Tire repair

[jmac851]

I took one of my front tires from my 52 8n to Discount tires yesterday for a new tube and they told me that there is a new dot federal law that does not allow tire shops to work on tires that are more than ten years old. This tire is a 3 rib 600/16 from 1999. Has anyone else heard of this new rule?
Jim

 

[John730D]

DOT has no authority over tractor tires.

 

[Ultradog MN]

I agree. No authority.
I wonder if they just didn't want to mess with the tube. Discount is a good organization IMO.
Bought 4 new trailer tires 1 1/2 years ago and New 245 75 R16 Michelins for may PU last fall.
Best price and good service.

 

[Paul in MN]

If that "rule" is for real (I highly doubt it!!), then most farm tire shops will have to go out of business. In our farming operation, we are running over 200 tires, of which maybe 10% to 15% are less than 10 years old. Do these shops make money on servicing tires?? Of course they do or they would not still be in business. Is a 10 year old tire highly dangerous?? I haven't seen any catastrophic failures, and some of our tires still in use are 40 to 50 years old.

But even if this does become some insane regulation, it won't bother us as my son bought a good used tire changing machine. And if people have to get rid of tires at 10 years of age, then we will get a lot of free tires for our equipment.

NAAAA!!!! I don't believe a word of it!

Paul in MN

 

[Sawatch 8N]

I think that the main tire companies/stores will not work on older tires because of liabilaty issues, mostly which pertain to passanger tires, but they just do an across the board rule. There is a law prohibiting reuse of older passanger tires. Take it to a farm tire oriented store which will take care of your needs.

 

[Shawn In Texas]

Two days ago I took both front tires off my 8N drove to discount and had them remove the tubes.

Where I am at tubes wont last a day.

It took them a little while but they figured out how to pull them.

I had them install valve stems.

I went home filled them with slime and aired them up.

They now hold air.

They did not say anything to me about the new regulations.

Charged me $30.00 to do everything and I went on my way.

I would try a different discount tire.

Around here they all are different......

Some are good shops others are scam artist's.

There is one discount tire I go to every time I get a flat and they never want to repair it.

They tell me it is a sidewall puncture when I know it is not.

I take it to a different discount and they fix it right away.

I would try a different shop.

One thing to remember.......Tractors do not run at high speeds.

If they tried to tell me they cant work on them, I would go down to the nearest shade tree tire shop.......They will always do the work even if the repair is questionable.

I once had a HUGE break in a truck tire while camping.
I took the tire to the local Dukes Of Hazard tire shop.

The guy put a 18 wheeler size patch in it, told me it may hold or it may not.....The repair held for three years until I replaced the tire due to lack of tread.

Last resort, take it to cooters tire shop. Sometimes a Good Old Boy shop is what you need in a crunch.

 

[souNdguy]

as the others siad.. my bet it is a passanger tire issue.

got to a farm tire store.. er.. or do it your self. I do my own tractor tires. couple spoons.. some lube and a few other odds n ends to make it easier.. like vice grips and a valve fishing tool.. and a sledge hammer. if you got all that you can 'roll your own' as they say..

the n news had a good article in it about doing your own tires..

soundguy

 

[Anonymous-0]

Why did you think you have to take the tubes out? I just put slime in the tube and it worked for me.My tire stays uo now.

 

[Anonymous-0]

When companies do something like that to me, my first response is, "Show me". If its true, they should have it posted or filed somewhere.

 

[old]

I'll bet you $100 you did not have new stems put on since the stem is part of the tube. Now if you said new cores then yes you be be correct. By the way just giving you a hard time so maybe you will say it the correct way next time LOL

 

[old]

That is more or less a way for them to say they do not work on tractor tires unless you maybe buy them brand new from them

 

[Squddle]

The tubes have the valve stems attached to the tube, sooooo therefore he had to get new stems when they removed the tubes.

 

[old]

Ah but he used the old tubes and then fill them with slime and you do not replace stems on tubes. Ya they sell ones that can be glued on but I have yet to find one that held up in a tire when you glued one on. Ya the work for swim tubes after that but that is about it. So technically you never replace the stems on tubes you may replace the tube but that is not replacing the stem since the stem is in fact part of the tube its self

 

[Squddle]

He went tubeless! I don't think he replaced the tubes?

 

[old]

One the N series rim you can not go tubeless unless you want problems because they leak at the rivet points and all. Also the bead area of the rim is not designed to hold air as car rims are

 

[Shawn In Texas]

Tubes have never worked for me here.

The tires are brand new and the guy I bought the tractor from had tubes in them.

One of the things I looked at when buying the tractor Tubeless-tubes- or solid filled. It had tubes.

My pastures are full of 4 to 4-1/2 inch mesquite thorns (not joking).

First pass cutting the pasture both fronts went flat within 10 minutes of shredding.

I have tried slime in tubes before but it just cant keep up with that many punctures.

Usually we have the fronts filled solid (what they used to call foam filled).

But when I priced it the other day it was way more than it was a number of years ago.

Yes I had them put new cores in(valve stems)after removing the tubes.

This is what I have to put up with all the time on my place.

Last year alone I went through two new sets of tires on the truck and that does not include the in between replacements.

That was just from checking the fence lines and filling the deer feeders.

The mesquites grow so fast here and when you cut it you are left with dried thorns all year long scattered like nails.

My friend was out this winter and had a dried thorn from last years shredding go all the way through his boot and into his foot!!!!!!!!!

Nails I tell you!

The mesquite brush may only be a couple of feet high but the thorns are super sized.

It grows so fast after any rain that I have to cut every two to three weeks in the summer or they get so big only a chainsaw can handle it.

I had a friend come out with a shredder of his one year telling me I didn't know what I was talking about.

He wanted to prove something I guess.

He came driving back up to the house with his new shredder split on every weld and all tires flat..........

I tried to tell him, tried to warn him.
I told him I can handle it.

I just had to cut what my shredder could handle and use the chainsaw on the rest, no big deal.

My main pastures are about 90 acres in size.

My grandfather clear cut it years ago to land his piper cub, he was a crop duster and private pilot.

He used to tell me when I was younger about all the cutting he had to do so he could take off and land here without killing himself from flat plane tires.

He use to cut and then walk the strip and pick up as many of the thorns as he could find.

He loved to fly and loved to ranch.

Now He is no longer here but I keep his runway open for him.

I figure if he could do all that work clear cutting trees, prepping it and mowing I could keep it looking nice.

As far as tires go, everything that has rubber and rolls gets the slime.

 

[Caryc]

I had my tractor stuck at a neighbors property down the road and needed a new tire to get it back home. Since it has a FEL on it the PO had truck tires on the front end. I could not get anything locally and wound up with a Discount Tire place ordering me a three rib tire which they got in two days time.

Well, I took my rim in to them to get it mounted. I was watching the guy work. He pulled the old tube and tire off and placed a tubeless valve stem in and started to mount the tire.

I put a halt to that and told him that he needed to patch the tube and put it in the new tire. Well, come to find out that Discount Tires did not have anything in their shop to patch a tube with. Incidentally when trying to find a new tire I tried to find a new tube. Nothing around me had any tubes either. Discount Tires said they couldn't even order one.

So I took my new tire and old tube and rim and went to a mom and pop shop on my way home. This is a shop set up in an old shipping container.

Would you believe they even had a brand new tube in stock? Got it fixed right and got my tractor back home that day. Oh yeah, they patched my old tube too. Saved it for a spare.