Changing tyres

[Malcolm Scanlan]

I seem to recall there was a useful YouTube video on how to install a new tyre by using a garbage bag. I found one example but it is not exactly related to the type of tyre on a TC.
Does anybody know if such a video exists and the link ?

Thanks
Malcolm

[Steve Simmons]

Basically you use the bag to protect the rim and reduce friction betwen tire and rim as it slides over the bead. I've used that method and the problem is that if your tire fits snugly on the rim, you end up tearing the bag trying to get it out. Then you have to decide if those wrinkled up bag fragments are going to chafe the tube, or if you should remove the tire again to retrieve them!

Personally I just use lots of talcum powder and work from the inside of the rim.

Here's the most popular video. I assume his tires are not as tight as mine!

[frenchblatter]

If you know how to use tyre levers you won't damage the pint. It's all about the angles......

[Duncan M]

Yes, leveredge. The brown book actually has quite a good description of how to get started.

[frenchblatter]

Just noticed that I'm not damaging the pint. And so it should be, a pint is much better than paint.

[Steve Simmons]

In liquid form I would agree, but I'll take paint on my car before a pint on my car!

[Malcolm Scanlan]

Four tyres, four pints may as well do all eight as I will be seeing double by then!
Thanks
Malcolm
“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning,
that's as good as they're going to feel all day." Winston Churchill

[frenchblatter]

Too true, Malcolm, but I have cut down a lot in the past 6 months and lost 22 kilos (110 to 88). Feel better for it.

Main problem is they don't have real ale in France.

[Julian Evers]

I recommend 2 methods.

The first is to get a proper vintage tyre shop to change the tyre and balance the wheel. I use MWS in Langley, West London.

The second, if the first is not practical, is to go to your local tyre company with a jar and ask for some of the goo they spread on tyres when fitting. It really does take the work, and worry, out of the process of doing yourself. After that you need to complete the second part of process one above, get the wheel properly balanced.

Best regards

[Stan Teitge]

I went to a hardware store and bought two of the hooked type nail pullers abut 16 inches and cut the hooks off. The other end has a flattened section which I smoothed out. They work great and I change tires on both my wire wheeled TC and MGB.
I wouldn't go near a tire shop and let someone put them on a tire machine and bend the rims.

[frenchblatter]

I use a weak mixture of soap and water. Not washing up liquid which is full of salt and other nasties. Just hand soap mixed with water. If you know how to use tyre levers (a dying art, only us old buggers have been taught) you won't scratch the paint on the rim.

TC tyres normally go on easily, unlike modern low profile tyres (tires)

[Steve Simmons]

I found a local motorcycle shop which had several types of tire irons. I bought two (different types) which work very well with each other. I carry an original also just to use as a holder or spacer when needed.