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Mounting your own tires?
I just discovered Harbor Freight stores recently and noticed they had
a tire mounting tool as well as a tire balancing tool. If they work, it would sure represent quite a savings over time if I mounted my own tires. Anyone ever used one of these and have a feel for how well they work? I have an '89 Toyota Cressida with what appear to be aluminum wheels. Should this tire mounting tool work with these kind of rims? |
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(Doc) wrote in message . com>...
> I just discovered Harbor Freight stores recently and noticed they had > a tire mounting tool as well as a tire balancing tool. Here's the tire mounter: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=34542 "Change tires at a fraction of the cost! No expensive 220V power hookups or pneumatic lines. Handles all tires from 8" to light truck (7.5 x 16 and flotation tires up to size 12.5L16). Use in the shop or on the farm--you can even mount tires at the jobsite. All steel construction." And the balancer: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=39741 |
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I have experience with the mounting device , do not waste your money , a
local mobile service shop that puts tires on tried it and after broken tools , smashed knuckles and a success rate of less than 50% they invested in an air powered mounter , and maounted in their van. I can't imagine breaking the bead on a tire thats been on a aluminum wheel for a few years. I've seen our pnuematic machines struggle to pop the bead at 220 psi. As for the bubble balancer , if its all you have I guess it is better than guessing but not by much. Radial runout accounts for most shimmies nowadays and a bubble balancer can't compensate for rotational forces that a electronic balancer can find. Brad "Doc" > wrote in message m... > (Doc) wrote in message . com>... > > I just discovered Harbor Freight stores recently and noticed they had > > a tire mounting tool as well as a tire balancing tool. > > Here's the tire mounter: > > http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=34542 > > "Change tires at a fraction of the cost! No expensive 220V power > hookups or pneumatic lines. Handles all tires from 8" to light truck > (7.5 x 16 and flotation tires up to size 12.5L16). Use in the shop or > on the farm--you can even mount tires at the jobsite. All steel > construction." > > And the balancer: > > http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=39741 |
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My local independent tire dealer mounts and balances the car tires for free.
Why would I bother to do it myself? However, the motorcycle tire - last time I had the dealer do it - was $80 to mount and balance the pair. Now I do those myself with plain hand tire irons and a bunch of Yamaha Tire Lube. Balancer consists of a folding ladder (to get an M shape to roll the shaft on) with a special shaft through the middle of the rim so I can look for the heavy spot to stick on the weights. So far so good, but the air does turn a shade of purple at times.... Primitive Pete~ |
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In article <oawrc.93060$xw3.5278448@attbi_s04>,
wrote: > On 21-May-2004, (Doc) wrote: > > > I just discovered Harbor Freight stores recently and noticed they had > > a tire mounting tool as well as a tire balancing tool. > > > > If they work, it would sure represent quite a savings over time if I > > mounted my own tires. Anyone ever used one of these and have a feel > > for how well they work? I have an '89 Toyota Cressida with what appear > > to be aluminum wheels. Should this tire mounting tool work with these > > kind of rims? > > It must be a static or bubble balancer. Spin balancers are far superior, and > a whole lot more expensive. > As far as a mounting tool goes, unless you're mounting a whole lot of tires, > it's a whole lot easier to let the guy with the powered machine do it. Just > breaking the bead loose on a tire that's been mounted for 4 or 5 years can > have you digging deep into your store of expletives. And then there's the fellow I met when some furniture was being delivered to the house... The delivery truck got a flat. A semi-sized rig, without actually being a semi. They called someone, and not long later, here comes thise itty-bitty little pick-em-up truck. A fellow who looks to be about 5-foot-nothing, and MIGHT weigh in at a hundred pounds, fully dressed and dripping wet, pops out of the truck, and goes to work. He had the wheel off the truck in minutes. He had the tire off the rim, using nothing but two tire spoons and an 8 pound sledge hammer in less than 30 seconds. Putting it back once he located and patched the hole took about the same amount of time. Total time on-site: *MAYBE* 15 minutes, with a good chunk of it spent standing around shootin' the **** waiting for the little digital timer thing to go "beeeep" and tell him that the patch was finished curing enough to re-=mount the tire. I was impressed. It takes the guys at the tire shop (complete with four flavors of tire machine to choose from) longer to get a tire off of or onto one of my 13 inch "normal car" wheels than it took this guy to remove AND replace that big ol' 30-ish inch truck tire that probably weighed as much as he did! Never underestimate the speed/power/capability of non-machine methods of doing things... -- Don Bruder - - New Email policy in effect as of Feb. 21, 2004. I respond to Email as quick as humanly possible. If you Email me and get no response, see <http://www.sonic.net/~dakidd/main/contact.html> Short form: I'm trashing EVERYTHING that doesn't contain a password in the subject. |
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"Doc" > wrote in message om... > I just discovered Harbor Freight stores recently and noticed they had > a tire mounting tool as well as a tire balancing tool. > > If they work, it would sure represent quite a savings over time if I > mounted my own tires. Anyone ever used one of these and have a feel > for how well they work? I have an '89 Toyota Cressida with what appear > to be aluminum wheels. Should this tire mounting tool work with these > kind of rims? For those of us who grew up in rural areas, mounting and dismounting tires is not exactly rocket science. You can break the bead with the car's own jack, dismount and mount the tire with simple tire irons, seat the bead with air pressure, and balance it with a bubble balancer. No big deal, really. However, and this is a big however, this is not exactly an enjoyable job. Yes, I can do it myself, and if I have the "second flat" out in the desert I will, but when a 10-spot gets the same job done better at the tire shop I'll gladly pay the money. George |
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