Man, if not one thing it is another. First got my tractor, we picked up a piece of wire and damaged the tube. Me know knowing it was a tube destroyed it tryingt o repair the tire. So, get another tube, install it and all was well for several months, until the tire found barbed wire. Another puncher. Okay, I will patch the tube and I did. However, put the tire back together and it went flat again the next week.
Took it down again and found that the bead was pinched. So I patched that spot as well. Longer story short, I have put in new tube and already have repaired two pinch spots in it and I can;t seem to get the tire to hold air linger than a week.
I have checked the wheel and everything seems smooth, nothing sharp of snaggy that would seem to hang and damage the tube. I have run my hand along he bead of the tire and I can't find any obvious cause of the continued pinching.
I have used tons of liquid soap along the bead of the wheel and tire during inflation to give a smooth surface and I have also used liberal amounts of grease hoping that things will not pinch. Nothing so far has worked (although grease was on the last attempt and I have not yet broken it down to see exactly why it went flat the last time).
I have another good tube and I just might in stall it this week, but I need a god, full proof method to assembly and inflation that will not pinch the tube. I have thought about splitting one of the old tubes to wrap around the new tube inside the tire so that maybe it will prevent the tube from being pinched even if it gets pinched itself.
Any other ideas or suggestions? Breaking this tire down is getting old.
Took it down again and found that the bead was pinched. So I patched that spot as well. Longer story short, I have put in new tube and already have repaired two pinch spots in it and I can;t seem to get the tire to hold air linger than a week.
I have checked the wheel and everything seems smooth, nothing sharp of snaggy that would seem to hang and damage the tube. I have run my hand along he bead of the tire and I can't find any obvious cause of the continued pinching.
I have used tons of liquid soap along the bead of the wheel and tire during inflation to give a smooth surface and I have also used liberal amounts of grease hoping that things will not pinch. Nothing so far has worked (although grease was on the last attempt and I have not yet broken it down to see exactly why it went flat the last time).
I have another good tube and I just might in stall it this week, but I need a god, full proof method to assembly and inflation that will not pinch the tube. I have thought about splitting one of the old tubes to wrap around the new tube inside the tire so that maybe it will prevent the tube from being pinched even if it gets pinched itself.
Any other ideas or suggestions? Breaking this tire down is getting old.