Removing tires

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jaguar6165

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I know about the plastic bag method for installing tires but what about removing them? The tires on my car are probably 20 or 30 years old and dont want to stretch over the lip of the rim. I had my mechanic give it a shot as well and they were unable to get them because he didnt want to chip all the paint off. At this point with the tires being so old would it just be easier to cut them of the wheels?
 
That is a judgment call to cut them off or not. I don't think I'd want some mechanical air driven shoe pushing on the bead and possibly bending the rim. A hand tire hammer and a lot of soap might work. I guess that won't work or you'd have them off. Barring boiling them in oil I'd think about the cut method.

If I was to cut them off and still save the paint then I fire up the DERMAL tool and get a good cutter blade and open up an side wall area big enough to get the tool and cutter in to the inside of the tire. From there I'd work from the inside of the tire back to the rim. Both beads. Finally opening up the tire and pulling the tube away then removing the offending tire.

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I thought about cutting a wedge out of the side wall to give the tire more room to bend and flex if not ill just cut it in half.
 
jaguar6165,

I had some old tires that were tough to get off, but I was able to get them off. I put them on top of a piece of carpet on the floor. After removing the valve stem core, I was able to step on the sidewalls and break the bead loose from the rim. After walking all the way around, flipping it over and doing the second side, I was able to squeeze the tire by hand so that it could drop into the center drop rim section, then I was able to work the other side of the tire off of the rim by hand. As long as you get the tire to drop into the drop center portion of the rim, you should be able to work the tire off. If you can't break the bead free by stepping on it, then maybe carefully cutting them off would be best.
 
Used a high lift jack on the bumper of a big pickup to break the bead of a few rusted on, hard as a rock, old tires. You need to break loose both sides. Then with the bead down in the center drop, use tire irons to work off the old tire. I used a saws all to cut the worst tires when all else failed. Bob
 
MCHinson said:
I put them on top of a piece of carpet on the floor. After removing the valve stem core, I was able to step on the sidewalls and break the bead loose from the rim. After walking all the way around, flipping it over and doing the second side, I was able to squeeze the tire by hand so that it could drop into the center drop rim section, then I was able to work the other side of the tire off of the rim by hand. As long as you get the tire to drop into the drop center portion of the rim, you should be able to work the tire off. If you can't break the bead free by stepping on it, then maybe carefully cutting them off would be best.
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May I add that if you take a heater hose and split it, it will protect the rim from any tools you may decide to use
 
If you can't get both sides into the drop center of the wheel it is Saws-All time. Tire and tube will be junk, but you just want to save the wheel and paint correct? Get one of those special "RESCUE" work blades, and cut all around the sidewall, that is the thinnest section of the tire, cut both sides. Remove the tread section, now you have the two beads with the wire core, place a piece of 2x4 betheen the wheel and tire remains to protect the rim and cut through the wire. BIG bolt cutters may work if you have them, otherwise the Saws-All is your friend..................Not that I would do this, but cut up tires are trash and you don't have to pay the throw away tire fee at the local Transfer Station. We still call it the dump.
 
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