I tried everythign this weekend to break the bead of that 15 inch trailer tire. I put my floor jack on one end and jackt it up, did about everything.
Would it be possible to make something like this with angle iron to use with my small floor jack:
I tried everythign this weekend to break the bead of that 15 inch trailer tire. I put my floor jack on one end and jackt it up, did about everything.
Would it be possible to make something like this with angle iron to use with my small floor jack:
You mention you are on a farm, do you have a loader on your tractor? If so just use the bucket. Place the edge of the bucket right at the rim and push down, then turn the wheel over and bust the other side the same way.
WayneJ
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Unfortunatley no loader. Just a very old 8n tractor.
Make your self something like these. Or buy one.
maybe?
I tried something like this to no avail
Would I do dammage by driving over it with the rear tires of my tractor?
Keep your eyes open for an old manual tire changer at a farm auction or wherever.
I have one of these that serve me well back in my racing days.
Harbor freight used to sell a manual tire machine that works pretty well also. Used a similar one regularly in my high school days working at a local filling station.
All that said, as much as I like my bead breaker, it's worth the drive and a
5 or 10 spot to me to let someone else fool with it."stryped" wrote: Would I do dammage by driving over it with the rear tires of my tractor? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Probably not, but it probably won't work any better than what you have already tried. If your tractor has large rubber tires with a round cross section, the pressure will be too far from the rim. If you put a 2 x6 between a concrete block and your tire, and then drive over it with your tractor, it might work. You might do better straddling the wheel with your tractor, and then putting a jack between the rear end and the tire. Lift under the heaviest part of your tractor, wherever that is.
There is a slide hammer rig I have seen used on truck tires.
Like this?
Or this one for half the price... yeah.
Both of those prices are insane. If that's the way you go, make your own.
It might work - Motorbike rims are not safety rims, which take a LOT more force to break. As for using PT 2X4, it will not help as they are, if anything, less strong. A good hardwood 2X4 from a sheet metal pallet might work - but I'd be REAL carefull!!!! That thing is liable to slip, snap, or otherwise malfunction at just the wrong time!!
Done it many times - just be carefull you don't slice the sidewall of the tractor tire on the rim when it lets go - 8N rear tires are a WHOLE LOT more work to change!!!
AMEN brother!!
Yup - like that. I've used them too. But if it's not an emergency, you are still farther ahead to just take it to a shop and have the bead broken and the tube inserted.
For a hundred bucks you can pay to have a lot of tires dismounted. Not worth it if you are only going to do 1 or 2 a year.
stryped wrote in rec.crafts.metalworking:
The rubber part - no. The metal part - yes.
A most basic question for you: did you remember to totally deflate the tire
-before- attempting to dismount it?
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