Fixin yer own tires

[Handy Andy]

  Our local service station closed. The guy tried to sell it, but no buyers, so now he just uses it for his own use.  Can catch him once in a while there, but no regular hours.  The coop used to fix tires about 12 miles away, but the guy quit who fixed the tires, and nobody else there wants to do it.  There is a farmer about 10 miles away who fixes a few tires, but seems like it's a little far away for immediate repairs.     
   I have an old antique tire machine, hand operated probably from the 40's or 50's, but it doesn't work well with newer rims. The bead breaker doesn't like safety rims. And anything bigger than 15" doesn't work well.  Been looking at the Coseng tire machine sale sheet from YourNextTire.com, it is 1500$ and of course you need air to operate it. Problem is my shop doesn't have room for a tire machine and a huge air compressor.  What do you guys do for tire repair?

[paul case]

i have one of those old manual machines as well. we use it and fix almost all our own  tires. we fix our own tractor rears with some real primitive take off tools. round ended leaves out of a spring from a model a ford. they have worked well for a long time.
the worst trouble i have had with other folks fixing my tires is they dont clean the tire out. on tube type tires the trash will puncture the tube in pretty short order. on tubeless tires they wouldnt clean the hole and if it was a rock or thorn or such it would make a hole in the patch. i dont like paying someone to ''fix'' tires when they dont do the job completely. pc

[moosehunter]

I just take mine to work with me and tell one of my employees " fix this tire" ;D

[Reddog]

http://www.tirerepairkit.com/

[ely]

i have had all my own equipment since 08. this includes the tire machine and computer balancer. the tire machine is well used but still very servicable. i made room inside my sharpening shed to set it all up. tire machine was cheep, balancer was not, but still worth it.

i like being able to work on all my own stuff.

[Autocar]

I take my F-90 Prentice grapple to bust the beads on 24.5x32's and the outrigger for smaller tires ,then just a bunch of tire irons Ive made over the years  ;D

[Handy Andy]

  That looks like a good plug system, I use the regular ones, but have trouble sometimes finding the right hole, and wind up making a new hole and plugging that. My old machine is the clamp type Coats, probably the first one built.  Doesn't work on these modern rims that are not drop center.  Not enough adjustability.  The next later machine had a threaded vertical shaft that you dropped the wheel over, and allowed for a wider adjustment. Does anybody have one of these machines that turns the rim? Or are they the old Coats 20 20, or something similar?  The farmer a few miles away bought a machine from Northern Hydraulic, which works real well, can fix 4 wheeler and lawnmower tires up to 20" truck tires.

[paul case]

I just take mine to work with me and tell one of my employees " fix this tire" ;D

i would do this , but since i am the employee and employer i would be talking to myself and the tire still wouldnt get fixed. ;D pc

[Coon]

Paul, don't worry too much about talking to yourself, I think most of us here do it.  The problem lies when you start answering back to yourself.   ;) :D

[sandhills]

Paul, don't worry too much about talking to yourself, I think most of us here do it.  The problem lies when you start answering back to yourself.   ;) :D

No, I have to disagree (somewhat), the problem I have lies when I give myself the wrong answer back to the question I asked myself mere seconds earlier  ;D.  Back on the subject though, I bought a coats 1010? I think is the number a few years ago from a neighbor, it has the upgrade to a 1020? of the air tank and manifold to pop beads on.  Not sure I have the model numbers right but it does have the vertical shaft and still won't do some of the rims without the drop center, have to go back to the old fashioned way with the sledge and bead breaker/tire irons for those.  It will do most all our ag tires and older vehicle tires though, if memory serves me correct which it seldom does, think I paid $250 for it but we also trade a lot of help between us.

[easymoney]

 it is hard to get a tire repaired right in my town. i have an older tire changer  and i will do all of my own repair from now on. i carried 4 tires in to one shop and asked them to put them on my Nissan dually. the man changing them dropped one tire too far down on one side of the rim and could not get the bead to go over. he started to beat on the tire rather than to take it off and start over. he punched a hole in the sidewall with his tire iron. then took the tire off and threw it down and announced that if i got another tire he would not charge me to mount it. i did not say anything but i will not be back there. he still charged me 30.00 to change 3 tires. and i limped away on 3 wheels.

[Don_Papenburg]

I have an old May Tirematic . It uses a set of rotating disks to break the beads as it spins the tire. Then  you use a spoon to remove the tire as it rotates .  Bigger tires use a bead Cheata and a hammer and wedge.  spoons and other tools .  I do want a 50 to 75 LB  jack hammer so I can break the inside dual bead .
I would like to find a supply of  Bose Seal Fast  " tire plast "  for plugging tubless tire. It is tire cord covered in a rubber of some sort  in a small clear tube  with  about 50 ft of cord.  You pull out about six inches and cut the plug . dip in self vulcanizing glue shove it into the hole give it a turn and pull out just pass the tread and snip it off.  Tire fixed .