quality of used tires down?

[Shran]

I mostly run new tires but I prefer internal balancing media and most tire shops don’t want to mess with that. So I have a tire machine and a bucket of media and just do it myself. Technically a tire machine and a half. Me and a buddy went half each on an old Coats 10-10, center post but it’s really only good for 14-17” steel rims. With care you can do aluminum on it. I picked up an old Coats rim clamp machine a couple years ago and it will do up to a 20” rim and a 36” tire. Both machines needed a little maintenance but they work.

I have a Coats 10-10 as well. I've heard that you can break aluminum/mag wheels on it easily but I have yet to do so and I'm not real careful. It just scratches the shit out of everything so we wrapped a bunch of duct tape around the wheel clamp arm. My biggest beef with it is fighting the clamp arm up and over tires so that the bead breaker deal is lined up. I need to buy a rim clamp machine, then I will be unstoppable.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I have a Coats 10-10 as well. I've heard that you can break aluminum/mag wheels on it easily but I have yet to do so and I'm not real careful. It just scratches the shit out of everything so we wrapped a bunch of duct tape around the wheel clamp arm. My biggest beef with it is fighting the clamp arm up and over tires so that the bead breaker deal is lined up. I need to buy a rim clamp machine, then I will be unstoppable.

The one old guy I watched made a special thing to put on the clamp arm and the center post for doing aluminum rims without damage. I think I have the video saved on my phone, I’ll have to look it up and see if I can find it again. I was going to build his contraption, it was pretty simple, but I ended up finding a deal on a rim clamp machine and figured the heck with it.

 

[Shran]

Pardon Our Interruption...

Real tempted to buy one of those, supposedly they are pretty good. I'm just not sure where to put it. Outside is not really ideal, my shop is packed unless I kick a vehicle out (then my driveway will be packed.) Shed is too full, I need to get rid of some stuff in there. I also want to get a brake lathe but am running into the same problem. I think I would rather have a tire machine if I had to pick between those two.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Pardon Our Interruption...

Real tempted to buy one of those, supposedly they are pretty good. I'm just not sure where to put it. Outside is not really ideal, my shop is packed unless I kick a vehicle out (then my driveway will be packed.) Shed is too full, I need to get rid of some stuff in there. I also want to get a brake lathe but am running into the same problem. I think I would rather have a tire machine if I had to pick between those two.

I was looking at one of those when I found my rim clamp machine for a few hundred. It had an air leak which I’ve mostly resolved with new o-rings in a valve and some adjustments. Still needs a little tweaking.

 

[Blmpkn]

Pardon Our Interruption...

Real tempted to buy one of those, supposedly they are pretty good. I'm just not sure where to put it. Outside is not really ideal, my shop is packed unless I kick a vehicle out (then my driveway will be packed.) Shed is too full, I need to get rid of some stuff in there. I also want to get a brake lathe but am running into the same problem. I think I would rather have a tire machine if I had to pick between those two.

Wait.. didn't you just build a whoppin assed pole-barn just about big enough to host a tri-county hotdog eating competition? Or was that Scott?

Either way.. seems like you gotta grow your compound with more out-buildings lol. Get a shipping container... One-way single door 40 footers go for about 4k delivered out this way.. and one-way single door 20 footers for right around 2k. Brand new ones are double.

I'm getting a 20 footer as soon as I can manage to get a stripped 35 foot 5th wheel camper frame moved across the yard.. the container needs the space that the camper frame currently occupies.. don't know anyone with a 5th wheel but I do have a few friendly neighbors with decently sized yard tractors who are always itching for some seat time..

The frame is also gonna be turned into a car hauler.. gonna cut it back so it's not a gooseneck.. weld a regular triangle tounge setup on it.. pintle hitch probably.. I just gotta figure out how much I should be whacking off of the front and the rear so the axles end up in a good position. Seems like most car haulers put the space between the f&r axles just about 60% of the way towards the rear of the deck.. also gotta figure out how long I want it to be.. most car haulers seem to be 16-18 feet.. I don't know if I really need a deck that long though.. I feel like making the deck length just barely longer than the usual fullsize pickups wheelbase would be more than enough space.. 14 foot deck should suffice..

 

[Shran]

Wait.. didn't you just build a whoppin assed pole-barn just about big enough to host a tri-county hotdog eating competition? Or was that Scott?

Either way.. seems like you gotta grow your compound with more out-buildings lol. Get a shipping container... One-way single door 40 footers go for about 4k delivered out this way.. and one-way single door 20 footers for right around 2k. Brand new ones are double.

I'm getting a 20 footer as soon as I can manage to get a stripped 35 foot 5th wheel camper frame moved across the yard.. the container needs the space that the camper frame currently occupies.. don't know anyone with a 5th wheel but I do have a few friendly neighbors with decently sized yard tractors who are always itching for some seat time..

The frame is also gonna be turned into a car hauler.. gonna cut it back so it's not a gooseneck.. weld a regular triangle tounge setup on it.. pintle hitch probably.. I just gotta figure out how much I should be whacking off of the front and the rear so the axles end up in a good position. Seems like most car haulers put the space between the f&r axles just about 60% of the way towards the rear of the deck.. also gotta figure out how long I want it to be.. most car haulers seem to be 16-18 feet.. I don't know if I really need a deck that long though.. I feel like making the deck length just barely longer than the usual fullsize pickups wheelbase would be more than enough space.. 14 foot deck should suffice..

That was Scott, but I have a big shop too. I would love to get a shipping container but my current lot does not have room for one. I could maybe put one on our other property but my parents may object and my wife says I have too much crap that’s spilling out of our lot now… and she’s not entirely wrong… but I really like all my stuff!!!!!!

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Wait.. didn't you just build a whoppin assed pole-barn just about big enough to host a tri-county hotdog eating competition? Or was that Scott?

Either way.. seems like you gotta grow your compound with more out-buildings lol. Get a shipping container... One-way single door 40 footers go for about 4k delivered out this way.. and one-way single door 20 footers for right around 2k. Brand new ones are double.

I'm getting a 20 footer as soon as I can manage to get a stripped 35 foot 5th wheel camper frame moved across the yard.. the container needs the space that the camper frame currently occupies.. don't know anyone with a 5th wheel but I do have a few friendly neighbors with decently sized yard tractors who are always itching for some seat time..

The frame is also gonna be turned into a car hauler.. gonna cut it back so it's not a gooseneck.. weld a regular triangle tounge setup on it.. pintle hitch probably.. I just gotta figure out how much I should be whacking off of the front and the rear so the axles end up in a good position. Seems like most car haulers put the space between the f&r axles just about 60% of the way towards the rear of the deck.. also gotta figure out how long I want it to be.. most car haulers seem to be 16-18 feet.. I don't know if I really need a deck that long though.. I feel like making the deck length just barely longer than the usual fullsize pickups wheelbase would be more than enough space.. 14 foot deck should suffice..

14’ is too short, I have a 14’ open deck equipment trailer. Theoretically you could fit a truck on there, but you won’t have a good angle to properly tie it down and don’t turn very sharp with the vehicle you’re towing with or you’ll find the bumper of the truck on the trailer. 16’ is, IMHO, minimum, 18’ is much more comfortable. If you’re going to haul anything longer than like a Bronco II that is, I had one of those on the 14’ trailer and that’s about the max comfortable vehicle length on that deck. I currently have an F-150 frame on there (94 regular cab, 8’ box) and the frame hangs a good few feet off the back with the rad support area at the front of the deck.

 

[superj]

I prefer to but used but i am not against buying new. I just like good deals and they are usually had one used tires.

I have access to free use of the mount and balance machines on base since the base let all the contractors go. The person in the autocraft shop just said if you know how to use them, go for it.


They were different then the ones we had at fort benning in the 90s but very easy to use, still.


I think i would rather havr a nice lift than a tire machine though. A bubble balancer and a lift and i would be good to go. I thought of how nice a lift would be all day today and yesterday while swapping the transmission on the wrangler. It sucked laying there with crap fallung in your eyes and trying to balance the tcase and than trans to remove and then align and reinstall the new transmission. It would have been so easy having a 2 or 4 post lift.