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Your grandma is a very wise woman with all the tricks
This is great I think I can do my own now I have one that needs to be done I don't have to take it nowhere thank you
Love the vice grip trick! I’ve wrestled with tires on wheelbarrows just like you said – wrestling with a greased monkey. Thanks for the great video.
Want to see the “air bazooka” someday.
That's a baby tire. Be careful.
Eather works too
I'll never have to pay to have one of those darn lawn tractor tires removed and a new one mounted again!
Thanks Mr O, you may have potentially saved me 16 bucks a throw!
I can't tell you how much I have struggled changing lawnmower tires. This video is a gold mine of information. Your MeMaw is one smart lady! Thanks EricO!
Lmao… You got me good with the sweaty old men bit. Stupid fricken lam mower tires.
going to have to do this thanks for the hints
We used to put a strap around the tire to blow it up.
Grandma was a smart woman!! I did buy the adapters for my changer but still fight them going back on.
Love the show
If you wrote your own versions of the Haynes manuals I'd read them. I find repair manuals interesting
You can buy a small tire jig from Meyers tire supply that works on all rim clamp machines. Local Tractor supply store sends customers our way all the time.
More kissing pls !
Bonus video are just as cool as regular videos any extras is always nice so thank you Eric O and Mrs O
Love when those little suckers have been on there 10 years , stiff , dry rotted and your spinning and hitting them with the shovel , lubing and can not get them off the bead. My trick is pull the valve stem squirt some dishwashing soap in the tire swish it around so it coats the rim inside, then give them the beans with the shovel.
i did this at work, and the other guys where did you see that…i said i cant say. then about hour later tell them where and tell them to sub! Love the vice grip trick! Thanks
Nice Never knew they had adapters. I had to put those little lawn tires on my scag with pry bars. Works! Just a pita and you need to mount the wheel in a vice some how making a fake axle. The little valve stems are hard to find too
Want to see the bazooka
That is a good old time way
Cool grandma trick
I don't have any trouble at all mounting those little tires. Full disclosure… I have a half a dozen vice grips.
There's one, there's two. Eric can defiantly count to 2. You should put that on a shirt and sell it. where is the WUW????
I remember working in a shop & a customer bring a VW BUG TIRES & it looked like tires they on the bottom of the pile & trying to inflate them using a coats30-30 machine OMG!!
Get a good set of tire spoons. I got mine from Amazon. Also get some good bead lube. Mine is cherry scented, for some reason. And no — it really is TIRE lube. Motorcycle tire.
The Vise-Grip trick is a good one. With three spoons though it's not totally necessary. You always have two to hold the bead and you just take the one in the middle and pull it out and go on down the bead with it.
More tire-mounting vids!!
Eric, at the shop I work at, I always hated doing specialty tires. But yesterday I did the vice grips trick and it worked so much easier than using bars. Love the trick. You're the best!
Tire soap works very well to help seat the beads on small tires as well. Just pack it in there.
Thanks, Eric O, have to do 4 this week manually. 5 and 6-inch rims. will use the vise and vise grip trick.
That girl is the bonus in every video she's in.
Mrs.O coming over for some………
Hey Eric, ever heard of the bucket trick to get the bead to seal? Take a 3-5 gallon bucket, diameter needs to be about midway on tire sidewall, lay tire horizontally on bucket, press down on rim with hand over the axle hole to seal it and air it up. The bucket will act as an air chamber and will make the lower bead seal, you pushing the the rim down will seal the upper bead. Just make sure bucket has no holes. Give it a shot.
I used your Grandma's trick today. Thanks immensely! Thanks to Grandma and Mrs. O for convincing you to do the video!
Winner…winner…another tire change video before Dinner!
Yay! Another fantastic trick from grandmother! We should be writing these down!
I could feel your disgust for that tire lol
It's not just about you changing tires it's the conversation that goes long with it. So…. Mrs O was right. 😀
I bought a cheap Harbor Fright small tire changer and felt silly buying a piece of junk. Mounted the apparatus so I could slide it in my 2'' Reese trailer hitch. It makes changing these small tires a snap if I say so. Now everyone on my road uses it ( as long as I don't have to do it, they can use it ) for a free brew.
Wheelbarrow tires are the worst for sure! Rathcet strap and some cursing to get those to catch a bead to blow up.
with a long shanked old bolt nut and washer. they gravy in the vice with grips as third hand and bit of washing liquid on bead lip . couple small bars better than screwdrivers but not a must .
I get lot at start of mowing season and fair few barrow and sack truck wheels in between, so much so actually stock small amount common barrow and sack truck tyres tubes and sack truck complete rims with bearings as keeps locals happy and I can spit these 'little favour' jobs out in 10 minutes and not worry about come backs or drag it out ordering parts plus prices and parts way better from holding stock .
I'm so old i used to use tire levers and a static balancer
I put slime in the tires in my mowers tires that leak. That stuff always works no matter where the leak is, or if the tire is dry rotted.
I saw a guy change a lawn mower tire with 2 big screw drivers on the ground. When he finally got the tire off and replaced, he looked like he was about to kill someone.
This and the CRV video reminds me of something I had to do last fall.
My lawn mower (like any halfway decent mechanic's car) is secondhand and had a pretty rough life before I got to it. Part of this was that it was left out in the sun and rain a lot, so the paint was faded, rusting, etc. Also the sun had done a number on the rubber for the tires. So I decided to replace the tires. Both front wheels practically fell off (the gap between the wheel and the axle could have been measured with a dial caliper…), and one rear one came off fine, but the other one was stuck. I sprayed it, heated it, and whacked on it with a hammer into the fourth dimension. It wasn't coming off.
It's now been four months, and that wheel is still stuck to the axle. I have no clue how I am going to get it off. No place that you can conveniently slip a wheel puller over. I'm careful about beating on it too hard, because I don't want to be hammering directly on to the axle which goes straight into the transmission. Tomorrow I'm going to very seriously debate welding nuts onto the wheel so that I can use a puller on it.
Imagine a bolt rusted in a bushing. But it's a 3/4in thick bolt, on a bushing that's like 5 or 6 inches long. It's impossible.
FRI. the newer rangers have adjustable clamps for a wide range of settings.. A motorcycle duck-head works great for smaller tires.. Many deals/ options for the China tire machine… One good one is the simple Atlas Bead roller tool About $100.00 and really helps a standard tire machine, without all the helper arms. Atlas also has a center hub that goes onto the standard machine jaws.. Turns a rim clamp into a center post for them real fancy stuff.. I just make some of those kinds of things myself, and it's super handy for Motorcycle wheels etc.. There is very little difference from a Ranger machine and a cheaper unit made by Brite.. (Not tilt back that is..) other then $1000 dollars cheaper.
You can always go work for your brother doing tires full time lol. I change truck tires at work, doing 425/65-22.5 super singles sweating my ass off, lately the boss's been taking the trucks to the tire shop.
Changing lawn mower tires because dry rotted? Still have the original tires on my cub cadet 1250. 40 Years old. You can't even tell when they go flat because they are so stiff that they don't bulge, which sure makes for great gripping traction.
I have a homeade air cannon to. it's a two piece kit though – starting fluid and a torch