Tire Weight

[Mac Matthews]

On my Farm Pro 2420 I bought second hand, One tire has fluid in it and the other doesn't. Can I put fluid in it myself? If so how, and what fluid.

 

[Bigfoot62]

You can do it yourself. You just need the proper tools and materials.

In your neck of the woods, you will have to use ballast that won't freeze. Calcium Cloride or the "beet juice" stuff.
Down here, we can get away with plain water.

Just do a search on "tire ballast" and you should get plenty of reading.

 

[Soundguy]

a 5-9$ burp valve from napa or a farm store, plus a garden hose will get water in..

ballast as you wish.. antifreeze mixes, winter wwf fluid.. etc.. etc..

will want a tire valve tool, and for loading the ballast, the stem of a garden sprayer usually will let you pump the raw ballast into the tire before you add water.

jack tire up to take load off.

fill to 75% level

 

[Bigfoot62]

. . .will want a tire valve tool, and for loading the ballast, the stem of a garden sprayer usually will let you pump the raw ballast into the tire before you add water.

jack tire up to take load off. . .

Or, you can first deflate tire by removing valve core, attach a hose to the stem, drop the other end of the hose into the ballast container, then jack up the tractor to create a vacuum and it will suck the ballast into the tire.

 

[Soundguy]

that don't work with tube tires..

 

[Mac Matthews]

Thanks for the info. I have tube type. I'll try TSC for the valve. I assume I acan use cheap antifreeze or windshield washer solution. Would calcium
chloride be the least expensive way to go and what ratio of dilution would i use?

 

[Soundguy]

yep.. cacl is usually the cheapest, and same omparable weight to rimguard.

bag of mix has directions for disoloution

 

[Mac Matthews]

Thank you again. I have learned a lot from this web site

 

[Bigfoot62]

that don't work with tube tires..

Killjoy

Didn't think of that. Of course, at my age, and after 10pm, I don't think of much anyway. :laughing:

 

[Mac Matthews]

So am I going to have a problem filling a tube with just a adapter?

 

[Soundguy]

nope.. that's why I said you PUMP in the ballast, then use the adapter to use your hose water pressure to fill the tire.

yer hose has a range of 20-60 psi.. rear tractor tires pressurize to about 12 psi besides.. at 75% fill, you put the core in and air them to correct pressure anyway.

fronts ya might get into the early 20's.. depending.. same deal.

soundguy

 

[Mac Matthews]

Gotcha. While I was waiting for your reply, I read other threads on the subject. Should have done that first.