[Tigers] Tire changes

[jay.laifman at gmail.com]

Just happened to be reading my Classic Motorsports magazine (really one of the best magazines out there). There is an article about Jay Leno's garage. He has his own tire remover which they note uses bead lifters instead of levers: Corghi Artiglio 50 tire changer, apparently available at Big Dog Garage. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Winblad <garywinblad at comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:19:53 
To: Theo Smit<Theo.Smit at dynastream.com>
Cc: Jay Laifman<jay.laifman at gmail.com>; Tiger's Den<tigers at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tire changes

What my local tire shop told me when I asked the same question in 1993 when I
needed tires mounted on my brand new semi-precious SunbeamSpecialties
repro LAT-70's:
Laughter...   Well If I couldn't mount on alloy wheels... I would be out of business!
Note, that was 1993!!  Note2:  YOUR dad's wheels are really precious.. in your case,
double check!
Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: Theo Smit <Theo.Smit at dynastream.com>
To: Jay Laifman <jay.laifman at gmail.com>, Tiger's Den <tigers at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:58:54 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tire changes

Most modern tire machines will be capable of mounting and dismounting tires
without actually touching the outside lip of the wheel. It does also depend on
the skill of the operator... if you go to a shop that can do the current crop
of low profile tires and 18 to 20" wheels then they shouldn't have any problem
with the Silverstones and /60 or /70 aspect ratio tires.

Theo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-
> bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jay Laifman
> Sent: July 26, 2012 10:53 AM
> To: Tiger's Den
> Subject: [Tigers] Tire changes
>
> Dad sure was proud of those Silverstones on his car - being the same
> wheels
> as Tiger #1, the Ken Miles version.
>
> I need to put new tires on.  Years ago, I remember someone telling me
> for
> one of my other cars, to make sure the machine they use to take off the
> tires is a certain machine.  I don't remember what machine that was.
> Does
> anyone know if there are any particular machines that are perhaps more
> gentle on the wheels than others?
>
> Jay