Homemade tyre changer

[anto]

Anyone ever made one?

Thanks,
Anton

 

[the snooper]

Bead breakers yes, the rest manual look here

 

[Bill Edwards]

I think that when you consider that you can buy a changer including bead breaker for £63 delivered you're unlikely to still want to make one!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sealey-To...237?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item27e988349d

 

[roofman]

I think that when you consider that you can buy a changer including bead breaker for £63 delivered you're unlikely to still want to make one!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sealey-To...237?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item27e988349d

Yea but any muppit can wave his credit card about...i love the fact that we spend ££££,s in consumables plus electric to make items worth a fiver but fill the forum with tales doing it

 

[optima21]

I bought the manual tyre changer, but made a tyre bar for removing tyres without damaging alloys, this is the end for removing tyres (basically a steel pin with nylon rollers to prevent damage to the wheel)

and the other end for putting the tyre on the rim, the two two nylon "buttons" are free to rotate

you can see how much damage the wheels have done to the nylon, and you can buy them on ebay for arround £90, and here is the sellers video of one being used

even noticed how easy they make it look to change tyres as they always seem to use huge profile tyres on youtube.

 

[graffian]

Nothing mechanised. I had a socket welded to my race car trailer, the socket took a post with a flange for the wheel, you chucked the wheel
on the flange, poked the lever in and walked around to take the tyre off. Bead breaking was a hinged bit of leaf spring, sort of looked like you were
sticking a spade in the bead, it hinged off the centre post and it was very effective at breaking beads, it was exactly like the thing they have on
the side of the changer to break the bead. This was a copy of the old manual tyre changers.

It all got nicked with the trailer but I made another that went in the engine crane, instead of the cranes upright.

 

[phill d]

years ago when changing lorry tyres we used to use wedges simply made from a 4"x4"x4" angle iron about 1/2 thick.
put them slightly into the gap between tyre and rim and belt the f**& out if it with a sledge hammer.

the correct wedges that cost a fortune from tyre factors were the same thing only chrome plated, and you can imagine how long the chrome lasted when
being hit with a 14 pound sledge hammer, and they cost £5 for 4 in 1969 !!!! 4 bits of angle iron cost about 2 shillings ha ah that's 10p for the youngsters.
(or a florin for the real old fogeys, and 2 hog for old time cockneys)

 

[brightspark]

years ago when changing lorry tyres we used to use wedges simply made from a 4"x4"x4" angle iron about 1/2 thick.
put them slightly into the gap between tyre and rim and belt the f**& out if it with a sledge hammer.

the correct wedges that cost a fortune from tyre factors were the same thing only chrome plated, and you can imagine how long the chrome lasted when
being hit with a 14 pound sledge hammer, and they cost £5 for 4 in 1969 !!!! 4 bits of angle iron cost about 2 shillings ha ah that's 10p for the youngsters.
(or a florin for the real old fogeys, and 2 hog for old time cockneys)

dont u mean 2 bob

 

[phill d]

no, I mean what I wrote...2 hog..
its an old term that was used in London for 2 bob , 2 shillings etc.

 

[Bill Edwards]

years ago when changing lorry tyres we used to use wedges simply made from a 4"x4"x4" angle iron about 1/2 thick.
put them slightly into the gap between tyre and rim and belt the f**& out if it with a sledge hammer.

And this is still my preferred method on a lot of jobs. Still works and is sometimes quicker than pulling out the 'proper' gear using hydraulics.

 

[phill d]

ive got a nice bead breaker as well , i will have to take a pic of it, very simply and very very effective.
its a sort of giant slide hammer, easy to make too. no hydraulics or electrics just elbow grease and foul language does the trick.

phill

 

[paulmitchell1984]

for my landy tyres if i ever need to, i use my highlift jack and car weight to break the bead..could be adapted to be used withought a car i guess

 

[graffian]

for my landy tyres if i ever need to, i use my highlift jack and car weight to break the bead..could be adapted to be used withought a car i guess

We used to use a bumper jack and the lathe.