Re: (ET) [SPAM] chnaging tires?

[David C Robie <mycroftxx1 juno com>]

I think we are all similar suckers otherwise we'd go down to Loews or HD
and get a nice green and yellow yard monster and put up with it's time
payments, noise, noxious output, and depletion of underground natural
resources.

Incidentally;  with all the rain we've had here, have had to mow the lawn
3 times in 2 weeks and she needs it again.  
The old gasser took 5 gallons of gas to mow this hilly convoluted lawn. 
Hmmm. 3x5x$3/gallon =$45. I don't burn that much gas in 2 weeks (or even
a month, or quite often much more) in the truck normally.  Besides, my
Etrax are solar charged. :>)

Dave
Weymouth MA

On Fri, 26 May 2006 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT) "Dave & Deb" <daveb drizzle com>
writes:
> I bought a small manual tire changer tool from harbor freight.  I 
> think it 20 or
> 30 dollars.  but yes getting the old tire off was the toughest part. 
>  So far I've
> only used it twice (the front wheels) it probably wasn't worth it 
> but I'm a sucker
> for tools and doing things myself.. :^)
> 
> 
> > The ET tires are tubeless and have been on the rims for 30+ years.
> > Chances are you will have a very hard time separating the tire 
> from the
> > rim.  If you do get them broken down, with a lot of sweat you can 
> get
> > them off and the new one on.  I fought with a 30+ year old golf 
> cart
> > tire and rim to fix a rim leak one evening and finally gave up and 
> took
> > to a tire store.  They had it apart and cleaned up in no time and 
> only
> > cost me a few buck.  It was a far better deal than messing with 
> the
> > thing for a whole evening.
> >
> > Find the tire you want, then take the old and new to your local 
> gas
> > station or tire store.  Go to a place you normally do business 
> with,
> > they might do it for free (or next to nothing) to keep you coming 
> back.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
> > [mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of Jim 
> Coate
> > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 1:14 PM
> > To: Elec-Trak
> > Subject: [SPAM] (ET) chnaging tires?
> >
> > Does replacing ET tires (or any garden tractor tire for that 
> mater) need
> >
> > a service center with the proper tire mounting machines like car 
> tires,
> > or is it more like a bicycle tire that a pair of hand held flat 
> bars can
> >
> > be used to remove the old tire from the rim and get the new one 
> on?
> >
> > Put another way, would people generally go to Tractor Supply and 
> just
> > buy the tire, or go there with the wheel and have them mount the 
> tire as
> >
> > well?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> >
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