Have you ever mounted and balanced a tire yourself?

I am thinking out trying it. I watched some YouTube videos and they can mount them with simple tools in a few minutes. Amazon sells balancing beads. Am I an idiot for wanting to do this?

 

Not at all...I think most people just have a shop do it because most shops offer lifetime balance/rotation with a set of tires purchase....also your average joe can't even check his/her own oil, so...

If you can do it yourself then why not, says I

 

I have and I'll never do it again. IMO mounting a tire by hand could be the next cross fit workout. I still have my tire spoons just incase I want to abuse myself again sone day.

 

I tried mounting tires with hand tools once. It fucking sucked. Youtube makes it look easy lol

 

I wonder how many people suffer injuries trying to mount tires by hand.

 

Mounting a tire doesn’t seem particularly dangerous to me?

 

Mounted many a tire on an old manual machine and balanced them on a bubble balancer.

The machine is not something everyone has room for at home. But if you do, and a place to bolt it down, it can come in handy if youre always futzing with beaters like we did as kids.

Bubble balancers can work fine on small tires of yore. Not sure theyd be that great on big wheel/tire set ups.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...-UF9KYuB8XPEwYNA-GxixN5BxOuqV8aRoCtiQQAvD_BwE

 

Being an old and retired Diesel mechanic I've done my fair share of mounting tires onto rim's using tire spoons / tire irons and sledge hammers . It's not an easy task and can wear you out quickly especially if you're replacing all 10 tires on truck

 

If you are in good shape and have a strong back then go for it

 

Go with bead locks , much easier to work with !!!

 

If you're mounting tires using spoons don't forget this next safe and easy procedure !!!

https://youtu.be/Js-AauVbxdk

 

It seemed like a good way to bust out a few teeth

 

In for pics of rims scratches and story of what a PITA it was.

 

As mentioned try using tire spoons on a 24.5 semi truck tire !!!!!

 

Yes, I have. I mounted & balanced the tires on my very first set of wheels on this truck, 265/75r16. It was easy.

But I used tire machine & balancer at my old work.

 

Skid steer tire or even better one of those little dolly tires

 

i do all my motorcycles and even at that sometimes i want to throw in the towel.

wouldnt bother with a truck tire. still have to take it somewhere to trash the old one.

 

This will scratch the hell out of your wheels if you have alloys. And bubble balancers cannot do a dynamic balance (weights on inside- and outside lips to control wobble).