Tires Loaded my tires with Washer Fluid Yesterday

Steelfan · May 12, 2002

Yesterday I decided to give loading my TC21d's rear tires with Washer Fluid a try. With the help of my cousin, who is a tireman, I took the rear wheels off, and broke the bead on one side. We poured 15 gallons of Fluid in each tire right in between the tire, and wheel, and pumped the tractor tires up without a hitch. The whole thing took about 30 minutes thanks to my cousin. I recommend this way of loading tires to everyone , who has a jack, and air compressor. It was very easy. One thing larger tires would be a bit harder due to the weight. The whole thing costed me, $27.00. I took the tractor over to get sawdust to try it out, and got a monster load in the bucket. Works great. Thanks to everyone who replied to my posts. Kent

JonLeonard · May 12, 2002

I had read elsewhere that the tires should be filled to 70% of their volume. Is that what you did, or was it less?

Jon

Steelfan · May 12, 2002

We loaded them till we could see the fluid. We had a crowbar in between with a little downward pressure to make a place to pour the Fluid in. Made like a funnel. We stopped when we saw the fluid there. I'd say about 70 % is right. We put 30 pounds of air in the tire after that. Hope that helped you. Kent

wihakowiSteve · May 12, 2002

I learned some interesting things about tires, pressures and loading from the service tech who was out last week. He noticed that I had marked the pressure range on the rims of each wheel and asked what I ran them at? I said I wasn't exactly sure what they were at now but what did he reccomend. He said he fills the rears up until the tread bars (mine are R-4s) just leave the ground. Any more pressure than that and there isn't enough tread contacting the ground, any less and it added friction and wear.
He then said with kind of a grin, how did I measure the pressure. Even before I could answer, he saved me the embarassment by saying, "Of course, you know that with calcium chloride filled tires, as soon as your pressure gauge tests them once, it will toast the gauge and you may as well throw it away!" I didn't have the heart to tell him I wondered why my gauge hadn't been working too well!
Wonder what that beet juice does to a gauge - permanently stain it??
I forgot to ask him whether there were tubes, but I remember someone telling once that there were - to avoid rotting out the rims. You might want to look into that even with washer fluid. Hope this helps somebody along the line.
Steve