I'm wanting to get a good set of used tires from the junkyard for the station wagon. They are $12.00 each for 13" tires, but that is considering you are not purchasing the rim as well.
Unfortunately they don't dismount many tires from the rims at the yard I'm wanting to get these from. They won't dismount them for you either.
So, how hard is it to dismount a tire from a rim by hand? I watched a youtube video about a guy changing a tire for his Jeep, but he had to run over the tire with his chevy blazer to separate the bead from the wheel sealing lip. I won't do that to a tire in fear of breaking the steel belts in the tire or messing up the belts some how.
If I were to take the rim off the car, then remove the stem to deflate it, do you think stomping on the side wall of the tire might separate the bead from the sealing lip, or should I smack it with a hammer?
Once that is done, has anyone here ever used a pair of tire irons (tire spoons) to remove the tire from the rim? My dad has a set of 8" tire spoons (irons) that he uses to remove tires from his motorcycle, but I don't know if those will offer enough leverage to remove a car tire from a rim.
Fred, perhaps you can help? Or do you have a machine for this sort of thing?