[AT] Tube type tire trick

[charlie hill]

Where in Wally World do you look for Shoe Goo?

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
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Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Tube type tire trick


> Long live Shoe Goo!
>
> I took your advice about using Shoe-Goo to patch the gauge wheels on my
> Kubota mower deck.  I built a dam out of packaging tape, filled the
> cavity with Shoe-Goo, and let it set for about a week.  That was several
> years ago.  The patches held and are still in place.  A tube of Shoe-Goo
> from Wal-Mart sure beats paying nearly $100 each for those overpriced
> gauge wheels.  I always thought JD green paint was expensive, but I've
> found that Kubota orange is not much cheaper.  :-)
>
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Robinson
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 8:48 AM
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> Subject: [AT] Tube type tire trick
>
> I have a couple of hundred tires on the ground so I am always
> changing
> or patching one. Those numbers and being well blessed with poverty means
>
> I don't dash out and buy a new tire or tube every little whip stitch.
> Also of course many of those tires only move once or twice a year and
> some don't carry much weight. Sometimes repairs get a little creative.
> Anybody seen my tube of Shoe-Goo?   :-)
> I used one trick this week that I have used successfully several
> times
> before. I am hauling soybeans and when I got the first load on a wagon
> one rear tire was a bit soft. I grabbed the air hose and safety inflater
>
> and pumped it up. Then as I started looking it over I found a 6 inch
> place on the back sidewall where I could see the air. Well, not really
> the air, just the broken ends of the first 4 plies of cord on an 8 ply
> tire. It has looked pretty bad for several years but new tire time had
> come. There was $2,000 in soybeans in that wagon and I wanted them to
> arrive in comfort.
> We started calling around for price and called the Goodyear
> store
> first. I bought the last one for that wagon there about 3 years ago and
> it only cost me $37 on sale. Diana asked the guy for a price on an 11L x
>
> 15 rib implement tire for a wagon. In the next few seconds it became
> quickly apparent that she was talking to a new guy that didn't know farm
>
> tires. After she got him to quit talking about 3 rib fronts he finally
> said all they had was 12 ply's (I still doubt that). Well how much?...
> $92... Choke, gasp... Thanks we will call somebody else. We ended up
> buying a no name tire from another local tire store for $35. Orchlen
> farm store had no names for $52.
> While she went to get the tire I pulled the one off of the wagon
> and
> plopped it on the Coats 40-40 to change it. That is about the largest
> tire I can change on it. The tube looked like new. Then I discovered
> that the tube was leaking around the brass part of the valve stem. OK,
> maybe not a problem, most new tires are tubeless anyway. If the new one
> is rated tubeless I'll just bore the stem hole and stick in a tubeless
> stem. I always keep those on hand. I was out of replacement tube stems
> and besides when the stem is in the kind of corner of the drop center
> that this one was sometimes those replacement tube stems get pulled out
> of shape as the tire inflates and breaks the seal. She got there with
> the tire and dang it, it was tube type. I was in a hurry so I mounted it
>
> and inflated it then went to the small hose clamp drawer and got one of
> those stainless screw type gas line clamps and put it on the valve stem
> squeezing the outside of the rubber stem against the brass stem insert.
> No leak. I have used this trick several times on other tires. On one of
> them the brass had come completely loose. On that one I coated the brass
>
> with Shoe-Goo and shoved it back in and put a clamp on it. It has held
> for years.
>
> I have been boring (actually I use a reamer) and changing quite
> a few
> wheels to fit a large base tubeless stem lately. Most of the tires I use
>
> are old car tires and are tubeless anyway. If I later want to use a tube
>
> in one I can just stick in a plastic bushing on the stem. I keep those
> on hand all of the time, their cost is tiny.
>
>
> -- 
>
>
>
> "farmer"
>
> Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
>
>
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