BX22 details details...??

[mwechtal]

Uh, OK, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but that 30-40 deg. incline would be way past my pucker point. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif I have a couple short 30 deg. slopes, and I <font color="red"> ALWAYS </font> take them in the up and down direction (never across the slope), and with the front of the tractor downhill. I think a BX has a lower center of gravity than my B7100, but that sounds like a problem to me!

Mike

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

To fill the tires do the following:

1. By a pump that connects to a drill, about $6.00 at HomeDepot
2. Go to the autostore or tractor store and get a valve for the filling tire with liquid. It screws onto the valve stem, and has a garden hose connection on it, about $6.
3. Connect the gareden hose to the pump, and from the pump into a 5 gallon bucket.
4. Pour the windshield washer fluid or what ever your choice of fluid is into the 5 gallon bucket.
5. Turn on the pump via the drill and fill the tire.
6. Keep the valve steam at the 12 o clock postion when filling.
7. Stop after the first 5 gallon and let the air out of the tire, the pump put in.
8. Repeat until the tire is filled about 75%, remove the valve steam keeping the tire at 12 o’clock. When you do not get fluid out, the tire has enough.
9. Pump in about 10-15 psi of air into the tire.

I filled about 10 gallons into a tire in about 15 minutes using this method, also you need to remove the valve assembly, and then repalce when done and put air in the tire. You may also want to jack the tractor up to take the weight off the tire if you do not remove the tire from the tractor.


Good luck

Tom

 

[Anonymous Poster]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( getting Bar Tires Dealer told me Calcium Chloride will add approx. 180 lb per rear tire. )</font>

My manual on the BX2200 (same size tire) shows 123 lbs per tire with 5 lbs calcium chloride to 1 gallon of water. This allows it to be slush free at minus 47 degrees Celcius. I believe that this is the highest ratio recommended. My dealer didn't recommend it at all in my case.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Thank you all for your recommendations. I'll be going with the Calcium chloride / calcium chlorate whatever... I figure if it gives me 90lb per rear tire it helps out.

mwechtal,

I agree 30-40 degrees would send the puckerometer into the red. I guess I exagerated I'm not very good at angle judgement, it's probably 20-30 degrees, all I know is on the old craftsman rider mower I have to lean into the hill ( sorta like surfin') I don't think I have to do it but it makes me feel safer.

Anyway thank you all.

 

[sandyc]

Please note that even at low pressure, if a tire comes off the rim it can be a huge safety issue. When filling a tire either with air or with air and fluid do not stand over the tire if it is on the ground. When we filled tires we used cages or placed them under a vehicle just in case something blows. The new rims (non-split rims) and tubeless design should reduce the incident of tires blowing off rims but an ounce of prevention......there have been people killed when filling tractor tires....just be careful.

 

[Egon]

Were'nt those split rims lovely. Many a person has been killed by them.

Egon

 

[sandyc]

Hey Egon.....I thought I was the only one up early....although aren't you guys an hour ahead of us here in Maine?

Speaking of split rims, I worked with a guy that was missing his chin from filling a calcuim tractor tire and having the rim break. Estimated pressure at the time of failure was around 10 psi. In talking to my dealer he sends all larger sized tires down the road to a tire shop for repair and loading....he has had two folks in his shop injured in 25 years so he doen't want any part of it.
Split rims brings back memories of beating the rusted rim with a tire sledge. Man those would rust on! Guess it was good exercise if nothing else.

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Were'nt those split rims lovely. )</font>

Egon, I fixed flats on a bunch of them when I was a teenager and it's probably pure luck that I never got hurt. I don't know which I hated more; split rim or split ring wheels. I don't know just when they quit using them on smaller trucks, but even my 1971 three-quarter ton Chevy had the split ring wheels.

 

[sandyc]

Bird:
Maybe there ought to be a nostalgia thread so old folks like me can talk about the good old days!

 

[milkman]

On my bx2200, i used automotive antifreeze, ethylene glycol, I took the tire and wheel off the tractor, laid it flat on the driveway and let out all the air. I took the loader and broke loose one side of the tire from the rim. siphoned the antifreeze and water solution from the 55 gal drum till the tire was almost full, put the valve back in and added air. reinstalled the wheel, I filled all four tires. I know, they don't recommend filling the front tires. I've seen no ill affects.