How to mount your own tires.. Guide and PICS

[dnixon]

This is great practice for when you need to do it on the trails. After a set of tires you will be ready for whatever the trails hand you (and your tires)

Tire Mount Web Page (http://www.dekonia.com/tiremount.html)

Here is a preview:
http://www.dekonia.com/Images/ifsja/TireMount/mount10.jpg

[nxcj]

Northern has spoons for $5.00. Grab two and you're set. I just mounted four brand new 38" SX's for my buddy in about 30 minutes!

[dnixon]

I bet the 38's were much easier then the 35's.. more sidewall to flex.. ;) yeah i will eventually buy some spoons but for now I am doing it the cheap mans method...hahaha.. now that i have got it down pretty good i probably could do them in 30mins.. i think its all about practice...
you ment northern wheel and tire or is there another.. that spoon price sounds pretty good, thanks for the tip!

[nxcj]

Northern Tool & Equipment. They're nation wide as far as I know. Kind of like Harbor Freight and Tractor Supply combined....

MTR's are tough period! They have that bead protector side wall that adds a bunch of rubber right near the lip; tough to flex it over. Several friends bought like 10 sets of one-run race compound MTR's from the CORE race guys. We mounted a set two weeks ago...got it done but it took some prying!

[dnixon]

Originally posted by nxcj:
Northern Tool & Equipment. They're nation wide as far as I know. Kind of like Harbor Freight and Tractor Supply combined....

MTR's are tough period! They have that bead protector side wall that adds a bunch of rubber right near the lip; tough to flex it over. Several friends bought like 10 sets of one-run race compound MTR's from the CORE race guys. We mounted a set two weeks ago...got it done but it took some prying!WHEW I am glad it wasn't just me!!! The way people were talking about mounting they were saying how easy it was.. I was bustin' my balls trying to get those guys on there...
Thanks again for the info on the spoons..

[Brown Bear]

Do i have to do it in sandals, or is that optional?

[Retro93]

Tire irons would probably be good to carry with you in case you popped a bead while offroad. Nice pics Donovan. smile.gif

[Desert Beast]

now a little starter fluid and a lighter and you gottem seated. http://66.227.101.70/contrib/blackeye/lol.gif now you need to devise a cheap mans balancing method. man i love college kids and they way they think (thats 10 bucks saved to go towards the case of PBR) http://smilies.jeeptalk.org/contrib/ruinkai/biggthumpup.gif

[talntar]

my old man showed me how to do that years ago,but since it dont cost me anything to get tires mounted, i have not done it in years as well

[TexasJ10]

I'm impressed you could get them on there with a tire iron and a hammer!!

[scotty]

anyone got a link for norther? id like to get some spoons smile.gif

[BIGYELLOW78J10]

www.northerntools.com (http://www.northerntools.com)

[mdill]

Personally, I just walk then on, have never had to use a spoon or iron to
get them on, in the picture where he is standing on the tire, all he needs to do is move
his feet (I would no do it in sandles) to where the bead is just over the lip
and shift side to side. Dismounting is a lot harder !!.

Mike D.

[tomd]

For me, won't work on the trail, but, its sooo easy, take tires and wheels to school, spend a short bit mounting them w/ a tire machine, balance them, and i'm done. Ah crap, i only have like a month left that i can do that.

You guys haven't lived, until you mount up lower profile tires, 50 series or lower, espeically when they have the rim protectors, they are a blast...

[dnixon]

Originally posted by mdill:
Personally, I just walk then on, have never had to use a spoon or iron to
get them on, in the picture where he is standing on the tire, all he needs to do is move
his feet (I would no do it in sandles) to where the bead is just over the lip
and shift side to side. Dismounting is a lot harder !!.

Mike D.You would think that the walking would work and the way that some people talked I thought it would too but not with these bad boys!!! It was a FREAKIN' struggle the whole way... Maybe its like NXCJ said up at the top that the MTR's are harder to mount do to the sidewall reinforcment...who knows...

[rockjeep44]

Dude you the man.
-Andrew

[dnixon]

Oh yeah mounting tires get much harder when you are trying to mount them and take pictures of yourself mounting them... **** what I wouldn't do for a buddy to work on my jeep with.. Once I got to the last one my gf came out and snapped the photo of me working the lip over... just a little backgroud behind the making of that short tech article... haha ;) :D

EDIT:
Originally posted by Brown Bear:
Do i have to do it in sandals, or is that optional?Well as you can see as the photos went on, I eventually ditched the sandals for just my feet... I hate wearing shoes.. i usually wear sandals or i go barefoot.. unless I am working on something tough on the jeep where I might drop/drip or otherwise hurt my feet..

[ May 02, 2003, 09:53 AM: Message edited by: SLOwag ]

[nxcj]

Originally posted by mdill:
Personally, I just walk then on, have never had to use a spoon or iron to
get them on, in the picture where he is standing on the tire, all he needs to do is move
his feet (I would no do it in sandles) to where the bead is just over the lip
and shift side to side. Dismounting is a lot harder !!.

Mike D.You'd better go about 375 lbs. if you can walk on MTR's. The 38 SX Swampers that I just did were a lot easier, but I still used the spoons a little. Maybe I'm a puss.......nope pretty sure I'm Not smile.gif !!!!!!!!!

[dublt]

Speaking of balancing, anybody here using birdshot or real balacing beads?