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Making your own tire mount & balance equipment
« on: March 12, 2005, 02:04:47 AM »
Instructions for making your own tire mount & balance equipment:

http://www.clarity.net/~adam/tire-changing-doc.html

Here's what the above link's bead breaker looks like:



Other popular bead breaking items to use are C-clamps, jacks and hydraulic presses.
(The Jeep/4x4 crowd has even been known to run over a tire with another rig to break a bead - but I wouldn't recommend that method for m/c wheels.)
Paul
2001 GSF1200S
(04/2001-03/2012)
2010 Concours 14ABS
(07/2010-current)