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I’m getting ready to take my wheels to have them cleaned up. So today I removed the tires from the wheels. To break down the tire from the rim of the wheel I let the air out then drove over the tire right close to the rim with my other pick up. A trick my Dad taught me years ago. Has anyone else done this??

I've never done it, but I've heard of it back in the 70's from old timers.
Samantha

Yep, works great.
Can also use a 2X6 or so board as a ramp placed on the tire but not the rim, start to drive up it, same results.

On a stubborn one I ended up using the bush hog on the back of the tractor when the truck was not enough, it is a really heavy one, just lowered the side of it on the tire to pop the bead off.

Grigg

I used to do it that way. Now I'm rich enough to pay someone the few bucks to do it for me and old enough to enjoy watching...

I've done that trick, then used 2 tire irons to work the tire off the rim. I then patched the tire, put it back on the rim with the tire irons, and set the tire to the bead with a 12 volt compressor. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you use the resources at hand.

I also, have run over a tire or two in the past to break the bead loose. I have also used a bumper jack. I just positioned the base of the jack on the tire right next to the rim, and started to jack up the truck.

More than one way to skin a cat!

John

Good god, try breaking down these 20" 2 piece wheels... I worked at one on and off for days before I got anywhere. Once the lockring was off I rolled it onto a piece of firewood and used the log splitter to break the rubber off the rim. Then I gave up on that when it didnt work and I cut the bastard with the sawzall...

i have use the driving on trick. but rustednuts, i like your idea, i never though about using our log splitter, i bet it would work with smaller rims/tires

You bet! I really like the log splitter idea, though. Mounting larger tires can be weird, too. I remember seeing an old timer put
a couple of shots of ether inside a tire and throw a match on it!
Not one I'd want to try, but he had a fleet of logging trucks and said he did it all the time.

My dad would do that to, i think he probably learned it from my grandfather, anyways everytime he would do that, and id be around to see, he would immediately tell me never to try it, of coarse i had to but i watched him closely and knew to only use a small amount of ether. Anymore i just pay to have a tire changed. the local garage only charges me $5 per tire.

I've used the front end loader on my tractor.

I broke down all my 20" tires with the grubhoe side of a smaller pick.It worked great for them all except one and I sawzalled that one off after alot of swearing lol