changing your tires on farmall H

A guy at a tires place put on my 11.2-38 and said that it was so easy to change the rear tires that i could have done it myself,BUT i never found out how to do it.Is it possible to change them yourself??

I do them all the time., Send me an e-mail and I'll send you a page from a owners manual that explains how to do them your self. If you have the correct tools and the know how they are not all that hard to do most of the time

i always change ours . never take the back rims off the tractor i use a slide hammer type "bead buster" and a few simple pry bars some bought, some home made

I just had my tires changed for $45 each. You will need a bead breaker sledgehammer; about 20 heavy hits did the job on my rusty rims. You will also need two 4 foot tire pry bars to get the tire off the rim and some soapy water to lube the tire. The tools should cost less than $200. Two experienced men worked more than an hour.

I used a high lift jack and a chain to break the bead. I have used this method to break the bead on a 10 ply combine tire.

Yea it can be done I leave the wheel-rim on the tractor jack up one side and use a bead buster - kinda like a bottle jack with a fork wedge to lock on the rim then useing a wrench turn the tool in to breack the bead then with the valve stem up pry it off kind like a bicycle tire when you was a kid with a screw driver

I do mine most of the time and nobody ever showed me how. So it is mostly intuitive. I started with motorcycle tires.

Rusty rims can be a problem. That condition will make the bead hard to separate from the rim. It will also make it difficult to lever the bead over the rim edge. The higher the ply rating, the more mussel it takes to do tire repair. 4 and 6 ply are not difficult.

A bead breaker or bead breaker hammer is not necessary. You can squash the tire with a loader bucket or your pickup truck wheels coming in slowly at a tangent to the repair tire.

Tire irons are nice but you can use prybars, even long screwdrivers on really clean tires and rims. You probably have everything you need in your shop. Or you can make irons out of flat but small automotive springs.

Pay attention that you do not pinch the tube with an iron. It's usually not a problem with a tractor tire but is very easy to do with a motorcycle tire.

I suggest that you watch the pros do it first and then try the next tire yourself. That should dispel any notion that you are not doing it right. Ask questions too.

Be aware that you can kill yourself and others messing around with tires. This is why all heavy truck tire shops have tire cages. They don't seem to be used all that much though. They are primarily used with split ring rims. But old tires can blow out and fly around. This happens when the bead doesn't seat and the pressure is mindlessly elevated to dangerous levels. But even low pressure in a rotten tire can kill.

I have been changing them for 60 years and find unloaded 4 ply tires easy, rears are easier than front. 6 ply tires are somewhat harder and 8 ply I will not touch. Loaded tires can get very heavy and probaly should be left to pros. Just my opinion and it is worth exactly what I charged for it.

rear tractor tires are the easiest tires to change. especially 8 ply or less. i do them all. 3 good tire irons, a 3# hammer (for finishing off the bead on re-mount), and a slide hammer type bead breaker are all you need to do pretty much any tire you"ll encounter on a farm. a helper can be real handy too, to hold a tire iron for you when you need 3 or 4 hands.

like is molded into just about every tire i"ve ever seen, never exceed 35 psi to seat the bead.

2 piece rims are another animal entirely- those ya really got to be careful.

I have experience on exceeding 35 psig when seating bead.... the first tire I ever mounted I blew off rim and it sent me tumbling to back of shed.... luckily I was not hurt.

I have experience on exceeding 35 psig when seating bead.... the first tire I ever mounted I blew off rim and it sent me tumbling to back of shed.... luckily I was not hurt.