That is more or less how I took care of the two front tires on my Ford 641D after the tires failed. They had been foamed several years earlier, but the sidewalls of the tires started delaminating and breaking, causing the tread to flop around.
The first one was a bugger, since I had to figure out how to do the job. I ended up cutting all of the tread portion of the tires off, to get that out of the way. Then I cut into the "doughnut" of hard foam with the sawzall, finishing with a chisel in a couple of places, which allowed me to remove the foam in 2 pieces. Then the only remaining parts were the beads and some of the tube. The beads just pried off with large screw drivers and the tube eventually pulled off. There was almost no damage to the rim at all, other than maybe some scratches from prying the beads off and maybe some little dings from the chisel. While I had the rim bare, I cleaned it up as well as possible and rattle can painted it.
The second one was much easier and took about a quarter of the time since I knew what I was doing and didn"t have to experiment.
Both tires got replaced with the heaviest duty tri-ribs I could locate, and new tubes. In my area we have lots of problems with thorns from the hawthorn bushes flattening tires. Before I had the tires foamed, I fought flat tires for several years, with my record short time between flats being about 10 minutes. I thought that foaming the tires was the ultimate answer, and it worked ok for maybe 5 years with no flats. But then the foamed tires both failed the same way--I guessed that they were designed to flex some and the foam would not allow it. I will not be foaming my tires again.
There are still lots of hawthorn bushes on my property. After I replaced the tires I didn"t have any problems with flats for a year or two, but then started getting flats. I added a QUART of Slime to each of the front tires, which didn"t totally solve the problem, but made it very manageable. I have to add some air to each tire every several months, but I have not had to break down either tire since I replaced them.
So in my experience, it is not a super easy job to remove the foam from tires, but it is certainly possible, if kind of messy. I saved my rims just fine and bet you can too. Good luck!
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