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Modern Tractor Discussion Board Topic: Re: Fluid filled tires, good or bad? [Show Entire Topic] [Return to Forum] Author [expand] [Modern View] Radials 07-13-2009 16:25:52 216.234.101.16 20689 Report to Moderator If you think "i don't do much with it", your wrong... It's our "chore" tractor, and it gets a lot of use, in all kinds of jobs. I REPEAT, it's never had a leak, and has the origional tubes from the factory. I know this, because i bought the tractor new. [Reply]  [No Email] RodInNS 07-13-2009 20:13:40 216.118.158.123 20692 Report to Moderator Re: Fluid filled tires, good or bad? in reply to Radials, 07-13-2009 16:25:52   You can put a lot of hours on a tractor without doing a whole hell of a lot... You're also in a situation where it's not loaded heavily on the rear when it has a loader on the front. I have less trouble with tubes in my loader tractor than the others... probably to the point where I don't see it as much of a problem. However, the other two that do the drawbar work and are ballasted to do heavy drawbar work were continously shearing valve stems off the tubes on both Michelin and Firestone tires. I could probably air them up to 25 psi to avoid that problem but at that point the good of the radial would be defeated... so I'm switching them to tubless as they fail. I'll say again... if you haven't sheared a stem off a loaded radial, you haven't made it pull. Rod   [Reply]  [Send Email] Radials 07-14-2009 15:58:55 216.234.101.64 20698 Report to Moderator Re: Fluid filled tires, good or bad? in reply to RodInNS, 07-13-2009 20:13:40   Now that's different... First you made the broad statement ----> "If you're running bias tires, CaCl works fine. If you're running radials you won't keep tubes in them with CaCl. There's too much flex in the radial tires." My answer was to "that" statement. Now your adding in, heavy draft loads, and even though my tractor does pull some heavy loads, it does not do a lot of tillage that requires heavy draft loads.   [Reply]  [No Email] RodInNS 07-14-2009 19:26:43 216.118.158.123 20700 Report to Moderator Re: Fluid filled tires, good or bad? in reply to Radials, 07-14-2009 15:58:55   I'll put it to you this way. I've got 3 tractors with radials. A Ford 3930 FWD w/loader that has Michelin's on the rear. It's sheared one tube. A NewHolland TS90 with Michelin's on the rear and a very similar BFG radial on the front. It's sheared at least one front and 2 or 3 rears off now. All at the stem. Neither of these do the 'heavy' work here, but they do at times get loaded down heavy with heavy mounted equipment and they also do some heavy pulling relative to their size. The other one is a Ford 7710 with Firestone 23 degree's. I've simply lost count of how many tubes I put in those tires now. It was at least one per year for each tire for a while and they're on there 10 years... Not one of those tires has a hole in them. They've never given a single problem otherwise... just constant trouble with tubes. You can either air them up and down all the time for whatever load is on them, air them up and leave them up which makes the tire worthless, or basically do nothing with the tractor. Last summer the TS90 let one rip on a Michelin. It was a saturday afternoon and I had hay to bale. I yanked the tube out, screwed a brass stem in that I had in the toolbox, shoved the tire back on the wheel, stuck the air line on and fired the shot from the bead chetah. I haven't looked at it since. I did one on the 7710 this spring. I noticed the other leaking tonight. It's getting the same treatment. I'm done with tubes in radial tires. It's cost me far, far more than a load of cast iron would ever cost. Rod   [Reply]  [Send Email] jcummins 07-13-2009 16:40:06 70.245.67.20 20690 Report to Moderator Re: Fluid filled tires, good or bad? in reply to Radials, 07-13-2009 16:25:52   Radials said: (quoted from post at 16:25:52 07/13/09) If you think "i don't do much with it", your wrong... It's our "chore" tractor, and it gets a lot of use, in all kinds of jobs. I REPEAT, it's never had a leak, and has the origional tubes from the factory. I know this, because i bought the tractor new. But I bet your don't have many thorn bushes on your place. I'm working on those thorny things, but until I get ALL of the bigger ones off the place, I won't consider doing it. I would like the extra weight for loader work.   [Reply]  [No Email] [Show Entire Topic]   [Options]  [Printer Friendly]  [Return to Forum]   [Add a Reply] Hop to: Another Forum Tractor Talk Tool Talk Restoration Tips Paint & Bodywork Implement Alley Tractor Transporting Allis Chalmers Case Combines Crawlers Farmall & IH Ford Ford 9N,2N & 8N Fordson John Deere MH & MF Harry Ferguson Minneapolis Moline Oliver & Cockshutt Garden Tractors Orphans Stationary Engines Today's Tractors Memorabilia Tractor Tales Using Your Tractor Tractor Pulling Site Comments Test Forum Buyer Seller Feedback Kountry Life Classic Trucks