Looking for a good beadbreaker and saw one in dennis kirk for $80 does anyone have one and do they work. Or does anyone know of any other ones that work good. Getting old and no longer like hurt fingers or busted knuckles...

help please.

real old guy

 

It looks good, but only rated up to 11" rims. Won't work on 12 fronts? Hopefully somebody has one! May be great alternantive along with boot/tube kit to spare tire on the trail. 5# is better than 20#.

 

We use a CMP bead breaker form Tucker Rocky. Works good, but don't use it on 12 in wheels or you will bend it.

 

Ok guys I went and ordered a Tire Bead Breaker from the JC Whitney catalog, I could have probably went out and found a place that would do it cheap but everywhere I called seemed not to want to do it, or just unsure if their equipment would work on "one of them there atv tires". I can’t tell you how easy it was to break the bead on the tires. The hardest part was getting the old tires off, and that’s not too hard just requires elbow grease. And like anything there is a technique to it.
Anyway I broke the bead on my 25x12x10 tires, which are one of the bigger size ATV tires. Basically that’s just pushing a handle. Then I used 2 big tire irons to get the old one over the rim. You have to set the tire horizontally so one side is at the center of the rim. The new DirtDevils slipped over the rim without any fuss (which I really, really like but due to the new traction I got over the old banana peals, I got tossed of my 2 stroke 400 twice, OW!). One interesting side note, when I went to the ATV place to get tires changed a couple months ago I saw them mount the tires, before they set the bead they sprayed the inner rim of the new tires with silicone spray to help set the bead. So I did the exact same thing and then tried to inflate them to set the bead. At first inflating just didn’t seem to do anything it just all escaped from around the rim. I wasn’t sure what was wrong; I had a huge air compressor? Anyway I guess I wasn’t giving it enough time to inflate, I thought it was going to be instant. So I just held the fill on and rolled it around a little, after about 20 seconds it got more air in than was escaping and it started to seat. The one tire set at like 15lbs of air on both sides no prob. The tires stated that 30lbs was max for seating the bead. The other tire set one side at about 15 and I had to take it up to about 21 for the other side, but all in all Piece-of-cake. After I deflated them I filled them up to suggested psi, 7 lbs. A OK. Then I deflated them again and put in 16oz of Slime. So after one use the Bead Breaker paid for itself and everyone after is FREE! Don’t get jerked around buy yourself a breaker if you are handy in the garage, it also works on motorcycle, trailer, any tubeless even car (but you would have to get someone to balance them).

 

how much did you pay for your bead breaker from j.c. witney ? they have 3 different models. Or if you can't remember give me a name and model and I will order one asap.

Thanks realoldguy

 

I have bead breaker, but don't remember the brand. Bought it from a tire shop down south for maybe $65 about 5-6 years ago. Simple unit, and it works. I uses it for my 12" rims when mounting the MudRunners, with no problems. I've lent it out several times and it always finds it's way back here in usable condition. it's quite adjustable and does the job. But, let's face it, atv tires are no fun changing, no matter what you use.