Replacing rear tires

Atleast on implement tires it hard to beat Murphy's oil soap. Go to the Gemplers website see what they offer.

Thanks for quick replies... I have bought tire lube in past from Gemplers, but found margarine cheaper and easier to get. I replace tires with rim mounted on tractor, so front loader won't work. I use hydraulic bottle jack horizontal between drawback and tire. Just looking for better ideas...

I have watched and paid for three rear tractor tires to be replaced. Well worth the cost to watch a youngster with more muscle and more tools do the work without causing me any ripped skin or cracked bones. Old tires can be really tough and stiff and rusted fast. The tire shop's field truck with air over hydraulic bead breaker makes getting the old tire loose look a lot easier.

Gerald J.

Stan R wrote: Have the tire supplier mount the tires and buy a cup of coffee and watch!

We replaced the rear tires on our 6080, while they were still on the tractor.  In the end, we used a drop hitch mounted sideways in our receiver.  We then backed the truck up until the hitch was right at the bead/rim.  Then we drove the truck backward.  We had to turn the wheel a few times, but pretty soon it started to budge, and then break.  To get the inside bead off we placed pieces of 2x4 at the bead/rim, then wrapped chain around the tire, and hooked to a clevis in the truck.  Had to re-adjust a few times, but eventually the truck just pulled it off. 

John

Yeah, I would agree with the above is how I do it now. I gave my .02 on how to do it when I did it myself but ultimately shop around. I have a local tire place that I just unbolt the rims and take the new tires and tubes and wheels with the old tires on my utility trailer to them and they swap the tire for $30 each. Much easier in my opinion to unbolt the rim and toss the assembly on the trailer than change an old tire myself. 

I buy my tires and tubes at the local Ag Tire store. Bring them the old tires  they change them no charge. takes them about 20 minutes to do both tires. One set had fluid so they pumped out and disposed of the fluid for me. I didnt want it back in. When they pinched a tube they they demounted and put another new one in. If I buy my tires some where else they charge based on tire size 190 rears were $100 each.

Methinks you over paid. Call around, get a fixed price.

I got a gadget, similar to this one, from Gemplers, coupla years ago:

Don't put yourself through the Missouri, the best money I ever spent on all my repairs was having the tire shop change my tires, for what they charge it is not worth the cussing and swearing.

So, my 70 year old friend (know each other for 70 years) and I decided that before we died we needed to change a tractor tire.  I had a 16.9x28 that needed changing.  He had a old brass washing machine pump for the calcium and I had a barn we could work in.  Pumped the calcium out into a plastic barrel, everything is good so far. Break the bead with a railroad jack, inside was almost easy. OUTSIDE was a different story, all we did was push the tractor around, finally chained the thing to a post with 20 foot of log chain.  Forgot to tell you about the chairs, we are old so we needed to sit ....a lot.  We got the tire broke down but our old arthritic hands couldn't get the tube with the remaining 4-5 gallons of calcium out of the tire.  Had to wait for my son to get home from a paying job to help us, correction.....do it.  Put the new tube in, learned new words, pinched fingers, learned more new words.  Sat in chairs.... a lot.   Finally were in a position to pump calcium back into tire, that went pretty well.... we had a machine to do it!  Unchained the tractor and put all the jacks, hammers, tire irons, pinch bars, mauls and crow bars away.  Tire/tube did not leak, we didn't put it on backwards, actually drove the tractor out of the barn.  

$79 flat rate for service charge to farm here.

a friends father in law bought rear tires, tubes for his case 930 and had them filled with calcium.  decided he would use his Prentiss loader on his log truck to mount them.  first tire went as planned, second one started to slip off so he grabbed the handle and squeezed the grapple right through both side walls!!!  ya could probly hear him swearing from 3 states away!!!

found this way on you tube and tried it this morning, worked great!!!  tire was deflated,  put 4x4 on each end of the tire close to the rim.  I used a chunk of steal I had to put over the 4x4's, but a 4x4 or bigger would probly work.  then rap a chain through the rim and over the jack.  pump up the jack and it pushes the tire down off the bead.  I put some diesel fuel around the bead the night before, don't know if it helped or not, but it worked.  dt





Edited by dt1050 - 29 Apr 2017 at 5:59am

I'm betting the diesel fuel helped with the removal of the old tire as rubber gets softened with diesel. Probably something you don't want to use on a new tire though.