Anyone have any methods to remove the tires from some wheels I have. I'd like to repair and repaint them before buying new tires.

thanks

tire machine.

you could use tire irons and all that business, but I bet you would do one that way before you bundled them all up and brought them somewhere with a machine...

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i've been charged as littlr as $2 f0r take off. about $2 more to dispose, iirc.

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It's not worth 5 minutes of your time struggling to get those tires off. Go find one of those redneck joints that sells used tires for $75 a set and get them to do it.

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I might just have to do that. Heck, If I bet if I go to the wal mart they will do it for cheap. The wal mart by my old house was cool like that.

Take out the valve stem.

Use a jack under a truck to break the tire from the rim or a hydraulic press if you have one.

Where most people fail with tire tools is by not getting the tire bead down in the center of the rim. I bet youtube can help.

If you cut the bead with bolt cutters or something the tire will fall off the rim. No tire tools needed.

I haven't done many tires in the last few decades but I took one off and put it back on a week or so ago. It was easier than most motorcycle tires. I still do my own motorcycle tires because if a tube is involved I don't trust anyone else. Haven't done a whole lot of those in recent times either.

I tried a backhoe tire but only got the first bead off.

LOL. this reminded me of this scene in "Vacation" I'm from out of town - YouTube

When I was a teenager I changed tires seemingly all the time. My Dad gave me the worn out tires off his service trucks. As long as the cord wasn't showing I felt I had found treasure.

I used nothing more than a bumper jack to break the bead and two L shaped lug wrenches as came in cars in the day. It was a LOT of work and sweat, but it was that or walk.

All that said, unless you are just COMPLETELY broke with not even a few extra dollars to spare, most any tire store or old time service station will remove or install for only a couple of bucks. On their tire machine it's usually a 60 second job on or off.

Good luck with it.

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If they are alloy wheels, don't even try, or you will chew them up.

Unless you want to try cutting the bead once you've broken it, but be sure to support the underside of the wheel when you are jacking so it doesn't get damaged that way.

I've changed more than a few in my time and it would take a pretty stiff fee to make me consider doing it now.

Besides Wally World, you can also look on Craigslist, there are always indies on there with tire deals and they usually don't charge much; it will only cost you a phone call to find out.