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Are Used Tractor Tires Re-Mountable ?

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I ve busted a 13.6-38 tractor tire and to help keep cost down at this time, I ve located a used tire. The only one I ve found used in that size is a Radial and not a Bias-ply like I have on the other side. The tractor is used for disking and plowing and I don t care if one side is a radial. I just want to know that If the salvage yard breaks down the tire and rim, will it be damaged to re-mount it? Or will it mount ok?
 
Should be able to re use the tire if it's not damaged, tractor tires generally are
not too hard to take off without damage. . If it is damaged, most yards would not
sell it.

Ben
 
Should remount fine.

My Minnie Mo U had excellent tires but both rims were rusting out (calcium leaks). The tire shop remounted the old tires onto new rims - with new tubes/no calcium - with no issues whatsoever.

10 years later the tires are still going strong.
 
You better check the inflated/operating, circumference of both tires, or your
differential may be moaning and groaning. All 13.6 tires are not equal in size,
especially when comparing radials to bias tires.------------Loren
 
It SHOULD be able to be dismounted and remounted. I said SHOULD. If the tire has been on the rim for
30+/- years, allowed to be flat for many years, left in the sun many years, has a lot of weather
checking etc. it might not be a good purchase.
That said, I have had three bad experiences with old tractor tires being dismounted. The first two were
a tire dealer (not name brand). I had taken 5 tires to be dismounted. 3 were scrap 2 of which were on
desent original Ford rims. 2 tires were nice and had matching tread. I wanted to clean the original
rims and then remount the pair of matching tires.
When I went to pick up my tires, one of the "keepers" had a broken bead. I mean the steel wire was
completely destroyed. Dealer said it was that it was rusty and broken. NOT! He let it sit out in the
weather a week after he, or his help, broke it.
Another time, later, I watched his pothead help run the pneumatic bead braker knock the bead off the rim
and kept the pressure on and drive the steel right through the side wall. His answer? Rotten rubber.
I have never been back.
2nd dealer: I had bought a nice pair of tires on Craigslist but on rims useless to me. Their tractor
tire specialist clamped a bead breaker onto the rim a a spot where the rim was slightly bent. Instead
of pushing the bead off the rim it drove through the sidewall above the bead. I have never been back.
I have found a 3 dealer. They have been GREAT!
 
(quoted from post at 04:56:26 04/23/20) It SHOULD be able to be dismounted and remounted. I said SHOULD. If the tire has been on the rim for
30+/- years, allowed to be flat for many years, left in the sun many years, has a lot of weather
checking etc. it might not be a good purchase.
That said, I have had three bad experiences with old tractor tires being dismounted. The first two were
a tire dealer (not name brand). I had taken 5 tires to be dismounted. 3 were scrap 2 of which were on
desent original Ford rims. 2 tires were nice and had matching tread. I wanted to clean the original
rims and then remount the pair of matching tires.
When I went to pick up my tires, one of the "keepers" had a broken bead. I mean the steel wire was
completely destroyed. Dealer said it was that it was rusty and broken. NOT! He let it sit out in the
weather a week after he, or his help, broke it.
Another time, later, I watched his pothead help run the pneumatic bead braker knock the bead off the rim
and kept the pressure on and drive the steel right through the side wall. His answer? Rotten rubber.
I have never been back.
2nd dealer: I had bought a nice pair of tires on Craigslist but on rims useless to me. Their tractor
tire specialist clamped a bead breaker onto the rim a a spot where the rim was slightly bent. Instead
of pushing the bead off the rim it drove through the sidewall above the bead. I have never been back.
I have found a 3 dealer. They have been GREAT!
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This answer is why I asked. I knew they could be remounted typically but had heard of a few instances of where they couldn t but didn t know why. This is it though. I think the tires I m looking at will be just fine then. Thank you all for clearing that up
 
The tires on my tractor were cracked bad enough air was leaking through the cracks. I took them the other day and had them put tubes in the tires and it worked great. They were bias tires and I agree those are
better.
 
I do it all the time no problem and no different than a new tire. the thing is when they are demounting them is to lube up the rim so they don't tear the tire bead. plus use the murghy soap on assemble. and no it wont hurt the differential if one tire is an inch or two different circumference. its a differential and that is what the spider gears are for. hurting a diff is when you have one wheel stopped and the other one wheeling around like a mad squirrel in a cage. if you had a solid positrack then you would be doing damage. you will be just fine.
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Maybe maybe not depends on the tire and also who does the dismounting that they are careful not to tear up the bead.If buying from a salvage yard I'd tell the to take the tire off the rim before I bought it.If they won't do that then it'd have to be cheap for me to take a chance.Price is everything on a deal like that as far as I'm concerned.
 
I second what ACG said. My tire guy will not mount a tire if he knows you are going to mix radial and bias. He said it cost him a differential one time and that ended that.
 
I wouldn't do it! The radial will get more
traction than the other tire and your
tractor will want to pull to one side under
a load. I put on a new tire on one side and
now my backhoe pulls to one side pretty bad
and the tread is not too much difference! I
should have bought2 new tires and sold the
used one. Sometimes a person can be too
cheap! Ha
 
Ran a bias ply on our 4320 for years Bias on one side radial
on the other ran that way till we sold the tractor , I have a
480/80/38 on one side of the 4020 and an 18.4.38 on the
other side to get the same axle height on both sides of the
tractor I have to have 15 psi in 18.4 and 22 in the 480 both
are radials
 
Yes. I had a local guy come by and asked if he could have my takeoffs (R1s) that had the lugs worn down to nothing in the center. He was tickled pink.
 

I dont know if I agree. A tractor diffy will apply power to only one side unless you force it to lock.... SO>>>> all day long, one axle gets power and the other axle "floats".... Its made to do that ALL DAY LONG, EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. Usually the right tire is pulling as the power is naturally sent to the right side, but if it can transfer to the left is the left spins easier. Guys, that what they are designed to do.


IN automobiles where you have "auto lockers" that lock up and unlock all day, you might see excessive wear from forcing the diffy to continuously lock up and cylcle... In tractors that does NOT happen.. It only locks if you engage the locking pedal or rear end lock. Since the diffy is normally driving the right wheel, in normal conditions, you could put the radial on the right and the diffy will never know it... It will just do what it does anyway, all day. And if you put the radial on the left, the diffy will still try to drive the right,, it will do what is does all day long till you engage the locking pin.

What am I missing here?
 
I know that is a crock, the diff was probably ready to give up anyway. just needed an excuse to not do it. at the ski hill here they used a w4 for years with one tire on the ground and only a rim on the other side running the rope. the diff did not pile up.
 
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