So I was driving my dads truck which had some pretty bad tires on it. Didn't think a 2 mile drive maxing at 45 mph would kill a tire though. Anyway one of them shredded on me so I threw his spare on and got it home. Trying to get the shredded tire of the wheel by using a bottle jack under a hitch placing the bottom of it on the side wall didn't work. So being buzzed and then pissed I proceeded to try and cut all around the side wall with a sawzall leaving some of it on inside the bead. Which now I can't seem to pry out with a screw driver. So with that being said would it hurt the wheel to use a torch to heat up rubber and then try to pry it off? It's an aluminum alloy wheel not painted.

Shouldn't of cut it apart and took it to a wheel shop but can't afford new tires for his truck for a few months.

 

I would be very careful using a torch....A torch's flame can reach 3x the melting point temperature of aluminum.