Tractor tire Bead breaker

[Frank S]

OH NO! not another bead breaker. There are probably no less than 25 bead breakers published Here on Homemade tools.net, but I didn't have one.
Which is hard to believe as many of my own tractor and semi tires I've replaced or repaired in the past several years. Until now I mostly just used the backhoe, but sometimes it is just not convenient to use. I had a flat on my case tractor and decided it was past time to replace the old dry rotted rear tires with new ones. Time to make a bead breaker. SO IO cut a length of 2 1/2" sq. tubing and a piece of 2" sq tubing both having 1/4" wall thickness, this meant I was either going to have to grind a deep grove in 1 side of the 2" tube or remove the weld seam from the inside of the larger tube. I chucked it in my 4 jaw then with a 12" long boring bar I removed the weld




Then sanded the paint off of the 2" tubing to get it to fit inside

Since it looked like I was going to spend way too much time on something I could probably buy for under 100 dollars I torched the holes in the cap plates that the forcing bolt was going to pass through, and the weld the nut on the ram foot

The pipe sleeve is just to protect the threads while welding


I used my hose crimper to squeeze a nut onto the forcing bolt for it to be able to force the ram out against the tire


I wasn't going to spend anymore time one it until I was sure it was going to work


It works just fine awkward with the c clamp so now that I know it works I will refine it with a pressure screw to secure it to the rim

[DIYer]

Thanks Frank S! We've added your Tractor Tire Bead Breaker to our Heavy Equipment category,
as well as to your builder page: Frank S's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Tractor Tire Bead Breaker by Frank S

tags: bead breaker, tractor

[Frank S]

After proving the bead breaker worked, even using a c clamp to grip the rim I went ahead and added the clamping bolt and straps then pulled the wheels off the tractor to complete the tire changes

[sossol]

That method of removing the weld is worthy of an entry all by itself. It's brilliant.

Neil

[Frank S]

That method of removing the weld is worthy of an entry all by itself. It's brilliant.

Neil

You liked that did you? It's not the first time in my life time I've used that method of removing the welds from the inside of square and sometimes rectangular tubing it sure beats doing it by hand

[sossol]

You liked that did you? It's not the first time in my life time I've used that method of removing the welds from the inside of square and sometimes rectangular tubing it sure beats doing it by hand

Indeed I did. I've seen a lot of methods, and most either require special tools or the willingness to perform a lot of manual labor, neither of which I have. Your method is simple and efficient.

Neil

[NortonDommi]

I second the weld removal trick. I've been meaning to make a proper tool for years just never got around to it.

[lonestarr007]

Frank You had a very good idea on cutting the weld flash from the inside of the tube....I will kept that in my memory bank.....I have viewed other flash removal but your is the best on short stock...Thanks

Bob

[Frank S]

Frank You had a very good idea on cutting the weld flash from the inside of the tube....I will kept that in my memory bank.....I have viewed other flash removal but your is the best on short stock...Thanks

Bob

In the past when I had a lathe with a 15ft bed I removed the flash on a 10 ft long stick of 3" 3/8" wall sq tube, but I also had a 12 ft 2" diameter bar that I used for line boring. I removed the compound and made holder for the bar to mount directly to the top slide on center of the spindle bore I milled and bored a 2inch thick piece of Delrin to fit the boring bar and the ID of the sq tube to serve as a guide behind the cutter, tack welded ring for the steady rest to hold the tube centered about 3 feet from the end to the sq tube, I clamped the bar in the holder and bored a couple feet then repositioned the bar again and again until I had bored the full length.
So, it doesn't have to be short pieces of stock if you have a way to do longer pieces.
You don't even need a lathe if you can spin the boring bar as in line boring all you really need is a means of holding everything true to center line and not even that if you choose to make off set guides for the boring bar then you merely have to position the bar so as to cut the side you want keeping it parallel in the x & z planes I suppose if you were really brave and had the room you could make up the boring bar in shorter sections just add them like drill stem going down a well the guides near the cutter would be doing all of the work