Tyre bead breaker - food for thought

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Originally Posted by Eric SDV6SE

Yes, agreed, so the tyre manufacturers will have designed their tyres of 8" wider or more to require at least 1,113kg to break the bead, if they intend to market and sell tyres ADR compliant tyres in Australia

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Or for a Land Rover, 20 tonnes [emoji4]

cant find a suitable place for this video I made yesterday.

this is as good as any. Cant beat the tyre pliers. I do all my own tyre fitting, Getting old - Used to do a full set in a few hours, now I spread it out over 5 days [bigwhistle]


Haven't done a DIY tyre change on Alloy rims before, swapping 5 tyres on my new caravan, I prefer steel rims tbh.

https://youtu.be/xDlA0m9Bbgg'si=a6otcR30hY9it0_8

I've changed hundreds of tyres in my time. I have never used tyre levers to refit a tyre.

I have always used a rubber mallet.

My first job as a 15 year old 55 years ago was pumping petrol at an Amoco service station(remember them)

Fitting tyres was also my job. There were no fancy machines back then, all done by hand with tyre levers and a rubber mallet.

Balancing was done static on a device that had an all around spirit level type thing in the centre.

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Originally Posted by goingbush

cant find a suitable place for this video I made yesterday.

this is as good as any. Cant beat the tyre pliers. I do all my own tyre fitting, Getting old - Used to do a full set in a few hours, now I spread it out over 5 days [bigwhistle]

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Those tyrepliers look easier/better than the R&R BeadBreaker that I have.

Why did you change the tyre, Don? The old one still looked OK.

I have two tyres I want fitted to my 18" RRS rims. Wanna come around?

I changed the tyres because the profile was wrong for the wheel ( too much sidewall bulge) and load rating too high, which transfers too many bumps into van.

I fitted skinny tyres with a more appropriate load rating .

A bit more about it on my van problems & solutions page . Going Bush