How corrosive is calcium chloride? I blew a tire

Daxline · Nov 21, 2016

So tell me, how corrosive is calcium chloride from a tractor tire? I was in the garage last night and heard a slow ripping sound coming from my right drive (11.2x36) tire. All of a sudden whoosh the tire let go spraying tire fluid all over the place including myself. I got it started(a feat in itself as the stuff went all over the ignition system) and took it outside. Now my tractor and garage are covered in the stuff. I tried to hose it off the tractor as good as I could. Now to find a new tire cheap in east iowa

caterpillar guy · Nov 21, 2016

It is quite corrosive as it will rust anything over night that has bare metal showing. You will want to use some kind of soap and plenty of water to clean things up. Then if it is on wrenches and other tools oil them after cleaning. Then go back in a few days and move them around like if you have pruning shears work them to help work the oil in the hinge. You will need to clean the rim and wheel casting up good before the new tire and tube or it will continue to rust.
For the weight don't worry about changing from the chloride to all the other things that will be suggested like wiper fluid . We have several tractors with the original rims from the 50'sand 60's with no real issues with rust. Yes if the leak or blow out is washed up good and then fixed they will last just fine. The key is to fix them as soon as you see the leaks. The ones that complain are the ones left to run with the leak for ever then wonder why it rusted out.

BarnyardEngineering · Nov 21, 2016

When you think you've rinsed enough, rinse again. You can't wash things too many times once they get CaCl solution on them.

Figure on any grass outside your garage being dead next spring.

gene bender · Nov 21, 2016

Soap and water lots of scrubbing you need to dissolve all the salt. What are you doing with fluid in a bad tire.

fastfarmall · Nov 21, 2016

There should of been a Law, against using that in tires !

ss55 · Nov 21, 2016

Many northern states use CaCl to melt road ice in below zero F temperatures when NaCl (table salt) stops working. I would hose everything down like you would the underside of a car to rinse off the salt. If the garage has a concrete floor I would wash off the floor too.

Phil Tibbetts · Nov 21, 2016

Wouldn't put that crap in any tire of mine and if I buy a tractor the first thing I do is check the tires and if they have calcium in them I drain it.

fixerupper · Nov 21, 2016

If your garage has a cement floor wash and scrub it before you do anything else. You might be too late already depending on what aggregate was used in the cement. I had a rear rim split on a 1086 and calcium was shot under the cab on the shifting linkeage. I flushed under the cab till I was blue in the face but the linkeage still rusted and siezed up.

Daxline · Nov 21, 2016

I bought it that way. Didn't know there was fluid until too late

riverbend · Nov 23, 2016

I quit using it when all the new tubes started coming out of China. For some reason the CaCl eats the Chinese valve stems brass guts much faster than those in old inner tubes. It also seems like there is never a good time for a tire to spring a leak.

Greg

Mr. Farmall · Nov 26, 2016

That stuff only belongs in swimming pools, calcium chloride is the calcium increase, water hardness to stop plaster etching.

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