Doing your own tyre changes and balancing

[rambunctious]

How well does your car drive on 3 wheels?

If it is a wheel you have had to remove from the only car you have, then best idea is to remove the diagonal opposite wheel to balance the car up.

 

[OldBomb]

Still recall the first time I ever changed a spark plug. It belonged to one of the teachers & I anaged to break 2 of them in the process. At least he got new plugs.

 

[vc commodore]

Yep, bin doing it since the 60's.
Unscrew the valve, lay the wheel flat preferably on solid ground, then drive over the tyre and the bead will break.
Easy in an automatic car cause you can drive with the door open to regulate where you run over the tyre.

Sometimes you have to go forward and back maybe more than once with today's tyres and rims.

Turn the wheel over and repeat the performance.
Not recommended with mags on your car but doable just the same, and/or if you are not a good driver

That certainly is one way to do it...

I have also done it using the old bumperbar jack......

The ex-father inlaw had a manual bead breaker....Bits of steel bolted together that was used as his bead breaker....Gave the old arms a good workout.....He lived 30K from the nearest town, so saved a few bucks using that

 

[rambunctious]

That certainly is one way to do it...

I have also done it using the old bumperbar jack......

The ex-father inlaw had a manual bead breaker....Bits of steel bolted together that was used as his bead breaker....Gave the old arms a good workout.....He lived 30K from the nearest town, so saved a few bucks using that

And if you are old enough you will remember the slide bead breaker used in 50's-60's, like a slide hammer in reverse.
No wonder people were fit in those days.

 

[losh1971]

SCA sell cheap tyre changes. I've considered one but I don't changes enough tyres to warrant another piece in the shed that gets used once every six years.

 

[vc commodore]

And if you are old enough you will remember the slide bead breaker used in 50's-60's, like a slide hammer in reverse.
No wonder people were fit in those days.

That style is still used to this day.....Mainly on truck/machinery tyres out in the field....

Have had a few nasty looks using them outside peoples places late at night/early in the morning having to do tyre work......Still don't know why

 

[vc commodore]

SCA sell cheap tyre changes. I've considered one but I don't changes enough tyres to warrant another piece in the shed that gets used once every six years.

Those things I wouldn't use on my pushbike....

Seen them being used and they're fuggin useless pieces of crap...(Excuse the French, but that's the best way to describe them)

 

[lmoengnr]

Those things I wouldn't use on my pushbike....

A couple of old tablespoons, with rounded handle ends work fine for pushy tires.

 

[vc commodore]

A couple of old tablespoons, with rounded handle ends work fine for pushy tires.

Yes, used to use them and my backside is starting to ache remembering what used to happen to me when the old lady found out...

 

[rambunctious]

A couple of old tablespoons, with rounded handle ends work fine for pushy tires.

All I use on the pushy these days if fingers and thumbs, probably why I have arthritis in the hands/wrist.