Some Tshirts from Nazarene Youth Conference

How to remove a car tyre without tyre irons

So, if I were smart I would use the tyre irons that Ryan and I made, but he took them to Tennessee. So now that I need to get some tyres off a couple of junk rims, I will have to improvise.

To take out the valve, I put two nails into vice grips and screwed it out.

For breaking the bead, we used a fence post rammer with a piece of steel cut from an old railing. It would have been nice to shape the steel for more efficiency, but it worked just as it was.

A jemmy and wonder bar got the tyre off the rim.



The alloy rim weighs 18 pounds so if we get aluminium rates for that, it will fetch about 50 cents/pound.

How Ryan changes a tractor tyre with tyre irons

When Ryan wants to change a tyre on a tractor he is restoring, he thinks about buying tyre irons and doing it himself. Thinking better of it, he buys a few jemmies (pry bars) and brings them to my forge. Together we reshape them into tyre irons. This was more challenging than making bicycle tyre irons (see earlier post) because the stock was much thicker, and the heat treatment had to be just right because of the greater leverage needed.

Ryan breaks the bead with a chain and jack.

Then he levers the tyre off with the hand forged tyre irons (Ryan calls them "spoons").