Tire mounting woes.

[Rex in OTZ]

Im open to suggestions for dismounting old ATV tires and mounting new ones.
I have tubeless tires and had actually put intertubes in the rear ones just to get use outta my old trx250
I have also used amazeing goop and shoe goo to plug tubeless tires on the inside after cleaning.
I have never had a easy tire dismout to date every one them was a hard won battle.
I have never used a bead seater and am not shure exactly how they work, I once wrassled for 3 hours attempting to seat the rear tire of a Honda 300 one winter finally in despiration I squirted some phaseload nail gun propellant into the tire and tossed a match at it, that sets the bead quick good thing I had the valve core out at the time!

[charles p]

I have a Honda 300 that is a 1991.  Think I'm on my third set of tires.  I've put monkey snot in the tires but never had a problem like you have had.  No rust inside the rims either.

[Lloyd Smale]

may be lazy but ive fought them to many  times. the local yamaha shop will swap tires on my rims for 5 bucks a rim. It doesnt pay me to fool with it for that.

[deerhuntertyler]

I just put tubes in all my tubeless tires because i hate tubeless... I know my grandpa puts starting flued in them and lights a match and throughs it in there... It works for him but it is pretty dangeruse if you ask me...

[Bob_VT]

The problem is the volume of air required to seat the bead is "normally" nat available to the standard home owner.   A good size 3" ratchet strap around the center usually helps......... but starter fluid is faster and actually more common than you think.

[Rex in OTZ]

I live on the coast and we have allot of rust on most surfaces, i just finished trying for over an hour trying to get a 16" tire off a 4x4 ford van, the tire was rusted on the rim, in the end I used a hand drilling hammer and a cold chisel and a slotted screw driver drove the screwdriver under the bead and the cold chisel to cut the steel bead wires and then could get the tire off, used a wire wheel to knock the clods off and smooth it up some.
same goes for ATV tires
We are in a remote area that has some paved streets we are allowd to drive snowmobiles and atv's on the city streets, the pavement cuts down on dust but eats off tire tread somthing fearce, I avoid them when I can which contributes to airbourne dust problem.

[Oldshooter]

A propane torch(kinda looks like a rose bud) and a bic stick lighter will seat anything from a truck tire to a atv tire.

I have an old riding lawnmower that has a rear tire that has to be reseated every spring with this method.

As my wife says " dont blow your self up"