Hi guys
I live on the sunny Gold Coast of Australia so have no freezing issues. Until today I had R1 'rice paddy' tyres on the rear. I have been meaning to change them as they are so damaging to my grass and poor in the horse sand yard. Anyway, I just had a leak in the side wall of one of them so I had an excuse to change them and bought a couple of the pictured tyres? They are R1 but have a flatter tread than my others. I believe there are several different types of R1s, does anyone know what these are called?
I'm going to ballast these new rear tubed tyres and thought I would advise the process that I used on the other pair. It seemed to work well for me but I have just searched this forum and at no stage did I burp the tyres. So maybe I could have done a better job.
I did the job with the tyres on the tractor. I only used water as we have no freezing issues and the local tractor dealer said to only use water?
I jacked up a tyre at a time, positioning the valve at 12. Removed the entire valve, grabbed my skinny 12mm hose and placed it over the valve (I have no adaptor). Turned the hose on and sat there for 15 to 20 minutes filling the tyre (getting a lot of splash back/soaked in the process) until the water started pouring back out the valve. Replace the valve. That leaves the tyre 75-80% full of water. I then grab the air compressor and put 14psi into tyre. Release jack. Then repeat process for other tyre.
This was the first time I had ever ballast the tyres and the difference it made to my L1-22 Sunshine (very skinny tractor) was incredible.
Can anyone see anything wrong with this process? Should I have burped the tyres? If so how do I do this? Is there a problem with water only? I realise the process would be easier with an adaptor but I don't mind sitting there getting soaked. It's nearly winter down here yet it was 30degree Celsius ***128512;
I live on the sunny Gold Coast of Australia so have no freezing issues. Until today I had R1 'rice paddy' tyres on the rear. I have been meaning to change them as they are so damaging to my grass and poor in the horse sand yard. Anyway, I just had a leak in the side wall of one of them so I had an excuse to change them and bought a couple of the pictured tyres? They are R1 but have a flatter tread than my others. I believe there are several different types of R1s, does anyone know what these are called?
I'm going to ballast these new rear tubed tyres and thought I would advise the process that I used on the other pair. It seemed to work well for me but I have just searched this forum and at no stage did I burp the tyres. So maybe I could have done a better job.
I did the job with the tyres on the tractor. I only used water as we have no freezing issues and the local tractor dealer said to only use water?
I jacked up a tyre at a time, positioning the valve at 12. Removed the entire valve, grabbed my skinny 12mm hose and placed it over the valve (I have no adaptor). Turned the hose on and sat there for 15 to 20 minutes filling the tyre (getting a lot of splash back/soaked in the process) until the water started pouring back out the valve. Replace the valve. That leaves the tyre 75-80% full of water. I then grab the air compressor and put 14psi into tyre. Release jack. Then repeat process for other tyre.
This was the first time I had ever ballast the tyres and the difference it made to my L1-22 Sunshine (very skinny tractor) was incredible.
Can anyone see anything wrong with this process? Should I have burped the tyres? If so how do I do this? Is there a problem with water only? I realise the process would be easier with an adaptor but I don't mind sitting there getting soaked. It's nearly winter down here yet it was 30degree Celsius ***128512;
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