SOLID TIRES & SPLIT RIMS

[Ed Kennell 37,988]

Some of you may remember the pair of  solid  16 X 4  B F Goodrich  Silvertown tri-ribs I bought at an auction for a buck last fall. I had a pair of rims on an old lawn cart  that I cut apart to make the split rims, then mounted them on the  C-101. 

 

                   No more flats and they weigh 18 lbs. each.

[jwl 75]

I have those same kind of tires, mounted on factory two piece rims, on the sulky for my Pond walker. The only thing I see different is the tread pattern.

[smoreau 658]

cool no more flats

[leeave96 487]

Cool!

[C-85 681]

I'm wondering if you really needed to split the rims to do this.  When I was a Toro dealer in the 60's, we used to replace the solid tires on the self propelled mowers by boiling the tires and then mounting them on their wheels.  I know the Toro tires were smaller than these, but it worked for us.  Even after boiling the tires, they still were pretty hard to install on the wheels.

[Jake Kuhn 1,554]

Very cool!

[AMC RULES 37,125]

Yeah...with built in weights too.    

[Ed Kennell 37,988]

I'm wondering if you really needed to split the rims to do this.  When I was a Toro dealer in the 60's, we used to replace the solid tires on the self propelled mowers by boiling the tires and then mounting them on their wheels.  I know the Toro tires were smaller than these, but it worked for us.  Even after boiling the tires, they still were pretty hard to install on the wheels.

Don't think boiling would have worked in this case C-85.  These tires are really hard and laced with cording. I had to grind away the ridges on the ID of the tires just to get them started on the split rims.

Thanks for the tip though.... It may work on smaller tires.

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,296]

Very nice job!

Mike.........

[dodgemike 52]

Very nice tractor.

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