Traditional tire machine

That would be a manual tire machine using what you got.Jammed a Porta Power under the frame horn of my 51 Willys PU truck and jacked on the tire to get the bead a little looseso you can stick in a s****,.Second jack on a tire s**** and usually the bead breaks,sometimes it's an ***hole and takes a few shots.These are big radial tires on rims with a safety bump on both sides.Then a long bar and tire iron get off one side of tire in a few seconds.Then flip it over,jam in the tire iron and kick out the wheel .A good work out and more fun than jogging

 

In my early youth,That was the only way to change a tire,,,only we didnt have the pleasure of a portopower...We just run over the tire real close to the rim with a car...breaks the bead...most of the time.HaHa..Sometimes we let the grease rack at the station
down on it...

 

Shows you have stupid I am ,I just did five wheels and I'm 63

 

There is no tire shop where I live , I bought some tires had them mounted and they didn't fit. Got new rims and took the new tires off one set and mounted them on the other rims much like how you have done it. About 10 mins a wheel , not to bad a task and saved 32$

 

Hey Trucked up...Not stupid at all..At least you "got ur done"....And didnt even start a thread on the HAMB to ask how...

 

i still drive over them with my allis tractor to break the beads. then take them off with tire irons. at $15-20 a tire it looks like i will be doing that for a long time. i am 60 now.

 

That reminds me of Memphis Tenn almost exactly 30 years ago. I drove a 36 Ford sedan to the 1980 Streetrod Nats that year. We had a tube develop a leak on a wide five rim. It was 105 that week. I found an old tire store that changed the tube by hand. The wide 5 wouldn't work on a tire machine. I had great respect for those 2 guys that wrestled that tire around on the floor in that heat. It was very inexpensive too.

 

Not what this thread is about but here's mine. I'm looking for the shuttle valve for it, the one that alternates air from the left to right diaphrams.

 

I have the same machine. It's called a Big 4. Had it for years. Got it for free, antiquated but works.

 

This one cost me a whole $25. It works but the rotation of the centershaft isn't right because of the valve in question.