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I had the tire laid down flat on blocks. I centered the run flat using my high lift jacking horizontally. Once centered I used a tire seating lube on the tire and run flat and the rim. I pressed the rim into the tire keyed perfectly with the runflat air channel and then jumped on it to get it...

#6 Tire being assembled now. I do have 2 more tires to mount but I still need some cash to buy and ship those so I can have 8 total tires.

Sorry had to read that again, sidewall not bead. Bead is .5inch

They are Goodyear 16s AT-2A tires. Looks like the bead is 1.5ish inches. Here is a pic of my last cut side, uou can see I modified my "V" cut to ensure I was far fron the bead seal and my die grinder cut goes diagonally from there to ensure my depth was controlled. Like you, once I had the main...

Well, all as I can say in the end is IF your not looking to save the tires I found that just using a Sawzall with a carbide Diablo blade to cut along the mid sidewall doing a vdip down to just short of the rim and then plunge your diegrinder into the bead metal bands was faster then any other...

@simp5782 I am now working on one of the front tires. It had a clogged valve stem which would not take or release any air. I had to cut the valve stem body to release the air so I could safely disassemble the rim clamping bolts. The hardened rubber not allowing the bead breaker to edge up...

After fighting the 4th tire for 2 hours or more and not even being able to break just one bead loose with my HighLift, I borrowed from a friend a bead breaker like what you have pictured here. Still took 9 different "Jacks" to break the bottom deep rim section loose and 6 for the top.

THX All for the pointers. First one is OFF. After begging here for help I went back out and rotated the tire 90 degrees and jacked it again, rotated 90 again, then 90 and again. Jacking at each spot and it finally came loose. I am cleaning up the rim, changing the valve stem (Thanks to KEN for...

Hello Alll Busting into my first HEMTT tire disassembly . I have separated the two halves of the rim and peeked inside and do not see a bead lock inside. I have been trying to break the bead off but haven't been able to get the tire to slip off the upper rim half. Is there any easier way to do...