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Hi,
I am changing my 11.2x24 tires out to 13.6x24 tires and tubes. They were filled with calcium, about 20 gallons per tire. I was carefully saving the calcium to put into the new tubes, but one tube broke and I lost about 10gallons. So I will have about 10 gallons per tire left over, which is about half of the tire/tube. Is there anything I should be concerned about with only half a tube filled with calcium? With it moving and slushing around in the tube, I am just wanting to make sure it is fine.
Thanks
 
It'll be fine. Can't move or slosh around. It'll always stay on the bottom of the tire. Even with a full load of calcium, that's only about 2/3 of a tire full. You just won't have the weight in the tires you might need.
 
bo is right. Why not just buy some more CaCl and add to what you have- you must already have some way of transferring the fluid- that is the big headache. Tire shop or farm dealer can get it for you.
 
Carefully get rid of the rest of the calcium. It's worth less than nothing. It ruins paint and metal. Some claim to but nobody ever had a valve stem keep 100% of the salt water inside the tube.
Then purchase some windshield washer fluid, dilute 50/50 depending on your weather. And fill the tires to the top of the rim at most.
Over filling a tire looses traction rather than gains traction. The tire gets too hard to follow the earth and had may as well be a steel wheel.
If this isn't a loader tractor, then run the tires dry and hang cast iron weight if required.
 
If the tire is only 1/2 full of fluid, when you stop moving, the tractor will set there and rock back and forth till the fluid settles down. Chris
 
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