capew246s

I have 4 new tire on 4 new wheels and I broke one of the wheels. I want to salvage the loss by taking the good tire off the wheel. How do I remove the tire glue from the tire?

Yakueb

Mostly, you don't. You can by solvents (or use nail polish), but they chances are pretty slim that you will get the tire off without some heavy damage.

adam-69

boil wheel + tyre for a good 20 mins..should peel right off.

Yakueb

but that will ruin the tire!

racemaxx24

And the foam insert and possibly take any finish of the wheel

Soppy

I did that on my Revo and it ruined the rim, not the tire...

cmerritt

i boiled my tires and the tire was fine. the rim was also. they were the stock wheels

Yakueb

What are the tires you have? If they are something super stiff, like the t-maxx (old ones) stock tire, then yeah, it will probably take any sort of hellfire you can throw at it. Softer compounds, probably not so much. They get all stiff and cracky.

Soppy

When I boiled it it discolored the chrome, thats how it ruined them.

Stambone

He only wants the 1 tire his rim is cracked I saw a video on you tube of a guy boiling his tires in water.

Soppy

I know I'm just saying thats what happened with mine...

Yakueb

I guess, then, I would try to free it up with nail polish remover, and then boil it for the shortest time possible. The rim is already wrecked right/ What does he have to lose I guess.

Yakueb

Oh, and that pot is probably ruined - I would never eat anything out of it after that.

lean is mean

use the oven to remove the tires. And some leather gloves. Just keep checking them every 5-10 minutes until the bead breaks free. Then soak the tire and or rim in acetone. The rim finish will prolly be gone, but that stuff never holds up anyhow. Boiling the tires will ruin the foam wont it?
Ive done the oven thing- it works

revocat

There is a debonder (got at LHS) out that will remove tire glue. I have done it on one set of tires and it did work fairly good and I reused both the tires and the rims.