Can I add rimguard myself ?

[kthompson]

Regular antifreeze is used in my part of the world. Yes you can put it yourself. My local dealership uses a portable air tank with a fill plug added so they can put pressure on the antifreeze to push it into the tire. They do sell adapter for water hose to the valve stem.

But I either did not follow one persons suggestion on how to add extra or think he is way off. Have never seen any source that said to FILL the tire. All I have seen say to leave it about 25% air. The standard I have known is to turn the valve stem to the highest position and fill it to that level only. Not saying I am 100% positive on that never fill is true for all brands or uses.

 

[radioman]

FYI, I finally got an email response from rimgaurd. He states he tried shipping rimgaurd in smaller container, cost would be over 6 dollars/gallon and his experience is that no one wants to pay that much. He prefer to do this through dealer network. He has asked me for my city and state and he would get back to me with the nearest dealer. Hopefully there would be a dealer nearby. I'll be posting my results throughout this tire fill project here. Phil Globig, President of rimgaurd apolgized for a late email response which I liked. So far everything is going good. Now it looks like it may be up to the local rimgaurd dealer service. (Can't help but have the comments from the guy who waxes his rims posts)

 

[Reg]

Regular antifreeze is used in my part of the world. Yes you can put it yourself. My local dealership uses a portable air tank with a fill plug added so they can put pressure on the antifreeze to push it into the tire. They do sell adapter for water hose to the valve stem.

But I either did not follow one persons suggestion on how to add extra or think he is way off. Have never seen any source that said to FILL the tire. All I have seen say to leave it about 25% air. The standard I have known is to turn the valve stem to the highest position and fill it to that level only. Not saying I am 100% positive on that never fill is true for all brands or uses.

One of my comments was that the Firestone site shows a tool that can fill/empty higher than the valve, which is about 75% and the normal/regular used fill level.
Earlier I had made a comment that you can get a little more in by laying a tire almost horizontal propped up on a 4x4 to get the valve higher.
You would need a way to lift and lower it - the larger tire the bigger this problem could be.
Neither of those comments was any sort of recommendation, although I believe I have seen greater than 75% written about in the past.
It is quite possible that the 75% level is customary as a consequence of the valve position.

 

[Reg]

FYI, I finally got an email response from rimgaurd. He states he tried shipping rimgaurd in smaller container, cost would be over 6 dollars/gallon and his experience is that no one wants to pay that much. He prefer to do this through dealer network. He has asked me for my city and state and he would get back to me with the nearest dealer. Hopefully there would be a dealer nearby. I'll be posting my results throughout this tire fill project here. Phil Globig, President of rimgaurd apolgized for a late email response which I liked. So far everything is going good. Now it looks like it may be up to the local rimgaurd dealer service. (Can't help but have the comments from the guy who waxes his rims posts)

I think there was a dealer section on their web site at one point.
IIRC it showed about a 2,500 gallon storage tank that was required and I think the minimum re-order quantity was 1,000 gallons - something like that.
This stuff comes by tanker truck and at over 10 pounds a gallon is heavy to haul around, so its an economy of hauling issue.
I can't see them wanting to get into the mail order biz with 5 gallon pails (-:
I got mine at a Kubota dealership and at the time I got the impression that they may have been getting some help from Kubota to get in, perhaps low interest loans for the equipment - pure speculation.

Here;
Rim Guard - Liquid Tire Ballast Dealer Information
EDIT:
Here's an interesting little note that I hadn't seen before;
"For rear dual tire applications, fill all rear tires equally and to the 40% fill level (4:00 valve stem location).
Not that the O/P has duals
:END EDIT

 

[radioman]

There is a rimguard dealer in waterloo, about hour drive from here. Going to give them a call.

 

[JDeerekid]

There is a rimguard dealer in waterloo, about hour drive from here. Going to give them a call.

Could you let us know how much rimguard the dealer says to put in the tires? I am just curious how close I was.

 

[radioman]

Called the local dealer and got a quote of 82 dollars just for the rimgaurd. Not too bad. I asked about having them do the work- was quoted $190. I told him i prefer to get rimgaurd only. After dabbling on the phone a bit, he said he gonna see if he can scrounge up a few containers to put the rimguard in and i can come and pick it up. So far step one in progress. Tommarrow , istep two -it's off to local TSC for a tire fill coupler. I got a small liquid pump i can use so no extra cost for me there.

 

[radioman]

Whew! yesterday I added the rimguard to my BX24 rears turfs. I didn't use the air,hose coupler kit. Since I already have the manaul tire changer from HF, I broke the bead on the valve stem side. I checked the other side of bead to see if it was seal seated and it was. (didnt want beet juice all over the garage floor) Then I used the manual hand siphon pump to pump the rimgaurd into the tires. I then used a rachet strap to close the tire to the rim to get ready to reseat the bead. The bottom part of the tire wass already bulging from the rimgaurd. I was worried at first that i might get rimgaurd all over my face and garage so I used a rag to cover the top of tire. I found it wasn't needed. I did drip a little rimgaurd on garage floor when moving the hand pump to the next container. At first I was worried about stain on the garage floor since it looked just like a used oil change oil drip. I promptly wiped it and to my surprise it acted like a cleaner on the floor. I'll havew to look at the floor again today to see if there is overnight lasting effect.

Overall , If I had to do it again, I would. After only paying $89 with tax for the rimgaurd, gas for car RT and lunch on way back I certainly saved alot of money and it was worth my time. The dealer I bought rimgaurd from made me pleasantly surprised about good service and thier willingness to let me purchase just the rimgaurd. Thier mechanic Even took the time to chat with me about my ideas of adding the rimgaurd to the tire. ( FYI I was able to catch the mechanic at the counter since he was there for something else).

Today I plan to use the tractor and see how it handles with the rimgaurd added.

 

[Mickey_Fx]

See you got the job done so this can't help you but may be useful for others.

Recently had a rear tire (11.2X24) filled with Rim Gard. Took the tire down to the local tire shop and cost for the Rim Gard was $3.25/gal installed. Shop supply was in the form of a couple hundred gal tote.

Being in the PNW, I'm quite a ways from Mi, the headquarter of RG and with transportation cost being what they are, I suspect RG has their product formulated in several locations around the country.

 

[JDeerekid]

Whew! yesterday I added the rimguard to my BX24 rears turfs. I didn't use the air,hose coupler kit. Since I already have the manaul tire changer from HF, I broke the bead on the valve stem side. I checked the other side of bead to see if it was seal seated and it was. (didnt want beet juice all over the garage floor) Then I used the manual hand siphon pump to pump the rimgaurd into the tires. I then used a rachet strap to close the tire to the rim to get ready to reseat the bead. The bottom part of the tire wass already bulging from the rimgaurd. I was worried at first that i might get rimgaurd all over my face and garage so I used a rag to cover the top of tire. I found it wasn't needed. I did drip a little rimgaurd on garage floor when moving the hand pump to the next container. At first I was worried about stain on the garage floor since it looked just like a used oil change oil drip. I promptly wiped it and to my surprise it acted like a cleaner on the floor. I'll havew to look at the floor again today to see if there is overnight lasting effect.

Overall , If I had to do it again, I would. After only paying $89 with tax for the rimgaurd, gas for car RT and lunch on way back I certainly saved alot of money and it was worth my time. The dealer I bought rimgaurd from made me pleasantly surprised about good service and thier willingness to let me purchase just the rimgaurd. Thier mechanic Even took the time to chat with me about my ideas of adding the rimgaurd to the tire. ( FYI I was able to catch the mechanic at the counter since he was there for something else).

Today I plan to use the tractor and see how it handles with the rimgaurd added.

So how much did you get in each tire?