Its getting harder and harder to find a shop that will change tires on wire wheels, especially since I have to have tubes installed. they are all afraid of pinching the tube, or damaging the wire rim from the force of the machine, or they just don't want to deal with anything smaller than 24 inches...so, I was considering using one of Harbor Freights small tire changers. The tire in question is a 165/70 13 - Has anyone used one of these manual tire changing tools and if so, how well did it work? I am not too concerned with balancing the tire in question because I will be using it for the spare anyway. I was also thinking that possibly a motorcycle shop may be able to do the work since they regularly handle wire wheels with tubes. Anybody try that as well? I would think that they might also be able to balance it, although most of their wheels have a different hub, probably without a hole in it, so I'm not sure how they balance motorcycle wheels.
The changer can be seen at: http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=34542 Barry Schwartz San Diego, CA -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE Free email based on Microsoft. Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html You are subscribed as [email protected] [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
