Easiest way to remove scrap tyres from good rims?

[colnerov]

Never done it myself, but as the op says they are waste tyres, can't you just cut the sidewalls with a sharp implement all the way round , thus removing the bulk of the tire.
If you have done that , do you still need to then break the bead ? It will the remement of the side wall just be able to be removed by hand ?

Hi, Most of the work getting a tyre on and off is about getting the bead away from rim, over the safety hump and off over the rim. So cutting the bulk of the tyre away doesn't change that.

Colin

 

[julianf]

I think i need to give up -

I just had a 7 foot beam hooked under the handle of a dumpy bag full of stone. I placed another length close to the pivot (the bag) pressing down onto the wall, and hung off the end of the beam.

Still no good.

 

[angellonewolf]

lay the wheel and tyre on the floor with some thing under to protect it and drive over the tyre ?

 

[julianf]

I might try the jack when my partner gets back with the car

 

[colnerov]

I think i need to give up -

I just had a 7 foot beam hooked under the handle of a dumpy bag full of stone. I placed another length close to the pivot (the bag) pressing down onto the wall, and hung off the end of the beam.

Still no good.

Hi, Try doing it again but working your way round the wheel and putting washing up liquid in the small gap created, then walk away and leave it to soak through. when you come back it should be easier to push it over the safety hump. The longer you can leave it the better.

Colin

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I think i need to give up -

I just had a 7 foot beam hooked under the handle of a dumpy bag full of stone. I placed another length close to the pivot (the bag) pressing down onto the wall, and hung off the end of the beam.

Still no good.

That's why they have these

To give you an idea of cost, when I switched over to my Winter tyres, I was charged £15 a corner by my Indy to remove the wheel, remove the tyre, refit w/tyre, balance and refit wheel - bolts done up with a torque wrench to the correct setting...no windy gun.

 

[Crater Creator]

That's why they have these

To give you an idea of cost, when I switched over to my Winter tyres, I was charged £15 a corner by my Indy to remove the wheel, remove the tyre, refit w/tyre, balance and refit wheel - bolts done up with a torque wrench to the correct setting...no windy gun.

Yeah I have paid up to 20 quid a corner. I'm seriously thinking about getting a tyre changing machine and balancer, my family seem to spend a lot of time visiting tyre shops for one reason or another.
I can do smaller car tyres easy enough with my motorbike bead breaker (I'm "quite heavy"), but anything bigger needs the right machinery.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Yeah I have paid up to 20 quid a corner

Mine only went up to £15 at the end of last year [two guys working in tandem], used to be £10 in previous years.

 

[Rocketman]

The guy at national tyres near me charged me nothing - zero - £0 to take tyres off so I could paint some alloys. I guess they didn't have much on it took like 5 mins and they thought good will brings extra work next time.

 

[slimjim]

you can break the bead with a mash hammer and blunt chisel.

 

[Henrik]

I've done 235/45-17 by hand once. Never ever again!

I concur with the above posts, at least if they're anything like the ones I took off, then it's not worth the time, unless you want bragging rights of having done a set by hand (nothing wrong with that, mind).
Mine took close to an hour a wheel.

 

[Henrik]

Oh, and I gouged the alloys badly

 

[Rannsachair]

I use my motorbike one for cars, breaking the bead is the toughest part. I took 5 Saab 96 tyres of steel wheels in about 20 minutes.

 

[Mee]

I now have my own machine, but when out off roading we just get the heaviest vehicle and put a 20 tonne jack under it and jack up to break the bead, you often have to rotate the tyre though.

 

[Crater Creator]

In my defence @Rannsachair - yours is a MUCH better tyre machine/bead breaker than my el-cheapo one. Machine Mart?

 

[Rannsachair]

In my defence @Rannsachair - yours is a MUCH better tyre machine/bead breaker than my el-cheapo one. Machine Mart?

It's a Sealey, I just shopped around on the internet, Machine Mart postage to me is extorsionate, I use a length of pipe on the breaker lever to make it easier.

 

[tommullin]

didnt someone on here build a simple bead breaker? was it @brightspark ? if you've got a couple to do, its probably just as quick to knock something up and use a safe lever mechanism than messing around with jacks and hammers?

 

[Wallace]

It's a Sealey, I just shopped around on the internet, Machine Mart postage to me is extorsionate, I use a length of pipe on the breaker lever to make it easier.

Do you bolt yours down? I tried the top half of mine in the vice and found if difficult to use so modified some chemical fixings to take M10 bolts so they sit flush when not in use and it's a big improvement to using the machine.

 

[Rannsachair]

Do you bolt yours down? I tried the top half of mine in the vice and found if difficult to use so modified some chemical fixings to take M10 bolts so they sit flush when not in use and it's a big improvement to using the machine.

Yes, have done same have thread inserts in my garage concrete floor and bolt it down in use.

 

[Henrik]

didnt someone on here build a simple bead breaker? was it @brightspark ? if you've got a couple to do, its probably just as quick to knock something up and use a safe lever mechanism than messing around with jacks and hammers?

I made this one last summer: http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/tyre-bead-breaker-ghetto-style.64232/

Now that I think back what a horrible job it was, I'm so glad I have a tyre machine (although the table needs attention, at least it's got a bead breaker). Total number of tyres actually changed with the machine = 0 (I've taken a number off, though..)