Flat tire B7610 filled with calcium . . .

   / Flat tire B7610 filled with calcium . . . #1  

Skidmark25

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B7610
I have the rear tires filled with salt water and I picked up a nail in one of them due to the roofing crew at my house I now have a flat & I have salt water all over my garage floor UGH ! ! ! My options now are as follows: Swap out the tube & refill the one tire, drain out the other tire & pull out both tubes since they are tubeless tires or put tubes back in both & not refill tires.

Maybe I am over thinking this but I was just gonna go to the local garage & have the tubes pulled out and then remount the tires and be done with it.... I have a backhoe now and always have the hoe on for ballast anyways so no need to fill the tires.

Any thing I should put back in the tires afther remount - a bottle of slime or is there any similar rim / tire treatment out there I could get at TSC??

Any thoughts??
 
   / Flat tire B7610 filled with calcium . . . #3  
I suggest removing the CaCl from both tires, as long as you plan on keeping the backhoe on permanently. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if Kubota recommend to NOT fill the rear tires with a backhoe installation. Seems I read that on TBN, so you might want to check your manuals.
As far as the punctured tire...may as well get it patched. I'd still have tubes installed too.
When the tires are dismounted, you might want to flush them both with copious amounts of water. CaCl can be pretty corrosive.
 
   / Flat tire B7610 filled with calcium . . . #4  
Before doing that try this.

Rotate the puncture to the top, jack up that side to relieve pressure, then plug it after letting it sit for 24hr or so.
 
   / Flat tire B7610 filled with calcium . . . #5  
You don't mention which backhoe but if it weighs 600 lb or more that should more than take care of the weight for filled tires.

My Woods backhoe on my B7610 weighs about 800 lbs and I wouldn't think of filling the tires.
 
   / Flat tire B7610 filled with calcium . . . #6  
He's running tubes, so plugging is out. Gotta take it apart, try to clean everything up, patch tube and put it all back together pumping in new fluid.

If you are NOT going to put fluid back in, get rid of the tube and go tubeless. Or if you are gonna refill with non-corrosive fluid, I'd also go tubeless. Then when, not if, when you get the next nail, you can simply plug the tire.

No lecture intended here, I'd never under any circumstances put a corrosive fluid in my tires. Now you know why. If you don't do a thorough job of cleaning up this mess, you'll really know why in a few years.

Bummer, sorry for your dilemna.
 

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