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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Super M: 15.5-38 to big? Fluid or no fluid?
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Posted by Farmall450man on May 07, 2003 at 07:50:18 from (12.30.177.148):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Super M: 15.5-38 to big? Fluid or no fluid? posted by Dr.Evil on May 07, 2003 at 07:34:05:
Farmall was probably our best customer as far as working together. The Green boys and the Yellow boys looked down their noses at anyone else. The JIC & NH folks were pretty aloof, but not as bad as the other 2. I first got involved with the IH folks in I think the '75/'76 time frame. It was a real bad year for hard pulling conditions for plowing. The 18.4's would slip on the rims and pull the valve stem out of the tube. I was supervising the test lab at the time. Did a lot of bead pressure studies and static tire to rim slip studies. Even took rims to the Farmall works for tire mounting trials with different mounting lubes and then to Ohio for slip tests on actual tractors. Ended up moving the knurling on the rims closer to the flange. All the tire bead bundles had reduced in width and weren't centered on the knurling. Lots of involement with the IH engineers.
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