Flat On The Rear

JDBRIDER · Aug 18, 2018

The rear tire on my tractor has been loosing air for about a week. Thankfully no fluid in it. I finally got time to check it out. I bought the tires and tubes new two years ago. I removed the tire and pulled the tube out. Found the leak was located right in a wrinkle of the tube. When I mounted the tires I used plenty of powder and aired them up and let them down a couple times to give the tubes a chance to straighten out. The tires and tubes are 11.2 X 38. Does anyone have any idea what I did wrong? Has anyone else had this happen?

Janicholson · Aug 18, 2018

Sometimes it is just luck.
(bad luck in this case)
Putting just enough air into the tube to give it a little roundness, but not pressure, is what I do as the second bead is seated. Jim

showcrop · Aug 18, 2018

It sounds like when you put it together you had no air in it. I always have just enough in mine when I stuff the tube in so that it cannot wrinkle or get in the way of my tire irons and get pinched.

old · Aug 18, 2018

If by chance you got an over size tube that will cause it. So what I am saying is not all tubes and made the same and because of that a tube can be made for a tire that is say 12.4 X38 and the tire place you got it gave you the size that was wrong. I have run into that more then once.

jeffcat · Aug 19, 2018

I find it funny when you tell people about bicyle tires or lawn tractor tires to use a little baby powder and they look at you as if you have two heads. Everything today is tubeless so the knowledge is being lost.

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