Loaded Tires, discovered good pump

[BRBurns]

I put 31 gallons of windsheild washer fluid in my tires this weekend. I bought a drill pump to load them, but it failed after 8 gallons. I was trying to think of what else I could use and then it dawned on me. I have a yard sprayer with garden hose fittings on a Y (to switch between the boom and the back to the tank). I used the sprayer to pump the rest of the fluid in the tires and it worked like a charm. Much faster than the drill pump too and it will overcome pressure in the tire. To bleed the air out of the tire, I would just open the side of the Y fitting that went back to the tank.

Just thought I'd share for others thinking of filling their tires. I don't recall reading of others using their sprayers.

 

[20 20]

This has been discussed a lot lately. I basically ran into the same problem with those (IMO) crap drill pumps, after 2 I said forget it. I ended up filling a 55gal plastic drum. These drums allready come tapped so that an outside spicket can fit on them. I then hooked my garden hose to the tire valve bleeder(TSC $10.00) which was allready hooked to tire valve and set at 1200hr position. Then I made a fitting to pump air into the drum(drum was laying on it's side faucet down) I had to stop a few times to bleed the air but it filled the tires rather quick. I believe Diamondpilot was the one who suggested doing what you did when I brought up filling tires. Problem is that I don't have a sprayer

 

[BRBurns]

Aha, I figgures someone would have thought of it before, but I just hadn't seen it. didn't mean to take credit, just sharing.

I was tring to come up with something to do like you did before I thought of the sparyer. I was thinking of elevating a container of fluid so gravity would feed the tire.

 

[GolfAddict]

Actually, I think there is a novel twist here. Did Diamondpilot use the other side of the Y valve to let the air escape when relieving pressure? I was thinking he used the sprayer to pump in the fluid, stop, use the filler-valve-thing on his tire valve for air pressure relief. In any case, this is a great idea, and sure I'd thought of it when doing mine!

(I barely got the drill pump to get through my fill also... really nursing it along to re-prime it every time I stopped pumping to relieve pressure.)