50 hour service question.... Desperately need help

SPIKER · Mar 18, 2004

You can go to just about ANY politically driven government facility to get the proper HOT AIR fill up, I'm on the band wagon that is that the AIR that is in there is probalby contaminated and needs to be inspected at the local SMOG station where they have the correct equipment to measure all the oxides and such! remember these are dangerous and anyone who has SUCKED the air form a tire stem will tell you that it tasted really bad and was undouptably bad for yoU! so like others siad be sure to take the tire air to the best recycler that you can find! (it's not the days when we could just break open any old stored air system and let the contents evaporate into the atmosphear anylonger!) anyhow if you DO use HELIUM in the tires you can easly get the tractor to FLOAT across any lake then as it will be much lighter! BUT be sure to have the air exchanged at the local SMOG shop and filled with the helium as you don't want to OVER fill them with helium as the tractor would undouptbly float away once you got off it! Just take a look up at any county fair for the proof!

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

PineRidge · Mar 18, 2004

Junkman you can contact most any EPA Approved licensed heating or air conditioning technician for this project. The technician will likely use an approved recycling/reclamation pump to extract the old stale winter air from your tires.

It can then be sent overseas where it will be purified using the most modern technology available to mankind. Once this clean up has been accomplished it will then be repackaged to be sold once again on the American market. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

bigpete · Mar 18, 2004

Junkman, the answers to your questions are highly dependent on the altitude at which you operate your tractor for most of your work. I typically take my tractor down to the shore to let the air out of the tires when I change it out each spring to ensure all old air is expelled at the highest possible atmospheric pressure. I always take my tractor back to its working altitude at my homestead before putting in the fresh air so as not to cause TATPOOP (Trans-altitude Tire Pressure Operating Overload Problems) from taking sea-level air up into the thinner atmosphere. In addition, the sea-level air contains a considerably higher saline content which can cause wheel corrosion over time. Careful monitoring of meteorological conditions and accurate timing is also a key to proper air rotation and replenishment.

Inspector507 · Mar 18, 2004

SO I guess I added some Ohio moisture-filled air in my tires. No wonder when I hit top speed, my tires sometimes go....KATHUMP KATHUMP.....
Must be the fluid in the tire has frozen and now rumbles around in there. Oh well it will be spring soon and hopefully it will melt.

bigpete · Mar 18, 2004

Inspector, you can always add a the contents of a couple of left-over desecant packets from an old shoe box or from an electronic device to keep the air dry in your tires all season. I think you could remove the core from your valve stem and pour the desecant crystals in through a teenie-tiny funnel. Just make sure you don't eat the packets. It says to avoid doing so right on each one! /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

Larry_T · Mar 18, 2004

Junkman you will have to use the original air. or you will void your warranty. Larry

Twidget · Mar 18, 2004

You're kidding right???

Cliff_Johns · Mar 18, 2004

Aw, man. I was always told to rotate the air in my tires
between the front and back tires and only on the same side.
This worked fine on the truck, but the tractor tires are
different sizes. Now what do I do?

Cliff

PS I guess if I drove around backwards, the air would rotate,
wouldn't it?

bigpete · Mar 18, 2004

Cliff, that rotation pattern is only for steel-belted radial tractor tires. As far as rotating the air by reversing the tires, it's just as easy to mow your yard in reverse once each month and simply forget about it.

lamarbur · Mar 18, 2004

You guys laugh, I had lunch today with Junkman and he is legitimately concerned about the air in his tires, He lives near a wet and swampy area and I think he is concerned about moisture. He also brought up replacing the rearward muffler bearings as he opted for the horizontal (fire retardent) muffler system. Seems that tractor use and it's inherent vibration has loosened the bearing. This bearing is non greasable. I told him to go ahead and replace it. what can it hurt?