loading tires

[bucktaker]

You start with putting a jack under your tractor to regulate the amount of crush you get on the tire. Lower the jack till you have a good compression on the side wall but not so much that you break the bead. Hook up a flexible hose the tire valve stem and place the other end into the container with the fluid to be placed in the tire (antifreeze or washer fluid etc.) then jack the tractor back up. This wil cause a vacuum in the tire and will suck the liquid into the tire. Repeat till you have the tire filled. The valve stem should be at the top of the tire for this operation. This only requires a length of hose that will fit tightly to the valve stem.

if I'm reading this right you are nutts........squishing the tire to create a vaccum to pull liquid from a container

 

[pjbci]

if I'm reading this right you are nutts........squishing the tire to create a vaccum to pull liquid from a container

Ive done this before. It works good if you only adding a small amount.

 

[mad_planter]

I bought a tire filler from tractor supply, hooked a short hose between it and a container and let gravity do the job. As long as your container is higher than the tire and the container has a hole in it somewhere to let air in it should work fine.

 

[radioman]

I didnt bother with pumps nor adapters. (Idid however used a kerosene hand pump but pouring it in is just as easy) just simply popped tire bead on one side :thumbsup:and poured in. Then aired it back up like you were putting tire back on rim. done!

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

What was quoted in post #21........ No..... You are not nuts........

I filled my R3 turfs with a $6.oo valve stem adapter, 12V bilge pump, and a pair of water hoses from an automatic washer. I kept the fluid in a bucket on top of the fender.

Yes use the jack to let the tire "squish" only 2-3" at most, and raise back up after venting air. It only took about 4 hours to do both wheels. Was well worth the effort.

However...... Because I live in zone 3, where we have major "winter" I did do experiments in the freezer with different combinations of fluids to make sure I had a product that would not freeze and cause tire problems.

From a chart somewhere on the web, I learned my tires held 22 gallon each. So I experimented with 22 oz of mix in a 2L soda bottle in the freezer. I found 5 gallon antifreeze, and 17 gallon of -20 WW fluid would be the best mix for my needs.

Your product needs may be different....
Good luck

 

[20 20]

Not sure about that. I tell the old lady every day but she just gives me that look and walks out of the room.:laughing:

Chris

Same here, :laughing::laughing:

 

[20 20]

I didnt bother with pumps nor adapters. (Idid however used a kerosene hand pump but pouring it in is just as easy) just simply popped tire bead on one side :thumbsup:and poured in. Then aired it back up like you were putting tire back on rim. done!

This is a good idea but didn't you need to take the tire off? Is so a tire filled with 45-50gal of fluid would be slightly on the heavy side to try and reattach.

 

[20 20]

if I'm reading this right you are nutts........squishing the tire to create a vaccum to pull liquid from a container

I don't understand why this would be nutz, if done with caution{jacking} I do believe it has it's place, and would work.

 

[20 20]

Okay folks, thanks for all the ideas and replies, they were helpfull and hopefully will help others in the future. I will try to explain what I finally ended up doing after going through 2 drill pumps{IMO not worth buying}.


I started by finding a level safe spot to jack up one side of the tractor at a time. I believe this is important if you jack from the middle as you load a tire the tractor will tip. I jacked up one rear side of the tractor and rotated the valve stem to the top 12:00 o'clock. I removed the guts of the stem and let all the air out. I then installed the bleeder valve from TSC{cost around $10.00}. I then found a 55gal plastic drum that I had laying around. I set the drum on it's side in the back of my truck with the bung caps at 6:00 and 12:00. The plastic barrles come with bung caps that are allready tapped out to recieve a 3/4inch outside faucet, all that needs to be done is to drill out the center of that tapped area. Be carefull not to mess up the threads. I placed the outside faucet into the bung cap at the 6:00 o'clock position. Then I connected a garden hose from the barrel too the tire. I then made a fitting that fit my air hose and the 12:00 o'clock bung. Fill the barrel with fluid open faucet and pump in air. I did set my air pressure at only 20PSI, didn't want things to be dangerous. I let the fluid go into the tire stopping about 6-8 times to bleed the air out of the tire. It took me longer to fill the barrel then it did to fill the tire. Total proces from putting everything together filling the barrel and then filling tire took about 1/2 an hr. I used about 48gal in each tire, OH and of course don't forget to put things back together and bring your tire pressure back up.

:thumbsup: thanks again for all the ideas and replys :thumbsup:

 

[Diamondpilot]

I didnt bother with pumps nor adapters. (Idid however used a kerosene hand pump but pouring it in is just as easy) just simply popped tire bead on one side :thumbsup:and poured in. Then aired it back up like you were putting tire back on rim. done!

I take it you did this with small tires. There is no way you would get a bigger tire like on my 861 back on or even stood up with that much fluid. Plus all my tires have tubes.

Chris