For all you guys who've cursed and sworn and think that it was impossible to do without special tools, I've got a quick simple 10 minute Redneck solution to change quad tires or ATV tires whatever you want to call them. There's all the tools you need, a screw driver, a serrated edged kitchen knife, the vice grip, some lubrication and a settling welding torch, propane won't work.
So if you want to get rid of your tire for whatever reason and you don't want to save it but you want to get it off the rim, what you do is you get your serrated knife and cut out a hole just like that, to stab it slice, slice, slice, the only trick here is I will show you right now.
When you get down to the bead, you'll hear cutting the wires inside and of course you can't them, just make noises, so you just cut the chunk of rubber right out just like that. Well, then you had your pieces cut out, turn your knife on a sharp angle like this and saw right down side ways to all the rubbers taken off and the wires are slightly exposed, then light up your settling torch, the cutting torch works best, make it extremely a hot flame, push on the rubber and squish it in up here and shoot the flame straight down, you don't very often you have to inject oxygen and burn to all those steel quads it keep it help tight on the bead on the rim, you'll hear then snapping and sparking. If you are good at this technique; you don't even change the color of the aluminum or melt the finish on it or even burn the paint on the steel rim.
Then just go to the backside of your tire to cut another hole and do the same thing, now the tire can be taken out with bare hands, it just peels off like that, no tool is necessary. All it takes is 5 minutes. Next step when you're putting the tire back on your rim, as you got a little bit up or a little bit so I like to use Spray Nine but soapy water does just fine, just rub some around the bead. Now, imagine that this has no tire on the rim, you just choose any place on the rim and lock the vice grip on the edge of the lip.
Well, then you just start peeling the tire on with one trusty screwdriver, sort to get it push part away over the edge by hand, by say locking air for example and then just peel the rest on. This process is so easy, all I do is jack up my quad so the wheels are couple of inches in the air, I don't even take the wheels off the machine and I peel the tires off the machine and I put them back on again, everything intact. So total job is about 10 minutes per wheel and just a few simple tools. So simple you got to love it.
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