Any way to test for calcium chloride in tires for ballast?

OHVarmntr · May 9, 2014

Definitely nasty on the tongue!

Looking4new said:
Spend the money Luke! You wont be sorry. Dismount the tires, scrap the tubes, clean everything up, repaint and install new tubes and add Rim-Guard/Beet Juice. Save the Calcium Chloride for the winter and put it on your snow/ice, or if your driveway is dusty this summer after grading smooth put the calc. on it, preferably right after a light to medium rain.

I already have the cc, I'll pump it back in when I install a new tube. Going to get the tube in the morning, will get it done asap.

Looking4new · May 10, 2014

Another way to check for CC, is if you have a small cut on your finger let some get into it. !!PAINFUL!!

OHVarmntr · May 10, 2014

Well I got my new tube. I'm currently draining the cc out of the tire into a poly barrel. I'll take pics along the way and post a thread when it's all said and done. The cc that's coming out is really brown in color.

k0ua · May 10, 2014

OHVarmntr said:
Well I got my new tube. I'm currently draining the cc out of the tire into a poly barrel. I'll take pics along the way and post a thread when it's all said and done. The cc that's coming out is really brown in color.

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I am guessing you also know why the calcium chloride is brown too.

OHVarmntr · May 10, 2014

I'm assuming from the rust. The rim wasn't rusty on the inside hardly at all. I inflated the old tube and found no leaks. I'm wondering if someone before me threw a new tube in there and never cleaned it up and leftover cc is my issue. I've got the tire off the rim, the rim is all cleaned up on the inside and the outside of the rim where the valve stem is.

It's in primer now, 10 minutes till paint time.

RG1 · May 10, 2014

Dark brown? Are you sure it wasn't Rim Guard? Many JD dealers fill the tires with RG before they ever send the machine on its way, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was after all. It would explain the rim not being very rusty.

Looking4new · May 10, 2014

Does it smell like beets? If it does then it is probably Rim Guard which is made out of beet juice.

OHVarmntr · May 10, 2014

RG1 said:
Dark brown? Are you sure it wasn't Rim Guard? Many JD dealers fill the tires with RG before they ever send the machine on its way, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was after all. It would explain the rim not being very rusty.

I've never seen or smelled rim guard.

Looking4new said:
Does it smell like beets? If it does then it is probably Rim Guard which is made out of beet juice.

This stuff had no smell other than a rubber tire scent. I did dab my finger and touch it to my tongue and it sure as heck wasn't beet flavored! It was very bitter and salty and burned the tip if my tongue. The stuff sat in the poly barrel for a few hours while I worked on the tire and rim and when I pumped it down, there was dark brown sediment about an inch thick in the bottom of the barrel. A little swirling around got it suspended in the liquid and I was able to get it all back in there.

RG1 · May 11, 2014

Rim Guard has a unique smell. It is dark brown in color though, sorta like watered down Hershey's syrup. I have never tried to taste it though. It is made from sugar beets, so it doesn't look or smell like the purplish red things your mom tried to get you to eat.:licking::thumbdown:

GManBart · May 11, 2014

OHVarmntr said:
The stuff sat in the poly barrel for a few hours while I worked on the tire and rim and when I pumped it down, there was dark brown sediment about an inch thick in the bottom of the barrel. A little swirling around got it suspended in the liquid and I was able to get it all back in there.

I can't fathom going to that amount of effort to put that junk back in your tires.