to be directly above the bead, but should have it more angled towards the rim itself. This looks like it can point straight down which probably imparts more direct force and would end up being much easier.
@@timthetortoise The trick is that the mount head rides the rim lip ahead of the bead drop with the trailing bead pulled tightly to drop below. The bead runs across the face of the mount head while the foot is hooked to the rim lip. You angle the bar up so that the face tilts away, stretching the bead slightly beyond the lip. You then rotate, moving out of the way so that it can fall below the rim lip. To set up you hook the rim then run the bead across the face. Push the bead below the lip on one side using your hand and work as much of the bead down by hand as you can, going nearly half way around. If you don’t have anything to secure the bead down you will need to hold it under the rim lip when you start rotating the bar the opposite direction.
Its still junk, even car tires it sucks, i have old one and it works better then that one, i had that one and it broke first time, took back, bought some steel and modified old one and works good now, but still only works on truck tires up to 31's.
I agree, many items from Harbor Freight needs to modified, like my tire changer. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7i5XqDJLhoM.htmlsi=R4_UcNFJoGiL-zNg
