Mount trailer tires yourself at home?
Do any of you mount trailer tires to the rim yourself at home or do you always have it done at a tire shop? Just wondering if there's any significant money savings doing it yourself at home and how d...
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Without an iron tireman (what we used to call a tire machine in the old days), and a balancer, I wouldn't dream of it. I grew up on my dad's Texaco service station driveway in the '60s. He had an employee who was a rather large fellow who had worked for Firestone before working for my dad. He could fasten the rim down on the tire machine, soap up the beads on a new Cadillac tire, and push the first, and then the second bead down over the rim by hand. The pneumatic cylinder(s) and power attachments were there for the rest of us...
Rob
Rob
