Tire Changer Tool(s)

Anything out there that does not cost a week's pay that will allow someone to change out there own tires, killing the need to visit a tire store??

I have been looking at one of these.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=42927

I have a set of these from the old two wheeler days, but I am much lazier now.

http://www.dirtwerkz.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PC0081115&Category_Code=60

Cool, thanks Dave !! We gonna be where a Harbor Freight is in a week or so. I'll give their stuff a look!

Now how hard would that be to use

I have a Tractor-Supply el-Manuel (in honer of chinco-de-mayo) changer. 40 bucks. But be warned, it will scratch the poo-poo......... out of your wheels if you don't have the ultra-secret Ridepate, used transport-conveyer-belt mod.......but then again, if you have stock-steelies, scratch 'em!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No really it works fine besides the center-piece. I have saved at least 2-million dollars using this fine piece of equipment........

Thats a butt load of rubber changing pate. If everybody else in the world used that tire changer that would save at least 3 million dollars. I didnt know you were fluent in the Spanish. I think this is Spanish, smartarse ['smɑ:tɑ:s], smart ass/arse n fam vulgar listillo,-a, sabelotodo

Sorry I jacked your thread DD.

Dave,
I can do better than your buddies!!!!!!! And it would-not look like this...........

nocerisdave wrote:

Sorry I jacked your thread DD.

[spanish]Do not fret, my threads enjoy a good jack now and then.[/spanish]

I hope you could read that, since I made it be in Spanish. :D

I have literaly changed hundreds of tires for years with a bead breaker from James Lucky, http://www.jlatvproducts.com/. It is adjustable and sometimes works when an air actuated bead breaker won't work. I then use tire irons from motion pro that are curved on one end. Remember to use lube, I prefere simple green, it cleanes up easily.

ridepate wrote:

Dave,
I can do better than your buddies!!!!!!! And it would-not look like this...........

Hell pate my 6 year old could a did better than those yahoos, and I could paid him in suckers.

nocerisdave wrote:

ridepate wrote:

Dave,
I can do better than your buddies!!!!!!! And it would-not look like this...........

Hell pate my 6 year old could a did better than those yahoos, and I could paid him in suckers.

Man, That was a ???. What thier tire-machine break-down and they use a 6-inch flat-head?? I don't blame ya, I'd have been pissed too!!!!!!!!

Notice that the side in the pic the first bead was mounted from the outside , or the widest step inside the rim. The only way it would have went on would have been to sawsall it and mount it and then super glue the tire back together. Lesson learned.

DD like Josh said a good bead breaker gets the hardest part out of the way then the "spoon tools" will get r done.

I wish some a you all lived closer. I could just come over instead of going out and buying tools! :D :D

DirtDawber wrote:

I wish some a you all lived closer. I could just come over instead of going out and buying tools! :D :D

i use 2 old tire spoons and a hammer. it takes a little work but i can change a set of ATV/UTV tires in about an hour. dismount and mount. poping the bead on the rim is the hardest part most of the time.

That harbor freight setup is fine for other tires, but won't break the bead on a atv tire. I bought one and bent the piss out of the tool. Never broke the bead. Broke the tool though.

Good info ClayW, thanks.

Dang auto correct on my Iphone. That should have read as break the bead, Not the HEAD. Sorry> fixed it.

Not good to break the head.

Good tip Clay. I guess we'll not be in Harbor Freight then.