DIY Tire Bead Breaker

[Kram]

The bead is a smaller diameter than the edge of the rim. If you squash the tyre with G clamps or similar, at the accessable diameter, they will generally slide off, and I tried many ways to try and stop that. ususally takes 3 clamps and still slides off. Hours wasted trying!

I have not tried a vice, dont have one large enough, the wider, grippier jaws of that may be more successful.

If the jaws move in an arc towards the smaller diameter, it works better.
The Stenor is bloody brillant, literally seconds from picking it up, to poping the bead. Some occasions with the clamps took me hours of messing about on the stubborn ones.

 

[gaz1]

dont want to build one but have a trolley jack

 

[brightspark]

its best you make the machine and you can use the large bar for removing and refitting the tire

 

[DAPPH]

We often reversed the car / landy or truck over the laid down tyre to pop it & did it a few times from each side

 

[8ob]

Some of the modern rims with the raised bead adj to the outer rim can be tough to get off even with a proper tyre changer/bead breaker. Some of these contraptions on hugetube wouldn't stand a hope in hell of getting them off.

Bob

 

[MysterG]

always thought this was an easy idea if you have a stout wall or post to mount it on

I built one much like that which was pivoted on one of the legs of my (bolted to the floor) workbench.
Used it to remove some 55 profile tyres successfully.

 

[SierraV6]

Some of the modern rims with the raised bead adj to the outer rim can be tough to get off even with a proper tyre changer/bead breaker. Some of these contraptions on hugetube wouldn't stand a hope in hell of getting them off.

Bob

Some of them really are a pain even with the proper equipment. It’s also easy to break the TPMS sensor in the process, just for additional fun!

 

[James1979]

Some of the modern rims with the raised bead adj to the outer rim can be tough to get off even with a proper tyre changer/bead breaker. Some of these contraptions on hugetube wouldn't stand a hope in hell of getting them off.

Bob

Yet another reason I hate durabrite rims!

 

[Robotstar5]

We often reversed the car / landy or truck over the laid down tyre to pop it & did it a few times from each side

That's after you've driven the Landy onto the spare wheel to get enough clearance underneath to get the jack in

 

[James1979]

That's after you've driven the Landy onto the spare wheel to get enough clearance underneath to get the jack in

There was an attachment foot for a high lift jack doing the rounds when I was a young un. Like a chisel welded onto a plate. Idea was you jacked it up on the bead. Bit of a refined version of my angle iron above.

All this talk of bead breaking makes me think.... why would you! Thats often the easy part. Getting super singles off rusted rims with bars is to be avoided at all costs! better to bung a tyre fitter a drink to use his machine. even proper machines struggle on some rims. Did a trailer one yesterday and borrowed a machine to do that (I'm not young and stupid anymore ) - it was that badly corroded on that it spun the tyre on the machine when I was trying to get the first side off. Got it off but was very close to cutting it off.

Motorbike tyres are fine. all relative I suppose.

 

[Screwdriver]

I have only ever had to cut a tyre off once. Once is enough!

Damn those things are tough.

 

[brightspark]

There was an attachment foot for a high lift jack doing the rounds when I was a young un. Like a chisel welded onto a plate. Idea was you jacked it up on the bead. Bit of a refined version of my angle iron above.

All this talk of bead breaking makes me think.... why would you! Thats often the easy part. Getting super singles off rusted rims with bars is to be avoided at all costs! better to bung a tyre fitter a drink to use his machine. even proper machines struggle on some rims. Did a trailer one yesterday and borrowed a machine to do that (I'm not young and stupid anymore ) - it was that badly corroded on that it spun the tyre on the machine when I was trying to get the first side off. Got it off but was very close to cutting it off.

Motorbike tyres are fine. all relative I suppose.

i break the beads then run round the tire rim with the tire soap on a brush then use the large bar with the ball on the end to remove the tire and they come off easy and go back on

 

[gaz1]

I have only ever had to cut a tyre off once. Once is enough!

Damn those things are tough.

not that tough with a stone cutting disc in it as it sliced the rims up rather well and the tyres

something i got asked to do

 

[gaz1]

now ive used both of these machines within the garages

this one in my early years and that struggled with breaking beads on tyres x5 just to break a tire off the rim



this one roughly the same



these are proper machines and if they can have trouble the homemades will for sure and i really wouldnt want to be on the end of a bar trying to break that bead

the first one needed a cloth to stop you marking those aluminium rims and you had to lift that bar at the same time as swing it around the center pole

 

[Welderpaul]

My bead breaker piece of angle…

had a rough time getting rear tractor tyres off the rims after 20 years..

 

[8ob]

My bead breaker piece of angle…View attachment 350648had a rough time getting rear tractor tyres off the rims after 20 years..

Tractor and heavy plant tyres either fall off or put up a proper fight, I threw the towel in and bought a hydraulic bead breaker the same as the Ag tyre fitters use. Never fails

 

[sako243]

I have only ever had to cut a tyre off once. Once is enough!

Damn those things are tough.

You'd have enjoyed the ones that came off the 6x6, local tyre place's machine struggled. Turns out they were 14 ply rating (higher than most dumper truck tyres) and had military banding internally.

 

[James1979]

Tractor and heavy plant tyres either fall off or put up a proper fight, I threw the towel in and bought a hydraulic bead breaker the same as the Ag tyre fitters use. Never fails

That’s the most expensive coke tin opener I’ve seen!!

 

[Guzrik]

After years of breaking beads with a spade, finally got round to this. Works very easy I must say.

 

[premmington]

Tractor and heavy plant tyres either fall off or put up a proper fight, I threw the towel in and bought a hydraulic bead breaker the same as the Ag tyre fitters use. Never fails

I got one of those somewhere - really old thing - think it is called "grumach"? Is that the right word or is it just the make.

Dad had it when he was a agricultural fitter.

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This is the kiddie for truck tyres - expensive but they work a treat. My mate has one - it is a joy to use.

Then the joy stops as your realise - you have the rear bead to push off!

MANTIS HDP EVA Bead Breaker

Product Code: HDPEVA Purposely designed for breaking the beads of truck tyres, particularly the EVA type double hump safety rims This ingenious piece of equipment takes all the hard work out of removing tyres from these sometimes very difficult wheel assemblies Specification: Weight...

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