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BenGiBoy 
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Posted: 06 May 2025 at 3:48pm |
I am currently working on getting new tires, tubes, and RimGard with Multi-Seal in it on my B (1939). I failed to change the valve stems in the old tubes full of calcium chloride often enough and what do you know... leaks.  Anyhow, I figured that now was the time to do it right. I was going to go tubeless but one of my valve stem holes has cancer, so I figured I would go with tubes instead of welding just in case I messed anything else up more while I was doing that. While looking at tubes I came across some with an offset valve stem. Do I need that? Or just "regular" tubes will work?
Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is already here, I looked but didn't see anything, but I might've missed it....
Edited by BenGiBoy - 06 May 2025 at 3:48pm
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Posted: 06 May 2025 at 4:16pm |
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i put tubes in all the tractor and impliment tires with or without calcuim
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Ray54
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Posted: 07 May 2025 at 11:21am |
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Good luck finding good quality tubes today. About 10 years ago I put better tires on a 1975 White 2-60. It still had the original back tires, so I got new tubes. The one new tube leaked from the start, fixed 3 times in 2 weeks. Finaly put the old tube back, been good ever since. The tube had never had liquid of any kind in it.
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Allis dave
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Posted: 07 May 2025 at 11:41am |
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I have not had problem with modern tubes. Maybe I'm livin right
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DrAllis
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Posted: 07 May 2025 at 11:47am |
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Radial tubes cost a little more but are heavier/thicker.
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BenGiBoy
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Posted: 08 May 2025 at 9:16am |
All good to know, thanks! I read somewhere that Firestone are the only tubes worth buying, but I'm not sure if that's actually the case or not.
On a side note, I ordered in some Petlas 9.5-24's and have discovered why on a few different threads I looked at trying tofind out info people complained about the sidewalls... The actual tread bars are only 8.5" ish so no matter what the sidewalls are getting abused.  |
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Posted: 08 May 2025 at 8:23pm |
 BenGiBoy wrote:
All good to know, thanks! I read somewhere that Firestone are the only tubes worth buying, but I'm not sure if that's actually the case or not.
On a side note, I ordered in some Petlas 9.5-24's and have discovered why on a few different threads I looked at trying tofind out info people complained about the sidewalls... The actual tread bars are only 8.5" ish so no matter what the sidewalls are getting abused. |
I put a new 18.4 34 Carlisle tire and a new Firestone tube in it, the next day tractor was just sitting there and the tire went flat because the valve stem tore loose out of the tube. The rubber was very thin like a bicycle inner tube, took it back to the dealer and he replaced it.
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BenGiBoy
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Posted: 09 May 2025 at 8:11am |
Wow, I guess that the Firestone's can't be the most amazing tubes ever then. Bicycle thin is too thin for anything larger. We'll see how good the ones I ordered are I guess.
Ordered some BKT tires and sent the Petlas ones back so we'll see, hopefully they are real tires instead of skimpy things.
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Jim.ME
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Posted: 22 hours 58 minutes ago at 7:02am |
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If the hole in the rim is offset from center, you want tubes with offset stems. Holes in the center of the rims need tubes with centered stems. You do not want to strain the stem to reach the rim hole, or you risk failure sooner than later.
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Posted: 22 hours 49 minutes ago at 7:11am |
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I ordered tubes for my White from a place in Colorado. Also for my drop deck trailer running bias tires. I'll look back through the files to find the vendor. I think the tubes were made in Taiwan but they are very good quality from what I can tell. Originals were Firestone in both applications and these match in thickness and quality. I do have calcium in the tractor tires and they don't seem to leak.
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BenGiBoy
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Posted: 12 hours 11 minutes ago at 5:49pm |
Well, I now cannot seem to find any tubes for 9.5-24 tires that specifically mentions being offset including ones listed for B's so I guess I hope the whatever I got work well. They are radial tubes and made by Trans American Rubber, and they seem to be thick. I'll let you know if they go flat the next day I guess.
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Posted: 8 minutes ago at 5:52am |
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If your rims are good enough why not go tubeless we fought tubes for many years and always had to break a tire down to fix it
Then we started buying tubeless tires with 4 silage wagons of 6 tires each running up and down a 4-lane you can pick up a lot off stuff and if the hole is small enough just plug it and roll on not to mention we ran 6 hay flats then also
Almost all our tractors and equipment have tubeless now except for the front tires on our sprayer could only get that size in tube type and earlier this year had a little piece of wire go thru the tire broke it down and fixed it 3 days later flat again I had pinched the tube fixed it again another 3 days flat again another piece of wire fixed another time so far still holding good luck and God bless
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