B&D- I can only speak of what I have seen on what I have been around, but I by no means am an expert at everything like you claim to be. I simply had an oportunity to take a picture of rims on a tractor that we've had on the farm for 15-18 years give or take, and the rim on the tire that didn't leak looks great. Even the one that leaked, if the whole rim would have been submerged, it would have been fine.
We have never had a tire leak internally without showing some sign on the outside, always around the valve stem. I think where the trouble begins is if you have a careless tire guy, who doesn't rinse off the rim when broke down for a repair, and clean out the tire good to remove any residue. A little left inside, but without an air leak to push the fluid out around the stem, will stay inside the rim and rot it out.
Our 1855 let fluid through the sidewall about 3 or 4 of years ago while chopping 1st crop, and it was on the inside of the tire so the tractor did get sprayed. We rinsed it off and haven't had any trouble with rust on it. Put new tires on the tractor and had the old ones mounted on the duals.
My brother has an Oliver 550 that had bad rims. It was a neglected and beat up old loader tractor, and of course the tires were leaking around the valve stem. Being that the tires weren't matched, they were the hard to find 26" size, the rims were rotted, and the tires were worn, he just bought new everything in the 28" size and moved on. Filled them back up with fluid too.
The only one on our farm without fluid anymore is my 1600 (other tha the 1755 which doesn't have any tires). I rebuilt it, had it painted by my brother, and put new tires on. Since it's no longer a heavy puller it doesn't need the fluid anymore. Again, it had fluid in it's tires from day 1 and that was for over 40 years before I had it sucked out. Now it pulls the grain drill and corn planter, and maybe some other chores like raking hay and hauling some manure.
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