FollowupID: 359047 Submitted:
Thursday, Mar 03, 2005 at 17:50
theshadows posted:
wrong tool D-jack.
you got to use the right tool for the job and tyre pliers are the wrong tool. All you need Is one decent tyre lever and a very large rubber mallet.
Stand the rim up on end.
As stated above place the tyre in the well of the rim and stnad so the tyre is between you and the rim.
Hook the lever in to the tyre from the rim side.
pull the lever up and over toward you and press down. {the lever should have travelled about 200 degrees.
Holding the lever down with one hand belt the tyre off the rim one hit each side.
Two good belts {one if your really good} and the rim bounces out down the road and over the cliff and you holding the stuffed tyre in your knees. such is life get used to it.
this is the quickest and easist way to remove a tyre . if you cannot do it this way due to a bad back ,Id like to surgst that you coulnd get the tyre of the high mount carrier in the first place ...so go away.
its a case of th wrong tool for the job use the pliers as intended to pull the carcass apart to fit a patch.
shadow