Help me design rear wheel weights!

[RaydaKub]

Wow! You have 225 lbs in wheel weights on a BX? Plus 700 in back? I looked in the manual and noticed it said to not do both fluid and wheel weights, though it sure didn't say much about why. I put 11 1/2 gallons in each wheel plus am looking at adding about 50 lbs to each rim. In another thread here I thought I read in the last couple days that you shouldn't add more than about 125 lbs to each wheel (can't remember what thread though). You are WAY over that. Any issues to it? I got 250 lbs of universal gym weight plates that I bolted to a 3 point drawbar and that settled mine down considerably. I think I'd be doing wheelies with 700.

 

[David s Von Gieserbrechta]

Wow! You have 225 lbs in wheel weights on a BX? Plus 700 in back? I looked in the manual and noticed it said to not do both fluid and wheel weights, though it sure didn't say much about why. I put 11 1/2 gallons in each wheel plus am looking at adding about 50 lbs to each rim. In another thread here I thought I read in the last couple days that you shouldn't add more than about 125 lbs to each wheel (can't remember what thread though). You are WAY over that. Any issues to it? I got 250 lbs of universal gym weight plates that I bolted to a 3 point drawbar and that settled mine down considerably. I think I'd be doing wheelies with 700.

Well in the first place I don't have my rear tires filled and never will. I had one experience with fluid filled tires on a McCormick M when I was a kid going in road gear. NEVER AGAIN.You don't ever want that fluid climbing to the top of the tire. Also as far as the rear ballast goes my snow blower weighs in at 625 pounds and my Woods tiller tips the scales at 525 pounds, I regularly pick up rocks that weigh very close to 1000 pounds so I need that weight in the back to keep the rear end on the ground. Also I have pulled rocks that weighed many thousands of pounds so I really need that rubber to stay on the ground.

These are just a very few of the rocks that my 2350 has handled without a complaint, but one has to know what one is doing.

 

[Soundguy]

Sound guy,
Interesting concept.

concrete is cheap and esy to form and work with.. I've made plenty of weights for my trctors using it. not as nice as a CI weight.. but way cheaper and you can fit them places you might not fit an oem weight.

here are some I formed up and cast using an old metal pan, some brace wire left over from a fencing project, and a collection of old bolts with bad heads.. or pieces of allthread I had cutoff / leftover from projects.

soundguy