How to mount a small riding mower tire. Very easy method.
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Small tires can be very challenging to remove and mount to a wheel. This method works well for small tires that will not fit on a tire machine.
Tools needed:
*Vise
*Steel rod that fits inside the hub wheel and is long enough to give about 6 or more inches above the wheel's side when mounted on the vise.
2 sets of Vise grip pliers
Long flat screw driver or flat bar.
Wd40 or equivalent, or soapy water.
The smaller vise grips I use in the video to grip the wheels rim are ground smooth to keep from cutting into the tire as I spin it around the wheel.
After installing the new tire, and you're having trouble getting the tire to air up/ beads to seat, use a ratchet strap around the center of the tire to squeeze the tire and the beads will expand out to make contact with the wheel rim. Add some air gradually and remove the ratchet strap while slowly and carefully adding air.
These tires usually only need 14 psi.
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that is slicker than cow poop !
There have to be hundreds of videos on RUclips showing how to mount a new tractor tire, but yours is hands down the best there is. So simple, so easy. The best part is, no games or nonsense in your video, just simple instructions. Thanks so much, you are a RUclips gem!
Wow, thanks!
I second that @@Mechanical_Mind
I third that. THIS is the video I was looking for.
Agreed. Not a bunch of wasted time on chatter, just helpful information. Keep up the good work.
@@MyFakeBrand I agree, I've watched several videos and they all struggle with it. this was a straight forward no no nonsense video.
Look no further, this is the best tire install demonstration on YT.
I love learning. At 72, I have struggled with small tires like this for years. The last lawn tractor tire cause me so much grief that I bought a whole new tire and rim assembly. Now I am confident I can salvage the old one. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Haha. I'm 70 and have done the same thing. I could have taken it to a shop, but I'm too stubborn. This video makes it look easy, but I'll bet I'm making up new swear words before I get it done.
Dude, you made that look so easy! Really clever use of the vise and normal, everyday tools that even a schmuck like me would have lying around. Thanks for this, REALLY helpful - JD, Montréal
Just spent hours trying to get the tyre back on - within 10 minutes of finding the tools you advised, the tyre is on......URRAH !!! So easy - thank you
Forty plus years of fighting lawn mower tires and I never thought of mounting them on a post. When I saw your bar in the vice, I said that will work just like an old Coates 40-40. Thanks for the idea.
Great video.. Thank you.... to break the bead, I place the wheel (without air and with valve core removed) on my smooth asphalt laneway. (or lawn...but not gravel) then very carefully drive over the edge of the tire until the bead separates from the rim. Great tips thank you
Every 4-5 years I come back to see how to do this again when my casters wear out. This is by far the best video I've ever seen in 20 years on small tire installation!!!! Thanks a lot. I'll be doing this in the a.m.!
Thanks Toby!
Coming from someone who has no problem with semi or car/truck tires.....but has literally wrestled with lawnmower tires.....nice tips/video!
Thanks Robert!
The smaller the tyre, the harder they seem to be
I spent a week one day changing the two drive tires on my mower. I really wish I’d seen this before then. Awesome video and information!
Straightforward video with no extraneous unnecessary filler video + easy-to-understand instructions? BE STILL MY HEART!
Man. Your vice-grip trick just saved me. THANK YOU.
Clamping the vise grips on rim to install the 2nd side is genius! Thank you so much for posting this.
Great job, it took 2 of us about an hour to finish the job you completed in about 5 minutes! Live and learn folks!
I don’t believe I have ever left a comment on a RUclips video before. DAMN! This worked! I was so frustrated that I was ready to drop $50 on a Harbor Freight small tire changer! This made my afternoon, and I got the lawn cut! Thanks much for this short, sweet and ingenious video!
Thanks Phil!
I had one of their small tire changers to use on go-kart wheels. It wouldn't even break the bead without bending.
Harbor Freight's motto should be: Designed to break, and built to stay that way!
@@davebryant8050 HF sells a set of socket extensions that are extra long. Those are handy, so I bought a set, Thinking what could break. Zero moving parts right? The square end of one just twisted right off. You'd have thought it was made of brass, it was so soft. I don't think the steel had been correctly hardened.
Harbor Freight: Designed to break, and built to stay that way!!!
I bought that HF small tire changer and it did squat. Be thankful you saved your money.
I worked in a tire shop for several years and we'd get the occasional lawn tractor tire that would come in. We always struggled with mounting the new tires! This technique is awesome, and I will be adopting it for my at home DIY projects.
Excellent!!! I fussed with my Deere tractor tire for an hour before I brought it to the local mower mart for them to change it. Next time I can do it myself.
Wow, what an easy way to change a mower tire. Thanks for sharing it.
One thing I think you forgot. When you go to air it up, sometimes the bead won't settle into the rim and the air just escapes. To remedy this problem, put a belt around the tire at the center of the tread forcing the bead into the rim, then air it up.
Or ratchet strap
Yeah a lot of these videos leave off the air-up step, probably the most difficult step. Wonder why that is?
Your subscribers made the best point of the post. Thanks so much.
great tip
I can't believe what I just saw. That went so fast. I had to check that over a couple of times. Thank you.
wow!! genius!!! thank you...I'm still dreading putting on new tires ..never did it .....but at least I've got a fighting chance now after seeing your vid!
Best tire video, Every video I have seen in the past, they all struggled changing tires, you make it like easy
Okay now that was slick. I just went out in the shop and tried it thinking it can't be that easy. Wasn't it as easy as you did it but I got it on with no problem thanks
I am just getting ready to do this myself.
You have probably saved me an enormous amount of frustration.
Thank you!
Best tire tractor change video!
*HUGE thanks!!!*
At 74, I had my new tires on inside 1/2 hour!
Subbed!
Thanks for the sub!
Best video ever on these small rim tires. I ruined a brand new tire today and bent the rim trying to put the new tire on. Now to order a new tire and wheel already assembled.
wow, that was great. I have struggled and struggled with that, and then gave up and paid to have it done. Thanks much!
Well, that was a brilliantly simple, clear and easy to follow demonstration. I’ve saved it for later reference. Needed this a couple of years ago before I bent a wheelbarrow rim and damaged a brand new inner tube.
I don't have a table vice metal rod or table. But now I know how to change the tire fast and easy.
Thank you for a really good video on changing these tires. I have been messing with these suckers for close to forty years. Your method is simple and easy.
Thank you many times over!
I've been doing this for a while. You put up a nice, easy to follow video! Now show us how to seal the bead on both sides for inflation!!!
Tighten a wratchet strap or twist a chain around the center of the tire then add air
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. I have a commercial grasshopper mid mount lawnmower, and I had a hole in one of the small tires in the front. There were no tire shops open today and I had the tools to do it and a bench with a vice and this really save me a ton of mowing time.thanks again. Awesome video.
Thanx. I never would have considered constructing a tire machine.
yeah, rod in a vise was brilliant, visegrips too. Why couldnt i think iof that on my own is what irritates me
And to think I’ve been putting this off for so long . Thanks !!
Of all the tire change video on the internet this is by far the best one!
Getting it off the rim is the easy part Getting broken free from the rim is the hard part when they haven't been removed for a long time
That's the first thing I thought when I watched him just wack it off with a hammer in a single hit.
That said I'm impressed with the bar in the middle trick, I usually struggle with dual tire irons working them around to pull the bead over the flange.
Especially ones that are 30 years old, rusted and full of slime. Haha.
@@MISTERSLLIMput the tire on the ground, put a jack on just the rubber and jack like you are lifting a car.
Thank you for sharing the tricks! I was having a terrible time trying to mount my new 15x6-6 tire on the rim. Your rod in the vise method with the vise grips kept everything anchored perfectly. I decided to use some cheap HF tire irons I had already bought and had the tire back on in less than 2 minutes. Much appreciated!!
try breaking the bead loose with a hammer on one that's been on a mower about 20 years,also try it in cold weather
That was my situation, i dropped my snow plow blade on it a few time and that finally did the trick.
Try that hammer trick with old hard and dried tire. It won't happen.
If your vise is big enough use it to break the bead
Best video on this often frustrating job. Thanks for not taking 30 minutes or an hour... :)
Never seen a slick tire change like this before, 👍👍❤️
Excellent technique. So much easier than wrestling. Thanks for this!
I just need to leave a comment and say a huge Thank You! I fought with this for way too long but this method is awesome!
My hero today doesn't wear a cape. He wears yellow gloves. Thank you.
Excellent! Simple procedure, basic tools, no strain. Appreciate it!
Very clever. Great info. Thanks
Unbelievable, freaky simple!!! Just did mine with bare hands a vise grip and a small vise, the jaws of which were small enough to grab and lock-down the hub. Thankyou.
Hey brotha, just want to say thanks for shooting this video. I spent the better part of 3 hrs trying to mount a tire with no success. Then I saw your video. Literally 5 minutes to mount the tire. Thanks again!
This is by far the best small tire mounting process on YT. Thanks for sharing.
Well done. Reminds me of working in a tire shop using a Coates 40 40.
Thanks for the tips. I’m partially disabled. This will help a lot.
Dude! You Rock! I had been trying an old method pretty much all afternoon, and then with yours, I was done in less than 5 min. Thank You!
Haha! Thanks Daniel! I'm glad it helped
The best way, I used a piece of rebar and 1 vice grip to keep it from turning, way easier to do standing up at a vice, thanks again.
Cool I did bike tires ,very good I will do that from now on thanks
That was the easiest I've seen, unfortunately I don't have a vice & table set up like that, so I guess today ill struggle again for 2 hours, lol, did one yesterday for the first time, but today may be better 👍🏽
Has to be the best lawn tip video I've seen in a long time!
Of course, I see this video the very day after I give in, go to Harbor Freight, and buy a mini tire changer. Another set of vise grips would have been so much cheaper.
Thanks for posting. That was so cool!
UPDATE: After trying the "Harbor Freights Way" for about an hour and did nothing but get really, really mad, I watched your video again. I wasn't able to squeeze the little 6-inch tire as you did to get it back on (maybe I could have done it 20 years ago) so, I got 4 Erwin Qwik-Clamps to do that part. 3 or 4 minutes later, the tire was back on. thanks again for posting this video. I'd still be over there, grunting like a crazy man, if you hadn't.
We did it this way back in the 80s and 90s ❤
I can’t tell how much I appreciate seeing that. Thank you.
I put tubes in rotten tires not wanting to pay the price they wanted for new tires. (mower about 30 years old). It took me hours fighting, with tires between my knees. Great video, thank you. @ 72 I can't think like I used to.
I’ve watched multiple videos trying to do this. This is the smartest easy technique!
Impressively easy on RUclips 😅 I will try that when I receive my new tires.
Tried for hours on a small rigid lawnmower tire. Used this method and was on in five minutes.
These are the type of comments I love reading!
Thank you I have a tire I need to replace but I have been putting it off because I thought it was going to be a pain, but I watched your video, it was not that bad at all, I appreciate you sir!
This was excellent. I’ve been beating my brains out getting the tire back on.
No doubt..me too !
Wow. Well done mate. Excellent.
Thanks for sharing. I have always struggled with this job. This will help with my upcoming repair on a slow leak.
Most all round excellence content.time.no excess chatter..on point thank you
best how to on small tire r and r ever! thank you Sir
I found that leaving the valve stem out then giving it a good 'punch' of air would also set the beads easier. Then you put the valve stem in and inflate.
Best, quickest,safest way i have ever seen.
Straight to the point.
Short and sweet.
You could own (how to video's if you did that every time.
Good luck.
Thanks Robert! I appreciate the compliment, and that is great advice. 🍻
Great video. I'm getting ready to replace all 4 tires on my riding mower. Thanks
after mounting 245/35r19' zr rating last weekend....and this was the first time I ever did this at the age of 41 LOL thanks for the upload. worked pretty good! except I took out the grease fitting. It was way too tall. Just lightly tapped it, and back in business
Wow, I have wrestled getting my tire on! Thanks!
Did it work for you?
Same as above wrestled to get my tire on. Used your trick to squeeze down on the tire, wow it works, Thank You.
Great idea and very useful to me. We have a lot of thorny bushes and trees here in OK and constantly have to remove and patch these tires. This will speed up and make the tire changes much easier. Grazie!
Glad it was helpful!
My man, you just made my day. I've done it before, but struggled
This how too show is 5 star thank you.
That's the slickest and fastest tire change I ever seen 😅
Good video. I would inflate the tire to seat the beads before inserting the valve stem core. It will air up much quicker and help seat the bead then put in the valve stem core and inflate the tire to recommended pressure.
Thanks, I'll be giving it a shot this weekend., the WD-40 tip seems to be a key factor
Fantastic technique! Thank you for taking the time to make this video! Hugely helpful!
It helped me tremendously thank you 🙏🏽 and May God continue to bless you.
Simplified to the bare minimum! Nicely done, and I’m subscribing to your channel!
Thanks for the sub!
That looks so simple and those tires appear very flexible. I have 4ply 16x7.5-8 for aJohn Deere 455. They are very stiff and cannot be manipulated so easily. Back to my wrestling match...
I get the tires as hot as possible and With bigger tires I use a tire machine.
Two big c-clamps with wood blocks, squeeze the old to break the bead.
In 2018 I moved onto a rural property and bought a John Deere lawn tractor. I was constantly sticking that tractor
so I bought some ag tires. I got the turf tires off OK & I got the ag tire on 1 bead BUT for the life of me I could not
get the other bead onto the rim. I finally took it to a tire store to mount. They charged me $25 which I think was a
bit much. Well, after 6 years I have smoothed out my property and have been thinking of putting those turf tires back
on. Here we go again...
!
valve core is the screw in needle part that goes in the valve stem, great video, impressed
Nice work.
well sob you made that look easy. I have struggled trying to do that to the point i gave up and just spent $100 for a new tire and mounting. I definitely learned something here today
Thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍
It's been awhile since you posted. I think that thing is called the valve stem core. Great video. I'm saving your video for next summer. 👍🏼
Great video ❤ it if it won't air up I put a ratchet strap around the center of the tread. It forces the beat to go on. Then I air it up without the valve stem seat the beads and then put the valve stem back and thin air up to the working pressure. I use 10 PSI. 😊
Thanks Ben! That's exactly what I do if the tire isn't seating the bead.
Great display! Thanks! I always remount with a good old fashion tire tube. Even put tubes on car tires if for some reason they have o come off.
Wow…hands down the best way to do it!!!!!! Thank you so much
Thank you for a great and simple video!
Thank you so much for an EXCELLENT Video. I need to change one on my John Deere Riding Lawnmower.
Watched a few vid on this, yours is by far the best. Thanks for the tips. Best regards to you and your channel.
That's quality simple DIY
Thankd
Nice demo. Thanks!
Side note pet peace:
A tire plus a rim equals a wheel. The rim is the center metal part. The tire is the rubber part. The wheel is the combination of the two.
Incorrect - the wheel is the entire metal assembly, not including the tire.
The rim is just the outside edge of the wheel.
People often mistakenly call their wheel a "rim". The rim is just a part of the wheel assembly.
The tire is never to be referred to as a wheel or rim.
It's easy to dismount a new lawnmower tire. I'd like to see you dismount and lawnmower tire that's 6 or 7 years old like that .
Do it all the time. I make stuff look easy in front of frustrated customers all day. Guess what, it makes them even more angry when they see how easy I can do something in seconds that they've been struggling to do all day. You'd be one of those guys.
If I had 40 yr old dry rottend tire and I ended up having to cut it off, you'd be shocked how easy I make that look...
This isn't new territory for me, it is for you maybe