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When I bought my JD QuikTrak, tubes had already been installed in the rear tires. I suspect this was factory. The tires are tubeless, I have no clue why any idiot would put tubes inside a tubeless tire....always more problems than they solve.
One of the tires on the back had kept leaking air, despite liberal amounts of slimes pumped inside the tube. Not a huge problem really, but most mornings I'd have to add air to the tire.
Yesterday the other wheel acted up. Tire went flat real quick. Nothing stuck in the tire....but the air would come out nearly as quick as you could put it in. I rode the sick bastard up on the trailer and finished the day out solely using the 44" WB.
I had enough. Tonight on the way home I bought a couple valve stems and a gallon of slime. Broke the beads, pulled the tubes out, installed the valves, pumped 32oz of slime in each tire, and SHAZAM - I won't be experiencing anymore troubles. I have no clue why I didn't perform this surgery earlier.
But what gets me is the flat from yesterday. Snakebite....or at least as it's known in the bicycling world. That's pathetic. :alien::alien::alien:
One of the tires on the back had kept leaking air, despite liberal amounts of slimes pumped inside the tube. Not a huge problem really, but most mornings I'd have to add air to the tire.
Yesterday the other wheel acted up. Tire went flat real quick. Nothing stuck in the tire....but the air would come out nearly as quick as you could put it in. I rode the sick bastard up on the trailer and finished the day out solely using the 44" WB.
I had enough. Tonight on the way home I bought a couple valve stems and a gallon of slime. Broke the beads, pulled the tubes out, installed the valves, pumped 32oz of slime in each tire, and SHAZAM - I won't be experiencing anymore troubles. I have no clue why I didn't perform this surgery earlier.
But what gets me is the flat from yesterday. Snakebite....or at least as it's known in the bicycling world. That's pathetic. :alien::alien::alien:
