While in my youth I had changed lots of tubeless tires with just some pry bars it is physical time consuming struggle to do that.






Sometime in the mid 1980s I bought a Harbor Freight Manual Tire Changer which I am still using that made the task much easier.


Note that the tire changer is entirely manual when it comes time to inflate the Tier and seat the tire bead on the rim you pretty much need an Air Compressor.


The Harbor Freight site has a .pdf of instructions you can look at.


The minimal instructions represent the way I use it.
Remove the valve stem core and deflate the tire. Put the Core someplace where you can find it again.


Put the Tire and Wheel under the mounter so that you can break the bead. I start with the outer part of the wheel up.


Break the bead all the way around the tire. They you lift it up and slide it over the center post and clamp it down with the clamps as shown in the picture.
I use the blade end of the pry bar to get under the tire lip and pry that up and pull the Bar around till the whole lip if free and out of the rim.


Then you need to remover the tire and wheel so you can put it under the bead breaker to break the bead on the opposite side of the tire.


When the bead all the way around is broken you need to put it back on the mounter with the same side up as you started with. You need to pull the tire up to the top of the Rim and get the Bar under the Rim and then push the bar around till the whole tire is free from the rim.

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