idea to get by for now

ericlb · Jan 25, 2014

my jd blew a front tire, i dont have another 600-16 i do have a used 550-16 but its been thru some russion olive branches i pulled every sticker out of it but im a little concerned with the holes in the inside of the tire left by a few of the stickers, ive also got some rubberized undercoating in a can, think if i spray that on the inside of the tire and put in a new tube it will get by for awhile? i need this tractor today, then it can sit for awhile its my loader tractor a 301 so its not real heavy im guessing 8 to 9000
anybody tried this as a last resort?

Janicholson · Jan 25, 2014

The component in the undercoat that allows it to be a liquid is liable to degrade the tube. I would not sweat the holes, I would use some 220 or so abrasive paper to assure no remaining points are sticking into the casing and use it. I would also reduce the pressure in the bigger tire some to ballance the load. Jim

JayinNY · Jan 25, 2014

I hope it works for you, I don't know what the hub is like on your tractor, but one time I was driving around my lawn route, and a fella had 2 implement wheels and rim by the road for free, I stopped and took both of them. They fit on my hay wagons, on my old IH baler I had and when out Ford 4600 loader tractor got a flat on the front, I was able to use the implement tire on the tractor too! So in a pinch, if you have a hay wagon, you could see if that would work.

keh · Jan 25, 2014

Put it on thick. Unless you carefully let the undercoating dry, the tube will probably stick to the tire and you will lose the tube anyway, so you may as well get some tube type Green slime and put it in the tube from the beginning. I have used green slime in a similar situation and while it's not perfect, it has kept things going for a while,

KEH

old · Jan 25, 2014

Very old trick but works well is take a used bad tube and lay it inside the tire then the new tube. One or more if you have them. The old tube then rubs the sharp ends off the thorns before they get to the new tube. Back in the day when I worked at one of the tire places we did that all the time

JayinNY · Jan 25, 2014

I was gonna say the same thing old, lol

MSM · Jan 25, 2014

Why noy just put an old 16"truck tire on it with a good tube. Very likely you won't find all the thorns,and they will work through the tire as you use it, you will be right back where you started from

farmerwithmutt · Jan 25, 2014

right about swaping tires knew i guy that worked in jd dubuque and if they had a flat theyed borrow one from jd i borrowed some on busy days off the disk or drill . ive bought david bradley gears and between the two of them the got 14 -15-16 and im not sure there might be a 13 the guy i got them from changed sizes as cars changed theres i doubt it but they are all orignal paint

Ray · Jan 25, 2014

I'd get an old 16 inch truck tire.They will outlast a new tractor tire,most are 10 to 12 ply.Probably any tire store will have some out back.

samn40 · Jan 25, 2014

I had a tyre on my old Ferguson hobby tractor that was eating the tube, No matter how often I patched it, it went down, probably due to the inside of the tyre being destroyed by someone driving it flat! OOPPPPS! So I got a larger tube and 'sewed' it around the tube. I had bother getting it all stuffed back in to the skinny 4.00x19 but 3 years later it is still good! I used to do this trick on my 2 wheel drive hedgecutting tractor to stop the thorns getting to the tube!
Sam

Leroy · Jan 25, 2014

If you use it thenput a junk tube in against the undercoating so the good tube will not touch the undercoating. That way it would be like putting a reliner that a lot probably have never heard of in the tire and you may get many a year out of it. And with going out and getting that truck tire they are saying to do forget it as they are forgeting that the truck tires now are a lot wider than the 6:00 x 16 or 5:50 x 16 and the sidewall wil not clear the spindal to let you get it on the hub. When you have an inch of clearance and you try to put a 3" wider tire on it besides hitting the spindal you still have anouther half inch that you cannot squeese past the spindal.

ericlb · Jan 26, 2014

well it got the job done! its still up, so now it can rest im going to order the right tire and tube [ that 550-16 looks a little small on that 301a] i think ill run it just for grins and see how long i get out of this, i cant run pickup tires, i already tried it to help with the loader, but the spindles dont have clearance for anything larger than a 600-16 tri rib, any wider and it will rub

xfarma · Jan 26, 2014

Turn your rims so they dish out and that will give you more clearance to run wider tires.

Leroy · Jan 26, 2014

Yes and that overloads the spindal and bearings.

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