Hand mounting 33" tires

So the story goes I trade/sold my 34 swampers for some wider 5x5.5 wheels and crap tires, then found a set of 33" km1s on craigslist for 150 on 5x4.5 wheels.
So, now I am changing them over using wd40, a few pry bars, a floor jack, a 2x4, and the rear bumper of my jeep. haha, I jack the jeep up, slide tire under the bumper, place a 2x4 between the bumper and the tire,lower the jeep which breaks the bead.
All was well, got 2 of of 8 tires changed, when I hit a stubborn bead that just wont break. Worked around it for about 2 hours, kicking, stomping, cursing, still no luck.
So, anybody know a trick to break a stubborn bead loose? Thanks in advance.

 

off the eave beam of the house ?, need a more soild area to push against, something has to budge then.

 

Place tire in driveway, get truck, drive over edge of tire as close to rim as you can. Worked for me years ago.

 

I've heard of a bottle jack being used for that. Put the tire under the car, put the jack near the rim, and raise the jack against the car.

Your 2x4 may be the problem. It's distributing the load over a lot of the bead. If you make your contact patch smaller, it might help.

 

that never seems to work for me and im always afraid of screwing up my sidewall.
What i do is use like a 4' piece of 2x6 and set it on the tire like ramp as close to the bead as you can and drive up it with my truck. always does the trick. on stubborn ones you might have to rotate the tire a few times or park on it and work around it with a bar but really it works good

 

Sounds like a lot of good ideas...but I have to ask...why not just take it to a tire shop, or even a WalMart and have them mounted? Can't cost that much.

 

round here theyd probrobly pull 100$ out of ya for that

 

guess inflation hasnt made its way down there yet eh

 

its like 12.50 here

 

Thanks for the responses guys. Tire shops around here would have run around $100-150 for 8 dismounts and 8 mounts. So, I thought it would be a good skill to learn on cheap tires. I screwed the bead up on the first one, resulting in a sidewall bubble, so that ones done, and aside from the one giving me fits, the rest swapped over nicely.
Jeep2003, I ended up doing just that, after breaking 2 2x4s, driving directly on the sidewall, I used a piece of 4x6, and drove up it a few times. I think 3 of them had beads that didnt want to seat with the meager amount of air I was shooting to them, so I did the starting fluid trick, which worked great, and put on a good show for the neighbors. I dont recommend that trick as a first resort but rather a last, but it works great with not too much, but just enough ether.
Thanks again for the input everyone!

 

The $150 dollar tires. I love wheeling and dealing!

 

I break mine down with the foot of a high lift on the bead. Works every time

 

Ya, a high lift is definately in my future, but I dont thing it would have worked on 2 of the beads, not with the jeep bumper anyway. The jeep didnt have enough poop, so I used the 3/4 ton chevy, which still took a few tries. In hind sight, I should have poured a little coke on the bead. My ole man said thats how they used to break log truck tire beads that didnt want to let go.

 

if you anticipate doing much of that stuff, buy you one of these, I have had one for years and it has always worked, not always easy, but it has saved the day on everything from tractor tires to lawn equipment.

 

i have always used the high lift jack and my pickup hitch also. works better than the tire machine that i have at work.

 

$150!!!!!
For that price, i'd be expecting a different kind of mounting...R)

 

High lift jack works great .
I had the tough bead , try the front of the jeep if you run into it again . More weight from the engine makes it go a lot better.

 

Here the cost is not the problem. It is carrying all the wheels/tires into the shop, them telling you it will be an hour. You come back two hours later, and your wheels/tires are in exactly the same place you left them. Then they say 15 minutes, a half hour later you finally get what you came for after wasting two trips and half a day.
I got fed up and made a ramp with a third of wheel rim welded to a 5 foot length of 2x4 rectangular steel tubing. Drive up with the front tire or jack it up with the high-lift.

 

Haha, Nice:tea: