Thoughts on filling Rear tires

[clemsonfor]

I forgot you have posted this before California. I just bought the one at TSC for something like $6 several years ago. I had tossed it around and not wanted to do it cause i heard it increases clutch wear, then realized it probly wont that much, as im only putting 300lbs on it anyway.

I know im not in the frozen tundra or anything but i dont want to just put water, i fear that it may freeze when we get several cold days, id hate to split my 30 year old tires that will cost $200 to replace!!

As far as getting cold, yes its not like were that cold here in upstate SC, esp last year but the year before that we had sevral snows and one week were we were in the low teens 3 nights in a row and did not get above freezing for 4 days!!! There were hunks of ice on the roads where they were busted out of frozen puddles on the side of the road, snow clung to the ground for over a week at my house. And this was just 2 years ago, not 30 like some remember when they grew up!! I still think of this and just want to put the WWF in just incase which complicates this whole process. Also the wife did not want me to use ethol glycol as she was afraid of a puncture and pets drinking it. If i were to use this though i would just get a 100ft hose pour 1 gallon into the hose then use my filling device like you have to fill it the rest of the way.

 

[kenmac]

It's a pain. But, I just put in water & drain when it gets cold. BIL says he hasn't ever drained his tires & never had a problem

 

[Pete Judd]

I looked at putting beetjuice in my rears on the 186D, to local tire store will do it for around 100 bucks. I think that by the time you buy all that 20/20 and the adapters, you won't save much. Just my 2 cents.

 

[clemsonfor]

UM not really. I used a code online. I got my WW fluid for about $1.25 a gallon or so? I paid right at $40 for 30 gallons of the -20F stuff. I just spent $3.50 to convert my sprayer to fill them, and i paid about $6 for the adapter, but thats a sunk cost now as i have had it so long. Charts say my rears hold between 17-20 gals? I think its really 17 so i have 15 gals per tire and i will fill the remainder with water as -20 here is a bit much.

 

[Soundguy]

i wonder if it was 3/4 pipe and not 3/4 hose thread?

 

[Soundguy]

i'm glad i'm in florida.. i can use 90% water and a lil something else like rv af or ww fluid and not get freezes in our very mild / short winters.

 

[clemsonfor]

I looked up RV antifreeze. Best i found was $4 gallon plus i have 40% off online coupns fro advance auto. I looked at a chart where i mixed it 30% RV PG to water and the freezing point was only like 30F??? Or maybe that was 25% im not sure, i did the math, yes it would have been less gallon of PG but would of cos more.

 

[Soundguy]

since water freezes at 32'f just about anything in it should drop it lower than 30'f even rust ions..

i wait till just after winter and places usually clearance rv af for 2-3$ a bottle onthe shelves.

I put about 4g in to my water and call it good... but then.. I'm in florida too.

we do get freezing weather.. even occasionally single digits.. just not for too long.. low dips that come back up to doubles. standing open water will freeze.. in bad winds above ground pipes and hoses will freeze.. and stuff.. say 6" under or less MAY freeze.. just about any mix in our water/tires protects us.

if I lived in canade.. might have to do 90/10

 

[clemsonfor]

2 years ago, my outside hose pipes froze for almost 2 weeks in that cold snap. One is a PVC line with just cheap foam insulation on it, and it runs above ground about 18" by a deck. The other has PVC internal in the well house and protrudes as a metal spigot in the side of the brick wll house, which has a halogen 300w light in it the whole time, did not stop at least the spigot from freezing solid for a week or better.

Lucily neither busted.

 

[clemsonfor]

What luck!, my set up with the sprayer was working like a charm, get about 6 gallons in, then realize i hear rushing air??? Look around and find the valve stem is torn and leaking!!!! Great. At least it did it now instead of after all the fluid is in there. Now i will be putting new tubes in, i guess all the monkeying with the tubes did them in. They did not leak a bit before! glad it was now and not when i will be using in next!