What's in this tire?

Dave H (MI) · Oct 27, 2009

I am wrapping up brake work on this little tractor and it is pretty obvious that the right tire is loaded with some type of fluid and the left is not. Seems really odd that someone would load one tire and not the other. This tire has some cracks in it and currently there is now clear liquid coming from the cracks. It has no texture or smell and I'm not about to taste it. There is a fair amount in there from the weight but I doubt it's full. Any chance this is water? How would I know if it were chloride?

glennster · Oct 27, 2009

probably plowed with the tractor, that is why the right side was loaded. chloride will have a white milky color to it. also has kind of an oily feel to it.

Red Mist · Oct 27, 2009

If it is an offset tractor, like a SA for example, it could be loaded on the right side to help keep it from tipping over toward the heavy side. (No pic came through on this end.....)

As for what kind of juice is in there - aw, don't be chickasaurus - go ahead and touch a little to the tip of your tongue. What good is life without a little danger? Keep it on only the tip so that you can spit it out completely if it tastes like hydrochloric acid, rat poison, benzine, nuclear heavy water, anhydrous ammonia or nitro glycerin. Probably just water anyway. If you're still acared, try it on your mother-in-law. HAW-HAW! Just kidding (probably).
mike

ScottyHOMeY · Oct 27, 2009

If you're talking about the new-to-you Lo-Boy, I'm with RedMist. It was common with As to deliver them with a stampe steel wheel on the left and the heavier cast wheel on the right, just to provide some leverage to avoid an upset if operating on the side of ahill that falls off ot the left. Don't know that there was a cast wheel made for the Cub, so maybe somebody had the tire loaded instead of bolting a weight on the right to accomplish the same thing.

Comin' from your neighborhood, good chance it has something in it that shouldn't freeze, though the oozing from the tire casing suggests it could be straight water. CaCl, you'll have something to kill the grass and weeds popping up where you don't want them. Beet juice? Add sauerkraut and whip up a batch of borscht. Automotive antifreeze? Get real neighborly with a neighborhood garage that has a means of disposing of the stuff . . .

tackhammertime · Oct 27, 2009

The A I have now came from the peidmont of SC The right back tire was loaded on it and the left side was not. It is real flat down in that area and they told me he only cultivated and pulled a small honey wagon with the tractor. I had to replace the tire because it was splitting apart in the cracks but it had a tube in it. Anyway it had what the tire guy said was a brine solution or salt water he said some of the old timers thought it weighed more than pure water. He was a older gent and he tasted it.

Dave H (MI) · Oct 27, 2009

Actually, I put this here by mistake. It t'ain't the Loboy...it's the old Ford. I copied it over to that forum just to be appropriate. Tasted the stuff...it is REAL salty. Assuming it is chloride and am on my way out to get the loader tractor and get it up in the pickup and off to the tire shop to drain and wash it down and diagnose the leak. I wouldn't recommend one of these old Fords to anybody who is not into spending twice the value of a tractor repairing it. I am consistently two repairs behind on this thing. A far cry from the Farmall B which, once fixed, never needed a second glance or the MTA which never needed the first glance!

mkirsch · Oct 27, 2009

Let me guess... The left tire that's NOT loaded is a lot newer than the right that is loaded. Right?

For one of many valid reasons, the tire guy did not put the chloride back in the left tire when he put the new tire on. Maybe it leaked out on the ground when the tire blew. Maybe the owner didn't want to pay for new chloride, or simply didn't want the chloride put back in.

John G. Hasler · Oct 27, 2009

> Anyway it had what the tire guy said was a brine
> solution or salt water he said some of the old
> timers thought it weighed more than pure water.

It (calcium chloride solution) does by quite a bit. More importantly, of course, it doesn"t freeze.

Dave H (MI) · Oct 27, 2009

Prolly so....I would not know. But it were chloride indeed and the rim looks like a swiss cheese from the inside. Guess it were a-leakin longer than I knew. Frankly I never thought I would find loaded tires on a little tractor like that but ya learn a little something each day.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 28, 2009

My Cub has chloride in the tires. Came that way when I bought it. There can't be more than 15-20 gallons in each tire....I guess every bit of weight counts!

mkirsch · Oct 28, 2009

Water weighs around 8lbs a gallon. I'd imagine with chloride it would weigh a bit more, like 9lbs a gallon. 20 gallons of water is around 180lbs. On a Cub that's a pretty good amount of weight.

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