Tires tires and rims

[Charlie_Iliff]

A little bigger? A lot tougher.

Galaxy

 

[toy]

I was told at pt in Tazwell that the reason for the valve stems on both sides of the tires was that they use these tires on some models that use dual wheels and that having stems on both sides made it easier to gauge the tires and to add air if needed.

 

[Sedgewood]

Charlie: <font color="red">A little bigger? A lot tougher.</font>

Ride like a truck?

Not to worry - Speed limit = 5mph /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I took Ed up on his offer to sell his extra set of wheels with bar treads. Thanks Ed. That gives me 4 spares which should see me through for a while. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Before stacking them in the barn, I measured the rims using instructions I found at the OTR Wheel Engineering site in case it might be useful sometime.

Where to mount the spare tire rack? Got it! As a back bumper to protect the probably needed oil cooler inlet filter from the trees I'm always backing into. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Sedgewood

 

[johara1]

the reason the valve stems are on both sides is so the tire-wheel can be reversed, to widen the tread with. if you take one off you can see it is made with seats for the lug nuts on both sides.i ask terry if you can reverse them and he said no the wheel motors would not take the extra load

 

[pajoube]

Thanks,
That was going to be my next question.
PJ

 

[smartguyz]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> why do they put a valve stem on both sides? </font>

Good question. I don't know, either, but my little simplicity tractor has them, too. )</font>

David,

Do you have a little Simplicity? I never knew? What do you use it for?

-Rob /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[MossRoad]

We have a 1969ish Simplicity Yeoman 726. It was my father's. He bought it from the original owner around 1985 for $600.00. It came with a 26" three bladed mower deck, a snow blade, a snow thrower and a rear weight. I used it from 1995 until 2001, when we bought the Power Trac. It has a 3sp tranny. Reverse is kind of weird, in that is is geared the same as 3rd! So you can go real fast backwards. It has an electric starter, but no charging system. So I just pull start it when the battery dies... Starts right up. I can even pull start it while sitting in the seat.

It originally had a 6HP Briggs, which died after 29 years of service(remember that commercial with the old guy, "Change the oil every year... I never had my oil changed!"). So they wedged in a 8.5HP. I still use it once or twice a year, just for fun. It does a great job mowing with a most beautiful cut, but takes forever becasue of the 26" deck. Nice thing was it could fit through a gate, and to install the mower deck, I just lift the tractor front end up and walk it over the deck and set it down.

I took the kids for a hay ride with it yesterday. We have one of those Rubbermaid carts, so we drove 75 feet back to the garden, piled in our harvest of 12 small pumpkins and 31 watermellons(each about the size of a softball) and I drove them all over the yard at a very slow speed. They had a blast and so did I. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[toy]

I was thinking about the idea that the extra weight of the foam filled tires would over load the wheel motors, the wheels don't ride on the wheel motors, the wheel motors ride on the wheels the extra weight of the foam filled tires would be on the ground not on the wheel motors. Now it might take a little more power to get the foam filled tires rolling. As far as the dual wheels on the 425 I can see where they would put extra strain on the wheel motors if you were in a situation where the weight of the machine was just on the outside tires and the inside tires off the ground. Now having the extra weight of the foam filled tires or the dual wheels would put extra strain on the center section when you would lift loads heavier than it normally would lift without lifting the backend off the ground. Just a thought that seems logical to me.

 

[BobRip]

Has anybody found a rim supplier for the 23X10.5X12 tires on my 422. I see PT wants $180 for a spare tire. I put a slit in one of my tires today, and while it does not appear to be leaking I feel the need for a spare. Of course I could just buy a tire. Is it easy to mount one of these tires yourself? I was able to break it from the rim using a high lift jack, but I have not tried to actually remove the tire from the rim and mount another one.

Bob Rip

 

[stray]

the TSC strore is one place.