Hello all
I wanted to post some pictures of how I finally figured out how to get these large rear wheel weights on to my 202 as requested by SHAEFF and thanks to SCOOBIEGUY for kick starting my brain in figuring out
how to go about it.
Working out how to handle these monsterist weights took me a couple days to think it through and almost three days to completion.
I had to start by deciding what position the wheel centers would be mounted on my six loop rims which took some trial and error.
Then deciding how to lift and support the wheel weight into the rim, I remembered from work how we mostly used lifting straps instead of chains.
These lifting straps would have to be very narrow and thin to be able to remove them once the weight was set into the rim, so I looked to Mcmaster Carr to find some 1" wide x 4' lifting straps
which would fit into the clearance between the wheel weight and the rim, these thin and narrow straps were rated at 2400lbs.
The tires would have to be removed and remounted on the rims to maintain the correct rolling direction.I had to buy a bead breaking hammer to unseat the beads
this was a real learning experience at first try the hammer would just bounce off the tire ,I learned you have to stand on the tire while hammering the bead trying my best not to hit the rim.
dismounting and mounting the tires was very hard work.
The weight and wheel assemblies would have to be installed on the axle first then mount the tire with the wheel assembly on the tractor.
I had a couple of quotes from my tractor tire store and my local Massey ferguson repair shop both wanted three to four hundred dollars to do the work.I had to find another way.
There were many more steps in getting this done but that was the bulk of it.
I wanted to post some pictures of how I finally figured out how to get these large rear wheel weights on to my 202 as requested by SHAEFF and thanks to SCOOBIEGUY for kick starting my brain in figuring out
how to go about it.
Working out how to handle these monsterist weights took me a couple days to think it through and almost three days to completion.
I had to start by deciding what position the wheel centers would be mounted on my six loop rims which took some trial and error.
Then deciding how to lift and support the wheel weight into the rim, I remembered from work how we mostly used lifting straps instead of chains.
These lifting straps would have to be very narrow and thin to be able to remove them once the weight was set into the rim, so I looked to Mcmaster Carr to find some 1" wide x 4' lifting straps
which would fit into the clearance between the wheel weight and the rim, these thin and narrow straps were rated at 2400lbs.
The tires would have to be removed and remounted on the rims to maintain the correct rolling direction.I had to buy a bead breaking hammer to unseat the beads
this was a real learning experience at first try the hammer would just bounce off the tire ,I learned you have to stand on the tire while hammering the bead trying my best not to hit the rim.
dismounting and mounting the tires was very hard work.
The weight and wheel assemblies would have to be installed on the axle first then mount the tire with the wheel assembly on the tractor.
I had a couple of quotes from my tractor tire store and my local Massey ferguson repair shop both wanted three to four hundred dollars to do the work.I had to find another way.
There were many more steps in getting this done but that was the bulk of it.
