Tire Slipping on Rim?

Tim in New York · Dec 17, 2016

I use my JD 345 lawn tractor to clean up snow around the buildings. The tires are loaded and I have wheel weights, to lots of ballast. I noticed today that when I hit a tough spot, the wheel weights are still turning, but the tire is not on one side. I thought the hydro relief valve was kicking out, but instead the rim is spinning on the tire. How do I remedy this? Should I add more air to the tire?

Thanks,
Tim

Gary from Muleshoe · Dec 17, 2016

You could do like the big boys do and put screws through the rim into the tire on both side.

J.Wondergem · Dec 17, 2016

(quoted from post at 15:22:38 12/17/16) You could do like the big boys do and put screws through the rim into the tire on both side.

That's what we did with the motorcycles. Run sheet metal screws into the bead, just don't use long ones that go all the way through.

Adirondack case guy · Dec 17, 2016

What have you got to loose if you add more air?? might work.
Loren

504 · Dec 17, 2016

Run the tires up to 20 PSI and then check for slippage. Then screw them to the rim.

pete 23 · Dec 17, 2016

IH was having that problem at one time on the large tractors. All kinds of different remedies. This was tube type tires and one remedy was to put a piece of rubber in several places between bead and tire. Changes in tires took care of the problem as far as I remember.

Mike M · Dec 17, 2016

Loaded makes it tougher to deal with. Otherwise you could push the beads down clean them up and put something like gasket shellac around the beads to stick them. I did this on one that was leaking air to seal it.

hd6gtom · Dec 17, 2016

Did you or someone else put grease on the rim when the tire was mounted? Common for this to happen. I've taken a lot of rear tractor tires apart and cleaned them up for this very reason.

DoubleR · Dec 17, 2016

I had that problem with my little Massey 231 pulling hard on hard ground. After ruining three tubes by pulling the valve stems out I finally tried bumping the tire pressure up about 10 lbs over what was recomended. It never happened again after that.

fixerupper · Dec 17, 2016

The tires are loaded with fluid of some sort without tubes in them? If they had tubes you would have a flat tire with lots of liquid around it by now. If they have fluid in them without tubes I would guess the fluid in the tire is lubricating the bead.

RodinNS · Dec 17, 2016

Keep adding air till it don't spin....
If they're 'full' of fluid then the explosion risk should be pretty low even if you over inflate them...

I've got a couple tires here that will 'spin'. They're now run tubeless and with considerable air when necessary, depending on the torque load applied.

Rod

Texasmark1 · Dec 17, 2016

I use belt dressing on the sealing surface and more air till it stops, as others have said. With the liquid filling it's more difficult to retain the fill. Best to roll the tire back from the rim in several spots, spray in something like brake cleaner to blow out crud. Let it dry and spray in belt dressing. Hit with a hair dryer to dry it and go to the next spot. Then add the air as necessary. On tractor tires with tubes I have seen folks bolt the tires to the wheels.

Tim in New York · Dec 17, 2016

Thanks for the ideas. I'll try more air first.

Tim

stonerock · Dec 17, 2016

had this problem with my pullin truck, Jegs sells tire kits to screw rim to tire problem fixed

Geo-TH,In · Dec 18, 2016

I saw screws in dirt cars tires years ago.

One year we had an ice storm 1/2 ice. People where falling, breaking arms, legs, one guy hit his head and dies. So I put 10 metal screws in bottom of my work boots. Used 1/2 screws so they didn't come all the way inside of shoe.

Sounds to me like you might be trying to do something that might cause more damage if tires don't slip on rims. Might want to get a bigger tractor.

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