Simple homemade bead breaker

[KB2ROCKET]

Last weekend I spent two frustrating days trying to break the bead on my rupp sprint wheels I tryed using a hammer and a block of wood then I tryed running over the tire with my jeep then I tryed crushing it in the vice and it just laughed at me so off to harbor frieght to get a bead breaker but everything they had either looked like it wouldn't work or it was for large diameter car tires and cost about as much as the replacement tires I want to buy so I made this tool out of a piece of plank I had sitting around and it worked like magic

now the money I saved on fancy tools I can spend on new tires

 

[C9H13NO3]

That's crazy but hey, it works.

 

[jesse8931]

were you trying to save the tire ?

 

[KB2ROCKET]

You guys have no idea how stuck this thing was I feel so stupid for not coming up with this earlyer it was fast and easy to make and it just popped off first time with no phyical effort on my part

 

[jesse8931]

if you did not care about the tire you could have used a torch to heat up the tire it would have came right off

 

[KB2ROCKET]

At first the idea was to save the tires I just wanted to take them apart to strip and paint them but I have decided to get new tires tubes and bearings . I figure I may as well do it right as long as I am taking it apart

 

[Toycartony]

I like it!!!!!!

 

[jesse8931]

my atc had the tires stuck real good hit them with the torch and hit it one time with a bead breaker and it came lose

 

[metal man]

cool idea , strange that the vice did not work , never had any trouble that way :shrug:

 

[KB2ROCKET]

When I used a vice the side wall just deformed and the bead stayed stuck I even sprayed it with wd40 and left it in the vice over night but no luck

 

[Slide]

Cool! It looks like it got the job done.

 

[Harleys Papa]

When I was a kid back on the farm we would use a bumper jack

 

[mc73cromags]

Great idea! im gonna use that one

 

[KB2ROCKET]

When I was a kid back on the farm we would use a bumper jack

Yep that sounds like it would work too!

 

[Harleys Papa]

Yep that sounds like it would work too!

Ya if you could find a jack and a car it would work on :doah: I like your idea though

 

[thebronc4019]

I like it that is "OLD SCHOOL"

 

[KB2ROCKET]

I like it that is "OLD SCHOOL"

Yep that IS Old school thank you very much
hey bronc I'm having the time of my life building this sprint I will post some pictures as soon as I can find / order and recieve parts for these wheels the bike will look like a special edition "sprint express" and will be way overpowered by a clements H50 open

 

[delray]

jesse8931 use a torch? i think the wood work good. that rim look like it was on there for 30+ years and rusted on good. tire was junk anyway. see the dry rot.

 

[Tom S.]

Last weekend I spent two frustrating days trying to break the bead on my rupp sprint wheels ...

Good solution, and you got to play w/power tools making the board. It's a win-win! :thumbsup: With a couple more boards and a door hinge, you could make a rig that you wouldn't have to put under the car. Sort of like a big nutcracker. I've got a Harbor Freight bead breaker that works really great for motorcycle tires, but it's too big for minis.

 

[JTG]

I use this one and it works quickly every time. Motorcycle Bead Breaker