Posted by Gerald J. on August 21, 2007 at 07:40:49 from (67.0.97.231):
In Reply to: Tire/wheel sizes posted by sodly on August 20, 2007 at 19:23:50:
Every tractor tire maker has a list of preferred rim widths for their tires. For Goodyear it was in the Goodyear Farm Tire Handbook that could be downloaded from the internet. I don't know if it still can. Google would show it if its available. Otherwise I've seen that preferred rim width for Continental, Titan, and Firestone, in print at shows.
Generally there's the width rim the tire was designed for and then an acceptable narrower rim, in this range usually 1 inch narrower than the preferred rim.
But large tires have been squeezed into narrow rims and small tires have been expanded into wider rims and mostly they have worked, but the fat tires on the narrow rim are very hard to remove when they get old and hard and the small tires on a wide rim are hard to bead and hard to keep on the rim.
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