Inner tube install.....

Any of ya'll replace your own tubes when
needed, I had a bad tube on rear of my
2N Ford, took wheel off the tractor and
loaded on my trailer, drove in to town
and for $66.61 for new 11.2-28 tube
install I'm back in business. Just
wondering do any of you tackle these
repairs yourself?

i do my own, even do fluid in tires too.

I have done my own for years, but those days are about over, especially in this 90 degree heat.
Richard

I do. It works better for me to keep the rim on the tractor when unseating tire and repairing tube. I prefer to patch or attach a new valve stem on a 35 year old USA tube than to use a new Chinese tube. On a big cut or blowout, I have overlapped patches with out problems.

I've had more repaired for me than I've repaired myself, but I've acquired a few tools and have been doing more myself lately.

Fred

I do all of them that aren't loaded.

I'm installing a tube right now, but on a rear tire for riding mower. I hate working with these dinky little wheels! So I'm in cooling down and taking a break after spending an hour looking for the tools I had in my stinkin' hands just yesterday(!!), but can't seem to see them sitting right in front of my face! Then having the bugs flying in my face, and the wheel and tire not having any weight to it. Just can't seem to get my mind working today.

Ok, taking a deep breath now. *[size=7:e33a9b45ae]HACK; COUGH; UGH![/size:e33a9b45ae]* 8) Maybe I'll feel better once I wack my thumb with a hammer or something.

I hate these "brain-dead" days!!

One thing that helps sooo much is a little baby powder. Not a snow storm worth, just enough to make the inside of the tire have a misty look to it. Lets the tube settle in nice and easy. Fill...then let the air out...then fill to pressure and done. Just finished the two little 400 x 450 x 8 tires on my old Wheel Horse trailer today. The 35 year old tubeless tires now have freshly painted rims and Tractor Supply heavy tubes. They just poped on by hand with a little help from a minny pinch bar. Happy!

I do them all the time. Be it a tractor tire front or back or be it a split rim does not matter to me. But I have the correct equipment to do the job and the know how to do the job. Over the years I have worked at a few places doing tire repair so I learned the correct way to do them. Just did a 14.9X38 on my Oliver S88 a week or 2 ago. Mounting the tire and tube are the east parts but lifting it up off the ground from being laying flat well that is where I have to either get help or use something to pick it up since I cannot do so

I worked as a tire man at our local county road and bridge department for two years,, in that time I changed and fixed enough truck tractor and blade tires to last me the rest of my life, I do still have tools to do one if I get in a bind but it far easier for me to call my life long friend who runs a tire service and have him do it, I help him much of the time and its a full deduct at tax time any way
cnt

Well, I finally called it quits for the day. By the time I went back out, the sun was behind the trees and the skeeters were OUT IN FORCE!! Will do it tomorrow in full sun.

I tell ya, this year started off slow for skeeters, but I think this is now about the worst year we've ever had here! And right now, at this time of day, it's only the Asian skeeters that are out. *sigh*

Changing or repairing a tube is much easier if the rim is still on the tractor. This is especially true for larger tires. The last set of 13.6X38's I did was done this way. I started with them on the ground and finally mounted the rim on the tractor and suspended the tire from my A-frame with a chain hoist. It was much easier because you aren't fighting gravity trying lift and move the tire and rim. Also a clamp on bead breaker really helps for breaking down the tire. I used to take my tires and rims into town and let the Tire Monkeys break them down and remount them. The last time I did that was with a set I was putting on a restored tractor. The rims were all painted and pretty until the Tire Monkey scratched the heck out of the rims with the tire irons. Never again.

OTJ

Yup...whacking yourself with a hammer ought to make you forget about the skeeters for a while

made me laugh

Fred

Interesting to hear that so many of ya'll install tube yourself, watching guy do it at the tire shop about wore me out, was worth the $25 labor charge

Oh I know that one!!! Those buggers just don't give up. They will
actually carry you away.

I can tell you I would much rather do a tractor rear then those little 8" on the garden stuff. They just do not stretch.

I can tell you screw drivers are NOT the best tool. At the flea market
a couple of weeks ago a guy had some 6 inch minny pinch bars. Those
flat crow bar things. Bought both of them. Work very well. The
correct thing would be a set of tinny tire spoons. Good luck trying to
find them.

Well, this all started when I'd ended up with a small piece of wire through a rear tire. Come to find out, it was from one of those little orange flags, like what you use to mark off things in the yard and such. Would be a while till we went to town again to get a plug kit, so I just put a roofing screw in the hole to slow the leak. It actually held air for a while - so long that I forgot to fix the tire while the skeeters weren't bad. Thought we might luck out and they'd be nice all year. .....WRONG!

So get to town and....what's this? The only plugs I find are these wavy-shaped ones. What happened to the other plugs I been using since in diapers?!?!? Well, bought the new-fangled plugs and tried 'em out. First one broke in half. Tried another, this time with it [b:f33e445977]slobbering[/b:f33e445977] rubber cement, plus the hole wallered out a hair. Ah, got it in. Then aired it up and let it sit till next day. Went out next day and it looked good, so got on and went fer a ride. Nope, flat again. #&@*^%$*( $&^@*U%&^%*$%!!!!!!!!

So then I get a bolt and a couple rubber patches I have. That'll git 'er fixed! Got the tire off (again) and then off the rim (again) and put the bolt in the tire, threads inside, with a patch on outside and a patch and washer inside. Tightened it down. Then went to put the tire back together. ...What's this? I tried every trick known in the former shade-tree/grease chimpanzee world, but for the life of me could NOT get the danged bead to set! ARGG!!

OK, I'VE HAD IT! I AIN'T WASTING NO MORE #*%$(%$# TIME ON THIS STUPID THING!!!!! ....Sorry for the mello-dramatics - that last jumble of characters was just the word "dang". *lol* So stormed into the house and said WOMAN, WHAT'D YOU DO WITH MY INNER TUBES??? ....Actually it was more like this: Ummm, honey? Have you by chance seen any inner tubes around here recently? Hmm?? (Yes, I value my life!) So she remembers, and so she tells me where the tubes are. I go out, find the tubes, but they're for the front tires. So I pull her away from what she's doin and explain that what I'm looking for is in a clear plastic bag. "[i:f33e445977]Oh, I know where one is[/i:f33e445977]", she says, and goes right to it. Ok, now I have tube. I get the tube in and try to get the tire back on same as I just did it....what, yesterday? Yup, was just yesterday it went on slicker-n-.....well, you know! But now? That danged tire ain't fightin' fair. Then the skeeters decided to have carry out, and I WAS IT!! So now am just gonna relax for the night and have a nice dinner that the wife is making. BBQ chicken and some new taters concoction she's a-workin' on. Dang, I love being her guinea pig!!

Will worry about the stupid tire tomorrow. Maybe my last working brain cell will decide to wake up again.

(quoted from post at 15:47:14 07/07/17) Yup...whacking yourself with a hammer ought to make you forget about the skeeters for a while

made me laugh

Fred

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...You just [i:f44d393325]had[/i:f44d393325] to say this, didn't ya'? Now see what you started?? :wink: :lol:

I do all my own tire work. Here's a link to me handling the fluid
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I do all 18.4 x38's and smaller by myself if they have no fluid..

I generally do my own. If you can get the tire co to work on a used tire its $100/hr.

So do I. Local Co-op lets me borrow there hyd. bead breaker.

For parts and labor they are not gonna get rich...

I pay a guy to do it sit back and enjoy watching him work. I find it cheap entertainment... I had a tractor in the shop and over time the tire leaked down the owner call in a tire guy to fix it. He fudged around for a hour and could not find a leak in the tube. He said the tubs not leaking I said PUT A DAMM TUBE IN IT he wants it fixed a tube is not gonna break him it never leaked down again... I believed him the tube set out behind the shop for weeks and never leaked down...

I do some things for self satisfaction fudgen with tractor tars taint one of'em....

The little ones I stick a bolt through the hub and clamp it in the vise. Makes it easier to handle.

I do my own, no shops around here want anything to do with them.

I do most of my own tires. Tractor tire service is a hundred dollars an hour or more, from the time they leave their shop, until they get back, 25 miles over the hill each way. So you are paying over an hour and a half just in travel time, then if its a loaded tire, pump time, loading and unloading, the actual repair time is a very small fraction of the bill.

Nobody around here wants to do a tractor rear tire if you bring it in.

I have an old manual tire machine for the smaller stuff, the only thing I won't do on that is fancy alloy wheels.

I found a bar to go with my manual HF tire changer that lets me do alloy wheels without wrecking them. Found it on ebay, came from the UK. See attached link. I cut a round disk from some heavy plastic sheet to protect the wheel under the clamp.
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Why would you take the rim and tire off the tractor and load it onto a trailer and lug it to town, just to buy a tube??? Rear tractor tires are much easier to change when fastened to the tractor. You spent a lot of time and effort for nothing.
Loren

just did three lawn mower fronts yeterday, used to do all tires,without fluid. nowdays trucks, tractors gone. so just have mailroute vehicle and mower business ones to deal with now.

Harbor Freight has an inexpensive tire changer for small tires you can clamp in a bench vise. I have one and it works well. Was about $45 IIRC. Money well spent for frustration elimination.

I was looking at them last night....well, watching a video comparing the HF to the Northern Tools model. I can't wait for one to get here, so will have to make due once I feel better. Very dizzy today. Also considering lining the inside of my tire with the tread from some old car tires, and having the inner tube hold it in place. Seems like it would virtually eliminate future punctures. Only thing is, I worry about the edge of the tread rubbing the tube. ...Maybe make over-tires for wrapping around the outside? Guess I need to think this through once my head clears.