Hi I have Michelin agribibs on my Valtra, one of those was doing similar in the side walls. it had fluid in so it was a pain by the 3rd time we took it off after the tire shop did it the first time. They put the cheap made in China plastic tube in that lasted a month before getting a hole in and you could see other places it was near through the other times we mended it !.
What we did with that in the end was put an expensive thick rubber tube in it, then looked real careful inside the tire for any signs of more places that would give trouble soon. Once you knew what to look for it was easy to find them. I was going to use small tire boots on those spots to, but our local guy said thats to expensive.
He recommended some rectangular patches maybe 2" wide and maybe 4 1/2" long to stick over the new forming bad area's just to stop them rubbing the tube. That tire lasted 2 years like that on our main loader tractor with no further problems. I had an opportunity to get rid of that tire and rim for a good matched one as a straight swap, when my friend put flotations on his tractor so i got rid of the bad one.
Yeah technically the tire guy might be right and what I did depends on how bad the cracks are, mine was 1/4 to 1/2" long at the most. I probably had $60 in patches. $180 in the tube, but way over 2" of lug left on tires that are probably 1500-$2000 + each for good radials to replace them. If I did the backs the fronts needed changing to as it's front assist so i'd a probably been in at $6000 pretty quick. Maybe you can replace yours for a sensible price and just be done with the messing around. Regards Robert
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