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.