[AT] Patching Rear Tire on Tractor?

[charlie hill]

Will,

Just before you put it all back together, after the paint is good and dry, 
throw a handful of talc or baby powder inside the tire and swish it around 
so that it coats the inside of the tire and the rim.  Next time you have to 
change it the tube won't be stuck (that is unless you put ballast fluid in 
the tube and get a leak).  If you use baby powder it'll even smell good next 
time you break it down.

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <william.neff.powell at comcast.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Patching Rear Tire on Tractor?


> Cecil,
>
> What is the "Hydraulic Breakdown Tool?" Is it a bead breaker?
>
> Jacked up the WD and removed the tire. Puncture wound in tube. There was a 
> small ditch on the property I cut that had old reinforced concrete in it. 
> Had to cross the ditch to get to the property, probably punctured it 
> there.
>
> Tire came off easily, tube was a little rusted to the rim... Much easier 
> working with tire on tractor. My past paint job was not thick enough. 
> Wired brushed it again, then primer. Two more coats of paint should do it.
>
> Now to patching the tube.  It is a little dry rotted but still holds air 
> (other than the puncture). Probably going to put it back in. I believe I 
> should also put a patch on the inside of the tire, there is a small slit 
> about a 1/4 inch wide.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Will Powell
>
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
>> I change all my own tires on everything.  I bought a hydraulic breakdown
>> tool in 1985 and recently bought a new one from a vendor on Ebay.  It
>> was only about $125 w/shipping.  I had to supply the air hydraulic
>> pump.  With this tool and an assortment of tire irons, I can change
>> anything.  I find it is just about as easy to change small ones on the
>> ground as pick the tire up and put it on a changer with my bad back.
>> The tractor tires I always change on the tractor since I started  on my
>> first tractor tire
>> in 1962....  Jeez I did not know I was that experienced!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> Cecil in OKla
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