Re: more tire tools?

showcrop · Mar 27, 2018

This got me thinking about the other possibility with some tire removal jobs. There is always the possibility that the tire is just not going to come off. This can happen with old tire/rims, most likely if they have been lying flat in the weather for a few years. I picked up a pair of dual rims with old worthless tires on them. I tried the usual means of breaking the bead for awhile with no success. After an hour or two I called a friend. He told me to take my reciprocating saw and cut the tire off the bead, then take a cold chisel and cut the bead from the rim. The situation is that the rust that builds up on the bead area of the rim tightens the bead to the point that it just will not slide on the rough surface. In this situation where the tire is worthless it is not worth the time and effort to try to remove it whole.

BarnyardEngineering · Mar 27, 2018

Worst time I ever had getting a tire off was when there was nothing left but the beads. Tried cutting the beads with everything short of dynamite, but we ended up prying them off. Without the rest of the tire to push back against the pry bars it was just about impossible.

Never found a tire that the tractor loader and a block of wood could not push off the bead.

shaun wallace · Mar 27, 2018

On junk tires I take chainsaw cut about 2-3 inch from rim then cutoff disc on grinder.

fixerupper · Mar 27, 2018

The worst I've seen was on the front of a WW2 half track I restored. The fronts were the original run flat tire. The sidewall was so thick the vehicle could still be driven for a ways if it had taken a bullet. I'm sure the tires were original 1944 and I did this restoration 20 years ago so they had been on there 54 years and probably sat outside in the weather the whole time. Those two tires were the toughest ones the farm tire shop had even encountered. The owner of the half track told me he had a feeling the tire shop wasn't going to do any more of his old military tires.

bcdave · Mar 27, 2018

I remember my dad talking about dumping a can of Coke on a rim and letting it set and then pounding the tire off.
Dave

PJH · Mar 27, 2018

I have what some folks call an airplane tire (single front wheel) on one of my tractors. It's on a 12" rim that comes in half, held by bolts. I had to cut the old tire off with a sawzall and chisel. This thing wasn't rusty, it was just tough and stiff.

showcrop · Mar 27, 2018

(quoted from post at 11:38:14 03/27/18) I have what some folks call an airplane tire (single front wheel) on one of my tractors. It's on a 12" rim that comes in half, held by bolts. I had to cut the old tire off with a sawzall and chisel. This thing wasn't rusty, it was just tough and stiff.

Maybe it really was an airplane tire.

PJH · Mar 27, 2018

The replacement tire that I put on it was marketed as an airplane tire. It has a speed limit on the sidewall. I can't remember the speed, but it's way up there.

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