Used motor oil in tires?

• Hobby farm

Water and radiator antifreeze would weight more than the oil anyway..

Soundguy

I did a little experiment last winter, one rear tire loaded with CaCl and one was unloaded with a pair of wheel weights. The unloaded side was about 150lbs less than the weighted side. Until the ground froze the unweighted side always spun first. Once the ground was frozen it made no difference at all. I do run with tire chains.

1. It would take a major effort to pump that much oil in (or out) of a tire.

2. Petroleum products will kill rubber in time.

3. As an example, a relatively small 14.9 X 28 would take over 50 gallons to fill. Assuming you'll do a pair, that's over 100 gallons of oil. Even USED oil, that's a LOT of oil. You'd almost qualify to join OPEC.

4. Once you got a leak, an oily tire and tube would be virtually impossible to patch/plug.

Advantages? Well, your rims wouldn't rust.

Cal/Clor isn't that bad. In all but a very few isolated instances, even with an occasional leak, rim life is usually 40-50-60 years. Windshield washer fluid or rim gaurd is more expensive, but better than a major oil spill. Cast weights have their advantages and a few DISadvantages. Still better IMHO than used motor oil

We run CaCl in all our rear tires and never had any problems with it.

Donovan from Wiscosnin

another idea is to put some type of powder in. It might be a little more difficult to put in (maybe with a sandblaster unit) but you could probably use something non toxic. I was thinking along the lines of flower or sugar or ground up corn.

Since I haven't had to worry about it out here in warm CA I don't have much experience with it

It worked for me. I picked up a couple barrels from a firm that cleans and sells them and took them to neighbourhood shop. Within a week I had 90 gallons.

Be carefull though. Some of the cheaper tubes don't like anti-freeze.

Good try, though. Gotta pay the money. Myself personally, i'd just put 50/50- antifreeze in it.