Breaking down rear tires???

JimmyS1966

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So I have a nice 48 John Deere M, the rear rims though are not too nice, they're getting pretty bad from calcium. I'd like to break them down and get the rims back into shape, put in new tubes and remount the old tires. Any good tips or tricks out there for getting the old tires off the rims and back on after I rework the rims?

Don't be fooled by how they look in the pic, the insides are bad!

 
Well many will say use a jack or other such thing but that is a fools folly. The correct tool like a time hammer or a slide hammer or pay to have it done. Using jacks or running them over and a loader is likely to either cost you a rim or even to the point of your life. Yes I have the correct tools and yes I have done them for decades. Send me an e-mail and I'll send you a page out of an old owners manual that tells you how to do them the correct way
 
By now you should have an e-mail with the info for breaking down that tire. When I do rims I break them down pull the tire off clean them up then spray the inside with pickup truck bed liner spray that way the rims do not rust much if at all
 
Pneumatic bead breaker only way to go. Job done in
five minutes. All you have to do is start your own tire
shop to justify buying one. Lol. Listen to old and do it
safely. Bad things can happen with a jack.
 
(quoted from post at 21:21:28 05/15/16) Well many will say use a jack or other such thing but that is a fools folly. The correct tool like a time hammer or a slide hammer or pay to have it done. Using jacks or running them over and a loader is likely to either cost you a rim or even to the point of your life. Yes I have the correct tools and yes I have done them for decades. Send me an e-mail and I'll send you a page out of an old owners manual that tells you how to do them the correct way
Cam-Mo. Have similar more serious rusting problem with 47 UTS. Rim is seized to hub 2/3 of circumfernce between hub and rim. I am in Ozarks and would appreciate your input.
 
Where are you in the Ozarks??? I too am in the Ozarks the lake of the Ozarks to be correct. E-Mail is open by the way. Yep understand the problem of removing a rim on something like that and BTDT many times over the years
 
I just so happen to have a Pneumatic bead breaker which I pull out of a junk pile years ago. I opened it up cleaned it up and have been using it ever since. For a novice who does not have a lot of $$ to spend I recommend buying a slide hammer type bead breaker and a couple of the 3 or so foot spoons. I also have 2 tire hammers which I also use at time. But then again I have done tire repair for a living so I learned how to do them and even still do split rims
 
Number one choice: Tire shop.
Number two choice: Tire shop.
Choice of last resort (evenings, weekends or holidays) when a fix can't wait: front blade on the Super A put right to the edge of the rim and apply down pressure. Sometimes that just isn't enough, so have to hammer at the beads to get them busted loose. A backhoe would apply a lot more pressure, but could also far more easily permanently damage the tire, which if it's THAT rusted on, may not be worth saving anyway (which would probably require the services of a tire shop for a replacement).

The Amish may be on to something... I've never seen one at a tire shop.
 
I just finished doing the same thing on my M. A couple of tire irons, hammer, bottle of Simple Green and a cold beer will get the job done. Take the valve stems out. I broke the bead with a few whacks of a hammer. A couple of 2 x 4's under the tire to keep the bead from reseating while you work to get the tire off the rim. Keep the tire lubed up with soap and water.

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