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Tyrepliers Tyre Levers
Recently I acquired a new set of tyre levers to supplement my current pair.
This way I am able to keep one set in the truck and the other set at home.
Having been well satisfied with the Tyrepliers Beadbreakers, I was more than
happy to try their tyre levers. The sturdiness of their products meant I
would be assured of a strong lever.
Anyway, the next puncture occurred near my home, so I decided to try out the
new levers rather than fix the flat where I was.
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Left: Tyrepliers top and bottom, normal lever centre.
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The levers are round in cross section and 600mm in length.
One lever has a gooseneck like design at one end and both have a traditional
flattened end. The idea of the Gooseneck is to make removal and replacement
of wheel casings onto one-piece rims. This end is like a mini version of
their bull bar mounted tyre-changing equipment. This last piece of gear I
have seen demonstrated and had a try at the demonstration. It works well but
takes up a fair bit of space. I will stick with my
split-rims.
Back to the tyre levers.
The tip is more solid than the levers I normally used.

Tyreplier lever top. Normal lever bottom.
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This slowed down my removal of the locking ring; however, this is a minor
problem and may well have been due to the rim rather than the lever. A few
seconds with an angle grinder soon had the tip thinned by 1mm and from then
on, no problem.
The levers are more comfortable to use than the flat design I had previously
used.
They are as strong as I would have expected, a little extra stress was
applied (semi-destructive testing) and I could NOT get them to bend.
In summary, a good pair of levers and are available as part of a kit which
includes the bead-breakers, tyre and tube patches and a canvas bag. This kit
is readily available through the well-known 4WD retail outlets such as
Opposite Lock;
look under Accessories/Australia in
4WD-Links.
Tyrepliers may be contacted for more information by
[email].
This is an Australian firm, let's support local industry - especially when
they make such high quality products.
- Nigel Buxton
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