Tyres Fitting

[yon_pie_eater]

Hello Everyone.
Firstly, I'd like to say hello and thanks. I've just about managed to rebuild my 3000 engine and 'box; it would have not been possible without the advice gained from here. It has been invaluable.
I've just bought 4 new tyres and took them to a local tyre fitter who looked a bit unhappy about fitting and balancing them for me. He said that he'd do them tomorrow. My mate reckons that tyres can't be fitted onto wires using these machines for normal roadwheels, and that I should get them back and fit them myself using tyre levers. Any advice?
Thanks, Andy

 

[bighly]

Find a local restoration shop and ask where they get their's done. Andy, You live in a town famous for the three buried Bugatti race cars!!

Ettore Bugatti was the son of an artist born in Milan in 1881. Ettore went to an art academy himself to study sculpture, but he became enthralled by the newfangled automobile and became an apprentice engineer. Bugatti's first project was to design and built a three-wheeled car with two engines. The machine was so successful in local races that he entered it in the Paris-to-Bordeaux run. The tricycle placed third in the first stage, and young Bugatti returned to Milan, intent on designing cars. When the company he worked for refused to build one of his machines, he started his own company in a small village in Alsace, France. To protect his property from invading Germans in 1914, it is said that Bugatti buried three racing cars under the cellar of his home before fleeing to Italy.

 

[healeyneil]

Find a restoration shop is the best idea, I would agree. Any tyre place can fit the tyres OK but balancing them is another matter entirely. It is extremely unlikely that they will have the correct equipment