Tires Help removing water from tires

[JerseyMike]

I'm new to the forums and I just purchased a JD 3005 from down south and found that it has water filled rear tires (about 75% full with plain water, i checked and it freezes in fridge). I live in NJ and would like to remove the water because it'll freeze in the winter.

How do I drain the water out of the tires.
I have thought about rotating the stem to bottom and removing core but that would only remove it down to about 25%.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[whistlepig]

I'm new to the forums and I just purchased a JD 3005 from down south and found that it has water filled rear tires (about 75% full with plain water, i checked and it freezes in fridge). I live in NJ and would like to remove the water because it'll freeze in the winter.

How do I drain the water out of the tires.
I have thought about rotating the stem to bottom and removing core but that would only remove it down to about 25%.

Any help is appreciated.

Do the tires have tubes in them?

 

[sandman2234]

Dismounting them is probably the only real way your going to get all the water out. However, you might try to get MOST of the water out and then add a reliable antifreeze.
A tiny hose slipped thru the valve stem hole would allow you to siphon it out to almost empty, but due to the smalll size of the hose, it would probably take all day and night.You would need to block the axle to keep the tire from sagging, and moving the hose.
David from jax

 

[JerseyMike]

Do the tires have tubes in them?

Sorry, I should have clarified,

no tubes in the tires.


what do you think about jacking it up, removing valve core and then spinning the tire after it gets down to about 25% to remove the remaining?

 

[Don87]

Sorry, I should have clarified,

no tubes in the tires.


what do you think about jacking it up, removing valve core and then spinning the tire after it gets down to about 25% to remove the remaining?

You can't get it all out that way. Quite a bit will remain in the tire.
The only way to get it all out, is to take the tire off the rim.
Other solutions are posted above.

 

[scott2360]

Maybe drain it to 25% and add some antifreeze to it and be done with it. Are you ok with the weight in the tires?

 

[kebo]

Maybe drain it to 25% and add some antifreeze to it and be done with it. Are you ok with the weight in the tires?

Since they don't have tubes in them, leaving only about 25% of fluid in the tires means that MOST of the rim will be exposed and probably cause them to rust. I would either dismount the tires and clean up the rims and remount the tires, or just add fluid with antifreeze up to the usual amount to cover the rim.

 

[rutwad]

Lean the tires so that the water will pool near the valve stem. Add air and the pressure will blow out most of the water. You will have a super hard time removing all the water without dismounting the tires.

 

[bjr]

It would seem to me if the tire has been drained as much as you can with the stem down the get the bead broke and use a shop vac with paper filter taken out and vacuum out the rest might have to get creative with some suction hoses, like one stuck inside of another to reach all the bottom of the tire. bjr

 

[JerseyMike]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I did it this weekend and got essentially all of the water out of the tires.

What I did was the following:
1. spin the tire over with stem at bottom and remove most of the valve stem. Then it dropped the water level to 25%.

2. I then aired up the tire again and did the same...taking out some mist but probably only another 5%.

3. Then I took a fluid extractor pump that I had and inserted the tube into the stem untill it hit the bottom of the tire. I pumped out the remaining (about 12 gallons out of each tire) and essentially have empty tires. If it was summer time I could have left the stem out and let the remaining mist evaporate.


I am happy with this setup...minimize rim corrosion and lawn damage and I have a ballast box so weight isn't an issue.

-Mike