Homemade Tire Changer Machine

In this video Iain shows a tire machine he built. This tire changer uses compressed air to break the tire bead and to clamp the tire in place. This makes it easier and faster to use than a simple manual tire machine.

[@biffmalibu3733]

nice job and a great explanation. I've been using my big Wilton bench vice to break beads. I think I'm going to build this.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks, that must be one massive bench vice.

[@jlexon]

Very nice job. Your build is as close to a commercial tire changing machine as can be had.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@FEMADEATHCAMPCONTROL]

Thats totally cool. Some really nice attention to detail and forethought went into that. You dont put lots of videos up but they are always a treat when you do.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@timothyberry1173]

Excellent work! Thanks for sharing!

[@redemptusrenatus5336]

I gotta say... I don't even change my tires myself and I want one of these! Great video of an awesome tool. Works a treat just watching you do it. Great job with this one.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks, I actually look forward to changing tires now that I have this thing.

[@mikeirwin9985]

Great idea for the bead breaker

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks.

[@hacgyver1738]

Very impressive engineering.

[@curtdunlap6818]

Nice job on that! It's just about like the ones in the garages! All you need is a pneumatic spindle and it would be one! Awesome build!

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks, yes the powered spindle would be nice.

[@toomuchhair4553]

Great job x 3! Designing, building and explaining it all! You seem like a fine young man!

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@fukenbiker]

@@iainportalupi you are the schizznizzel... Thanks so much! I have been making tools like my own flywheel truing stand, and I am glad to find your excellent video before attempting to build a tire machine. I am only concerned with motorcycle tires, but this is a head start for ALL OF US do-it-yourselfers. After watching this, my mind is expanding. Why limit my humble home-made to just motorcycle tires? Thanks boss!

[@iainportalupi]

@@fukenbiker fo sho.

[@pl747]

That is a real nice setup you made.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@paddrivers]

You sir are a genius!😎👏👍

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@crosley62]

I'd love to build one of these but it looks like it is a bit beyond my skill level. Very Cool, nice job.

[@Hotrodford]

I tip my hat to you sir. Thats was a ton of work to build.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks! It was a lot of work but it was worth it.

[@leebarnhart831]

Good video man! Very good video! I’m going to age myself and tell you I worked at a full service filling station (remember those?) when I was in high school. Fixing or changing 20 to 30 tires a day was common on a manual tire machine. I wish I had had yours to work with back then.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@rudythomas2055]

That was outstanding I enjoyed it a lot, I was very well educated on tire changing thanks brother

[@clintk5367]

Really love your machine, I will have to make one just like it!!

[@senatorjosephmccarthy2720]

4: 53 - , "wheel rim". It's a relief now knowing there are 6 of us in the US who know the parts of a wheel: wheel and rim around the outside.

[@libertyauto]

Nice work. Thanks for sharing.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks for watching!

[@farmerchad62]

Nice video. I need to build one of these. The tire bar is great. That's my first project.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@judeghazaleh6134]

I have the Mayweather autonomous tire replacement machine. I still own the Harbor Freight manual tire change tool. The reason is, the pneumatic bead breaker, is limited to the amount of PSI your compressor creates, and can really never compare to being able to put an almost unlimited amount of manual force by standing on the bar, or having another person help you on an old wheel where the rubber is adhered so firmly to the wheel that, part of the tire stays on the rim. Either because someone used adhesive to stop a leak, or the rubber is adhered just from age. My compressor only makes 100 lb per square inch. I would imagine for the pneumatic bead breaker to apply the almost infinite force that you can manually, you would likely need an amount of psi pressure that can damage Hardware, rupture airlines, or tanks. I like to keep the manual tire changer for baking beads just in case I get a stubborn Tire that otherwise must be cut off the rim. With the manual tire bead breaker the limit is how much stress you can put on the metal before it starts to bend, or break. The same can apply to amount of pneumatic pressure you can use on your $1500+ autonomous machine, so I'd much rather break the $50 manual tire changer, then break, or bend something on my pneumatic tire changer by applying too much air pressure for a stubborn Tire beads.

[@jimshowtovideos]

very good job on the machine and the video, thank you.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks for watching!

[@JimLambier]

This was a really interesting video. I managed to buy an old tire changer that looks like a hybrid between your design and the Harbor Freight unit. It has no markings so I have no idea who made it. What I do know is that the air cylinder makes breaking the bead super easy. I noticed that you have a lot of comments asking why you don't just get an extra set of rims and eliminate the need for the changer. I can tell them that I have extra winter rims for all my vehicles and I still have need for the changer. What I do is buy used wInter tires in the summer and used summer tires in the winter. There are tons of people who get rid of a car and are left with the off-season set of tires in their garage and just want them gone. Sure, they are slightly worn and I'll need to change them sooner but that's where the changer comes in.

[@iainportalupi]

Exactly. Is your a Coats Tireman tire changer? Some of their models had air cylinders for breaking the bead and then everything else was manual.

[@JimLambier]

@@iainportalupi I don't think so. I just googled the Coats Tireman and it doesn't look like any of the photos. When I first got it, I spent hours online looking for photos of anything that looked like it but I had no luck.

[@CodyPrince77]

For the 2nd beed you should flip the beed braker upside down so that way you can push the tire up off

[@MotoChassisByTonyFoale]

Nice job. I too try to make the most from the least.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@maddog3080]

Great design work, fully functional. I wonder if it could be built using hydraulic cylinders powered by air rather than the air cylinders. I have a few old hydraulic cylinders to repurpose

[@homemadetools]

Excellent, subscribed! We posted this video on our homemade tools forum this week, credited to you of course :)

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@homemadetools]

@@iainportalupi You're very welcome. I can't post a link here, but feel free to email me at "jon" at our url, and I'll give you a coupon code so you can join our forum for free and post your videos whenever you like. Looks like you're one of us :)

[@garyindiana8037]

That's very interesting works great on steel wheels but probably not so good on aluminum,, great fabrication skills

[@eksine]

the put on end of the bar you can use a bolt and put on 2 or 3 bearings, maybe skate bearings

[@hanifosman8080]

Excellent, very impressed with the idea and finish product. Godbless

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@INNO222]

You made a great machine. You wouldn't happen to have any part numbers for the hydraulic cylinder and the selector valve? Thanks. Great clip.

[@djosbun]

This is an amazing design! I have been wanting to make something like this (yours is a few steps above what I had in mind). Well done!

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@thesickest1udno]

Www yeah

[@ZAPATTUBE]

EXCELLENT!!!

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks!

[@ZAPATTUBE]

@@iainportalupi Is your machine attached to the floor?

[@iainportalupi]

@@ZAPATTUBE yes, it has four 1/2” anchors in the concrete.

[@jumpingjackflash2808]

Theres a diy method of breaking the bead by lowering the hub of the wheel you just took off, onto the tyre using the weight of the car. This is definitely a step up from that though. LOL. Really nice work and greetings from the UK.

[@iainportalupi]

Thanks and greetings from New England. I just looked up the wheel hub method and that would work, but seems like a bit of work raising and lowering the car repeatedly.

[@jumpingjackflash2808]

@@iainportalupi Definitely. Its a desperation technique for when really stuck for other alternatives.

[@sergesalnikoff5300]

Gracias

[@myriammilyroman3448]

My friend great job well explained and awesome piece of machine you built there, congrats and thank you for sharing your knowledge. I will like to know if I could use oxy- acetylene set to build one of these tire changers. This is all I got at hand and I can't afford to buy any other welding equipment for time being !, To be honest with you I have never welded anything with it either but am willing to give it my best shot.

[@iainportalupi]

Yes, oxy-acetylene welding would work just fine for this.

[@jodylaughman4684]

Great job very impressed. Would like to get your plans if possible?

[@emmettturner9452]

Are you saying there was something wrong with the Harbor Freight tire changer’s bead breaker? It always works fine for me. The people bending and breaking theirs are putting the mount/demount bar in the wrong way.

[@hk-1290]

Your like the guy who owns a truck & everybody who knows you believe there entitled that you move there crap for them & or change their tires for them too i totally understand you bro.

[@user-nt3cj4uh1b]

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[@ocendo1]

Hi,I like your work and it is money saving.One change cost me around 40 USA dollars. For that money one can feed family for two days in my place.It is workers wage for all day in the field picking fruit. And always without receipt.Good luck with returning investment.

[@iainportalupi]

40 dollars for a single tire change? That’s really, really expensive.

[@ocendo1]

@@iainportalupi one complet, 4 tires

[@iainportalupi]

Oh, ok that makes more sense.

[@technoidtype]

harbor freight could benefit from someone like you. looks to be about 1000x better than hf's model. you should make a duck head attachment with a plastic head.

[@iainportalupi]

The duck head is on my list of things to make.

[@joeyalfaro2323]

If guy had strap yard near buy he could make that in one day. Key is your surgical skills with saw saw and grinder. I fear grinder use it only in extreme cases. Welds can be sorsed out to lowest bidder. Your center fitting can clear I'd rotate cylinder then clearance. Fabrication is making cutting figuring out things. Knowing when you have gone to far.

[@dannyhood1797]

What size r the air cylinders

[@douglaswatters7303]

I always wondered where all the engineers went after the Shuttle program ended.

[@iainportalupi]

😂

[@kennethmorgan2704]

You need a patent that thing and put it on the market, it's better than any other I've seen on the market for sale, that's a high dollar machine...

[@villijs33321]

DIY tire changer is nice to have buy why not get one more set of rims? and then change only when tires wear out...

[@iainportalupi]

Because sooner or later I’d have to put new tires on those rims and I’d be right back to building this. Plus I’ve been changing tires for other people this fall and it’s paid for itself at this point.

[@aloneinanearthship4010]

Breaking the bead and clamping the rim are the easy parts. The hard part is getting the new tire on the rim.

[@iainportalupi]

It’s pretty easy with this setup.

[@aloneinanearthship4010]

@@iainportalupi I'll be over with my tires later. lol

[@iainportalupi]

@@aloneinanearthship4010 why not, that’s what everybody else does.

[@illustriouschin]

Very nice tool but I'd definitely keep a set of wheels for each tyre. Less trauma on the rubber and brain that way.

[@iainportalupi]

That works too, but then how would I get the tires on the extra wheels?

[@DXT61]

You have a link on ebay for those cylinders?

[@iainportalupi]

Unforunately those were salvaged air cylinders from people parting out old printing presses. Each eBay seller sold off what parts they had.

[@DXT61]

@@iainportalupi Ok, thanks

[@_-5651]

where buy tires

[@iainportalupi]

Tire store

[@_-5651]

@@iainportalupi Iink

[@iainportalupi]

@@_-5651 there is no link. Drive to store. Buy tires.

[@bigwrenchgarage1360]

Look close in your video. I think you almost broke the tps by going 180 deg of how you should have mounted the bead. Always put the bead tool 180 from the tps. You never want the bead to go in the drop center where the tps is. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJfSaXivbslgiK8

[@gunlover1955]

Why not just get another set of wheels, lol. That way you can just bolt them on on off!

[@iainportalupi]

Because that would make for a very short video.

[@bigtrev8xl]

Nice vid....ya sure can talk a bit ;) ;)

[@iainportalupi]

Yup

[@zacksrandomprojects9698]

Have the winter tires on their own set of wheels. Your welcome.