Ballast TIRE BALLAST ONCE AGAIN

[K_Daulby]

Well all this talk of tire ballast has made me weight my tires with the cheapest and heavest ballast I could find.
I have a friend in the natural gas business. his father ownes the co. his job is to maintaine the wells pressure and such (i don't know what he does) but he bleeds off brine from the wells which is almost as heavy as CACL2. I have seen this stuff in -30C and it is still liquid. He gave me all I could use (freebe) so i set about filling all my tires front and back.
Here is how i did it.
1 remove tires
2 remove valve stem insert (little thing in valve stem)
3 I had some fuel line that fit a funell and on to the valve stem
4 step on tire so you push out some air through funell that is hooked up to valve
5 pour brine in funell and the tire does the work by sucking in the fluid as it tries to return to normal round position.
once fluid is gone from funell, step on tire and repeat step 5
6 when you step on the tire and fluid comes out of the funell you are full and you can reinsert valve stem thingy. and fill tire to desired pressure
7 replace tire and go to next tire.
this took me about 1 hour to do all 4 tires.
peice of cake. hope this helps someone
and thank you to all the people on here who helped me.

 

[Bird]

Kevin, the </font><font color="blue" class="small">( valve stem thingy )</font> is also sometimes known as a "valve core". /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif And I don't know anything about the brine from gas wells, but sounds OK to me.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

HiK_Daulby,

From what I have read, the fill level of a loaded tire is up to the valve stem, when the tire is on the tractor, and the valve stem is at the 12 o'clock position.

I was just wondering how you avoided over filling if the tire was laying on the ground. Did you check it after the tire was back on the tractor?

I don't know how much of a problem, if any, over filling of the tire would be...just curious.

Some of us have filled our tires without taking them off the tractor, by using a cheap dril pump. That is another option for those interested.

Glad your tire loading experience went as well as mine did. There was one post here by someone [ want to say GregJ but not sure] where his tires would not stay on the rim when the tire was deflated. Talk about pain and suffering!