ATV tires are a bitch to break down. I have a place that I take mine to that will do it for $5 a tire. I hate paying money for something that simple, but its got to be done. That $10 a tire thing is a racket. Talk about easy money. I need to buy a machine and start doing that for a living or something.

 

It's funny, but it's not...just have to say this...

For the amount of work...10 bucks (or 5) is not a bad price. If you think about it...they had to pay for the equipment to be able to do it and they also have to pay a guy his time to do it.

I guess, its all about "how valueble your time is". My time is very expensive.....every hour that i lose trying to fix something, is an hour that i am not riding...

I would rather pay the 10 bucks and have them do it in a halfhour and be on the trail!

hehe

Hope ya get'er done!

Jonathan

 

We have an easy way to break the beads. Get a heavy metal shovel with a flat head. Have the tire pushed up against something so it will not move. Empty all the air out and put the edge of the shovel at the edge of the bead. Jump down on the foot spots on the shovel real hard. Use riding boots or you may get a sore foot! This may sound funny but we use this all the time and it works perfect! You can move the shovel to the other side if only one side breaks the bead and it will ussually come loose after 2 or maybe 3 jumps!


Nocando

 

We went to Harbor Freight tools and got a tire machine for $35 and it works great!!!! We cut the 1st tire off the rim and what a pain in the a$$$ that was ended up having to CUT the bead but finally got it then I went down and got this tire machine. It is harder than hell to break those things we just kept working and working on it but the machine helped 100% [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] I like RaptorDude's idea though might have to show that too my husband LOL

 

Take a 4" 2x4 and place it between the bead breaker and the bead (vertically).
Now you have all the extra push down you need.

Trust me this works.

Other option....Put the wheels back on your grizzly (tires still deflated, and whip shi++ies till they break the bead). That's the redneck method though....But it does work.

I personally recommend the 2x4

 

Take a short piece of 2"x12" board and lay it on the tire butted right up to the rim and then drive your truck up the board like a ramp. Always works for me.

 

The warmer the tire the better. set them out in the hot sun on concrete pad. then use the 2x6 or 12 or ect idea. I always use a slick solution of soap in a spray bottle to ease the task of removing and installing them from the rim.

 

Be careful what shop you take them to. I took my stock Kodiak tires to my auto tire guy when I had some bead leakage. He said "no problem." They did not have the proper adapter for the tire machine and ended up tearing chunks out of the tire beads.

Ended up leaking worse than when I took them in. I only found out the reason after I took them to a motorcycle shop where they had the same tire machine but with the small wheel adapters. I then had to have tubes installed in the otherwise okay tires.

Live and learn. I'm going back to the motorcycle shop to have my new Bear Claws installed.

 

Try using a vacum pump it is the reverse of inflating them. Sucks them right off the rim. Makes one hell of a pop when they break though.

 

I went through he** doing mine.I broke my bead breaker,then I used a hi-lift jack along with my 7000lb truck.I had both front wheels in the air and they were still on the rims.

I ended up using moms ginsu knife to cut the tires off then a grinder to carefully cut the beads off.

Next time I'll pay the $40.