Buying a set of used tires for my Warrior- is it possible (and worth the trouble) to swap my tires at home? Trying to avoid the cost of the cycle center.

 

Not an easy job to do. Not bad to unseat the old ones. Air down and jump on it to derim it. If that doesn't work drive a car on the tire to derim it. Prying works to get the old ones off and the new ones on. What's hard is seating the bead to the rim. A source of compressed air that will inflate the tire quickly will help. If the beads are more narrow than the rim than you need to put something around the tire to pull in the tread and move the tire beads to hit the rim. Not easy. A decent tire guy is going to charge you a minimum of $10 unless you know someone.

 

the stealerships usally dont charge to much to do it i think, another choice is that some little truck shops or car repair shops will do it 4 cheap if u ask, doing it home is a REAL pain if u dunt have the tools, u need a bead breaker for one, and if your using the hammer style bead breaker good luck with not bending ur rims to crap, and you need some tire bars, two of them usually. my dads a diesel mechanic and i just take em to the shop and do mine there, and they have a tire machine, or i just use the slide hammer bead breaker and two tire irons. unless you some of the tire tools its a real pain, before i got my razrs i had to cut my old tires off it was so bad, nothing would get it off, so hopefully yours arent to bad, atv tires are the biggest pain, i would rather do 5 truck tires then 1 atv tire by hand.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: chrisd0729

Buying a set of used tires for my Warrior- is it possible (and worth the trouble) to swap my tires at home? Trying to avoid the cost of the cycle center.</end quote></div>


Yes and No. I read that Wal-mart will do it for $5 here: Wal-Mart

 

walmart in my area does it for 3.50 a tire because they do not have to balance

 

my 99 big bear was a pain in the ***. it had the original front tires on it. yes, 9 years. you talk about a pain in the *** to get the bead broken. we ended up having to put 5 pounds of air in the tires then use the bead breaker to pop them off the rim on one side. then we had to partially reseat the bead that was just popped, air it back up and bust the other side loose. all the years of mud, water and rust had won out against a traditional 4 minute tire change. it took over an hour to get the 2 tires off the rims. thank god i work in an auto service garage. it did not cost me a penny.

 

I handle really big tires and I hate to see atv tires come in.

 

I tried to do it on mine, I had my truck on top of the tire and the bead would not break. They make a hand tool to do it.

 

If you don't have a bead breaker and a good air compressor, it's almost impossible to do at home. I have done my tires in the past at home, but I have the tools to do it. Even with the tools, it's still a pain and is almost worth it to let a tire shop do it.

 

I have done it many times now that I bought one of those manual tire changing machines from harbor freight. It was only $40 and has paid for itself many times over now. There is a trick to it but youll figure it out. A good air compressor is also required. Without either of these items I would take them somewhere.