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Post by Butcher on Mar 18, 2024 18:06:27 GMT -6
Yeah, I put one in the bathtub once. Found out a new tube woulda been better, ... cause SHE told me so. ππ Ever put 100 crawdads in the tub so you and your drunk buddies could sit round the kitchen table to clean them and then have the wife come home from working over time to see what was going on? Hot damned!
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Post by billinohio on Mar 18, 2024 18:22:04 GMT -6
I bet she was really impressed!
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Post by olfolks on Mar 18, 2024 19:07:31 GMT -6
That 4.80x8 tube should be readily available at a farm store like tough shit Charlie or china king , maybe even at Wally World
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Post by Erstwhile on Mar 18, 2024 20:11:45 GMT -6
I recently ordered 2 tubes for the Cadet rears. Got dumb looks from a coupla the locals, so I ordered a pair from WalMart. Picked them up in 2 or 3 days. WM offered to mount them, but I wanted to clean up the rims, so I did it. The price was livable.
My old time tire fella had finally thrown in the towel and sold out. Then the business bounced around for a while. I got lazy a while back and took in a 15" utility trailer tire to get a slow leak fixed. They wouldn't touch it; too old they said. I asked them just to break it down and I'd handle it from there. Nope. I ain't been back. .. and I've bought a bunch of tires from that place over the years; my current pickup tires for a case in point. Oh well. ππ
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Post by donjr on Mar 18, 2024 21:26:10 GMT -6
If it has a tube in it, replace it. If it's tubeless, get a can of tire sealant and paint the bead, then air it up. If it still goes down, replace the stem or look for a pin hole. Use some really soapy water and paint it good and look for some bubbles.
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Post by f2036 on Mar 19, 2024 0:54:08 GMT -6
tire count------to many battery count------to many Why is it that those little tires are a lot harder to change/fix than a wagon tire, tractor tire etc. ? You would think that being smaller it should be pretty easy compared to a bigger tire.
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Post by olfolks on Mar 19, 2024 5:01:08 GMT -6
Them little 4 inch rimmed front mower tires with a tube can really piss a fellow off
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Post by Erstwhile on Mar 19, 2024 9:36:53 GMT -6
Butcher's question -- " " Ever put 100 crawdads in the tub so you and your drunk buddies could sit round the kitchen table to clean them and then have the wife come home from working over time to see what was going on? Hot damned! " "
First few weeks on the job at the plant Boss stopped by my desk and said: " My brother called and says there is a big shrimp boat docking this afternoon at Mobile. Bro is taking orders for #3 tubs full of iced down shrimp. Says they are good big ones and fresh off the boat, they are cheap. Said he was going down and getting a coupla iced down tubs for himself and some for others. Would I like a tub full or two? Sure; I knew SHE liked shrimp. They arrived at my place the next day. Would you guess how many shrimp there are in a #3 tub and how fast you have to get them in the freezer. She still likes shrimp, but in much smaller amounts. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Post by haywood on Mar 19, 2024 13:30:49 GMT -6
I fought a tire that size on My Snowblower. Wishing they were bolt together wheels and tube it. We were lucky at the Tractor Shop to have a Commercial tire shop two blocks away and could just drive the unit or take off's up to have them do it. I am not sure whom, but I think Scag had some wheels on a few of their products with bolt together Wheels.
GCR Tire did a lot of foam filling tires for our Turf customers.
I use my Farmall and a hunk of steel to bust the bead. Sometimes just running over the tire with That Farmall Front tire is enough. But a proper shaped hunk of steel works as the ramp and the bead buster.
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Post by rustyfarmall on Mar 19, 2024 14:27:43 GMT -6
A few years ago I inquired at the local tire shop about that foam filling technique. I was informed that THEY did not do it, but they could send the tires to somewhere and have it done. They also informed me that it was a quite expensive deal.
Obviously they did not want to do it, and wanted NO part of it. I walked out and have never been back.
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Post by donjr on Mar 19, 2024 18:48:45 GMT -6
What I have learned over the years, is to pull those little wheels off the tractor and clamp them in a vise. A couple of screwdrivers, a pair of vise grips and a shot of WD40, and the job can be done easily. Most of the time.....
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Post by rustyfarmall on Mar 20, 2024 4:46:27 GMT -6
I used to own a pair of tire irons designed specifically for motorcycle tires. They seem to have grown legs and disappeared.
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Post by olfolks on Mar 20, 2024 5:36:44 GMT -6
The gage wheels on the snow plows at work were 4.80x8 flats were a common problem. Some were 2 piece rims with tubes some were one piece tubeless. We dieced to try some foam filled tires and our flat problem went away , but to replace the flat problem bearing problems replaced it. Seems they donβt / canβt balance the foam filled tires and they would knock the little bearings out in 8 or less hours of plowing
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Post by rustyfarmall on Mar 21, 2024 12:55:23 GMT -6
TSC had the tube. $12.99. Made in China of course, but so is the rest of the tiller. It was a battle, but I got-er-done. Found out that my tire chuck, the same one I use on everything else had to be pushed down onto the valve stem just right or nothing happened.
I think I would rather work on a 13.6x38 rear tractor tire.
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Post by Erstwhile on Mar 21, 2024 17:51:50 GMT -6
Well shucks. I was standing out in the garage this morning putting my chitkikers on to go over to the shop, and looking down I saw the 4 tubed tires that I had put on the Girls' little red wagon I restored for them to play with in the driveway. That was ~20 years ago. Add 4 more to my slow leak list. I gotta do an inventory; this is getting rediculousepyebtprtq. (I can't spell ridiculous.)
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