How do your break these stubborn beads on the tires? I want to tube my front tire

[Jmoozy27]

Evolution man, I recall a few years ago, my boss backed into the shop with one of those red bead breakers on the pallet and 4 stubborn tires to his quad. It took us 4 hours to change the tires and we had to get pretty innovative. We still have it, but I usually just take my wheels to a local tire shop and they do it for free. But dammit that BB handheld looks effective. It will be In my inventory soon.

[cap]

You can always cut it, see you tube for a video
Be careful not to nick the rim.

[myridge]

I broke down and ordered the bead buster today. Was more than I wanted to spend but I figured there are going to be lots of tires to work on in the future so it was a good tool investment. I'll let you know how it works out. Next is to pickup some good tire spoons.

[webbch]

Good move on ordering the bead buster. I have one I picked up to change a single tire on a 110. A couple weeks ago I changed all 3 (original) tires on my '84 200x. Piece of cake with those beads that had been in place for 30 years and takes up very little space in an over-packed garage like mine.

[Hasteranger]

I have a giant pliers style one I use on motorcycle, mountain bike, and skinny trailer tires. For anything else I stand on the rim and use a high lift jack with the foot close to the bead. Leave the tire somewhere hot if it's stubborn and dont be afraid to use some thick soapy water. A truck and a 2x4 has never failed me either, but it's pretty hard to do with one person as the board slides off.

[HondaXRider]

Harbor Freight has a hand tire machine that has a bead breaker on it that works very well we bought ares like 15 years ago and still use it alot. An air works pretty good to.

[Crazyktmmatt]

My bead breaker

It does decent even on the really stubborn ones.

[jays375]

The $40 Harbor Freight bead breaker works great.I'm sorry it's to late.Ive done tons of of all sorts of tires with mine.

[wonderboy]

The $40 Harbor Freight unit bent like a wet noodle for me when I tried to use it on a 250SX tire and rim.

[myridge]

Well the bead buster 450 came in the mail today and it did the job. Had to move it around 4-5 times on the rim but it worked. Glad I picked it up but still not sure it's worth the $104 I paid but it will be a useful tool in the future.

[BigRedGrizzly]

Hey all... Got my Bead buster today... Seem to work well... Happy to have it in my Arsenal....

[Jd110]

I didn't know what to do on my 1st one so I threw it under the truck, 2x4 block on tire, bottle jack on 2x4 and away I went. Bang. Done. Gotta get me a bead buster, though. Seems a bit more like a pro. Thanks!

[BigRedGrizzly]

Thanks for that post BRG.

I've been looking at those. I want something that is compact enough to carry in a small tool box, so I can take it with me when I haul to trails. I don't like plugs except for emergency repair, and I run 2 ply tires, so I have to occasionally break one bead down so I can patch them.

I've been using a bead breaking for years and I'm tired of it.

I ordered it from Amazon $104. They were out of the XB450 so they sent me a XB451 retailing at $140. Free upgrade.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s?k=xb-450

[ps2fixer]

Thanks for that post BRG.

I've been looking at those. I want something that is compact enough to carry in a small tool box, so I can take it with me when I haul to trails. I don't like plugs except for emergency repair, and I run 2 ply tires, so I have to occasionally break one bead down so I can patch them.

I've been using a bead breaking for years and I'm tired of it.

You mean one of these?



My dad has one of them, broke down 500+ tires with one similar with a wooden from my grandpa's place when he sold his house. Hell of a lot of work, but fairly quick if you are good. The semi sized tires is where it really shined though while the normal tire press style one did better on smaller car tires. ATV tires have always been a bit of a fight though, the little bead breaker linked above might be a good investment.

[ps2fixer]

Neat video. very similar process as what my dad uses. The tires I talked about before were OLD and have been sitting around 10-50 years. All of the semi sized tires were the ring style where you have to break the bead down, remove the holding clip and pull the ring up to slide the tire off the rim. Royal pain when everything is rusted up. Tool looked almost exactly the same as my dad's except it is probably 20+ years old, just a basic wood handle, but the same head.