AME INTL71050 Golden Buddy Tire Tool – Mount/Demount 22.5-24.5 Truck Wheels, Yellow Finish

Golden buddies just like it’s brother golden works great should’ve purchased these years ago

This tool here was perfect. If you watch their video you will see what it does. The video is right on and when I got the tool it did exactly what it showed. My time to doTires for my truck was less than half the time before without this tool.

Best commercial tire changing tool set on the market

Soooo much easier than trying to work with the spoons which I had originally purchased and messed up my shoulder really bad after trying to manhandle some steer tires, I was determined to be able to change my own truck tires so went out on a limb and got the Good Buddy, could not believe how much easier this tool is compared to the spoons, I watched a YouTube video on how to use it and then went to work on my tires, and remember always use plenty of liquid soap or something slippery to put on them sidewalls..

Demounting tool: Tried tool out on 22.5 tires on aluminum wheels. Even with lots of lubricant it took extreme effort to get several tires removed. Quickly noticed that edge of wheel where tool contacted was showing signs of significant scraping. Tool is a steel casting with rough surface that has been plated. I spent about 1/2 hour with a 2" flap sander in a die grinder and ground / sanded areas smooth where tool contacts wheel. Tool now works much better as rough surface was causing added friction / filing effect where tool needs to slide on soft aluminum bead lip of wheel as tire is being removed. I didn't see in any literature that I could find that mentioned anything about usage on aluminum wheels. I do see that all videos seem to show steel wheels. 4 starsMounting tool: Not impressed. Size makes it awkward to work with and tongue of tool slipped off and kicked back at me several times. Reverted to my conventional tire mounting irons. I would not buy again. 1 star.

Missing parts.

Probable the only thing that I’ve ordered in a long time that way over exceeded my expectations. This thing is built like a tank and is very heavy compared to what it looks. It took me less than a minute to have a 290/75R22.5 tire completely off the rim. It would take me a while fighting with two tire bars to dismount a tire. The bar to mount the tire back on the rim took a minute to get the hang of. but once you figure out how far you can move it without it slipping out from between the rim and tire it worked great. Just make sure that you buy the AME and not some knock off brand.

The pins or bolts were misding