Tractor Tubes

[WNYBill]

Had a 9.5x20 front tire on out compact go flat. Don't know what happened, tires are about shot. Spent the morning trying to find a tube locally, no luck. CARQUEST could order me one, $79.00 and it might be here in a week,, I passed. Finally ordered one on Amazon, $35 and will be here tomorrow. WTH, the local stores are driving us to internet shopping. I hate it.

 

[Gambles]

I'm not going to say you've done a bad thing, because when dealing with local stores, I've had to do the same thing.
But I'm curious of the quality of the tube you get from Amazon. Is it a name brand?
When you receive it, report back and tell us of the quality of what you get. TIA.

 

[Duner Wi]

I purchase tubes from tire shop that fixes tires and installs tubes.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

To be fair, 9.5x20 is an oddball size so even tire shops might not stock them. To be fair, tubes are not all that common anymore, so shops tend to only stock more common sizes that move quickly. It's bad business to have money tied up in excess inventory. Tubes are perishable.

 

[Oldiron29]

Many of the tires we get today don't last one two years out to the sun and they are all cracked.
I have had some cheep tubes also very thin and valve stems that come apart from tube. So I go to local tire shop and get Firestone tubes
and pay the price because I don't like changing tires and tubes very often.

 

[glennster]

i order my tubes from m e miller tire co. they have firestone tubes. spendy but worth it. for about half the price, they have rubber master tubes. they are a value line

 

[Gambles]

Finally ordered one on Amazon, $35 and will be here tomorrow.

So what'd you get?

 

[farmersamm]

And.................................probably preaching to the choir.............whatever ya do....................make sure to have one of these in your tool chest.

24" Cable Tire Inner Tube Valve Fishing Tool for assembling tube type tires | eBay

This is a very handy and difficult tool to find. This is a 24" long cable fishing tool used to ease assembly of tube type tires. These are especially handy when assembling tires that mount from the opposite side of the rim as the valve stem hole.

www.ebay.com

Never leave home without one

 

[farmersamm]

The Korean tubes are good, if you can find them. They had the nads to pay the royalty on Schrader valves. Chinese stuff uses a knockoff valve that leaks like a sieve.

 

[Oldiron29]

And.................................probably preaching to the choir.............whatever ya do....................make sure to have one of these in your tool chest.

24" Cable Tire Inner Tube Valve Fishing Tool for assembling tube type tires | eBay

This is a very handy and difficult tool to find. This is a 24" long cable fishing tool used to ease assembly of tube type tires. These are especially handy when assembling tires that mount from the opposite side of the rim as the valve stem hole.

www.ebay.com

Never leave home without one

farmersamm, Have had a valve stem fisher for many year very handy, mine is only 12: though.

 

[Stephen Barner]

The Korean tubes are good, if you can find them. They had the nads to pay the royalty on Schrader valves. Chinese stuff uses a knockoff valve that leaks like a sieve.

Realizing this thread is over a year old, the Schrader valve was patented in 1893. Even with improvements that might extend them, any rights to that valve expired a century ago. The Chinese make millions of these valves every year and I've never run into unusual problems with the ones I've come across. Their rubber may stink (literally & figuratively) and they still can't seem to make a decent ball point pen nib, but Schrader valves are not one of their failures.

 

[Mule Meat]

You would have had better luck asking for a 10R20 or 10-20 tube.

10 x 20 tubes are common truck tubes and can be found at about any good tire shop.. . And no good ones do not come cheap.

In case someone else may be or need to go looking in the future..

 

[Jim.ME]

You would have had better luck asking for a 10R20 or 10-20 tube.

10 x 20 tubes are common truck tubes and can be found at about any good tire shop.. . And no good ones do not come cheap.

In case someone else may be or need to go looking in the future..

The stem on a tube for a truck tire, isn't going to work well in a compact tractor rim.

 

[Texasmark]

The Korean tubes are good, if you can find them. They had the nads to pay the royalty on Schrader valves. Chinese stuff uses a knockoff valve that leaks like a sieve.

I agree. I have had my best luck with them and the local tire shop uses them too. Tubes from another country were just a joke!!!!!!!