finaly got that tube in the C

front on the Cwent flat last week.. had to hunt high and low for a tube.. ende dup stuck with a larin brand from TSC.. put it in, aired up, tube split at a mlding seam..

2 farm patches later, and a homeade boot from an old tube and I got her on this am.

wasn't going to tinker with her today is it's my bday and going out with some friends to lunch.. but twas early yet and decided to have a go at it.

it's holding air now and will check it again after lunch.

man I hate tire work..

soundguy

happy birthday i would of made tsc eat that tube

I agree, but travel and time can make it a loosing situation either way. Jim

not sure how far of a drive it is for you, but I surely would have returned it to TSC for a replacement or refund. If it had seam problems in that one spot, there is a high likelyhood it will in others as well.

would have eat an hour in a round trip to return it.. and then I'd still be stuck with no tube unfortunately.

this time, when i patched it i inflated it pretty darn good and left it setting in the barn to see what it was gonna do.

ended up putting another patch on a spot that looked like a dimple, maybee a thin spot.. didn't want to take any chances.

let them cure all weekend.

it's on the tractor and holding air as of last night.

can get 16" tubes pretty good but not 15" ones.. this one was a universal 15/16 and I got ?lucky? I guess....

soundguy

An hour round trip puts you about 15 miles from the nearest TSC, assuming you can't get right on and Interstate and do 65MPH all the way there. Most guys would've said that's worth the time, if only for the principle.

BTW, 16" tubes would work just fine in a 15" tire. Just get a tube that's a size too small so it doesn't bunch up and pinch.

actually closer to 18 miles, and all back roads thru a lil town.

our local stores do have 16" tubes.. however thay are big tubes.. for 5.5, 6 and 7 tires.

this tractor would have had a little 4-15 tire.. however it currently has teensy car temp tires on them.. T120 70 D15 tires. very, very small. it really needed a 4-15 tube. a 6-16 tube would have been all wadded up inside that tire.

lil rim is only about 3" wide it seems..

principle sounds good.. but after working on a tire I'm dirty.. that means I have to go spend 20 minutes to clean up and put different shirt and pants on.. then run to town and burn just shy of 2 gallons of diesel ( 3.89 per gallon ).

thus I'm spending near an hour and a half and 7.78$ to prove a point?

I have a box of patches and tubes of glue that dry up every year if i don't use them.

twas worth my time to stay home and work on something ellse while tube was glueing, and then try to slap it on later. if it failed an inflation test after the patch, before I re-installed it, then it could take a ride with me to work next time I was in town and could justify that trip and fuel. during the weekend when i may only have 2 hours at a time to work on a tractor here and there.. hard to justify burning 1.5 hours of it proving a point. besides. at least a half an hour would have been burned just finding out it was bad int he first place.. meaning.. i'd be pullignthe tube out and running to town, only to get back and not even be able to work on it.

them numbers don't add up good to me.

soundguy

soundguy