Your experience with a manual tire changer will vary by the wheel type. For some reason, my Comanche wheels (original 1986 turbines) are the hardest beads to break ever. I even took them to a tire shop after getting defeated and watched those poor guys struggle with the pneumatic tire machine.

I mounted some 33" mud tires on a set of 15x8 aluminum bullet holes (Pacer or American Racing I think) and they went on easy. Seating the beads required a cheetah or starting fluid. And since I don't have a cheetah...

So the HF manual tire changer will work, if the rim will work with you.

I put balance beads in the 33" mud tires. They're fine-ish, until you get around 60 MPH. I'm not a fan, but they'll work if you absolutely won't take them to a tire shop (or the tire shop won't mount loose rims or customer-supplied tires).

Also, balance beads don't get ripped off by rocks on trails.

 

I have the HF manual tire changer with a duckbill setup and it works good as long as you use some good tire lube and use spoons instead of prybars. Also like roninofako I also use tire beads and no issues. I did 285/70/16 on my truck and wasn't hard.

 

I ordered the ceramic beads, but I'm curious if yiu have noticed any high speed vibes?

 

Tire mounting went well, actually rather easy, so much so I'm a little bummed I hadn't done this sooner. I'll likely never pay someone to mount a large tire again.
I used tire spoons, dishsoap, ceramic balance beads and a compressor.
The test drive in a blinding blizzard was a bit of a nerve ride, but there were no tire vibes up to 80mph. The jeep tracks immensely better with the narrower tire and has more pep again.

Now that there is a few inches down its time to see how these suckers eat!

 

 

Yes!

 

Nope but in the XJ 75 MPH is about the fastest I go in it...well maybe 80...