50 hour service question.... Desperately need help

narcnh · Mar 18, 2004

This is a tricky one and you have to be careful. In the winter the EPA requires additives be added to air to additate it. Addified air behaves differently than non-addified air and that can affect it's lubricity inside the tire resulting in greater friction between the inner tire wall and the addified or non-addifed air, depending on the season, tire size, rotational speed, hemisphere of operation (reverse coriolis effect south of the equator), etc. In addition to addification, the EPA is desulphinating air, so that it will burn cleaner. This is good news (provided you use Number 2, addified, desulphinated air), because if your tires catch on fire from heat build up due to increased friction from the addified or non-addified air contacting the interior of your tires, then the resulting tire fire will burn much cleaner, thanks to the desulphinated air. Unless you're using addified air at the time, of course.

dummy · Mar 19, 2004

Tomorrow is the FIRST DAY OF SPRING. At least for the lower half of the U.S. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif You two can get out and replace Junkman's air with nitrogen and rimguard. Please invite Henro, apparently he is not the only one suffering from cabin fever /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

herdfan · Mar 19, 2004

narcnh, you better check your tractor's manual to be sure that air additives won't void your warranty.

lamarbur · Mar 19, 2004

snowing like crazy here, right this moment. Don't think Junkman will do much air changing today other that plowing his long driveway. I feel bad for the guy as he is in a dilemma. AndyMa is right, if Junkman was to hold onto 400 amp live wire for a few seconds, he's be a spitting image of Albert Einstein..

AndyM · Mar 19, 2004

<font color="blue"> Junkman you will have to use the original air. or you will void your warranty. Larry </font>

Does Kubota air come from Japan, or have they outsourced their air production to China? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

RalphVa · Mar 19, 2004

First off, you can't change air until clothes changing time. That occurs in the spring, off with the long johns and on with the skivvies (or nothing). THEN you look at changing out that ole stale air.

First you get out your air refrigeration unit that allows you to liquify the stuff coming out or any from the atmospher that you need to draw on to refill. Once you get 'er workin' you draw off the liquid nitrogen and run it through your sunshine evaporator and back into the tire.

You'll end up with 78% old air and 22% new air from the atmosphere. In your tire, it'll all be nitrogen so you won't overheat the tires when you do those blazing hot, quick turns with fully loaded FEL and stand on 3 tires while doing it.

Ralph

JDgreen227 · Mar 19, 2004

I have been following this discussion with great interest, but it makes me wonder why Junkman didn't wait until April first to post his question. He CAN'T be serious about changing the air in his tires, my wife's 1993 Cutlass still has the original tires with factory air in them.

What I did was, I bled some air from one of the Cutlass tires into an inverted glass jar and sealed it, then did the same with one of the tires on my 2003 JD. I swear, the air in both jars looks EXACTLY the same. My wife says it looks EXACTLY the same.

This confirms what I have long suspected about the Junkman:

HE'S NUTS. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

lamarbur · Mar 19, 2004

"HE'S NUTS. "
Look, the guy had a job in a low cellar testing Acme pogo sticks. Doesn't mean he is nut's. Maybe a couple cards short of a full deck, but, not nuts.

fivestring · Mar 19, 2004

If you get your air out-of-state.....
don't forget to pay out-of-state sales tax on the air you bring back into your state. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Inspector507 · Mar 19, 2004

You just gave me an idea......I need to release some of my moisturized air into an inverted glass jar, cap it and take it in for an air quality test. Might point out some future tire related or air related problems down the road. I have no idea if my dealer has an air quality machine or not, but I'll check.
NO WAY will I let the EPA test it for me. They'll condemn this whole place of mine due to stagnant air or some such nonsense.