Do-It-Yourself Guide in Changing Your Lawn Tractor Tires
Upon the introduction of lawn tractors in the market in 1930s, it has been very helpful in providing easy maintenance of gardens especially if it requires a major clean-up and trimness.
Lawn tractors cut grasses with its sharp and quick rotary blades.
Their design is close to a small agricultural tractor.
Maintaining your tractor is such an ardent task.
In fact, you have to check its parts (like blades, batteries and tires) most of the time.
Tires in particular differ in prices, size and design.
It is important to match your needs with the type of tire you are going to use.
Tires are the most common to wear off since it is the one that goes through lopsided surfaces and may even pass through hard bits and pieces like stones.
If you are working on a smooth road as opposed to an open field, a change of tire can make an enormous change.
Different names of tires are available in the market such as: all-terrain, heavy-duty, turf, and trail.
It is necessary for the consumer to check on what type of lawn, or terrain they will work with and depending on the manufacturer, purchase and restore the damage tires.
Among reported problems with tires are punctures with the inner tube or damages due to hitting hard or bigger objects.
Slight punctures can be solved by doing some vulcanizing on it.
However, some problems cannot be resolved by vulcanizing shops.
If faced with this problem, visit your nearest dealer to change the whole tire if it is steel or plastic.
In this way, the inner tube if the tire is altered.
However, if you want to do changing on your own, all you have to do is follow three main steps: eliminate, install and pump up.
First, eliminate the valve from valve stem and then deflate the tire completely.
You should then crack the bead either with a hammer or drive on the side of the tire as near to the wheel as possible.
After breaking the bead, push sidewall down so it is in the depression of the wheel.
Pry the bead over the lip of the wheel with a little help from two screwdrivers.
The same process goes with the inner bead.
You must coat the beads liberally with non petroleum base grease, such as joint grease as an initial step in doing the installation process.
Place tire on the top of the wheel and press one side of the bead down over the wheel.
Push down so bead is on the depression of the wheel.
Like what was previously done, pry the bead over the lip of the wheel using screwdrivers.
Repeat the process with the outer bead.
Place a length of rope around the circumference of the tire and secure before placing a rod through the rope and spin.
Once the beads are forced against the lip of the wheel, pump up to desire pressure.
It is important to know the easy ways of doing this task.
It may be hard at first, but frequent practice would surely make this trouble-free and enjoyable as well.
Lawn tractors cut grasses with its sharp and quick rotary blades.
Their design is close to a small agricultural tractor.
Maintaining your tractor is such an ardent task.
In fact, you have to check its parts (like blades, batteries and tires) most of the time.
Tires in particular differ in prices, size and design.
It is important to match your needs with the type of tire you are going to use.
Tires are the most common to wear off since it is the one that goes through lopsided surfaces and may even pass through hard bits and pieces like stones.
If you are working on a smooth road as opposed to an open field, a change of tire can make an enormous change.
Different names of tires are available in the market such as: all-terrain, heavy-duty, turf, and trail.
It is necessary for the consumer to check on what type of lawn, or terrain they will work with and depending on the manufacturer, purchase and restore the damage tires.
Among reported problems with tires are punctures with the inner tube or damages due to hitting hard or bigger objects.
Slight punctures can be solved by doing some vulcanizing on it.
However, some problems cannot be resolved by vulcanizing shops.
If faced with this problem, visit your nearest dealer to change the whole tire if it is steel or plastic.
In this way, the inner tube if the tire is altered.
However, if you want to do changing on your own, all you have to do is follow three main steps: eliminate, install and pump up.
First, eliminate the valve from valve stem and then deflate the tire completely.
You should then crack the bead either with a hammer or drive on the side of the tire as near to the wheel as possible.
After breaking the bead, push sidewall down so it is in the depression of the wheel.
Pry the bead over the lip of the wheel with a little help from two screwdrivers.
The same process goes with the inner bead.
You must coat the beads liberally with non petroleum base grease, such as joint grease as an initial step in doing the installation process.
Place tire on the top of the wheel and press one side of the bead down over the wheel.
Push down so bead is on the depression of the wheel.
Like what was previously done, pry the bead over the lip of the wheel using screwdrivers.
Repeat the process with the outer bead.
Place a length of rope around the circumference of the tire and secure before placing a rod through the rope and spin.
Once the beads are forced against the lip of the wheel, pump up to desire pressure.
It is important to know the easy ways of doing this task.
It may be hard at first, but frequent practice would surely make this trouble-free and enjoyable as well.
