Questions for making a home made tyre changer

[_Stretchie_]

Following on from Wideboy's thread the other month HERE I am planning on making a manual tyre changer and bead breaker for my garage.

Not doing it right away, I'm looking into it first but I want to make one to this design



Which will probably be mounted about a metre high with the bead breaker (like the one Wideboy made but out of metal instead of wood) attached to the frame below.

Just wondering if anyone with a home made or similar designed one has any tips, for example, the white blocks on this one are aftermarket and called Mojo blocks, nylon I think, and won't damage your rims, but they are from America. Any idea on where I can get these over here?

There is also a 'Mojo bar' that they do as the bar lever with nylon ends for removing and re-installing the bead again to protect the rims but I have seen a different bar that I'd like

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/manual-tyr...#ht_500wt_1182

So any idea's, I want to stay with this design, I like that it will grip the rims instead of just having a threaded bar come up through the centre which you then tighten a big washer type thing down on to the wheel.

There will be a metal bar/shaft coming up through the middle though to use as leverage for the tyre bar, and yes, I do plan on balancing the wheels afterwards but one thing at a time



Cheers ears


P.S. When I do make it, it will be getting tested on Squirrell Hunters bike and if he come to no harm I will start using it on mine.

[andrewsmith]

Dan

Cheapo version: 3m length of 3x2 or 4x2, a large garden hinge and two lengths of 2x1

Use the the axle or towball of the Disco

[_Stretchie_]

Cheers fella but Is that just to break the bead?

Also, I WANT to make something like the OP, as a little project if nothing else. I want to MAKE something

; )

[yorkie_chris]

What a complicated, expensive f*** about.

Option 1
Spare car rim, add pipe lagging, big bolt and wingnut to attach to workbench: done.

Option 2
Carpet tile on floor. Done.

Option 3
Put wheel on top of a spare tyre. Remove tyre. Swap tyres round. Refit.


But if you insist on making a tyre machine without any of the benefits of a tyre machine then feel free! I can probably find you some nylon stock that 2 minutes with a saw and file will turn into those blocks for you.

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by _Stretchie_

Cheers fella but Is that just to break the bead?

Also, I WANT to make something like the OP, as a little project if nothing else. I want to MAKE something

; )

Yep

Could suggest some of the other one people have told me from the Berlin catalogue (may or maybe not true)

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by _Stretchie_

Cheers fella but Is that just to break the bead?

Also, I WANT to make something like the OP, as a little project if nothing else. I want to MAKE something

; )

Make one of those well techy superbike stands instead. You don't change tyres enough to warrant loads of fancy stuff anyway.

[_Stretchie_]

Cheers guys,

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

You don't change tyres enough to warrant loads of fancy stuff anyway.

You're not wrong there Chris, last time I changed a tyre it was for a Raliegh Activator and all I used was a pair of spoons.

I've seen loads of different ways on the internet about breaking the bead, from placing wood on the edge of the tyres and then driving your car onto them to using a big vice, or using the side stand of a bike

I've also watched vids where someone messed around with a couple of tyre irons for ages and it sounds great for a workout but part of doing this is because I need practice making stuff, so I might as well make something that is useful to me.

I've knocked up an angle iron base with proper castors for my tool box, my smoker and coal basket for said smoker, catches and stuff for around the garden, fixed a trailer for someone but I want to do something that will make life a little easier and cheaper in the long run. Me and Squirrell have several bikes between us, I have two cars.

If I can make this and use it, I can understand where things could have been done better and maybe make a bigger one that I can do the car tyres on too (maybe not the Land Rover one though )

It's more of a learning exercise that as a bonus can be beneficial to me and my mates. It's got to be better than making a set of shelves

[yorkie_chris]

You still need tyre levers and sweat for this machine you post pic of...

[_Stretchie_]

I thought that big bar completely replaced the smaller tyre levers? These are all lessons I will have to learn, but if I don't do it, I'll never learn.

I will definitely give you a shout about the nylon stock though.

I've got a fair amount of box section at home but it's only 25mm x 25mm and got a small length of box that's 25mm x 25 internal so I could make the three bits that will move along the arms.

I might just tack up a mock version this weekend

[Wideboy]

as i said last weekend my bead breaker work perfectly, i could change the front with leavers but the back was ****ing ridiculous, my rim protectors (teehee) split (teehee) and ****ed the rim (teehee) so i have to re do it (not much work).

i really like the idea of the mojobar but i want to see someone using it on a bike rim as the car one looked far to easy.

also wouldn't bother with something to hold the rim (teehee), as YC has said, all i did was chuck a carpet tile down and used my feet the brace the rim