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Duane WI

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The tires on my Super C are probably 40 or 50 years old. They have cracks on the sidewalls. One spot the rubber shell is starting to separate from the cords. Here is a picture. This is about 1.5 inches long. I would like to fill this with some type of rubber cement and then glue a reinforcing patch on the outside to keep the crack from spreading. Any ideas? I don't think the damage goes to the inside of the tire so a normal tire repair boot doesn't seem like it would help much. This is more about preserving the tire exterior than making a structural repair.
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you are wasting your time. using the tractor flexes the tire and nothing will stop rotten rubber from cracking. I have one original rear tire left on my 10-20 that's 81 years old. pretty rotten now. tire replacement is the answer.
 
Yepper on wasting your time. I tried that with several gooey rubber vulcanizing compounds and the flexing pulls your patch away from the old rubber.
 
I?ve bolted a patch inside a tire that was split right
down the center on a tire that i couldn?t find a used
one
 
I tired to save a pair of 8 40s one time by putting liners in them from Gemplers. Nearly cost me my life. One of them exploded with so much force it blew the fender off the tractor. If they get too bad,best throw them away.
 
I agree. With them separating that badly and being that rotten, nothing you can paint on the outside is going to be worth the effort. Even just for cosmetics, it will still look like a rotten tire with a hunk of rubber stuck to it.
 
I have had tires on MY W Speed Patrol that looked like that and was told 20 plus years ago I needed to change them but one of the 2 is still on the machine and holding up just fine. I'd find a set of replacement tires set them in the back of a shed and wait till you had to change them. That is what I did and one is still sitting in the back of the shed
 
If you do decide to replace the tire,
replace both tires. Your tractor will twist
sideways under a load if you don't. Don't
ask me how I know!
 
(quoted from post at 11:10:04 05/22/19) I have had tires on MY W Speed Patrol that looked like that and was told 20 plus years ago I needed to change them but one of the 2 is still on the machine and holding up just fine. I'd find a set of replacement tires set them in the back of a shed and wait till you had to change them. That is what I did and one is still sitting in the back of the shed
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You've been putting in a full day's work every day with that tractor for the last 20 years too, right?

No, the tractor spends 99.9% of its time sitting in a barn.

Rotten old tires will hold a long long time if you don't use the tractor.
 

A fellow used to bring an old Farmall with a patch bolted on the side wall to the tractor pulls.
 
A friend came over one day to get some parts off an IH W6 I was going to scrap we pulled the tractor forward about 6ft,he pulled the parts and we had just gone up the hill when
KABAM! the tire exploded.Glad we weren't near when it happened,gained a whole new respect for rotten tires that day(LOL)
 
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