Posted by rrlund on September 10, 2021 at 16:11:26 from (69.36.63.37):
I had something happen to a loaded 18.4 38 radial that I still can't get my head around. Brian the tire guy has fixed thousands of tractor tires and said he's never seen anything like it.
I was chopping yesterday, stopped to change wagons and a tire was leaking chloride around the stem. I called and all the service trucks were out, so he didn't get here until this morning. When he looked at it, he thought the same thing that I did, that the rim was rusted and had cut in to the tube. He had a heck of a time unscrewing the outer part of the stem, then couldn't get the tool screwed on to it to suck the chloride out. He just kind of had to hold it up against it and let it suck air and chloride until he got it down far enough to break it down, slit the tube and suck the rest out that way.
When he pulled the tube out, the brass part that's vulcanized in the rubber part of the stem stayed in the hole in the rim. He had to wiggle it around and then it came right out. There was a big groove worn right in to the side of that brass stem. At least half way in. It must have flexed just enough in that radial tire to eventually wear into it. The rim was fine. The hole looked like new. The rubber part of the tube must have been sealing things up just like the stem in a tubeless tire for all those years until something finally flexed just enough to break the seal.
Brian tossed it up in the back of the truck after we looked at it and pondered what must have happened. I wish now that I'd have kept it or at least taken a picture of it. Unreal how that tire stayed up for so long after that hole first wore through.
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