What to put in Tires?

Beans-OH. · Mar 10, 2009

Was wondering what you would recommend to put in rear Tractor tires besides Calcium. And what do you use in your tires?

glennster · Mar 10, 2009

i run 5lb /gal chloride mix. new tubes, and if you get a leak, fix it right away. never had a problem. there is a product out called rimguard, made from beet juice, supposed to be real good, i have never tried it, but hear its spendy. lot of guys run winshield washer solvent.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 10, 2009

Depending on your how cold your area gets, I live in eastern IA and put used engine anti-freeze in mine. I test it before I put it in to see that it is good for about -20 degrees. I get mine from the local quick lube shop.... it's free! The guy puts it in a 30 gallon plastic drum for me and I just transfer pump it. It isn't as heavy as C.C., but it's not corosive like C.C. Others use W.W. fluid to.

big fred · Mar 10, 2009

thurlow · Mar 10, 2009

Don't all the tractor tire 'places' near you use the same stuff? Use whatever's common in your area.

Jon Hagen · Mar 10, 2009

Air is right, if you need ballast, use cast iron.

Nothing more miserable and time consuming than repairing a tire with that darn slippery corrosive chloride in it.

Rusted out rims and lost time when you really really need to be working.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 10, 2009

i use windshield washer fluid diluted 50-50 with water, make your own mixture put it in the freezer and see if it gets any ice in it. if it does raise the ratio of windshield fluid to water.

fixerupper · Mar 10, 2009

I have a little story about my experience with CC. I had CC in the rears on the 1086 for probably 10 years and it did give the treactor a lot of traction. One day the right rim split on the inside and it shot the fluid everywhere under the cab. I washed it out but in a couple of months every bit of shift linkage on top of the tranny had rusted was getting stiff and the tranny was locking in two gears frequently. I spent hours reaching down through the cab floor removing all of the linkage, cleaning and oiling. It did give me a chance to replace some of the worn stuff, though. About a year later I drained the fluid and threw on a bunch of cast iron. Two on the inside and three on the outside on each wheel. About in that time frame I went from Bias to radial, which helped the traction too.The tractor rides a little smoother to boot.Jim

WGM · Mar 10, 2009

I'll second that. That's what cast iron is for.

Iowa_tire_guy · Mar 10, 2009

(quoted from post at 13:46:30 03/10/09) Was wondering what you would recommend to put in rear Tractor tires besides Calcium. And what do you use in your tires?

If you pay the bill, I'll put in anything you want. But I do sell a lot of Rimguard though.

www.rimguard.biz

GeneMO · Mar 10, 2009

glennster · Mar 10, 2009

hey tire guy,about how much per gallon is the rimguard? i havent priced it locally, but lot of guys tell me its real expensive. an 18.4-34 will hold 100 gallons, i run a 5 lb/gal mix, 400lb of chloride + water gives me about 1080 lbs, chloride is about 15 dollars a 50lb bag, 8 bags, so it runs me about 120 dollars to load one tire with chloride.

charles todd · Mar 10, 2009

I am in the deep south and all that is needed is water and cast iron. I have a loader on my Farmall 504 with 14.9x38's. I can hold 55 gallons per tire which is 110 gallons of water and two sets of cast weights which are 300 lbs per pair for 600 lbs. This works for me.

Charles

John A. · Mar 10, 2009

Beans, At my place in South Central Texas, I use only cast iron wts the tire has only air! So when you have a flat and you call the local tire repair shop to send out their truck to fix a flat there is NO sur-charge for them to have to deal with the liquid wt.Cast can be removed if you do not need the extra wt.
My loader tractors have near 1000lbs of cast on each rear corner. 1 IH 966, 1 JD 4230.
Hope this helps!
Later,
John A.

Iowa_tire_guy · Mar 10, 2009

(quoted from post at 19:26:23 03/10/09) hey tire guy,about how much per gallon is the rimguard? i havent priced it locally, but lot of guys tell me its real expensive. an 18.4-34 will hold 100 gallons, i run a 5 lb/gal mix, 400lb of chloride + water gives me about 1080 lbs, chloride is about 15 dollars a 50lb bag, 8 bags, so it runs me about 120 dollars to load one tire with chloride.

$3.25 per gallon so $325 per tire. I play on the fears of guys who are phobic of Chloride. I'm like you, I run the chloride and just take care of the tires, a lot cheaper and safer than other fluids or cast for that matter.

Wesley Stephens · Mar 11, 2009

In this part of the world, we just put an adapter on a water hose and fill the tires up. A high school classmate of mine even filled some truck tires up with water for some bumper to bumper pulling contests.

KYfarm · Mar 11, 2009

windshield washer fluid

Dave2N · Mar 11, 2009

We have successfully used windshield washer fluid ("winter" because we are in the north east.) A few ounces of stabilizer like they use in water beds keeps it from getting whatever.

We put it in our JD 70 in 1999. Had to change out a tire last summer so we pumped the stuff out into a barrel and it looked just like the day we put it in 9 years ago.

It doesn't weigh quite as much a CaCl but it adds weight without the concerns associated with calcium. We use wheel weights too if we are pulling.

Got the wind shield washer fluid at Wal-Mart. Stuck a deal with the manager for about 75 gallons and had to sign a form that we weren't buying it for resale. Again, this was 9 years ago and I think we paid about $.60.gal.

RickL · Mar 11, 2009

used to but no more. air only and weight accordingly, alot less drag also with no fluid in tires

buickanddeere · Mar 11, 2009

I'll just run windshild washer fluid for nearly the price of salt water.
Better to eliminate a problem then live with it and always trying to contain it.

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