Saw another fella on TH-cam use silicon lubricant spray, just happened to have a can and wowzers it’s amazing as a tire lube. I’m going to use it on all my tires until the can runs out.
For once I can say thanks to TH-cam for suggesting your second channel! However I will keep throwing coffee cups at them for continually recommending videos I already watched.
I got a pair of used tires for a 4X4 truck and swapped them onto the wheels using 2 tire irons in about 30 minutes. (30 years ago...) You can learn to do the mounting by hand with the minimum effort. The mechanical aids such as the Harbor Freight tire changers do help, but they aren't necessary. And you still need the tire irons with the Harbor Freight changer...
When I first saw the new tires bundled together I though they were a lot wider than the old ones. Just shows how much they change under pressure. If they did get away from you when you dropped them off the tailgate you may have gotten lucky and found one of your lost drones when searching for the runway tires. 😉
I've always been one for, if I can do it myself and it works why bother paying anyone else. When I was fit enough I always did my own work on my cars or motorcycles, now though I'm no longer fit enough plus everything is ultra complicated now. Am liking these short films, good idea. 👍🤗
i just changed my 4 ate tires a few months ago for dry rot.wish i changed the valve stems i had to change two so far they also started leaking from dry rot.
Nice job on changing the tires. On the ground no less! Many years ago I worked in a tire shop. We used Ivory Snow soap powder mixed up for a tire lube. It was cheap and worked really well. It was surprising how thick the soap mix was. I don't know if you can even buy Ivory Snow powder any more.
At least you aren't doing military Humvee tires. The older style isn't too bad. Both versions are split rims that are bolted together with an O-ring to seal the two halves. The older style has a two-piece lightweight aluminum ring as the run flat and is bolted together inside the tire, then it sits centered when the two rim pieces are bolted together. There are two grease packets glued to the aluminum that will burst and lube the ring and tire to reduce internal wear and heat generation. Typically, the aluminum run flat ring is a one-use design if a flat occurs. The shock from running flat would damage the aluminum and had to be replaced. The newer version had the same split rim, but more bolts to handle the extra weight of the newer Humvees. The run flat was a heavy solid rubber ring and a pain in the ass to put inside a tire. There was a specific ratcheting strap that had to be used to compress the run flat onto itself. Basically, taking it from and O to oval where the inside edges touched. Then you had to work it into the tire, which was a workout. Once inside the tire release the ratchet and make sure all hands and fingers are clear! Then you install the wheel halves with the O-ring and bolt it together. The rubber run flat ring was much more durable than the aluminum design and could be reused depending on how long and the type of terrain it endured during a flat tire situation. The worst one I ever saw was when the tire completely shredded and only the rubber run flat was keeping them rolling. Granted, the rubber run flat was unusable after that, but you couldn't do that with the aluminum run flat ring!!!! We had to learn to change them in the field when absolutely necessary, but it is so much easier when you order the entire assembly (wheel, tire, and run flat) brand new and return the old one to be rebuilt at Depo. We always had a stockpile of complete assemblies based on how many Humvees we had. So, there was a constant rotating supply. Saved so much time when you dismount the old assembly and mount the new assembly. The other benefit is they inspect the wheels and the run flat assemblies at Depo and reuse them if they pass inspection.
Cap’n flying valve cores always make me mad… did you know… back in the 1960’s that all bicycle inner tubes came with a stem cap that you could flip over and unscrew the core? That’s because everyone fixed their own bicycle tires…. It was a right of passage. You couldn’t be a teenage boy if you didn’t know how to keep your bike running!
Back then we all rode on gravel roads so leaking bicycle tires was very common. Those little valve stem caps were handy to have. That’s all I ever had to use. I even had one on an old valve stem so it was easier to hold onto.
@@Crewsy I keep one rigged that way in an old cigar box that’s filled with patches, glue and assorted tire repair items. My grandsons learned how to repair their bicycle tires with my kit! We have to help them learn this important rite of passage!
Yup, and bicycle tires weren't as good as they apparently are now, because I got a lot of flats from goat-head stickers puncturing tire and tube on the road to the creek. A "road" being defined by us kids as any place where the brush didn't actually knock you off your bicycle. (I don't know if goat-heads grow everywhere, but I hope not.)
@@dansevern3291 we don’t have them this far north… but, we do have honey locust, black locust and Osage orange trees with thorns so tough they can puncture a tractor tire! If a bush hog ever hits one it spreads a mine field that’s battle ready for years to come.
Here where I live in the sticks I deal with alot of black locus trees with the huge thorns on them and one thing I have found with getting flats I came across a product called Tireject its like slime but a whole lot less mess when it comes to replacing tires. Seals up punctures like no other. I tried it on weather cracked tires and it worked great and was able to get a few more years of use out of atv lawnmower tires. Thanks for the vid
I've done it, but I don't like it. Especially the smaller sized tires. It's just hard to get a bite on the rim and to hold the rim steady during dismount. Thanks Mike! Lee
Don’t sell yourself short, I remember hearing somewhere that your a professional firefighter. That’s the greatest line since you owning a welder. 😂 I don’t know if you follow Wranglerstar but his latest Professional Home Owner slant is doing everything in bare feet to activate all the safety Sally’s. Apparently he hasn’t discovered the safety Crocs that you and DP rock. He’s a bit more extreme. Maybe someone should send him a pair. Wishing you and your family the best.
Ran flat when parked 😂 Maybe the tyres know what is coming next, that is why they tried to make a break for freedom 😂 If it works, makes sense to use what you have !!!! 💪😁 One elbow click, works a charm 😂😂😂
The worst tires to change, seem to be the front tires on a riding lawn mower. The worst for breaking the bead on an old tire was a 28 inch rear tractor tire. If I had a backhoe, the bottom of the bucket would make a good bead breaker 😎
The smaller the tire the harder they are to get on and off the rim. I struggled with my snow blower when I installed tubes in them. I believe they’re about the same diameter as a riding mower front tire. In the past my Dad broke the bead by driving his plow truck onto the tire. Never did anything as big as a tractor tire.
Back when I was a mechanic, we just cut the valve stem let the air out because we always replace the valve stem when we replace tires and number two we would take the valve Core out of the valve in order to inflate the tire to set the bead so that once the bead was set, we just disconnected the compressed air, let all the current air in escape, replace valve core and set pressure. Of course, with all these new modern tire sensors that wirelessly send information to your car computer to let you know with the pressure of your wheels are you might want to just stick with pulling the core to let the air out and leave the core out till after you set the bead and go from there. I noticed you didn’t balance your tires granted on the Quad It may not be quite as important, but still a very inexpensive tire balancer, which you could probably make, which consists of a stand with a Point at the top and a cone you put into the center hole of your rim and then, with the cone on the stand wheel on the cone, you let it sit free and see, which way it tips you then put weight opposite on the high side and try to level out the wheel to the ground. once you know how much weight it takes to balance it out, split in half and put 1/2 on the outside of the rim and 1/2 on the inside of the rim and then re-check the balance. It’s a really large amount of weight divided in four and then put half back down the arc on one side, from where the balance point was and the other half the opposite direction from the line where the balance point was. You might need a little more weight this way again have to wait outside have to wait inside but this will give you four points to help keep the wheel balanced in case one of the weights should break free. Your whole wheel won’t start going really wonky. Of course your barons might be kind of bad because your old tire wasn’t balanced, which is one of the consequences for not balancing a tire along with a not so smooth ride.
@@Kleeman1 You could put the valve in before you set the bead and then hold the valve open to let the air out to get down to the right air pressure. Or in other words more than one way to skin a cat so you do you and do what works best for you and of course that goes for everybody.
After I cut the grass at my local animal shelter I had a rear tire split in the sidewall due to age, dry rotting. The cost for replacement tires is crazy high now so I cut up an old intertube and patched the whole inside of the bad, split tire. I then used a new inner tube after the patching job dried in the sun. I was shocked my idea, plan worked. I had plenty of glue to affix the inner tube to the bad tire. Why you didn't just use a tube is beyond me.
In the gravel on top of a hill, Crocs to protect your feet. Using a scissor jack as a bead breaker. What could go wrong? I have a 2008 Polaris Ranger I bought new, the tire tread is worn down, but zero weather checking or cracks. How does that happen?
Mike..I will unfollow this channel in a heartbeat If you don’t stop showing off that awesome view! I know my buddy lives in Indiana and with SxS’s being legal on a lot of the roads he puts a ton of miles on his UTV ..he actually switched to 15” wheels so he could run light truck tires and not be replacing tires every couple thousand miles.
"I'm not a professional, I just can't afford one". That was such a great line! This should be a shirt!
And the next shirt after that should be “Crocs for safety”.
@@danlw212 steel toed crocs. Or would those be braces on the crocs lol
Love that bead breaker
Thanks
Can we just admire the view at 1:15 😮😊😮😊
Hold on a second. Captain K has gotten THREE new tires?!? Did you win the Powerball?!? Lol
I got to be honest! It came down to your video or a documentary on Herb Alpert... You won this time Kleeman! Keep up the good work!
Man u gotta show us that view! I didnt know u had such a nice view.
hello mike it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy
Great video Captain Kleeman
Hi Mike! Great vid! Them safety Crocs made all the difference!! Jerry...UK
You're just a crazy guy. Glad the clicking elbow still works. And the safety Crocs. That locking feature is a must.
Backhoe outrigger makes a good bead breaker
Saw another fella on TH-cam use silicon lubricant spray, just happened to have a can and wowzers it’s amazing as a tire lube. I’m going to use it on all my tires until the can runs out.
The clever one liners on your shows are second to none! Keep up the good work
Love ya, Mike- the scissor jack bead breaker idea was genius, thanks!
Careful Mike, if DP see you doing these, he might have you changeing truck tires? LOL. MIGHT? Thank you sir, Love watching anything you put out.
Ive done his tires for him several times. Semi tires are easier in my opinion
good morning i hope everyone has a great day
Changing you own tires is a great little life skill to have
You made that look easy ,changed 2 tires in a 10 minute video, I'll have to my next set to you to get them the easy way 😉
Probably took him 25 to 45 minutes to change the tires.
He used good techniques, so probably closer to 25.
Howdy Captain
nice tire change some times they can be a bugger to get off well done. cheers.
There's usually a free valve stem remover on most bottles of green slime :-P
And you said that we would not have a video this morning! Woo Hoo!
For once I can say thanks to TH-cam for suggesting your second channel!
However I will keep throwing coffee cups at them for continually recommending videos I already watched.
I got a pair of used tires for a 4X4 truck and swapped them onto the wheels using 2 tire irons in about 30 minutes.
(30 years ago...)
You can learn to do the mounting by hand with the minimum effort. The mechanical aids such as the Harbor Freight tire changers do help, but they aren't necessary. And you still need the tire irons with the Harbor Freight changer...
You can cut out one sidewall of each old tire and use them for planters.
Some people like them.
Mike you are definitely one of a kind.cute little video.just keep doing what ever your doing.kudos.👍👍👍😎😎😎👨🚒👨🚒👨🚒
Jack of all trades master of none ❤ you rock
Harbor Freight has a bead buster tool now for pretty cheap if you do enough tires.
Those weather cracks identified as traction sipes in a previous life. 😂
When I first saw the new tires bundled together I though they were a lot wider than the old ones. Just shows how much they change under pressure.
If they did get away from you when you dropped them off the tailgate you may have gotten lucky and found one of your lost drones when searching for the runway tires. 😉
That looks one heck of a view you have there so good on a clear day.
Hello Mike. You never told us that you had been calibrated! Better late than never. Have good days!
I changed a tire on our John Deere AMT 600 once. Once. After that I decided the money spent to have the tire guy do it was worth it.
You never disappoint Mike, excellent video as always 👍 Best wishes to you and your family, from Britain 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Seconded 🇬🇧
Put a tube in it and it will work for another year or two. LOL
Great video thanks Mike
great video Mike, you always impress me with your technique, keep them coming 👏👏👏👍👍👍👌👌👌
I thought I was the only one that will search for an hour and a half to find a tool that will save me ten minutes. Usually a 7/16”socket or wrench. 🐶
I've always been one for, if I can do it myself and it works why bother paying anyone else. When I was fit enough I always did my own work on my cars or motorcycles, now though I'm no longer fit enough plus everything is ultra complicated now. Am liking these short films, good idea. 👍🤗
Love your bead breaker never thought of that. Will try in. Need new tires on the RZR. Thank
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing!!
"...keeps the property taxes down....."! Bwahahahaaaaaaaa!!!!
Good job.
i just changed my 4 ate tires a few months ago for dry rot.wish i changed the valve stems i had to change two so far they also started leaking from dry rot.
Maybe someday Vevor will sponsor a manual tire changer! 🤷♂
Nice easy job Mike, have a good one, my friend
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Captain another great video! Thanks for sharing! Kevin
Progress and inflated to desired perfection 👍
8:40 He did a side-by-side on his side-by-side. : - 0
“That hour of time will save me a couple minutes”. Man if that’s not me every dag gone day!!
Good to see the safety crocs making another appearance, does the rear axle castle nut let you tighten up the bearing play?
I use my car to break my tires down with I just drive up on them it dose the trick
Nice job on changing the tires. On the ground no less! Many years ago I worked in a tire shop. We used Ivory Snow soap powder mixed up for a tire lube. It was cheap and worked really well. It was surprising how thick the soap mix was. I don't know if you can even buy Ivory Snow powder any more.
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Disappointed you didn't try caulking the cracks before replacing those tires. Maybe even a few coats of latex paint on the inside. 🤷🏻♂️
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At least you aren't doing military Humvee tires. The older style isn't too bad. Both versions are split rims that are bolted together with an O-ring to seal the two halves. The older style has a two-piece lightweight aluminum ring as the run flat and is bolted together inside the tire, then it sits centered when the two rim pieces are bolted together. There are two grease packets glued to the aluminum that will burst and lube the ring and tire to reduce internal wear and heat generation. Typically, the aluminum run flat ring is a one-use design if a flat occurs. The shock from running flat would damage the aluminum and had to be replaced.
The newer version had the same split rim, but more bolts to handle the extra weight of the newer Humvees. The run flat was a heavy solid rubber ring and a pain in the ass to put inside a tire. There was a specific ratcheting strap that had to be used to compress the run flat onto itself. Basically, taking it from and O to oval where the inside edges touched. Then you had to work it into the tire, which was a workout. Once inside the tire release the ratchet and make sure all hands and fingers are clear! Then you install the wheel halves with the O-ring and bolt it together. The rubber run flat ring was much more durable than the aluminum design and could be reused depending on how long and the type of terrain it endured during a flat tire situation. The worst one I ever saw was when the tire completely shredded and only the rubber run flat was keeping them rolling. Granted, the rubber run flat was unusable after that, but you couldn't do that with the aluminum run flat ring!!!!
We had to learn to change them in the field when absolutely necessary, but it is so much easier when you order the entire assembly (wheel, tire, and run flat) brand new and return the old one to be rebuilt at Depo. We always had a stockpile of complete assemblies based on how many Humvees we had. So, there was a constant rotating supply. Saved so much time when you dismount the old assembly and mount the new assembly. The other benefit is they inspect the wheels and the run flat assemblies at Depo and reuse them if they pass inspection.
Cap’n flying valve cores always make me mad… did you know… back in the 1960’s that all bicycle inner tubes came with a stem cap that you could flip over and unscrew the core?
That’s because everyone fixed their own bicycle tires…. It was a right of passage. You couldn’t be a teenage boy if you didn’t know how to keep your bike running!
Back then we all rode on gravel roads so leaking bicycle tires was very common.
Those little valve stem caps were handy to have. That’s all I ever had to use. I even had one on an old valve stem so it was easier to hold onto.
@@Crewsy I keep one rigged that way in an old cigar box that’s filled with patches, glue and assorted tire repair items.
My grandsons learned how to repair their bicycle tires with my kit!
We have to help them learn this important rite of passage!
Yup, and bicycle tires weren't as good as they apparently are now, because I got a lot of flats from goat-head stickers puncturing tire and tube on the road to the creek. A "road" being defined by us kids as any place where the brush didn't actually knock you off your bicycle. (I don't know if goat-heads grow everywhere, but I hope not.)
@@dansevern3291 we don’t have them this far north… but, we do have honey locust, black locust and Osage orange trees with thorns so tough they can puncture a tractor tire! If a bush hog ever hits one it spreads a mine field that’s battle ready for years to come.
Here where I live in the sticks I deal with alot of black locus trees with the huge thorns on them and one thing I have found with getting flats I came across a product called Tireject its like slime but a whole lot less mess when it comes to replacing tires. Seals up punctures like no other. I tried it on weather cracked tires and it worked great and was able to get a few more years of use out of atv lawnmower tires. Thanks for the vid
Worked pretty good 👍 thanks
I've done it, but I don't like it. Especially the smaller sized tires. It's just hard to get a bite on the rim and to hold the rim steady during dismount. Thanks Mike! Lee
Don’t sell yourself short, I remember hearing somewhere that your a professional firefighter. That’s the greatest line since you owning a welder. 😂 I don’t know if you follow Wranglerstar but his latest Professional Home Owner slant is doing everything in bare feet to activate all the safety Sally’s. Apparently he hasn’t discovered the safety Crocs that you and DP rock. He’s a bit more extreme. Maybe someone should send him a pair. Wishing you and your family the best.
Ran flat when parked 😂
Maybe the tyres know what is coming next, that is why they tried to make a break for freedom 😂
If it works, makes sense to use what you have !!!! 💪😁
One elbow click, works a charm 😂😂😂
Whoaaaa buddyyy. Bout lost a croc. Gotta remember to lock em in
Don’t get me wrong I appreciate you .
I don’t like risking rounding off the head. Better take a moment to get the right size.
The worst tires to change, seem to be the front tires on a riding lawn mower. The worst for breaking the bead on an old tire was a 28 inch rear tractor tire. If I had a backhoe, the bottom of the bucket would make a good bead breaker 😎
The smaller the tire the harder they are to get on and off the rim.
I struggled with my snow blower when I installed tubes in them. I believe they’re about the same diameter as a riding mower front tire.
In the past my Dad broke the bead by driving his plow truck onto the tire. Never did anything as big as a tractor tire.
@@Crewsy I've laid a short piece of 2x6 on the tire and drove my front truck tire up on "the ramp" to break a bead before.
Don't let any doubters say you can't wash a tire.
Crocs for safety🤘🏼‼️
I still prefer the ether method of bead sealing 😁
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Back when I was a mechanic, we just cut the valve stem let the air out because we always replace the valve stem when we replace tires and number two we would take the valve Core out of the valve in order to inflate the tire to set the bead so that once the bead was set, we just disconnected the compressed air, let all the current air in escape, replace valve core and set pressure. Of course, with all these new modern tire sensors that wirelessly send information to your car computer to let you know with the pressure of your wheels are you might want to just stick with pulling the core to let the air out and leave the core out till after you set the bead and go from there. I noticed you didn’t balance your tires granted on the Quad It may not be quite as important, but still a very inexpensive tire balancer, which you could probably make, which consists of a stand with a Point at the top and a cone you put into the center hole of your rim and then, with the cone on the stand wheel on the cone, you let it sit free and see, which way it tips you then put weight opposite on the high side and try to level out the wheel to the ground. once you know how much weight it takes to balance it out, split in half and put 1/2 on the outside of the rim and 1/2 on the inside of the rim and then re-check the balance. It’s a really large amount of weight divided in four and then put half back down the arc on one side, from where the balance point was and the other half the opposite direction from the line where the balance point was. You might need a little more weight this way again have to wait outside have to wait inside but this will give you four points to help keep the wheel balanced in case one of the weights should break free. Your whole wheel won’t start going really wonky. Of course your barons might be kind of bad because your old tire wasn’t balanced, which is one of the consequences for not balancing a tire along with a not so smooth ride.
You don't have to let all the air out to reset the valve core. I never have anyway.
@@Kleeman1 You could put the valve in before you set the bead and then hold the valve open to let the air out to get down to the right air pressure. Or in other words more than one way to skin a cat so you do you and do what works best for you and of course that goes for everybody.
That fire would do well with a pair of tires for some accelerant
After I cut the grass at my local animal shelter I had a rear tire split in the sidewall due to age, dry rotting. The cost for replacement tires is crazy high now so I cut up an old intertube and patched the whole inside of the bad, split tire. I then used a new inner tube after the patching job dried in the sun. I was shocked my idea, plan worked. I had plenty of glue to affix the inner tube to the bad tire. Why you didn't just use a tube is beyond me.
5:55 I call that putting them in 4x4 mode. 😅
"... keeps the propety taxes down." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Always keep those Crocs in 4WD, cause you just never know.
Straddling a tire while inflating... LOL That's kinda asking for a painful experience!! 🤣🤣
i lay a 2X6 on edge of bead/rim and drive my car up the 2X6 to break bead. Poor ppl figure itout
You know it’s getting serious when you lock the ole crocs in 4wd
In the gravel on top of a hill, Crocs to protect your feet. Using a scissor jack as a bead breaker. What could go wrong? I have a 2008 Polaris Ranger I bought new, the tire tread is worn down, but zero weather checking or cracks. How does that happen?
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Great job changing tires 🛞 Captain Kleeman
Mike..I will unfollow this channel in a heartbeat If you don’t stop showing off that awesome view! I know my buddy lives in Indiana and with SxS’s being legal on a lot of the roads he puts a ton of miles on his UTV ..he actually switched to 15” wheels so he could run light truck tires and not be replacing tires every couple thousand miles.
Torqueish
My riding mower tire were a pain
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