ATV Bead Breaker

ATV Bead Breaker ATV S ATV S ATV tires are very hard to break the bead on and a lot of tire shops won t even mess with them unless they ve got the special machine for it according to Brian Quick who designed his own simple hand-operated bead breaker for ATV tires     With a little experimentation and a few pieces of scrap metal Quick designed and built his own unit which he says works great      It s quiet and my 12-year-old has no problem using it the Wilson Mich father of five says A lot of days I have better things to do than change tires on their toys     Quick says car tire bead breakers often tear ATV tires because they re so wide He s had no problems with his home-built unit      I learned as I went that it s all about the angle on the piece that breaks the bead It has to go in and down at the same time and at the right angle It took me three tries to get that just right he notes     A 4-ft piece of 6-in channel iron lies on the floor with a 1-ft section of 2 by 5-in square tubing extending straight up from it The 5-ft telescoping handle is hinged to the top of the tube About 10 in from the hinge there s another hinge with a 10-in piece of 2-in square tube dangling down with the bead breaker spoon on the end at 45 degrees The spoon is inserted between the rim and the tire and when the handle is pushed down the tire is pushed off the rim      Besides ATV tires I ve changed lawn mower go-cart and car tires not to mention all the way up to 33 by 1250 truck tires says Quick who s thinking of making an air-powered version     The Wilson Mich man calls his style of inventing yooperteching because he lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where residents refer to themselves as yoopers short for the U P     Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Brian Quick N16302 Gorzinski Lane Wilson Mich 49896 ph 906 497-5029; diquick@hotmail com

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